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Estrela, Karolyne A. R. ; Senninger, Lisa ; Arndt, Josephine ; Kabas, Melanie ; Schmid, Ferdinand ; Dillmann, Larissa ; Auer, Sophia ; Stepfer, Thomas ; Flor, Peter J. ; Uschold-Schmidt, Nicole

Blocking Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Subtype 7 via the Venus Flytrap Domain Promotes a Chronic Stress-Resilient Phenotype in Mice

Estrela, Karolyne A. R., Senninger, Lisa, Arndt, Josephine, Kabas, Melanie, Schmid, Ferdinand, Dillmann, Larissa , Auer, Sophia, Stepfer, Thomas, Flor, Peter J. and Uschold-Schmidt, Nicole (2022) Blocking Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Subtype 7 via the Venus Flytrap Domain Promotes a Chronic Stress-Resilient Phenotype in Mice. Cells 11 (11), p. 1817.

Date of publication of this fulltext: 14 Jul 2022 07:54
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.52598


Abstract

Chronic psychosocial stress participates prominently in the etiology of various psychiatric conditions and comorbid somatic pathologies; however, suitable pharmacotherapy of these disorders is still of high medical need. During the last few decades, research on mGlu receptors advanced remarkably and much attention was given to the mGlu7 subtype. Here, genetic mGlu7 ablation, short-term ...

Chronic psychosocial stress participates prominently in the etiology of various psychiatric conditions and comorbid somatic pathologies; however, suitable pharmacotherapy of these disorders is still of high medical need. During the last few decades, research on mGlu receptors advanced remarkably and much attention was given to the mGlu7 subtype. Here, genetic mGlu7 ablation, short-term pharmacological mGlu7 blockade, as well as siRNA-mediated knockdown of mGlu7 were shown to result in an acute anti-stress, antidepressant- and anxiolytic-like phenotype in mice. Moreover, we recently revealed a prominent stress-protective effect of genetic mGlu7 ablation also with respect to chronic psychosocial stress. In addition, we are able to demonstrate in the present study that the chronic pharmacological blockade of mGlu7 interferes with various chronic stress-induced alterations. For this, we used the chronic subordinate colony housing (CSC), a mouse model of chronic male subordination, in combination with chronic treatment with the mGlu7-selective orthosteric-like antagonist XAP044 (7-hydroxy-3-(4-iodophenoxy)-4H-chromen-4-one). Interestingly, XAP044 dose-dependently ameliorates hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis dysfunctions, thymus atrophy, as well as the CSC-induced increase in innate anxiety. Taken together, our findings provide further evidence for the role of mGlu7 in chronic psychosocial stress-induced alterations and suggests the pharmacological blockade of mGlu7 as a promising therapeutic approach for the treatment of chronic stress-related pathologies in men.



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Item typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitleCells
Publisher:MDPI
Open Access Type:Gold (with APC)
Place of Publication:BASEL
Volume:11
Number of Issue or Book Chapter:11
Page Range:p. 1817
Date2 June 2022
InstitutionsBiology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Zoologie > Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology (Prof. Dr. Peter J. Flor)
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10.3390/cells11111817DOI
KeywordsCHRONIC PSYCHOSOCIAL STRESS; MESSENGER-RNA; ADULT-RAT; IN-VITRO; HPA AXIS; ANXIETY; BRAIN; CONSEQUENCES; LOCALIZATION; EXTINCTION; mGlu7; XAP044; chronic psychosocial stress; chronic subordinate colony housing
Dewey Decimal Classification500 Science > 590 Zoological sciences
StatusPublished
RefereedYes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of RegensburgYes
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-525982
Item ID52598

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