Mechanisms of neuropeptide signaling in the modulation of a serotonergic synapse

神经肽信号传导调节血清素突触的机制

基本信息

批准号：
8320155
负责人：
Niels Ringstad
金额：
$ 32.11万
依托单位：
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2011
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2011-08-20 至 2017-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8320155
关键词：
Address Afferent Neurons Aggressive behavior Anxiety Anxiety Disorders Axotomy Behavior Behavioral Behavioral Genetics Bicarbonate Ion Bicarbonate Ions Brain Brain Diseases Caenorhabditis elegans Carbon Dioxide Chemoreceptors Cyclic Nucleotides Detection Eating Eating Disorders Enzymes Etiology Functional Imaging Functional disorder G-Protein-Coupled Receptors GTP-Binding Proteins Gene Deletion Genes Genetic Genetic Models Guanylate Cyclase Health Hormones Human Imaging Techniques In Vitro Lasers Major Depressive Disorder Mammals Maps Mediating Mental disorders Methods Modeling Molecular Molecular Genetics Motor Neurons Muscle Mutation Nematoda Nematode infections Nervous System Physiology Nervous system structure Neurologic Neuromodulator Neurons Neuropeptide Receptor Neuropeptides Neurosciences Neurotransmitters Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Parasitic nematode Peptide Signal Sequences Peptides Physiologic pulse Physiological Physiology Play Protons Reproductive Behavior Reproductive system Resistance Respiration Role Schizophrenia Second Messenger Systems Serotonin Signal Pathway Signal Transduction Sleep Disorders Stimulus Study models Synapses System Testing Therapeutic addiction carbon dioxide receptor cyclic-nucleotide gated ion channels design egg gene function in vivo inward rectifier potassium channel mutant nervous system disorder neural circuit neurochemistry neuromuscular novel novel therapeutics receptor receptor coupling response second messenger therapeutic target

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): description Serotonin plays critical roles as a neurotransmitter, neuromodulator and hormone. Therapeutics for many psychiatric disorders, including major depression, anxiety disorders and eating disorders, target serotonin signaling pathways in the brain. Understanding molecular mechanisms that regulate serotonin signaling is therefore essential both for understanding the causes of many types of neurological and psychiatric illness and for developing new therapeutics. The roundworm C. elegans is a powerful model for genetic and molecular studies of nervous system function. A synapse between serotonergic motor neurons and muscles of the reproductive system drives the reproductive behavior of the C. elegans hermaphrodite, egg laying. Through genetic studies of egg-laying behavior, we have discovered that neuropeptides modulate serotonin signaling in the C. elegans reproductive system by directly inhibiting serotonergic motor neurons. Some of these modulatory neuropeptides are provided by a pair of sensory neurons, the BAG neurons, which are stimulated by environmental carbon dioxide. The aim of this proposal is to determine physiological and molecular mechanisms required for the activation of peptidergic sensory neurons by carbon dioxide, and mechanisms by which neuropeptides inhibit the serotonergic neurons that they target.

描述（由申请人提供）：描述血清素作为神经递质、神经调节剂和激素发挥着关键作用。许多精神疾病的治疗，包括重度抑郁症、焦虑症和饮食失调，都针对大脑中的血清素信号通路。因此，了解调节血清素信号传导的分子机制对于了解多种神经和精神疾病的原因以及开发新的治疗方法至关重要。线虫是神经系统功能遗传和分子研究的强大模型。血清素能运动神经元和生殖系统肌肉之间的突触驱动线虫雌雄同体的生殖行为，即产卵。通过产卵行为的遗传学研究，我们发现神经肽通过直接抑制血清素能运动神经元来调节线虫生殖系统中的血清素信号传导。其中一些调节性神经肽是由一对感觉神经元（BAG 神经元）提供的，它们受到环境二氧化碳的刺激。该提案的目的是确定二氧化碳激活肽能感觉神经元所需的生理和分子机制，以及神经肽抑制其靶向的血清素能神经元的机制。