Journal article
Functional and developmental identification of a molecular subtype of brain serotonergic neuron specialized to regulate breathing dynamics
Cell reports (Cambridge), Vol.9(6), pp.2152-2165
12/24/2014
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.11.027
PMCID: PMC4351711
PMID: 25497093
Abstract
Serotonergic neurons modulate behavioral and physiological responses from aggression and anxiety to breathing and thermoregulation. Disorders involving serotonin (5HT) dysregulation are commensurately heterogeneous and numerous. We hypothesized that this breadth in functionality derives in part from a developmentally determined substructure of distinct subtypes of 5HT neurons each specialized to modulate specific behaviors. By manipulating developmentally defined subgroups one by one chemogenetically, we find that the Egr2-Pet1 subgroup is specialized to drive increased ventilation in response to carbon dioxide elevation and acidosis. Furthermore, this subtype exhibits intrinsic chemosensitivity and modality-specific projections-increasing firing during hypercapnic acidosis and selectively projecting to respiratory chemosensory but not motor centers, respectively. These findings show that serotonergic regulation of the respiratory chemoreflex is mediated by a specialized molecular subtype of 5HT neuron harboring unique physiological, biophysical, and hodological properties specified developmentally and demonstrate that the serotonergic system contains specialized modules contributing to its collective functional breadth.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Functional and developmental identification of a molecular subtype of brain serotonergic neuron specialized to regulate breathing dynamics
- Creators
- Rachael D Brust - Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USAAndrea E Corcoran - Department of Physiology & Neurobiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, One Medical Center Road, Lebanon, NH 03756-0001, USAGeorge B Richerson - Departments of Neurology and Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, University of Iowa, 200 Hawkins Drive, 2151 RCP, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA; Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 601 Highway 6 West, Iowa City, IA 52246, USAEugene Nattie - Department of Physiology & Neurobiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, One Medical Center Road, Lebanon, NH 03756-0001, USASusan M Dymecki - Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: dymecki@genetics.med.harvard.edu
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Cell reports (Cambridge), Vol.9(6), pp.2152-2165
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.11.027
- PMID
- 25497093
- PMCID
- PMC4351711
- ISSN
- 2211-1247
- eISSN
- 2211-1247
- Grant note
- P20 NS076916 / NINDS NIH HHS 5R21DA023643-02 / NIDA NIH HHS R21 DA023643 / NIDA NIH HHS P01 HD036379 / NICHD NIH HHS 5P01HD036379-13 / NICHD NIH HHS F31 NS073276 / NINDS NIH HHS P20NS076916 / NINDS NIH HHS F31NS073276 / NINDS NIH HHS U01 NS090414 / NINDS NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/24/2014
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Molecular Physiology and Biophysics; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Neurosurgery
- Record Identifier
- 9984020750602771
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