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2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina García-Díaz ◽  
Isis Gil-Miravet ◽  
Hector Albert-Gasco ◽  
Aroa Mañas-Ojeda ◽  
Francisco Ros-Bernal ◽  
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Spatial learning and memory processes depend on anatomical and functional interactions between the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex. A key neurophysiological component of these processes is hippocampal theta rhythm, which can be driven from subcortical areas including the pontine nucleus incertus (NI). The NI contains the largest population of neurons that produce and presumably release the neuropeptide, relaxin-3, which acts via the Gi/o-protein-coupled receptor, relaxin-family peptide 3 receptor (RXFP3). NI activation induces general arousal including hippocampal theta, and inactivation induces impairment of spatial memory acquisition or retrieval. The primary aim of this study was to map the NI/relaxin-3 innervation of the parahippocampal cortex (PHC), including the medial and lateral entorhinal cortex, endopiriform cortex, perirhinal, postrhinal, and ectorhinal cortex, the amygdalohippocampal transition area and posteromedial cortical amygdala. Retrograde tracer injections were placed in different parts of the medial and lateral entorhinal cortex, which produced prominent retrograde labeling in the ipsilateral NI and some labeling in the contralateral NI. Anterograde tracer injections into the NI and immunostaining for relaxin-3 produced fiber labeling in deep layers of all parahippocampal areas and some dispersed fibers in superficial layers. Double-labeling studies revealed that both hippocampal projecting and calcium-binding protein-positive (presumed GABAergic) neurons received a relaxin-3 NI innervation. Some of these fibers also displayed synaptophysin (Syn) immunoreactivity, consistent with the presence of the peptide at synapses; and relaxin-3-positive fibers containing Syn bouton-like staining were frequently observed in contact with hippocampal-projecting or calcium-binding protein-positive neuronal somata and more distal elements. Finally, in situ hybridization studies revealed that entorhinal neurons in the superficial layers, and to a lesser extent in deep layers, contain RXFP3 mRNA. Together, our data support functional actions of the NI/relaxin-3-parahippocampal innervation on processes related to memory, spatial navigation and contextual analysis.



2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isis Gil-Miravet ◽  
Aroa Mañas-Ojeda ◽  
Francisco Ros-Bernal ◽  
Esther Castillo-Gómez ◽  
Hector Albert-Gascó ◽  
...  

Telencephalic cognitive and emotional circuits/functions are strongly modulated by subcortical inputs. The main focus of past research on the nature of this modulation has been on the widespread monoamine projections to the telencephalon. However, the nucleus incertus (NI) of the pontine tegmentum provides a strong GABAergic and peptidergic innervation of the hippocampus, basal forebrain, amygdala, prefrontal cortex, and related regions; and represents a parallel source of ascending modulation of cognitive and emotional domains. NI GABAergic neurons express multiple peptides, including neuromedin-B, cholecystokinin, and relaxin-3, and receptors for stress and arousal transmitters, including corticotrophin-releasing factor and orexins/hypocretins. A functional relationship exists between NI neurons and their associated peptides, relaxin-3 and neuromedin-B, and hippocampal theta rhythm, which in turn, has a key role in the acquisition and extinction of declarative and emotional memories. Furthermore, RXFP3, the cognate receptor for relaxin-3, is a Gi/o protein-coupled receptor, and its activation inhibits the cellular accumulation of cAMP and induces phosphorylation of ERK, processes associated with memory formation in the hippocampus and amygdala. Therefore, this review summarizes the role of NI transmitter systems in relaying stress- and arousal-related signals to the higher neural circuits and processes associated with memory formation and retrieval.



eNeuro ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. ENEURO.0272-20.2020
Author(s):  
Nailyam Nasirova ◽  
Lely A. Quina ◽  
Glenn Morton ◽  
Andrew Walker ◽  
Eric E. Turner


IBRO Reports ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander D. Wykes ◽  
Sherie Ma ◽  
Ross A.D. Bathgate ◽  
Andrew L. Gundlach


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lihui Lu ◽  
Yuqi Ren ◽  
Tao Yu ◽  
Zhixiang Liu ◽  
Sice Wang ◽  
...  


2020 ◽  
Vol 237 (4) ◽  
pp. 1091-1106
Author(s):  
Camila de Ávila ◽  
Sandrine Chometton ◽  
Sherie Ma ◽  
Lola Torz Pedersen ◽  
Elena Timofeeva ◽  
...  


Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 364 (6442) ◽  
pp. eaaw0445 ◽  
Author(s):  
András Szőnyi ◽  
Katalin E. Sos ◽  
Rita Nyilas ◽  
Dániel Schlingloff ◽  
Andor Domonkos ◽  
...  

Hippocampal pyramidal cells encode memory engrams, which guide adaptive behavior. Selection of engram-forming cells is regulated by somatostatin-positive dendrite-targeting interneurons, which inhibit pyramidal cells that are not required for memory formation. Here, we found that γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)–releasing neurons of the mouse nucleus incertus (NI) selectively inhibit somatostatin-positive interneurons in the hippocampus, both monosynaptically and indirectly through the inhibition of their subcortical excitatory inputs. We demonstrated that NI GABAergic neurons receive monosynaptic inputs from brain areas processing important environmental information, and their hippocampal projections are strongly activated by salient environmental inputs in vivo. Optogenetic manipulations of NI GABAergic neurons can shift hippocampal network state and bidirectionally modify the strength of contextual fear memory formation. Our results indicate that brainstem NI GABAergic cells are essential for controlling contextual memories.



2018 ◽  
Vol 139 ◽  
pp. 238-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azadeh Sabetghadam ◽  
Agnieszka Grabowiecka-Nowak ◽  
Alan Kania ◽  
Anna Gugula ◽  
Ewa Blasiak ◽  
...  


2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (8) ◽  
pp. 694-702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco E. Olucha-Bordonau ◽  
Héctor Albert-Gascó ◽  
Francisco Ros-Bernal ◽  
Valeria Rytova ◽  
Emma K. E. Ong-Pålsson ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 595 (5) ◽  
pp. 1775-1792 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Martínez-Bellver ◽  
Ana Cervera-Ferri ◽  
Aina Luque-García ◽  
Joana Martínez-Ricós ◽  
Alfonso Valverde-Navarro ◽  
...  


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