无血性
经颅直流电刺激
刺激
医学
抗抑郁药
神经调节
内科学
海马体
麻醉
心理学
内分泌学
多巴胺
作者
Daqu Zhang,Hangdao Li,Junfeng Sun,Weiwei Hu,Wen Jin,Sheng‐Tian Li,Shanbao Tong
出处
期刊:IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]
日期:2019-02-01
卷期号:66 (2): 411-420
被引量:76
标识
DOI:10.1109/tbme.2018.2845689
摘要
Transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) is a noninvasive neuromodulation technique with good spatial resolution and deep penetration. This study aims to investigate whether TUS has antidepressant-like effect to depressed rats.Rats were divided into five groups, including two groups (ST-Ctr and ST-Res) for evaluating the short-term impact of restraint stress and three groups (LT-Ctr-ShamTUS, LT-Res-ShamTUS and LT-Res-TUS) for studying the long-term effects of restraint and TUS stimulation. The TUS-treated rats were subjected to 15 min TUS stimulation to the prelimbic cortex every day for 2 weeks after the restraint. Then, depressive symptoms related behavioral outcomes were estimated in ST-Ctr and ST-Res groups (1 week after restraint), as well as in the other three groups (3 weeks after restraint).The 48-h-restraint stress could lead to long lasting reduction of exploratory behavior (1 and 3 weeks after restraint) and protracted anhedonia (only observed 3 weeks after restraint). TUS application successfully reversed the core depressive phenotype, anhedonia, indicated by significantly higher sucrose preference index in LT-Res-TUS group [Formula: see text] than LT-Res-ShamTUS group [Formula: see text]. Furthermore, the brain derived neurotrophic factor expression in left hippocampus was significantly promoted in LT-Res-TUS group [Formula: see text] compared to LT-Res-ShamTUS group [Formula: see text]. In addition, the histologic results of hematoxylin and eosin staining showed no TUS-induced brain tissue injury.These results demonstrated that low intensity TUS had antidepressant-like effect.TUS has been speculated to have therapeutic effect in depression. This study provide evidence for the antidepressant-like effects of TUS in rats for the first time.
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