Journal: Translational Psychiatry
Article Title: Environmental enrichment prevents the late effect of acute stress-induced fear extinction deficit: the role of hippocampal AMPA-GluA1 phosphorylation
doi: 10.1038/s41398-020-01140-6
Figure Lengend Snippet: Stressed SC-housed animals showed higher expression of pGluA1 ( A ) and GluA1 ( B ) in the HC comparing to SC-housed, unstressed (only in B ), EE-housed, stressed and unstressed animals. EE-housed animals (both stressed and unstressed) presented the same expression levels of pGluA1 ( A ) and GluA1 ( B ) than SC-housed, unstressed animals. There were no differences in the GluN2B ( C ) and GluN2C ( D ) expression in both SC- and EE-housed animals (stressed or unstressed). There were no differences in the synaptophysin ( E ) and PSD-95 ( F ) expression in both SC- and EE-housed animals, regardless of the presence of stress. Representative autoradiography of western blot ( G ). Results are represented as mean ± SEM ( n = 5–6 animals per group in A ; n = 6 for each group in B , D – F ; n = 3 for each group in C ). Two-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s multiple comparisons test. Significance differences between groups are indicated as * p < 0.05 and ** p < 0.01.
Article Snippet: Blots were blocked with 5% bovine serum albumin (BSA) diluted in TBS-T buffer (50 mM Tris-HCl, 150 mM NaCl, 0.1% Tween 20, pH 7.5) for 1 h at room temperature, and subsequently incubated overnight at 4 °C with specific primary antibodies: polyclonal rabbit anti-GluA1 (AB1504, dilution 1:2000; EMD Millipore Corporation), polyclonal rabbit anti-Ser845phospho-GluA1 (AB5849, dilution 1:1000; EMD Millipore Corporation), polyclonal rabbit anti-GluN2B (#454582, dilution 1:1000; EMD Millipore Corporation), polyclonal rabbit anti-GluN2C (#454584, dilution 1:1000; EMD Millipore Corporation), monoclonal mouse anti-synaptophysin (AB8049, dilution of 1:20,000; Sigma-Aldrich Corporation), and monoclonal mouse anti-PSD-95 (AB99099, dilution of 1:20,000; Abcam).
Techniques: Expressing, Autoradiography, Western Blot