Su Fu, Haojie Sun, Jiaxin Wang, Shuaixin Gao, Liu Zhu, Kun Cui, Shimeng Liu, Xuetao Qi, Rui Guan, Xiaocen Fan, Qingying Liu, Wen Chen, Li Su, Shuang Cui, Feifei Liao, Fengyu Liu, Catherine C L Wong, Ming Yi, You Wan
A large proportion of patients with chronic pain experience co-morbid anxiety. The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is proposed to underlie this comorbidity, but the molecular and neuronal mechanisms are not fully understood. Here, we reported that impaired neuronal macroautophagy in the prelimbic cortical (PrL) subregion of the mPFC paralleled the occurrence of anxiety-like behaviors in rats with chronic spared nerve injury (SNI). Intriguingly, such macroautophagy impairment was mainly observed in a FOS/c-Fos+ neuronal subpopulation in the PrL...
March 24, 2024: Autophagy