AGS3蛋白对吗啡慢性处理大鼠前额叶皮层神经元瞬时外向钾电流的影响

目的:研究吗啡对大鼠皮层神经元瞬时外向钾电流(IA)的影响,并在此基础上,用G蛋白信号转导激活因子3(AGS3)的抗体阻断AGS3作用,观察其对瞬时外向钾电流(IA)的影响,从而探讨AGS3蛋白在吗啡成瘾中的机制。方法:采用全细胞膜片钳技术记录IA;吗啡对神经元IA电流密度-电压曲线(I-V曲线)的影响;在全细胞构型下,观察三种不同浓度AGS3抗体对吗啡处理大鼠前额叶皮层神经元IA的影响。结果:吗啡能引起大鼠皮质神经元IA增强;当膜电位+55mV时,10-3μg/L、10-2μg/L、10-1μg/L三种不同浓度的AGS3抗体作用于吗啡处理的神经元,10-3μg/L对电流密度的抑制没有显著差异;10-2μg/L、10-1μg/L的抗体能显著抑制吗啡引起的电流密度升高,有统计学差异。结论:吗啡能引起神经元I的增强,AGS3蛋白在成瘾机体中参与了对I通道进行调节的信号转导通路。     

Emotional face recognition, empathic trait (BEES), and cortical contribution in response to positive and negative cues. The effect of rTMS on dorsal medial prefrontal cortex

The present study investigated the relationship between three different measures related to the affective empathy: facial expression detection in response to different emotional patterns (positive vs. negative), personal response to empathic scale [Balanced Emotional Empathy Scale (BEES)], and dorsal medial prefrontal cortex (dMPFC) contribution to mediate the facial detection task. Nineteen subjects took part in the study and they were required to recognize facial expression of emotions, after having empathized with these emotional cues. Repeated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) method was used in the present research in order to produce a temporary virtual disruption of dMPFC activity. dMPFC disruption induced a worse performance, especially in response to negative expressions (i.e. anger and fear). High-BEES subjects paid a higher cost after frontal brain perturbation: they showed to be unable to correctly detect facial expressions more than low-BEES. Moreover, a “negative valence effect” was observed only for high-BEES, and it was probably related with their higher impairment to recognize negative more than positive expressions. dMPFC was found to support emotional facial expression recognition in an empathic condition, with a specific increased responsiveness for negative-valenced faces. The contribution of this research was discussed to explain the mechanisms underlying affective empathy based on rTMS application.