Ketamine modulates a norepinephrine-astroglial circuit to persistently suppress futility-induced passivity.

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bioRxiv. 2023 Dec 29;. doi: 10.1101/2022.12.29.522099

Ketamine modulates a norepinephrine-astroglial circuit to persistently suppress futility-induced passivity. Ahrens Lab

Duque Marc, Chen Alex, Hsu Eric, Narayan Sujatha, Rymbek Altyn, Begum Shahinoor, Saher Gesine, Cohen Adam, Olson David, Prober David, Bergles Dwight, Fishman Mark, Engert Florian, Ahrens Misha

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Mood-altering compounds hold promise for the treatment of many psychiatric disorders, such as depression, but connecting their molecular, circuit, and behavioral effects has been challenging. Here we find that, analogous to effects in rodent learned helplessness models, ketamine pre-exposure persistently suppresses futility-induced passivity in larval zebrafish. While antidepressants are thought to primarily act on neurons, brain-wide imaging in behaving zebrafish showed that ketamine elevates intracellular calcium in astroglia for many minutes, followed by persistent calcium downregulation post-washout. Calcium elevation depends on astroglial α1-adrenergic receptors and is required for suppression of passivity. Chemo-/optogenetic perturbations of noradrenergic neurons and astroglia demonstrate that the aftereffects of glial calcium elevation are sufficient to suppress passivity by inhibiting neuronal-astroglial integration of behavioral futility. Imaging in mouse cortex reveals that ketamine elevates astroglial calcium through conserved pathways, suggesting that ketamine exerts its behavioral effects by persistently modulating evolutionarily ancient neuromodulatory systems spanning neurons and astroglia.

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Ketamine modulates a norepinephrine-astroglial circuit to persistently suppress futility-induced passivity.

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