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A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors
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Oxytocin is a neuropeptide important for social behaviors such as maternal care and parent–infant bonding. It is believed that oxytocin receptor signaling in the brain is critical for these behaviors, but it is unknown precisely when and where oxytocin receptors are expressed or which neural circuits are directly sensitive to oxytocin. To overcome this challenge, we generated specific antibodies to the mouse oxytocin receptor and examined receptor expression throughout the brain. We identified a distributed network of female mouse brain regions for maternal behaviors that are especially enriched for oxytocin receptors, including the piriform cortex, the left auditory cortex, and CA2 of the hippocampus. Electron microscopic analysis of the cerebral cortex revealed that oxytocin receptors were mainly expressed at synapses, as well as on axons and glial processes. Functionally, oxytocin transiently reduced synaptic inhibition in multiple brain regions and enabled long-term synaptic plasticity in the auditory cortex. Thus modulation of inhibition may be a general mechanism by which oxytocin can act throughout the brain to regulate parental behaviors and social cognition. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Oxytocin is an important peptide hormone involved in maternal behavior and social cognition, but it has been unclear what elements of neural circuits express oxytocin receptors due to the paucity of suitable antibodies. Here, we developed new antibodies to the mouse oxytocin receptor. Oxytocin receptors were found in discrete brain regions and at cortical synapses for modulating excitatory-inhibitory balance and plasticity. These antibodies should be useful for future studies of oxytocin and social behavior.
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The paper reports a novel specific antibody (OXTR-2) against the mouse oxytocin receptor and maps receptor expression across the brain, identifying a female-enriched distributed network including piriform cortex, hippocampal CA2, and left auditory cortex. Functionally, oxytocin transiently reduced synaptic inhibition in several regions and enabled NMDA receptor-dependent long-term plasticity in auditory cortex.
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- OXTR-2 was validated as specific: it detected a 43 kDa band in oxytocin-receptor-expressing HEK cells, labeled wild-type uterus and brain, and showed no labeling in oxytocin receptor knock-out tissue or after peptide preadsorption.
- In adult mice, oxytocin receptors were widely expressed but enriched in specific regions: piriform cortex had more OXTR-2+ cells in females than males (p < 0.03); hippocampal CA2 had more OXTR-2+ cells than other hippocampal regions in females (p < 0.01); left auditory cortex had more OXTR-2+ cells than right auditory cortex in females (p < 0.002), with no lateralization in males (p > 0.9). Table 1 reported, for virgin females, left auditory cortex 26.5 ± 2.3% vs right 20.6 ± 3.0%, CA2 52.8 ± 5.9%, and piriform cortex 44.8 ± 7.5% vs males 10.5 ± 1.4%.
- Electron microscopy showed OXTR-2 labeling at putative excitatory synapses (presynaptic: 6.3 ± 2.2% WT vs 1.4 ± 1.2% KO synapses, p < 10−4; postsynaptic spines: 22.0 ± 3.4% vs 3.7 ± 1.7%, p < 10−4), inhibitory synapses, axons, and glia, but not significantly in dendrites.
- Oxytocin reduced evoked IPSCs in auditory cortex, piriform cortex, and PVN (e.g., auditory cortex 1 µM oxytocin decreased IPSCs to 80.7 ± 3.7% of baseline, n = 7, p < 0.003; piriform cortex 5 µM to 74.7 ± 4.5%, n = 6, p < 0.004; PVN 5 µM to 71.1 ± 5.3%, n = 5, p < 0.02), an effect blocked by the oxytocin receptor antagonist OTA. Oxytocin also enabled long-term potentiation and increased spike probability in auditory cortex, requiring NMDA receptors.
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- Custom polyclonal antibodies were generated against four mouse oxytocin receptor peptide sequences; OXTR-2 was affinity-purified and validated by dot blot, Western blot, immunohistochemistry in wild-type vs oxytocin receptor knock-out mice, and peptide preadsorption.
- Receptor expression was quantified by confocal immunohistochemistry across 29 brain regions in experienced mothers, pup-naive adult virgin females, and adult males, with estrous state checked in some animals; additional methods included qPCR, RNAseq across postnatal ages, viral tracing of oxytocinergic axons, and electron microscopy in auditory cortex of 4 wild-type and 4 knock-out mice.
- Synaptic function was tested with whole-cell recordings in acute slices from adult virgin female C57BL/6 or Oxt-IRES-Cre mice, using exogenous oxytocin, optogenetic release of endogenous oxytocin, and in vivo auditory cortex recordings with tone–oxytocin pairing.
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- The paper states that receptor expression in some brain areas could be somewhat variable, that the study may have been underpowered to detect fine-grain differences in oxytocin receptors or oxytocinergic axon branches, and that animals were not behaviorally tested to control for paw preference or other functional lateralization.
- The paper notes that topically applied oxytocin in vivo might diffuse to recorded cells 420–800 µm below the pial surface or act at more superficial synapses, and that mechanisms of oxytocin modulation may differ across regions (e.g., piriform cortex disinhibition was prevented by blocking excitation, unlike auditory cortex and PVN).
- Evident from the text: the antibody is a custom polyclonal reagent validated in mouse, most functional experiments used virgin female mice and acute slices, and several proposed mechanisms (e.g., glial oxytocin receptor function, presynaptic vs postsynaptic actions) are hypotheses requiring further study.
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“Electron microscopic analysis of the cerebral cortex revealed that oxytocin receptors were mainly expressed at synapses, as well as on axons and glial processes.”
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“We identified a distributed network of female mouse brain regions for maternal behaviors that are especially enriched for oxytocin receptors, including the piriform cortex, the left auditory cortex, and CA2 of the hippocampus.”
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“Functionally, oxytocin transiently reduced synaptic inhibition in multiple brain regions and enabled long-term synaptic plasticity in the auditory cortex.”
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“In contrast, no labeling was observed in oxytocin receptor knock-out mice anywhere in the brain or other tissues such as uterus (Fig. 2D), hypothalamic PVN (Fig. 3A), lateral septum (Fig. 3B), and neocortex (Fig. 3C).”
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“the expression level was similar across the estrous cycle in virgin female auditory cortex or PVN ( p Ͼ 0.4 between estrous and proestrous, Student's unpaired two-tailed t test, n ϭ 3 animals in each state).”
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“Positive labeling was detected in wild-type virgin female uterine tissue (Fig. 2D) and brain (Fig. 3).”
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“Our initial analysis indicated that all four antisera were positive.”
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“Second, hippocampal CA2 in females had more OXTR-2ϩ cells than in other regions of the hippocampal formation (Fig. 4C, p Ͻ 0.01).”
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“Finally, preadsorption of the OXTR-2 antibody with OXTR-2 pure peptide abolished the immunoreactivity observed with antibody alone in wild-type cortex (Fig. 2E).”
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“Oxytocin-receptor-expressing HEK cells were also immunostained with OXTR-2 and cells were colabeled for both OXTR-2 and Venus (Fig. 2C).”
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“No reactivity was observed in the preimmune bleeds, but higher levels of reactivity were observed with increasing amounts of OXTR-2 (Fig. 2A).”
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“OXTR-2 labeling was also found at inhibitory synapses located both on dendritic shafts and perisomatically (Fig. 6C,F, p Ͻ 0.01), as well as preterminal axon segments and glial cells (Fig. 6 D, E,G, p Ͻ 10 Ϫ4 for axonal labeling, p Ͻ 0.004 for glial labeling).”
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“Oxytocin receptors were found at putative excitatory synapses, both at presynaptic terminals (Fig. 6 A, F, p Ͻ 10 Ϫ4 , Fisher's two-tailed exact test) opposed to PSDs and also at PSDs themselves (Fig. 6 B, D,F, p Ͻ 10 Ϫ4 ).”
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“A different pattern was observed in the auditory cortex.Initially, expression and mRNA levels were both low during the first postnatal week, but then increased abruptly at week two, decreasing thereafter to moderate levels in adults (Fig. 7E, p Ͻ 10 Ϫ4 for OXTR-2 expression, p Ͻ 0.03 for mRNA).”
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“Higher concentrations were required to reduce inhibition by a comparable degree in piriform cortex (Fig. 9H ) and PVN (Fig. 9I ), with 5-10 M oxytocin reducing inhibition by a similar level in these two regions.”
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“Strikingly, spontaneous rates of EPSCs and IPSCs were each increased in auditory cortex, piriform cortex, and PVN, with spontaneous inhibitory rates more than quadrupling in piriform cortex (Fig. 11 E, F ), similar to the effects of oxytocin receptor agonist application in hippocampal slices (Owen et al., 2013).”
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“Although excitation was initially unaffected, oxytocin wash-in (5 M) led to a gradual increase in EPSPs over 10 -20 min, which persisted long after oxytocin washout.In parallel, this cell began firing action potentials, eventually firing reliably on almost every trial.”
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“Using a novel, specific antibody to the mouse oxytocin receptor OXTR-2, we found that oxytocin receptors were widely expressed throughout the CNS and detectable in many brain areas.”
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“We and others have found that oxytocin acts as a disinhibitory neuromodulator throughout the brain, rapidly decreasing evoked inhibitory events in the mouse piriform cortex and PVN, in the auditory cortex in vitro and in vivo (Marlin et al., 2015), and in hippocampal neurons in vitro (Owen et al., 2013).”
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“This was apparent after either pharmacological application of exogenous oxytocin or optogenetic release of endogenous oxytocin and was consistent across different brain areas: auditory cortex, piriform cortex, and PCtx).”
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“At the electron microscopic level, it appeared that oxytocin receptors were located at excitatory and inhibitory synapses (both presynaptic and postsynaptic), along axons, and expressed by glial cells.”
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“Although IPSCs were reduced by oxytocin in auditory cortex and PVN when excitatory receptors were blocked, DNQX/APV prevented disinhibition in the piriform cortex.”
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“Surprisingly, however, the predominant effect of oxytocin modulation is to reduce inhibitory transmission without directly affecting excitation.”
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“Significant labeling was detected in the cytoplasm of putative axon segments (15.0 Ϯ 2.7% WT vs 3.0 Ϯ 1.3% KO, p Ͻ 10 Ϫ4 ) and glial cells (12.4 Ϯ 2.5% WT vs 7.7 Ϯ 1.9% KO, p Ͻ 0.004), but not dendrites (2.5 Ϯ 1.3% WT vs 1.5 Ϯ 1.0% KO, p Ͼ 0.1).”
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“Oxytocin (1 m) washed into the bath decreased IPSC amplitude (baseline: 262.7 Ϯ 5.1 pA, 3-6 min after start of wash-in: 209.9 Ϯ 7.8 pA, reduced to 79.9% of baseline).”
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“Oxytocin reduced IPSCs in DNQX/APV (25 and 50 M) in auditory cortex and PVN but not piriform cortex (auditory cortex 1 M oxytocin, decrease to 73.1 Ϯ 5.3% of baseline, n ϭ 8, p Ͻ 0.002; piriform cortex 5 M oxytocin, 94.2 Ϯ 2.8% of baseline, n ϭ 5, p Ͼ 0.1; PVN 5 M oxytocin, decrease to 86.9 Ϯ 2.2% of baseline, n ϭ 5, p Ͻ 0.005).”
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“Oxytocin (OT, 5 m, red bar) washed into the bath gradually increased EPSP slope (baseline: 6.9 Ϯ 0.1 mV/msec, 10 -20 min after start of wash-in: 8.3 Ϯ 0.1 mV/msec, increased to 120.6% of baseline) and spiking probability (upper raster plot, baseline: 4.0% of trials, 10 -20 min after wash-in: 96.3% of trials; cell was depolarized by 19 mV).”
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“Mean change in EPSP slope after oxytocin wash-in (5 M, mean increase to 117.7 Ϯ 7.2% of baseline, n ϭ 10, p Ͻ 0.04; Student's paired two-tailed t test)”
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“Gabazine (0.1 m, black bar) washed into the bath gradually increased EPSP slope (baseline: 4.8 Ϯ 0.1 mV/msec, 10 -20 min after start of wash-in: 6.8 Ϯ 0.1 mV/msec, increased to 145.5% of baseline) and spiking probability (upper raster plot, baseline: 6.3% of trials, 10 -20 min after wash-in: 100.0% of trials; cell was depolarized by 12 mV).”
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“Oxytocin wash-in (5 m oxytocin, red bar) in the presence of APV (50 m APV, black bar) did not enhance EPSP slope (baseline: 6.6 Ϯ 0.1 mV/msec, 10 -20 min after wash-in: 5.5 Ϯ 0.1 mV/msec, decreased to 83.1% of baseline) or spiking probability (upper raster plot, baseline: 20.8% of trials, 10 -20 min after wash-in: 10.0% of trials; cell was depolarized by 12 mV).”
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“oxytocin in APV (5 M oxytocin, 50 M APV, 97.2 Ϯ 10.2% of baseline, n ϭ 6, p Ͼ 0.7)”
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“Oxytocin increased spontaneous event frequency (auditory cortex 1 M oxytocin, spontaneous EPSC frequency increased to 133.1 Ϯ 10.3% of baseline, p Ͻ 0.04; auditory cortex spontaneous IPSC frequency increased to 169.5 Ϯ 17.6% of baseline, p Ͻ 0.03; piriform cortex 5 M oxytocin, spontaneous EPSC frequency increased to 151.3 Ϯ 19.1% of baseline, p Ͻ 0.05; piriform cortex spontaneous IPSC frequency”
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“Optogenetic release of oxytocin (Opto, blue bar) increased EPSP slope (baseline: 2.5 Ϯ 0.1 mV/msec, 10 -20 min after start of optogenetic stimulation: 3.5 Ϯ 0.05 mV/msec, increased to 141.6% of baseline) and spiking probability (upper raster plot, baseline: 18.2% of trials, 10 -20 min after start of optogenetic stimulation: 48.7% of trials; cell was depolarized by 19 mV).”
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“optogenetic release of oxytocin (mean increase to 119.3 Ϯ 5.4% of baseline, n ϭ 5, p Ͻ 0.03)”
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“Images from each brain area were collected and saved for manual counts by two independent blinded observers.”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Quantification of OXTR-2ϩ cells.
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“Experimenters were kept blind to the animal genotypes while capturing images and quantifying the frequency of immunolabeled profiles.”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Quantification of oxytocinergic fiber densities.
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“Quantification of OXTR-2ϩ cells in these animals was performed blind to estrous state.”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Quantification of OXTR-2ϩ cells.
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“Asymmetric synapses were identified by thick postsynaptic densities (PSDs) on a portion of membrane adjacent to a vesicle-filled axon terminal and were presumably excitatory.”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Quantification of oxytocinergic fiber densities.
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- Not checked yetcites Peters et al., 1991
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“The brains of wild-type and knock-out animals were processed together to minimize any confounding factors and parallel sections from knock-out animals served as controls.”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Materials and Methods
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“Recordings were excluded from analysis if R s or R i changed Ͼ30% compared with the baseline period.”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Quantification of oxytocinergic fiber densities.
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“The distribution and number of immunoreactive cells in each section were determined by taking images of wild-type and knock-out sections under the same laser power output, pinhole aperture, and gain.”
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“qPCR assays were performed in triplicate per sample on 96-well plates.”
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“Synapses were categorized as symmetric and inhibitory if they lacked the thick PSDs (Peters et al., 1991).”
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- Not checked yetcites Peters et al., 1991
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“As a control, omission of primary antibody eliminated immunofluorescent labeling from that channel.”
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“Wild-type and knockout animals were processed in parallel to ensure equalized labeling conditions.”
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“This procedure ensured that micrographs were captured randomly, except for the constraint of imaging as close as possible to the EPON-tissue interface, regardless of whether an immunolabeled profile was present in the field.”
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“Controls lacking random hexamers, reverse transcriptase, or oxytocin receptor Taqman probe were run to verify the lack of contamination in the preparation.”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Quantification of OXTR-2ϩ cells.
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“EPSP slope is correlated with peak amplitude but less prone to contamination by polysynaptic activity (Staff and Spruston, 2003;Sweatt, 2009).”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Quantification of oxytocinergic fiber densities.
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- Not checked yetcites Staff and Spruston, 2003
- Not checked yetcites Sweatt, 2009
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“Oxytocin receptor mRNA levels of left and right auditory cortex were compared by Student's paired two-tailed t test because the data passed Kolmogorov-Smirnov normality tests.”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Quantification of OXTR-2ϩ cells.
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“These experiments demonstrate that the OXTR-2 antibody is highly specific for the mouse oxytocin receptor and that the antibody binds to the target epitope sequence on the oxytocin receptor.”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > OXTR-2, a novel and specific antibody to the mouse oxytocin receptor
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“These findings indicate that, although oxytocin may act throughout the brain, there are specific areas related to ma-ternal behaviors that may be especially sensitive to oxytocinergic modulation in female mice beyond the hypothalamus: hippocampal CA2, piriform cortex, and left auditory cortex.”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Oxytocin receptor expression in adult mouse brain
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“Recordings were excluded from analysis if R s or R i changed Ͼ30% compared with the baseline period.”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Quantification of oxytocinergic fiber densities.
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“To ensure recordings or implants were targeted to A1, we first recorded multiunit activity with tungsten electrodes.A1 was mapped with pure tones (60 dB SPL, 2-79 kHz at 0.2-1 octave steps, 50 ms duration, 1-3 ms cosine on/off ramps) delivered in a pseudorandom sequence at 0.5-1 Hz.”
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“Inhibitory synapse expression is interesting given recent studies by us (Marlin et al., 2015) and others (Owen et al., 2013) showing that oxytocin modulates GABAergic transmission in neocortical and hippocampal circuits.”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Subcellular localization of cortical oxytocin receptor expression
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- Not checked yetcites Marlin et al., 2015
- Not checked yetcites Owen et al., 2013
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“Modulation and plasticity in these areas may be especially important for recognition of infant vocalizations, scents, and locations.”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Oxytocin receptor expression in adult mouse brain
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“An interesting set of studies has recently examined oxytocin modulation in the perinatal and postnatal rodent hippocampus, demonstrating that oxytocin can reduce the efficacy of GABAer- gic transmission as either an inhibitory (Owen et al., 2013) or excitatory (Tyzio et al., 2006;Tyzio et al., 2014) neurotransmitter.”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Development of cortical and thalamic oxytocin receptor expression
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- Not checked yetcites Owen et al., 2013
- Not checked yetcites Tyzio et al., 2006
- Not checked yetcites Tyzio et al., 2014
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“The second and third weeks are important stages for auditory cortical development, with hearing onset in rodents beginning around P10, the critical period for tonotopic map organization occurring over the next few days, and the development of excitatory-inhibitory balance progressing into the end of the third postnatal week (Dorrn et al., 2010;Barkat et al., 2011;Froemke and Jones, 2011).”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Development of cortical and thalamic oxytocin receptor expression
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- Not checked yetcites Dorrn et al., 2010
- Not checked yetcites Barkat et al., 2011
- Not checked yetcites Froemke and Jones, 2011
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“These data suggest that oxytocin receptors are poised at GABAergic synapses to control inhibitory transmission, perhaps by multiple presynaptic and postsynaptic mechanisms.”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Subcellular localization of cortical oxytocin receptor expression
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“suggesting that the mechanism of oxytocin modulation may be distinct in different brain areas, although the functional consequences may be similar.”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Modulation of synaptic responses by oxytocin
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“Thereafter, the oxytocin-receptor-expressing cells might mature along a layer-specific program, first in the superficial layers and then in deep layers, before expression occurs or cells mature within layer 4.”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Development of cortical and thalamic oxytocin receptor expression
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“indicating that these effects are mediated directly by oxytocin receptor activation and not cross-reactivity of oxytocin peptide with other types of receptors.”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Modulation of synaptic responses by oxytocin
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“During early postnatal development, when thalamic levels are high but layer 4 levels are low, oxytocin might independently modulate thalamic and intracortical circuits.”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Development of cortical and thalamic oxytocin receptor expression
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“However, in piriform cortex, excitatory cells and synapses onto inhibitory cells might be affected by oxytocin, increasing inhibitory tone and hyperpolarization to reduce excitatory drive onto inhibitory cells.”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Modulation of synaptic responses by oxytocin
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“Disinhibition can be effective for inducing long-term synaptic modifications in the auditory cortex (Froemke, 2015).”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Modulation of synaptic responses by oxytocin
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- Not checked yetcites Froemke, 2015
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“Therefore, the long-term changes produced by a brief period of oxytocin wash-in required NMDA receptors, strongly suggesting that this enhancement of EPSP strength is a canonical form of LTP.”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Modulation of synaptic responses by oxytocin
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“These data show conclusively that oxytocin disinhibits cortical neurons directly, boosting EPSP amplitude and converting subthreshold responses into suprathreshold spiking responses.”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Modulation of synaptic responses by oxytocin
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“It is possible that receptor lateralization might be part of a maturational program for specific types of cortical interneurons, including a subset of parvalbumin-positive and somatostatinpositive inhibitory cells that predominantly express oxytocin receptors (Nakajima et al., 2014;Marlin et al., 2015).”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Nakajima et al., 2014
- Not checked yetcites Marlin et al., 2015
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“This leads to mechanisms of NMDA-receptor-dependent plasticity that consolidate these enhancements and enable them to persist in absence of further oxytocin action.”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Modulation of synaptic responses by oxytocin
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“These data support the hypothesis that a consequence of the disinhibitory action of oxytocin modulation is to enable LTP induction, likely by increasing synaptic strength from a subthreshold to a suprathreshold level and consequently inducing excitatory STDP (D'amour and Froemke, 2015).”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Modulation of synaptic responses by oxytocin
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- Not checked yetcites D'amour and Froemke, 2015
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“Lateralization was only apparent after the third postnatal week, which is particularly significant given that inhibitory responses begin to mature during this period in the rodent auditory cortex (Dorrn et al., 2010).”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Dorrn et al., 2010
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“The potential mechanisms for this surprising lateralization of both protein and transcript levels is unclear, but the oxytocin receptor is under tremendous control by various regulatory elements that provide potential for asymmetric expression (Gimpl and Fahrenholz, 2001).”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Gimpl and Fahrenholz, 2001 source
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“In this way, oxytocin might transiently increase the salience of incoming sensory input, enabling cortical circuits (and other oxytocin-sensitive brain regions) to form new memories of important social experiences.”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Modulation of synaptic responses by oxytocin
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“Disinhibition seems to be a general mechanism for modulating cortical circuits (Kruglikov and Rudy, 2008;Froemke, 2015).”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Kruglikov and Rudy, 2008
- Not checked yetcites Froemke, 2015
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“The abundance of oxytocin receptor expression in CA2 is particularly significant given the finding that this region of the hippocampus conveys signals to promote social interaction and memory (Hitti and Siegelbaum, 2014).”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Hitti and Siegelbaum, 2014
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“This may be a consequence of the rapid estrous cycling in mice and is comparable to findings examining radiolabeled oxytocin receptors in maternal rats (Insel, 1990) and rabbits (Jimenez et al., 2015).”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Insel, 1990
- Not checked yetcites Jimenez et al., 2015
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“Moreover, oxytocin might directly stimulate hormone release from astrocytes (Parent et al., 2008).”
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- Not checked yetcites Parent et al., 2008
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“It is also possible that optogenetic stimulation of oxytocinergic fibers leads to corelease of other neurotransmitters or neuromodulators that regulate inhibition, such as glutamate (Kendrick et al., 1988;Richard et al., 1991).”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Kendrick et al., 1988
- Not checked yetcites Richard et al., 1991 source
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“This is similar to a recent study in transgenic mice in which somatostatin-positive inhibitory cells in mouse frontal cortex were found to express oxytocin receptors (Nakajima et al., 2014).”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Discussion
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“In the auditory cortex and PVN, we hypothesize that oxytocin receptors on presynaptic inhibitory terminals might directly decrease GABA release, whereas in the piriform cortex, oxytocin receptor activation might hyperpolarize excitatory cells, preventing them from driving inhibitory cells.”
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“Although inhibitory events were consistently reduced in each of the three brain regions examined here (auditory cortex, piriform cortex, and PVN), there may be important distinctions in the mechanisms and details of oxytocinergic modulation in different circuits.”
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“Our study may have been underpowered to see more fine-grain differences in oxytocin receptors or oxytocinergic axon branches within individual circuits.”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Discussion
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“R i and R s for this experiment, which each changed Ͻ10% from baseline during wash-in.”
- Also stated in: § Discussion · plain
“R i changed Ͻ5% and R s changed ϳ20% from baseline during wash-in.”
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“R i of this neuron was stable (mean R i before wash-in: 165.5 M⍀, mean R i 10 -20 min after wash-in: 166.8 M⍀).”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Discussion
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“Oxytocin or gabazine enabled long-term plasticity of synaptic responses in vitro.”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Discussion
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The oxytocin receptor knock-out mice used as controls lack oxytocin receptor protein.
“tissues from the oxytocin-receptor knock-out uterus and brain, were used as controls in each Western blot analysis.”
“oxytocin receptor knock-out brain sections”
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The distribution of oxytocin receptors in the mouse brain determines which components of neural circuits are directly sensitive to oxytocin modulation and thus form an important network for control of social behavior.
“The distribution of oxytocin receptors in the mouse brain determines which components of neural circuits are directly sensitive to oxytocin modulation and thus form an important network for control of social behavior.”
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“Pairing oxytocin with synaptic stimulation persistently increases EPSCs and spiking”
From Oxytocin, Neural Plasticity, and Social Behavior (2021) · cites this paper as Mitre et al. 2016
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“For example, oxytocin can shift auditory cortical frequency–tuning profiles for pure tones, similar to cholinergic modulation (Mitre et al. 2016).”
From Oxytocin, Neural Plasticity, and Social Behavior (2021) · cites this paper as Mitre et al. 2016
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“For example, OXT from PVN increases the salience of mouse pup vocalizations, while a dam's experience with pups adjusts the balance of excitatory and inhibitory tuning in the auditory cortex (54,123,124).”
From Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and Social Behavior: From Neural Circuits to Clinical Opportunities (2022) · cites this paper as [54]
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“revealed oxytocinergic axons throughout the brain, including in the thalamus, cortex, amygdala, striatum, and hippocampus”
From Oxytocin, Neural Plasticity, and Social Behavior (2021) · cites this paper as Mitre et al. 2016
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“Cortical oxytocin receptors are found primarily on parvalbumin-positive or somatostatin-positive inhibitory interneurons”
From Oxytocin, Neural Plasticity, and Social Behavior (2021) · cites this paper as Mitre et al. 2016
The cited source says what the claim attributes to it.
In the citing paper
“only a fraction of neurons seem to express oxytocin receptors”
From Oxytocin, Neural Plasticity, and Social Behavior (2021) · cites this paper as Mitre et al. 2016
In the citing paper
“The oxytocin receptor is expressed in several cortical areas, including A1, S1, mPFC, insular cortex, entorhinal cortex and piriform cortex (Knobloch et al., 2012; Mitre et al., 2016; Rogers-Carter et al., 2018; Sabihi et al., 2014).”
From Neuromodulation of maternal circuits by oxytocin (2019) · cites this paper as Mitre et al., 2016
In the citing paper
“optogenetic oxytocin release from axons can be induced at much lower stimulation frequency at increased duration of 5 Hz during 3 min in different brain structures ex vivo as A1, piriform cortex, and PVN itself, resulting in a decrease of inhibitory transmission and increased spiking output (Mitre et al., 2016).”
From Neuromodulation of maternal circuits by oxytocin (2019) · cites this paper as Mitre et al., 2016
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§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Development of cortical and thalamic oxytocin receptor expression
“We found that this asymmetrical receptor expression was not present early in life, but emerged in the third postnatal week”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Discussion
“Lateralization was only apparent after the third postnatal week”
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“Gabazine (0.1 m, black bar) washed into the bath gradually increased EPSP slope (baseline: 4.8 Ϯ 0.1 mV/msec, 10 -20 min after start of wash-in: 6.8 Ϯ 0.1 mV/msec, increased to 145.5% of baseline)”
§ Cellular/Molecular A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors > Discussion
Reported 145.5 · recomputed 141.666667
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Abbreviations Used for Major Brain Regions
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Metadata
- Authors
- Mitre, M., Marlin, B. J., Schiavo, J. K., Morina, E., Norden, S. E., Hackett, T. A., Aoki, C. J., Chao, M. V., & Froemke, R. C.
- Affiliations
- New York University (US)
- Vanderbilt University (US)
- NYU Langone Health (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- The Journal of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Society for Neuroscience
- Published
- 2016-02-24
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 2517-2535
- ISSN
- 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
- 1529-2401
- PMC
- PMC4764667
- OpenAlex
- W2278486104
- Semantic Scholar
- c126acf168845fd8cf6d327647b26e130894ac18
- Cited by
- 305
- References
- 71
- Citations by year
- 2026: 23 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 31 · 2023: 24 · 2022: 44 · 2021: 39 · 2020: 45 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 31 · 2017: 28 · 2016: 8
- FWCI
- 41.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- McKnight Foundation
- Vanderbilt University
- National Institutes of Health (HD015052, NS-21072, EY13079)
- Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- National Institute of Mental Health (R21MH105846, T32MH019524)
- National Eye Institute (EY 13079, P30EY013079)
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (DC012527, K99DC009635, R01DC009836, DC009635, R00DC009635, K18DC012527, R01DC015388, DC009836, R01DC012557)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS021072, NS-21072, R56NS021072, T32NS086750)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P30HD015052, P30-HD015052-33, U54HD083211)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
- Keywords
- oxytocin receptor, oxytocin, maternal behavior, social cognition, piriform cortex, auditory cortex, hippocampal CA2, synaptic inhibition, excitation-inhibition balance, synaptic plasticity, glial processes, antibody development, parent-infant bonding
- MeSH terms
- Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Auditory Cortex, Cognition, Female, Humans, Male, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Molecular Sequence Data, Nerve Net, Social Behavior, Receptors, Oxytocin, Mice, Knockout, Mice, HEK293 Cells
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