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Review
. 2021 Aug 12:15:100380.
doi: 10.1016/j.ynstr.2021.100380. eCollection 2021 Nov.

Parvalbumin interneuron alterations in stress-related mood disorders: A systematic review

George Perlman, Arnaud Tanti, Naguib Mechawar
Review

Parvalbumin interneuron alterations in stress-related mood disorders: A systematic review

George Perlman et al. Neurobiol Stress. .

Abstract

Stress-related psychiatric disorders including depression involve complex cellular and molecular changes in the brain, and GABAergic signaling dysfunction is increasingly implicated in the etiology of mood disorders. Parvalbumin (PV)-expressing neurons are fast-spiking interneurons that, among other roles, coordinate synchronous neuronal firing. Mounting evidence suggests that the PV neuron phenotype is altered by stress and in mood disorders. In this systematic review, we assessed PV interneuron alterations in psychiatric disorders as reported in human postmortem brain studies and animal models of environmental stress. This review aims to 1) comprehensively catalog evidence of PV cell function in mood disorders (humans) and stress models of mood disorders (animals); 2) analyze the strength of evidence of PV interneuron alterations in various brain regions in humans and rodents; 3) determine whether the modulating effect of antidepressant treatment, physical exercise, and environmental enrichment on stress in animals associates with particular effects on PV function; and 4) use this information to guide future research avenues. Its principal findings, derived mainly from rodent studies, are that stress-related changes in PV cells are only reported in a minority of studies, that positive findings are region-, age-, sex-, and stress recency-dependent, and that antidepressants protect from stress-induced apparent PV cell loss. These observations do not currently translate well to humans, although the postmortem literature on the topic remains limited.

Keywords: Depression; Interneuron; Parvalbumin; Perineuronal net; Stress.

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