Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

A discrete serotonergic circuit regulates vulnerability to social stress

  • Wen-Jun Zou,
  • Yun-Long Song,
  • Min-Yi Wu,
  • Xiang-Tian Chen,
  • Qiang-Long You,
  • Qian Yang,
  • Zheng-Yi Luo,
  • Lang Huang,
  • Yin Kong,
  • Jing Feng,
  • Dong-Xiang Fang,
  • Xiao-Wen Li,
  • Jian-Ming Yang,
  • Lin Mei,
  • Tian-Ming Gao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18010-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Serotonin is important in depression-like behavior. Here the authors show that dorsal raphe neurons that project to the ventral tegmental area are involved in regulating stress responses in mice.