title: Role of neuropsin in parvalbumin immunoreactivity changes in hippocampal basket terminals of mice reared in various environments.
abstract: In vitro approaches have suggested that neuropsin (or kallikrein 8/KLK8), which controls gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) neurotransmission through neuregulin-1 (NRG-1) and its receptor (ErbB4), is involved in neural plasticity (Tamura et al., 2012, 2013). In the present study, we examined whether parvalbumin (PV)-positive neuronal networks, the majority of which are ErbB4-positive GABAergic interneurons, are controlled by neuropsin in tranquil and stimulated voluntarily behaving mice. Parvalbumin-immunoreactive fibers surrounding hippocampal pyramidal and granular neurons in mice reared in their home cage were decreased in neuropsin-deficient mice, suggesting that neuropsin controls PV immunoreactivity. One- or two-week exposures of wild mice to novel environments, in which they could behave freely and run voluntarily in a wheel resulted in a marked upregulation of both neuropsin mRNA and protein in the hippocampus. To elucidate the functional relevance of the increase in neuropsin during exposure to a rich environment, the intensities of PV-immunoreactive fibers were compared between neuropsin-deficient and wild-type (WT) mice under environmental stimuli. When mice were transferred into novel cages (large cages with toys), the intensity of PV-immunoreactive fibers increased in WT mice and neuropsin-deficient mice. Therefore, behavioral stimuli control a neuropsin-independent form of PV immunoreactivity. However, the neuropsin-dependent part of the change in PV-immunoreactive fibers may occur in the stimulated hippocampus because increased levels of neuropsin continued during these enriched conditions.
authors.affiliation: Division of Functional Neuroscience, Nara Institute of Science and Technology Ikoma City, Nara, Japan.
authors.forename: Harumitsu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.affiliation: Division of Functional Neuroscience, Nara Institute of Science and Technology Ikoma City, Nara, Japan.
authors.forename: Dai
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kanagawa
authors.affiliation: Division of Functional Neuroscience, Nara Institute of Science and Technology Ikoma City, Nara, Japan.
authors.forename: Hitomi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nakazawa
authors.affiliation: Division of Functional Neuroscience, Nara Institute of Science and Technology Ikoma City, Nara, Japan.
authors.forename: Yoshie
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tawara-Hirata
authors.affiliation: Division of Functional Neuroscience, Nara Institute of Science and Technology Ikoma City, Nara, Japan.
authors.forename: Yoko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kogure
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy 2, Ryukyu University Faculty of Medicine Ryukyu, Japan.
authors.forename: Chigusa
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Shimizu-Okabe
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy 2, Ryukyu University Faculty of Medicine Ryukyu, Japan.
authors.forename: Chitoshi
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Takayama
authors.affiliation: Department of Systems Life Engineering, Maebashi Institute of Technology Maebashi, Gunma, Japan.
authors.forename: Yasuyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ishikawa
authors.affiliation: Division of Functional Neuroscience, Nara Institute of Science and Technology Ikoma City, Nara, Japan.
authors.forename: Sadao
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shiosaka
keywords: ErbB4; GABA; KLK8; hippocampus; interneuron; neuregulin1; synaptic plasticity