PMID- 28292830 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20170419 LR - 20220330 IS - 1529-2401 (Electronic) IS - 0270-6474 (Print) IS - 0270-6474 (Linking) VI - 37 IP - 15 DP - 2017 Apr 12 TI - Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis along the Dorsoventral Axis Contributes Differentially to Environmental Enrichment Combined with Voluntary Exercise in Alleviating Chronic Inflammatory Pain in Mice. PG - 4145-4157 LID - 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3333-16.2017 [doi] AB - Cognitive behavioral therapy, such as environmental enrichment combined with voluntary exercise (EE-VEx), is under active investigation as an adjunct to pharmaceutical treatment for chronic pain. However, the effectiveness and underlying mechanisms of EE-VEx remain unclear. In mice with intraplantar injection of complete Freund's adjuvant, our results revealed that EE-VEx alleviated perceptual, affective, and cognitive dimensions of chronic inflammatory pain. These effects of EE-VEx on chronic pain were contingent on the occurrence of adult neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus in a functionally dissociated manner along the dorsoventral axis: neurogenesis in the ventral dentate gyrus participated in alleviating perceptual and affective components of chronic pain by EE-VEx, whereas neurogenesis in the dorsal dentate gyrus was involved in EE-VEx's cognitive-enhancing effects. Chronic inflammatory pain was accompanied by decreased levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in the dentate gyrus, which were reversed by EE-VEx. Overexpression of BDNF in the dentate gyrus mimicked the effects of EE-VEx. Our results demonstrate distinct contribution of adult hippocampal neurogenesis along the dorsoventral axis to EE-VEx's beneficial effects on different dimensions of chronic pain.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Environmental enrichment combined with voluntary exercise (EE-VEx) is under active investigation as an adjunct to pharmaceutical treatment for chronic pain, but its effectiveness and underlying mechanisms remain unclear. In a mouse model of inflammatory pain, the present study demonstrates that the beneficial effects of EE-VEx on chronic pain depend on adult neurogenesis with a dorsoventral dissociation along the hippocampal axis. Adult neurogenesis in the ventral dentate gyrus participates in alleviating perceptual and affective components of chronic pain by EE-VEx, whereas that in the dorsal pole is involved in EE-VEx's cognitive-enhancing effects in chronic pain. CI - Copyright (c) 2017 the authors 0270-6474/17/374145-13$15.00/0. FAU - Zheng, Jie AU - Zheng J AD - Neuroscience Research Institute and Department of Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, and. FAU - Jiang, Ying-Ying AU - Jiang YY AD - Neuroscience Research Institute and Department of Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, and. FAU - Xu, Ling-Chi AU - Xu LC AD - Neuroscience Research Institute and Department of Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, and. FAU - Ma, Long-Yu AU - Ma LY AD - Neuroscience Research Institute and Department of Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, and. FAU - Liu, Feng-Yu AU - Liu FY AD - Neuroscience Research Institute and Department of Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, and. FAU - Cui, Shuang AU - Cui S AD - Neuroscience Research Institute and Department of Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, and. FAU - Cai, Jie AU - Cai J AD - Neuroscience Research Institute and Department of Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, and. FAU - Liao, Fei-Fei AU - Liao FF AD - Neuroscience Research Institute and Department of Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, and. FAU - Wan, You AU - Wan Y AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6110-7192 AD - Neuroscience Research Institute and Department of Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, and ywan@hsc.pku.edu.cn mingyi@bjmu.edu.cn. AD - Key Laboratory for Neuroscience, Ministry of Education/National Health and Family Planning Commission, Peking University, Beijing 100191, P.R. China. FAU - Yi, Ming AU - Yi M AD - Neuroscience Research Institute and Department of Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, and ywan@hsc.pku.edu.cn mingyi@bjmu.edu.cn. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20170314 PL - United States TA - J Neurosci JT - The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience JID - 8102140 SB - IM EIN - J Neurosci. 2021 Feb 17;41(7):1618-1620. PMID: 33526477 MH - Age Factors MH - Animals MH - Chronic Pain/pathology/*therapy MH - *Environment MH - Hippocampus/*cytology/*physiology MH - Inflammation/pathology/therapy MH - Male MH - Maze Learning/physiology MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred C57BL MH - Mice, Transgenic MH - Neurogenesis/*physiology MH - Physical Conditioning, Animal/methods/*physiology PMC - PMC6596585 OTO - NOTNLM OT - adult neurogenesis OT - anxiety OT - brain-derived neurotrophic factor OT - chronic inflammatory pain OT - environmental enrichment OT - hippocampus EDAT- 2017/03/16 06:00 MHDA- 2017/04/20 06:00 PMCR- 2017/10/12 CRDT- 2017/03/16 06:00 PHST- 2016/10/27 00:00 [received] PHST- 2017/02/27 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2017/03/02 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2017/03/16 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2017/04/20 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2017/03/16 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2017/10/12 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - JNEUROSCI.3333-16.2017 [pii] AID - 3333-16 [pii] AID - 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3333-16.2017 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Neurosci. 2017 Apr 12;37(15):4145-4157. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3333-16.2017. Epub 2017 Mar 14.