PMID- 32820327 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220110 LR - 20240226 IS - 1460-2199 (Electronic) IS - 1047-3211 (Print) IS - 1047-3211 (Linking) VI - 31 IP - 1 DP - 2021 Jan 1 TI - Suppressing Anterior Cingulate Cortex Modulates Default Mode Network and Behavior in Awake Rats. PG - 312-323 LID - 10.1093/cercor/bhaa227 [doi] AB - The default mode network (DMN) is a principal brain network in the mammalian brain. Although the DMN in humans has been extensively studied with respect to network structure, function, and clinical implications, our knowledge of DMN in animals remains limited. In particular, the functional role of DMN nodes, and how DMN organization relates to DMN-relevant behavior are still elusive. Here we investigated the causal relationship of inactivating a pivotal node of DMN (i.e., dorsal anterior cingulate cortex [dACC]) on DMN function, network organization, and behavior by combining chemogenetics, resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) and behavioral tests in awake rodents. We found that suppressing dACC activity profoundly changed the activity and connectivity of DMN, and these changes were associated with altered DMN-related behavior in animals. The chemo-rsfMRI-behavior approach opens an avenue to mechanistically dissecting the relationships between a specific node, brain network function, and behavior. Our data suggest that, like in humans, DMN in rodents is a functional network with coordinated activity that mediates behavior. CI - (c) The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com. FAU - Tu, Wenyu AU - Tu W AD - Neuroscience Program, The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. FAU - Ma, Zilu AU - Ma Z AD - Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. FAU - Ma, Yuncong AU - Ma Y AD - Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. FAU - Dopfel, David AU - Dopfel D AD - Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. FAU - Zhang, Nanyin AU - Zhang N AD - Neuroscience Program, The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. AD - Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. LA - eng GR - R01 NS085200/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States GR - RF1 MH114224/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PL - United States TA - Cereb Cortex JT - Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) JID - 9110718 SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Behavior, Animal/*physiology MH - Brain/physiopathology MH - Brain Mapping/methods MH - Gyrus Cinguli/*physiopathology MH - Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods MH - Male MH - Nerve Net/*physiopathology MH - Rats, Long-Evans MH - Wakefulness/*physiology MH - Rats PMC - PMC7727348 OTO - NOTNLM OT - DREADD OT - awake OT - default mode network OT - rat OT - resting-state fMRI EDAT- 2020/08/21 06:00 MHDA- 2022/01/11 06:00 PMCR- 2021/08/20 CRDT- 2020/08/22 06:00 PHST- 2020/04/13 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/06/30 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/07/26 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/08/21 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/01/11 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/08/22 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2021/08/20 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 5894990 [pii] AID - bhaa227 [pii] AID - 10.1093/cercor/bhaa227 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Cereb Cortex. 2021 Jan 1;31(1):312-323. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa227.