Development of Anxiety Models in Drosophila

果蝇焦虑模型的发展

• 批准号: 7962159
• 负责人: Gregg W Roman
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-05-24 至 2012-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7962159
• 关键词: Affect; Aggressive behavior; Animal Experiments; Animal Model; Animals; Anxiety; Anxiety Disorders; Aversive Stimulus; Behavior; Behavioral; Behavioral Paradigm; Biological Models; Candidate Disease Gene; Carbon Dioxide; Collection; Complex; Development; Disease; Dissection; Drosophila genus; Drosophila melanogaster; Emotional; Environmental Risk Factor; Evolution; Foundations; Fright; Genes; Genetic; Genetic Models; Goals; Growth; Health; Human; Invertebrates; Knowledge; Lead; Learning; Measures; Mental disorders; Modeling; Molecular; Motor Activity; Nature; Neuraxis; Neurobiology; Neurons; Neuropil; Operant Conditioning; Phase; Predisposition; Research; Rodent; Role; Shelter facility; Stimulus; Susceptibility Gene; System; Testing; Time; Transgenic Organisms; Vertebrates; Visual; Work; base; behavior measurement; behavior test; classical conditioning; comparative; endophenotype; fly; genetic resource; neurogenetics; novel; preference; public health relevance; relating to nervous system; research study; response; stressor; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Anxiety Disorders are the most common mental illness in the US. Currently it is believed that many of these disorders are be triggered by environmental factors, but a predisposition to the disorder is strongly controlled by genetics factors. The ability to identify novel anxiety susceptibility genes in humans has been limited in part by the absence of endophenotypes for anxiety, and by the complexity of the constellation of diseases that comprise anxiety disorders. Since anxiety and fear represent ancient and evolutionarily conserved emotional states, animal models should be extremely valuable in dissecting the underlying neurobiology of anxiety and for identifying candidate genes. Simple animal models will allow for the identification of "core" anxiety responses that have since expanded and multiplied through evolution. A core anxiety response would also illuminate possible endophenotypes for anxiety disorders. The proposed experiments will identify novel behavioral responses to anxiogenic stimuli in Drosophila melanogaster. In these experiments the animals will be subjected to innately and conditionally aversive stimuli, and their responses in three behavioral measures will be determined. Drosophila is an extremely powerful genetic model system for the dissection of the behavioral and neurogenetic underpinnings of anxiety-like responses. Ultimately, the knowledge gained on these responses in this simple and agile genetic model system will permit the development of new and more detailed hypothesis on how different forms of anxiety may have evolved, which genes control the magnitude of responses, possible endophenotypes, and the potential functions and causes of pathological anxiety states in humans. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed project investigates how anxiety-producing stimuli lead to changes in the behavior of Drosophila melanogaster in a novel open field arena. The studies will produce a foundation for further dissecting the genetic and neural basis of anxiety in both invertebrates and vertebrates.

描述（由申请人提供）：焦虑症是美国最常见的精神疾病。目前认为这些疾病中的许多是由环境因素引发的，但疾病的易感性强烈地受遗传因素控制。在人类中鉴定新的焦虑易感基因的能力部分受到焦虑的内在表型的缺乏以及包括焦虑症的疾病的复杂性的限制。由于焦虑和恐惧代表了古老的、进化上保守的情绪状态，动物模型在剖析焦虑的潜在神经生物学和识别候选基因方面应该是非常有价值的。简单的动物模型将允许识别“核心”焦虑反应，这些反应在进化过程中不断扩大和繁殖。核心焦虑反应也将阐明焦虑症可能的内在表型。拟议的实验将确定新的行为反应的焦虑刺激果蝇。在这些实验中，动物将受到先天性和条件性厌恶刺激，并将确定它们在三种行为测量中的反应。果蝇是一个非常强大的遗传模型系统，用于解剖焦虑样反应的行为和神经遗传基础。最终，在这个简单而灵活的遗传模型系统中获得的这些反应的知识将允许开发新的和更详细的假设，即不同形式的焦虑可能是如何进化的，哪些基因控制反应的大小，可能的内在表型，以及人类病理性焦虑状态的潜在功能和原因。 公共卫生相关性：该项目研究了在一个新的开放领域竞技场中，焦虑产生的刺激如何导致果蝇行为的变化。这些研究将为进一步剖析无脊椎动物和脊椎动物焦虑的遗传和神经基础奠定基础。