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ArticleMolecular psychiatry2025

Coding principles and mechanisms of serotonergic transmission modes.

Yajun Zhang, Peng Zhang, Mimi Shin, Yuanyu Chang, Stephen B G Abbott, B Jill Venton, J Julius Zhu

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Article in Molecular psychiatry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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7 authors.

Yajun ZhangDepartments of Pharmacology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22903, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3862-6792
Peng ZhangDepartments of Pharmacology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22903, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0829-7315
Mimi ShinDepartments of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, USA.
Yuanyu ChangDepartments of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, USA.
Stephen B G AbbottDepartments of Pharmacology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22903, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1244-3637
B Jill VentonDepartments of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, USA.
J Julius ZhuDepartments of Pharmacology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22903, USA. jjzhu-cville@outlook.com.ORCID 0000-0002-1879-983X

Funding

Multiplexed neurochemical methods to understand adenosine neuromodulationR01NS121014 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI B. JILL VENTON · 2022 to 2026
$3.0M
Genetically-encoded ACh sensorsR01NS104670 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI ZHU, J. JULIUS · 2018 to 2022
$2.2M
Architectonic analysis of complex cortical circuits in healthy and diseased brainRF1NS131762 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI BEENHAKKER, MARK · 2023 to 2023
$2.0M
Adrenergic transmission properties and implicationR01NS131670 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI Mark Beenhakker · 2023 to 2026
$1.6M
Architectonic analysis of complex cortical circuits in healthy and diseased brainR01NS131762 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI Mark Beenhakker · 2026 to 2026
$681k
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS104670NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS121014NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS131670NINDS NIH HHS RF1 NS131762U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) R01NS128284U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) R01NS131762
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Serotonin-mediated intercellular communication has been implicated in myriad human behaviors and diseases, yet how serotonin communicates and how the communication is regulated remain unclear due to limitations of available monitoring tools. Here, we report a method multiplexing genetically encoded sensor-based imaging and fast-scan cyclic voltammetry, enabling simultaneous recordings of synaptic, perisynaptic, proximate and distal extrasynaptic serotonergic transmission. Employing this method alongside a genetically encoded sensor-based image analysis program (GESIAP), we discovered that heterogeneous firing patterns of serotonergic neurons create various transmission modes in the mouse raphe nucleus and amygdala, encoding information of firing pulse frequency, number, and synchrony using neurotransmitter quantity, releasing synapse count, and synaptic and/or volume transmission. During tonic and low-frequency phasic activities, serotonin is confined within synaptic clefts due to efficient retrieval by perisynaptic transporters, mediating synaptic transmission modes. Conversely, during high-frequency, especially synchronized phasic activities, or when transporter inhibition, serotonin may surpass transporter capacity, and escape synaptic clefts through 1‒3 outlet channels, leading to volume transmission modes. Our results elucidate a mechanism of how channeled synaptic enclosures, synaptic properties, and transporters collaborate to define the coding principles of activity pattern-dependent serotonergic transmission modes.

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Serotonergic NeuronsSerotoninSynaptic TransmissionAction PotentialsAmygdalaAnimalsMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicNeuronsRaphe NucleiSerotonin Plasma Membrane Transport ProteinsSynapsesSerotoninSerotonin Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins

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PMID39987232
PMCPMC12240840

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