清醒大鼠静息态功能网络的性别差异。
Sex differences in resting-state functional networks in awake rats.
机构信息
Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, USA.
Center for Neurotechnology in Mental Health Research, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, 16802, USA.
出版信息
Brain Struct Funct. 2023 Jul;228(6):1411-1423. doi: 10.1007/s00429-023-02657-4. Epub 2023 Jun 1.
Sex-related differences can be found in many brain disorders and psychophysiological traits, highlighting the importance to systematically understand the sex differences in brain function in humans and animal models. Despite emerging effort to address sex differences in behaviors and disease models in rodents, how brain-wide functional connectivity (FC) patterns differ between male and female rats remains largely unknown. Here, we used resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) to investigate regional and systems-level differences between female and male rats. Our data show that female rats display stronger hypothalamus connectivity, whereas male rats exhibit more prominent striatum-related connectivity. At the global scale, female rats demonstrate stronger segregation within the cortical and subcortical systems, while male rats display more prominent cortico-subcortical interactions, particularly between the cortex and striatum. Taken together, these data provide a comprehensive framework of sex differences in resting-state connectivity patterns in the awake rat brain, and offer a reference for studies aiming to reveal sex-related FC differences in different animal models of brain disorders.
性别相关差异存在于许多脑部疾病和心理生理特征中,这凸显了系统地了解人类和动物模型中脑功能性别差异的重要性。尽管已经有努力针对行为和疾病模型中的性别差异在啮齿动物中进行研究,但雄性和雌性大鼠之间的全脑功能连接(FC)模式有何差异在很大程度上仍不清楚。在这里,我们使用静息态功能磁共振成像(rsfMRI)来研究雌性和雄性大鼠之间的区域和系统水平差异。我们的数据表明,雌性大鼠表现出更强的下丘脑连接,而雄性大鼠则表现出更明显的纹状体相关连接。在全局尺度上,雌性大鼠在皮质和皮质下系统内表现出更强的分离,而雄性大鼠则表现出更明显的皮质-皮质下相互作用,特别是在皮层和纹状体之间。总之,这些数据提供了清醒大鼠大脑静息状态连接模式中性别差异的综合框架,并为旨在揭示不同脑部疾病动物模型中与性别相关的 FC 差异的研究提供了参考。