Wang Pan, Tan Chaoyang, Peng Wenyu, Yan Zekun, Jiang Wenrui, Zhao Han, Si Huaxing, Jia Jingchen, Zhang Chunkui, Wang Jian, Tian Yuchen, Chen Kun, Yang Yuefan, Wu Zhenyu, Xie Kangning, Wu Yuanming, Zhang Mingming, Chen Tao
Department of Anatomy and K.K. Leung Brain Research Centre, School of Basic Medicine, Fourth Military Medical University, 710032 Xi'an, China.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medicine, Fourth Military Medical University, 710032 Xi'an, China.
Research (Wash D C). 2025 Aug 8;8:0766. doi: 10.34133/research.0766. eCollection 2025.
Terahertz waves, positioned between infrared and microwave frequencies, have important potential in various fields, but their potential for in vivo biomedical applications has mostly remained untapped. In the present study, we focused on testing the potential of noninvasive high-frequency terahertz stimulation (HFTS) as a treatment for anxiety in mice. Mice were subjected to acute restraint stress to induce anxiety and then clustered into anxiety-susceptible and anxiety-resilient groups using the -means algorithm. We developed an anxiety phenotype prediction classifier utilizing the naïve Bayes algorithm to accurately categorize mice. Noninvasive HFTS was targeted at the anterior cingulate cortex across the skulls of anxiety-susceptible mice, resulting in a marked anxiolytic effect. The underlying mechanism of HFTS's anxiolytic effect was subsequently elucidated through in vivo and in vitro electrophysiological and morphological methods, revealing that HFTS decreases the excitability of pyramidal neurons in the anterior cingulate cortex by enhancing voltage-gated K channel and leak K channel conductance. The study not only expands the potential applications of HFTS, particularly its noninvasive use, in the regulation of anxiety-like disorders but also introduces innovative methodologies and insights that have the potential to lay the groundwork for future research in the field of physical biomedicine.
太赫兹波位于红外和微波频率之间,在各个领域都具有重要潜力,但其在体内生物医学应用方面的潜力大多尚未得到开发。在本研究中,我们专注于测试无创高频太赫兹刺激(HFTS)作为治疗小鼠焦虑症的潜力。对小鼠施加急性束缚应激以诱导焦虑,然后使用K均值算法将其分为焦虑易感组和焦虑抗性组。我们开发了一种利用朴素贝叶斯算法的焦虑表型预测分类器,以准确对小鼠进行分类。将无创HFTS靶向焦虑易感小鼠颅骨上的前扣带回皮层,产生了显著的抗焦虑作用。随后通过体内和体外电生理及形态学方法阐明了HFTS抗焦虑作用的潜在机制,发现HFTS通过增强电压门控钾通道和泄漏钾通道电导来降低前扣带回皮层锥体神经元的兴奋性。该研究不仅扩展了HFTS在调节焦虑样障碍方面的潜在应用,特别是其无创应用,还引入了创新方法和见解,有可能为物理生物医学领域的未来研究奠定基础。