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Artificial Triggering of the Plasticity Cascade in VMHvl Cells Enhances Aggression

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Description

The ventrolateral part of the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMHvl) is central for driving aggression. This study investigated changes in the aggression circuit over repeated winning in male mice. First aggressive behaviors were characterized in short-term and long-term winners and then synaptic and cellular changes in the VMHvl were investigated over repeated winning. Repeated resident-intruder (RI) tests were used to provide winning experiences to the test mice. During the test, a non-aggressive group-housed male mouse was introduced into the home cage of a single-housed male mouse for 10 minutes. If the resident male attacked the intruder and the intruder showed flight and submissive postures, the resident mouse was considered aggressive and won. If the resident mouse investigated the intruder but did not attack during the 10 minutes, the resident was considered non-aggressive and underwent social interaction. Only animals that consistently attacked and won across days were included in the final analysis. The dataset includes fiber photometry, behavior annotation, and in vivo and in vitro electrophysiological recording data.

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The relevant fiber photometry, behavior annotation, and in vivo and in vitro electrophysiological recording data, including MATLAB codes generated in this study have been deposited at Zenodo.
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Equipment Used
Axon Digidata 1550B
Basler acA640-100gm
CoolLED pE-300white
Edmund Optics 62-561
Edmund Optics 89-533
Femtowatt Silicon Photoreceiver
Kopf Instruments Stereotaxic Instrument
Leica CM3050 S
Molecular Devices MultiClamp 700B
Olympus VS120
RZ5 BioAmp Processor
TDT ACO32
TDT LP16CH
Thorlabs ADAL1
Thorlabs CF440
Thorlabs FP400URT
Thorlabs FT200EMT
Thorlabs LEDD1B
Thorlabs M470F1
Thorlabs SM1NR1
WPI Nanoliter Injector
Zeiss LSM 700
Zeiss LSM 800
Software Used
ANY-maze v6
Custom TDT OpenEx program
GraphPad Prism v10.0
MATLAB
Neurolucida 360
pCLAMP v11.0
StreamPix
Grant Support
Vulnerable Brain Project/NYU Langone Health