DESCRIPTION:

Hippocampal genes that were identified in time course analysis, Acute vs 13 days of social stress in Outbred Swiss-Webster mice.

LABEL:

Acute vs 13 days of stress

SCORE TYPE:

P-Value

DATE ADDED:

None

DATE UPDATED:

2020-05-06

SPECIES:

AUTHORS:

Stankiewicz AM, Goscik J, Majewska A, Swiergiel AH, Juszczak GR

TITLE:

The Effect of Acute and Chronic Social Stress on the Hippocampal Transcriptome in Mice.

JOURNAL:

PloS one None 2015, Vol 10, pp. e0142195

ABSTRACT:

Psychogenic stress contributes to the formation of brain pathology. Using gene expression microarrays, we analyzed the hippocampal transcriptome of mice subjected to acute and chronic social stress of different duration. The longest period of social stress altered the expression of the highest number of genes and most of the stress-induced changes in transcription were reversible after 5 days of rest. Chronic stress affected genes involved in the functioning of the vascular system (Alas2, Hbb-b1, Hba-a2, Hba-a1), injury response (Vwf, Mgp, Cfh, Fbln5, Col3a1, Ctgf) and inflammation (S100a8, S100a9, Ctla2a, Ctla2b, Lcn2, Lrg1, Rsad2, Isg20). The results suggest that stress may affect brain functions through the stress-induced dysfunction of the vascular system. An important issue raised in our work is also the risk of the contamination of brain tissue samples with choroid plexus. Such contamination would result in a consistent up- or down-regulation of genes, such as Ttr, Igf2, Igfbp2, Prlr, Enpp2, Sostdc1, 1500015O10RIK (Ecrg4), Kl, Clic6, Kcne2, F5, Slc4a5, and Aqp1. Our study suggests that some of the previously reported, supposedly specific changes in hippocampal gene expression, may be a result of the inclusion of choroid plexus in the hippocampal samples. PUBMED: 26556046
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