ArticleNeurobiology of disease2010
Altered expression of apoptotic factors and synaptic markers in postmortem brain from bipolar disorder patients.
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Targeted Alterations in n-3 and n-6 Fatty Acids for the Management of Mood Variability in the Maintenance Phase of Bipolar Disorder
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104 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 202 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Transcriptomic abnormalities in peripheral blood in bipolar disorder, and discrimination of the major psychoses.Schizophrenia research · 2020Pooled it
- Comparing clinical responses and the biomarkers of BDNF and cytokines between subthreshold bipolar disorder and bipolar II disorder.Scientific reports · 2016Trial
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- Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Chronic High-Dose Ketamine-Induced Apoptosis in the Hippocampus: A Narrative Review.Neurochemical research · 2025Review
- Ferroptosis as a potential molecular mechanism of bipolar disorder.Translational psychiatry · 2025Review
- Circadian clock genes and cell survival in bipolar disorder: Insights into lithium responsiveness and molecular mechanisms in patient-derived neural progenitor cells and mouse neurons.The FEBS journal · 2025Article
- Effects of oxidative stress and GDNF on patients with bipolar disorder: a prospective study.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Mitochondrial Dysfunction as a Biomarker of Illness State in Bipolar Disorder: A Critical Review.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Neonatal Chlamydia muridarum respiratory infection causes neuroinflammation within the brainstem during the early postnatal period.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2024Article
- 24S-Hydroxycholesterol in Neuropsychiatric Diseases: Schizophrenia, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Bipolar Disorder.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024Article
- Metabolic regulation to treat bipolar depression: mechanisms and targeting by trimetazidine.Molecular psychiatry · 2023Review
- The Role of Gasotransmitter-Dependent Signaling Mechanisms in Apoptotic Cell Death in Cardiovascular, Rheumatic, Kidney, and Neurodegenerative Diseases and Mental Disorders.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Inference of differentially expressed genes using generalized linear mixed models in a pairwise fashion.PeerJ · 2023Article
- Is SARS-CoV-2 a Risk Factor of Bipolar Disorder?-A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- Distinguishing Nanoparticle Aggregation from Viscosity Changes in MPS/MSB Detection of Biomarkers.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Bipolar disorder (BD) is a progressive psychiatric disorder characterized by recurrent changes of mood and is associated with cognitive decline. There is evidence of excitotoxicity, neuroinflammation, upregulated arachidonic acid (AA) cascade signaling and brain atrophy in BD patients. These observations suggest that BD pathology may be associated with apoptosis as well as with disturbed synaptic function. To test this hypothesis, we measured mRNA and protein levels of the pro-apoptotic (Bax, BAD, caspase-9 and caspase-3) and anti-apoptotic factors (BDNF and Bcl-2) and of pre- and post-synaptic markers (synaptophysin and drebrin), in postmortem prefrontal cortex (Brodmann area 9) from 10 BD patients and 10 age-matched controls. Consistent with the hypothesis, BD brains showed significant increases in protein and mRNA levels of the pro-apoptotic factors and significant decreases of levels of the anti-apoptotic factors and the synaptic markers, synaptophysin and drebrin. These differences may contribute to brain atrophy and progressive cognitive changes in BD.
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