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ArticlePloS one2015

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

Adrian M Stankiewicz, Joanna Goscik, Alicja Majewska, Artur H Swiergiel, Grzegorz R Juszczak

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Article in PloS one, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 83 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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83 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 151 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Adrian M StankiewiczDepartment of Animal Behaviour, Institute of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzebiec, Poland.
Joanna GoscikSoftware Department, Faculty of Computer Science, Bialystok University of Technology, Bialystok, Poland.
Alicja MajewskaDepartment of Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
Artur H SwiergielDepartment of Human and Animal Physiology, Institute of Biology, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland.
Grzegorz R JuszczakDepartment of Animal Behaviour, Institute of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzebiec, Poland.
Polish Academy of Sciences · PLBialystok University of Technology · PLLouisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport · USWarsaw University of Life Sciences · PL

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

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.

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TranscriptomeAcute DiseaseAnimalsChoroid PlexusChronic DiseaseHippocampusMaleMiceMultigene FamilyOrgan SizeSocial BehaviorSpleenStress, PsychologicalThymus GlandTime Factors

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