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ArticleScientific reports2019

Amelioration of obsessive-compulsive disorder in three mouse models treated with one epigenetic drug: unraveling the underlying mechanism.

German Todorov, Karthikeyan Mayilvahanan, David Ashurov, Catarina Cunha

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

German TodorovEmotional Brain Institute, Nathan Kline Institute, Orangeburg, NY, USA.
Karthikeyan MayilvahananDepartment of Neurobiology and Behavior, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
David AshurovDepartment of Neurobiology and Behavior, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
Catarina CunhaEmotional Brain Institute, Nathan Kline Institute, Orangeburg, NY, USA. catarina.cunha@nki.rfmh.org.
Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research · USStony Brook University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mental health disorders are manifested in families, yet cannot be fully explained by classical Mendelian genetics. Changes in gene expression via epigenetics present a plausible mechanism. Anxiety often leads to avoidant behaviors which upon repetition may become habitual, maladaptive and resistant to extinction as observed in obsessive compulsive disorders (OCD). Psychophysical models of OCD propose that anxiety (amygdala) and habits (dorsolateral striatum, DLS) may be causally linked. The amygdala activates spiny projection neurons in the DLS. Repetitive amygdala terminal stimulation in the DLS elicits long term OCD-like behavior in mice associated with circuitry changes and gene methylation-mediated decrease in the activity of protein phosphatase 1 (PP1). Treatment of OCD-like grooming behavior in Slitrk5, SAPAP3, and laser-stimulated mice with one dose of RG108 (DNA methyltransferase inhibitor), lead to marked symptom improvement lasting for at least one week as well as complete reversal of anomalous changes in circuitry and PP1 gene methylation.

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Compulsive BehaviorObsessive-Compulsive DisorderAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalDNA MethylationEpigenesis, GeneticFemaleHumansMaleMicePhthalimidesTryptophanPhthalimidesRG108Tryptophan

Identifiers

PMID31217515
PMCPMC6584622
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