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ArticleTranslational psychiatry2021

Involvement of the nuclear factor-κB transcriptional complex in prefrontal cortex immune activation in bipolar disorder.

Kaitlyn M Roman, Aaron K Jenkins, David A Lewis, David W Volk

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Article in Translational psychiatry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kaitlyn M RomanDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.
Aaron K JenkinsDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.
David A LewisDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3225-6778
David W VolkDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA. volkdw@upmc.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-7627-3158
University of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

Training for Transformative Discovery in PsychiatryT32MH016804 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI SWEET, ROBERT A · 1985 to 2025
$6.2M
Disrupted Ontogeny of Cortical GABA Neurons in SchizophreniaR01MH100066 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI VOLK, DAVID W · 2014 to 2018
$2.2M
Microglial Phagocytosis of Dendritic Spines in Veterans with SchizophreniaI01BX004237 · VA · VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION · PI VOLK, DAVID W · 2020 to 2024
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BLRD VA I01 BX004237NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH100066NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH016804
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia have multiple clinical and genetic features in common, including shared risk associated with overlapping susceptibility loci in immune-related genes. Higher activity of the nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) transcription factor complex, which regulates the transcription of multiple immune markers, has been reported to contribute to immune activation in the prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia. These findings suggest the hypothesis that elevated NF-κB activity is present in the prefrontal cortex in bipolar disorder in a manner similar to that seen in schizophrenia. Therefore, we quantified levels of NF-κB-related mRNAs in the prefrontal cortex of 35 matched pairs of bipolar disorder and unaffected comparison subjects using quantitative PCR. We found that transcript levels were higher in the prefrontal cortex of bipolar disorder subjects for several NF-κB family members, NF-κB activation receptors, and NF-κB-regulated mRNAs, and were lower for an NF-κB inhibitor. Transcript levels for NF-κB family members, NF-κB activation receptors, and NF-κB-regulated mRNAs levels were also highly correlated with each other. This pattern of elevated transcript levels for NF-κB-related markers in bipolar disorder is similar to that previously reported in schizophrenia, suggesting that cortical immune activation is a shared pathophysiological feature between the two disorders.

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Bipolar DisorderSchizophreniaHumansNF-kappa BPrefrontal CortexRNA, MessengerNF-kappa BRNA, Messenger

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PMID33436571
PMCPMC7804457
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