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ArticleExploration (Beijing, China)2023

Spatial transcriptomic analysis of the mouse brain following chronic social defeat stress.

Ting Wang, Zhihong Song, Xin Zhao, Yan Wu, Liying Wu, Abbas Haghparast, Haitao Wu

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Article in Exploration (Beijing, China), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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Ting WangDepartment of Neurobiology Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Beijing China.
Zhihong SongDepartment of Neurobiology Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Beijing China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6526-5147
Xin ZhaoDepartment of Neurobiology Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Beijing China.
Yan WuDepartment of Neurobiology Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Beijing China.
Liying WuDepartment of Neurobiology Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Beijing China.
Abbas HaghparastNeuroscience Research Center, School of Medicine Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences Tehran Iran.
Haitao WuDepartment of Neurobiology Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Beijing China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8437-3194

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Abstract

Depression is a highly prevalent and disabling mental disorder, involving numerous genetic changes that are associated with abnormal functions in multiple regions of the brain. However, there is little transcriptomic-wide characterization of chronic social defeat stress (CSDS) to comprehensively compare the transcriptional changes in multiple brain regions. Spatial transcriptomics (ST) was used to reveal the spatial difference of gene expression in the control, resilient (RES) and susceptible (SUS) mouse brains, and annotated eight anatomical brain regions and six cell types. The gene expression profiles uncovered that CSDS leads to gene synchrony changes in different brain regions. Then it was identified that inhibitory neurons and synaptic functions in multiple regions were primarily affected by CSDS. The brain regions Hippocampus (HIP), Isocortex, and Amygdala (AMY) present more pronounced transcriptional changes in genes associated with depressive psychiatric disorders than other regions. Signalling communication between these three brain regions may play a critical role in susceptibility to CSDS. Taken together, this study provides important new insights into CSDS susceptibility at the ST level, which offers a new approach for understanding and treating depression.

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chronic social defeat stressdepressiongene expressionspatial transcriptomics

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PMID38264685
PMCPMC10742195

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