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Effects of the Co-Administration of MK-801 and Clozapine on MiRNA Expression Profiles in Rats

ABSTRACT: Background: microRNAs (miRNAs) are small, non-coding RNAs, which can silence the expression of various target genes via binding their mRNAs, thus miRNAs serve and regulate a wide range of crucial functions in the body. However, the miRNAs expression profile after the antipsychotics mediation in schizophrenia is largely unknown. Methods: Noncompetitive N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA) receptor antagonists like as MK-801 had been shown to provide a useful animal model to investigate these effects of schizophrenia-like symptoms in rodent animals. In this study, the rat hippocampal miRNA expression profiles were examined after the antipsychotic clozapine (CLO) treated the MK-801-pretreated Sprague Dawley rats. The total RNA samples from their hippocampus of three rat groups were sequenced using next generation sequencing (NGS), then processed bioinformatic analysis. Results: Successfully, we identified 8 miRNAs’ expressions were significantly different in the MK-801 group comparing the VEH control group. Interestingly, 14 miRNAs were largely changed expression in CLO+MK-80-treated group comparing the MK-801-pretreated group, in which the rno-miR-184 was up-regulated significantly. Subsequently, further analyses suggested these miRNAs could modulate their target genes involving in the regulation of endocytosis, ubiquitin mediated proteolysis and regulation of actin cytoskeleton, which might be involved in the important mechanism of schizophrenia. Conclusion: Our results suggested the altered miRNA expressions might play an important role in the complex pathophysiology of schizophrenia, and subsequently impacted on brain functions.

ORGANISM(S): Rattus norvegicus

PROVIDER: GSE129466 | GEO | 2020/10/01

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:N-Methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDAr), widely located around the central nervous system, are known to be involved in behavioral disorders. Dizocilpine (commonly referred to as MK-801) is a well known non-competitive NMDAr antagonist. We treated rats with intraperitoneal injection [0.08 (low-dose) and 0.16 (high-dose) mg/kg] of MK-801. In one experiment, 40 min after NaCl (vehicle control) and MK-801 (0.08 mg/kg) injection, electrocorticogram (ECoG) signals were analyzed. In the second experiment, 40 min post-injection, the whole brain of each animal was rapidly removed and separated into amyglada, cerebral cortex, hippocampus, hypothalamus, midbrain and ventral striatum) on ice, followed by analysis using a 4x44K DNA microarray chip. Spectral analysis revealed that a single systemic injection of MK-801 significantly and selectively augmented the power of baseline (30-80 Hz) frequency oscillations. DNA microarray analysis showed the largest number (up- and down- regulations) of gene expressions in the cerebral cortex (378), midbrain (376), hippocampus (375), ventral striatum (353), amygdala (301), and hypothalamus (201) under low-dose of MK-801. Under high-dose, ventral striatum (811) showed the largest number of gene expression changes. Gene expression changes were functionally categorized to reveal expression of genes and function varies with each brain region. MK-801 increases the synchrony of baseline oscillations, causing very early changes in gene expressions in rat brain after acute MK-801 treatment, a first report. The overall goal of the present study was to identify gene expression patterns along rat chromosomes in different brain regions after a single injection of MK-801, which exerts a longer acute effect than ketamine on ongoing brain activities. Two approaches were taken, first electrophysiological and send molecular analysis, where the brain of MK-801-treated rats was subjected to a genome-wide transcriptome mapping analysis (~4400 genes) in the cerebral cortex, midbrain, hippocampus, ventral striatum, amygdala, and hypothalamus regions.

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