Project description:Social stress mouse models were used to simulate human post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). C57B/6 mice exposed to SJL aggressor mice exhibited behaviors accepted as PTSD-in-mouse phenotype: 'frozen' motion, aggressor's barrier avoidance, startled jumping, and retarded locomotion. Transcripts in spleen, blood and hemi-brain of stressed and control C57B/6 mice were analyzed using Agilent's mouse genome-wide arrays. C57B6 mice were exposed to SJL aggressor mice for periods of 5 days and 10 days (6 hours each day) to induce anxiety/stress which parallels to PTSD in human. Organs, blood and brain regions were collected after 24 hours and 1.5 week of post 5 days social defeat period; and 24 hour and 6 weeks post 10 days social stress period.
Project description:Social stress mouse models were used to simulate human post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). C57B/6 mice exposed to SJL aggressor mice exhibited behaviors accepted as PTSD-in-mouse phenotype: 'frozen' motion, aggressor’s barrier avoidance, startled jumping, and retarded locomotion. Transcripts in hippocampus, amygdala, medial prefrontal cortex, ventral striatum (nucleus acumbens), septal region, corpus striatum, hemi-brain, blood, spleen and heart of stressed and control C57B/6 mice were analyzed using Agilent’s mouse genome-wide arrays. C57B6 mice were exposed to SJL aggressor mice for periods of 5 days and 10days (6 hours each day) to induce anxiety/stress which parallels to PTSD in human Organs, blood and brain regions were collected after 24 hours and 1.5 week of post 5 days social defeat period; and 24 hour and 6 weeks post 10 days social stress period.
Project description:Social stress mouse models were used to simulate human post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). C57B/6 mice exposed to SJL aggressor mice exhibited behaviors accepted as PTSD-in-mouse phenotype: 'frozen' motion, aggressor's barrier avoidance, startled jumping, and retarded locomotion. Transcripts in spleen, blood and hemi-brain of stressed and control C57B/6 mice were analyzed using Agilent's mouse genome-wide arrays.
Project description:Social stress mouse models were used to simulate human post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). C57B/6 mice exposed to SJL aggressor mice exhibited behaviors accepted as PTSD-in-mouse phenotype: 'frozen' motion, aggressor’s barrier avoidance, startled jumping, and retarded locomotion. Transcripts in hippocampus, amygdala, medial prefrontal cortex, ventral striatum (nucleus acumbens), septal region, corpus striatum, hemi-brain, blood, spleen and heart of stressed and control C57B/6 mice were analyzed using Agilent’s mouse genome-wide arrays.
Project description:A social-stress mouse model, involving exposure of an intruder (male C57BL/6) mouse to a resident aggressor (male SJL) mouse followed by exposure to trauma reminders with post-trauma periods, was used to simulate features of human PTSD. Transcriptome changes in blood, brain regions and spleen, and DNA methylome changes in hemi-brain of aggressor-exposed and control C57BL/6 mice were assayed at one, 10 and 42 days of post-trauma periods. Assessments of activation patterns for differentially expressed transcripts (overlapping among hemi-brain, blood and spleen), and differentially methylated promoter regions showed increased activations of inflammatory pathways, and inhibited pathways related to neurogenesis and synaptic plasticity at longer post-trauma days. In amygdala, hippocampus and medial pre-frontal cortext, these pathways were activated at earlier post-trauma periods. But at longer post-trauma periods, neurogenesis and synaptic plasticity were inhibited while lower level of activated inflammation persisted in hippocampus and medial pre-frontal cortex. Pathways implicated in diabetes, insulin signaling, metabolic disorder, mitochondrial dysfunctions, circadian disruption, oxidative stress and inhibited telomere maintenance were significantly enriched. Identification of brain – blood overlapping molecular signatures provide increased confidence in using blood as brain surrogate sample for clinical translation. Our findings suggest that stress-induced inflammation triggers impaired neurogenesis, cognitive decline, and chronic pain (physical complaints in PTSD patients). Signaling pathways implicated in neurogenesis and synaptic plasticity seem to be mediating the effect of neuroinflammation in the development and maintenance of behavioral manifestations of PTSD. While inflammation seems to be directly involved in tissue damage triggering, exacerbating or maintaining the somatic comorbid pathologies of PTSD.
Project description:Military service members often return from deployment with a multiplicity of injuries, including mild traumatic brain injury, depression, and sleep disorders, which obsures diagnosis of PTSD symptoms and complicates treatment of PTSD. In order to understand the biological mechanisms underlying PTSD, gene expression profiles of military service members with and without PTSD were compared. Additionally, gene expression was examined based on intrusion symptoms, a distinct subtype of PTSD symptoms, and on improvement of PTSD symptoms at a three month follow up. RNA was extracted from blood samples and hybridized to the HG-U133_Plus_2 Affymetrix chip.
Project description:This study aimed to investigate the effects of depression on transcriptome in ileum using a subchronic and mild social defeat stress (sCSDS) model. In addition to exhibiting social deficit and hyperphagia-like behavior, the sCSDS mice keep much more water in their body than control mice. In order to investigate the effect of social defeat stress on not only central nervous system but also function of gastrointestinal tract, the gene expression in ileum of stressed mice was compared with control mice. We used microarrays to detail the gene expression after 10 days of social defeat stress and identified distinct classes of down-regulated genes during this process.
Project description:We have used a social defeat (SD) mouse model of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that is based on a brief exposure of a mouse to the aggressor mice for either 5 d or 10 d stress periods. Mice simulating aspects of posttraumatic stress disorder exhibit behavioral changes, body weight gain, increased body temperature, and inflammatory and fibrotic histopathologies and transcriptomic changes of heart tissue. Liver tissue of these mice was subjected to mRNA analysis. Transcriptomic analysis of liver indicated chronic toxicities and metabolic alterations in aggressor-exposed mice that possibly contributed to the persistent metabolic disturbance Two-condition experiment, C57BL6/J mice Biological replicates: 4-6 control replicates, 5-6 stressed replicates.
Project description:This study aimed to investigate the effects of depression on transcriptome in ileum using a subchronic and mild social defeat stress (sCSDS) model. In addition to exhibiting social deficit and hyperphagia-like behavior, the sCSDS mice keep much more water in their body than control mice. In order to investigate the effect of social defeat stress on not only central nervous system but also function of gastrointestinal tract, the gene expression in ileum of stressed mice was compared with control mice. We used microarrays to detail the gene expression after 10 days of social defeat stress and identified distinct classes of down-regulated genes during this process. The duration of physical contacts was set at 5 min after the first attack bite at Day 1, and then was reduced 0.5 min per day from Day 2 to Day 10.