Antidepressant-like actions by silencing of neuronal ELAV-like RNA-binding proteins HuB and HuC in a model of depression in male mice
Antidepressant-like actions by silencing of neuronal ELAV-like RNA-binding proteins HuB and HuC in a model of depression in male mice
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10.1016/j.neuropharm.2018.04.001
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发表时间：
2018-06-01
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4.7
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Galeotti, Nicoletta
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Sanna, Maria Domenica;Quattrone, Alessandro;Galeotti, Nicoletta
Currently available antidepressant drugs often fail to achieve full remission and patients might evolve to treatment resistance, showing the need to achieve a better therapy of depressive disorders. Increasing evidence supports that post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression is important in neuronal development and survival and a relevant role is played by RNA binding proteins (RBP). To explore new therapeutic strategies, we investigated the role of the neuron-specific ELAV-like RBP (HuB, HuC, HuD) in a mouse model of depression. In this study, a 4-week unpredictable chronic mild stress (UCMS) protocol was applied to mice to induce a depressive-like phenotype. In the last 2 weeks of the UCMS regimen, silencing of HuB, HuC or HuD was performed by using specific antisense oligonucleotides (aODN). Treatment of UCMS-exposed mice with anti-HuB and anti-HuC aODN improved both anhedonia and behavioural despair, used as measures of depressive-like behaviour, without modifying the response of stressed mice to an anxiety-inducing environment. On the contrary, HuD silencing promoted an anxiolytic-like behaviour in UCMS-exposed mice without improving depressive-like behaviours. The antidepressant-like phenotype of anti-HuB and anti-HuC mice was not shown concurrently with the promotion of adult hippocampal neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus, and no increase in the BDNF and CREB content was detected. Conversely, in the CA3 hippocampal region, projection area of newly born neurons, HuB and HuC silencing increased the number of BrdU/NeuN positive cells. These results give the first indication of a role of nELAV in the modulation of emotional states in a mouse model of depression. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
