Analysis of gene expression with cDNA microarrays in rat brain after 7 and 42 days of oral lithium administration
Analysis of gene expression with cDNA microarrays in rat brain after 7 and 42 days of oral lithium administration
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DOI:
10.1016/s0361-9230(01)00744-4
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发表时间:
2002-01-15
影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
Manickam, P
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作者:
Bosetti, F;Seemann, R;Manickam, P
The gene expression profile in rat brain was examined using microarrays in rats fed lithium chloride for 7 days (subacute) or 42 days (chronic). Brain lithium concentrations were 0.39 mM and 0.79 mM (therapeutically relevant), at 7 and 42 days, respectively. Of the 4132 genes represented in the microarrays, 25 genes were downregulated by at least twofold and none was upregulated after 7 days of treatment. Expression of 50 genes was downregulated by at least two-fold at 42 days, without any being upregulated. Lithium treatment for 7 days did not affect at a measurable extent expression of 37 of the 50 genes that were downregulated at 42 days. Genes whose expression was changed at 42 days coded for a number of receptors, protein kinases, transcription and translation factors, markers of energy metabolism, and signal transduction. Thus, chronic lithium at a therapeutically relevant concentration reduced expression of a large number of genes involved in multiple signaling and other pathways, without increasing expression at a comparable extent. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science.