Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

A sexually dimorphic pre-stressed translational signature in CA3 pyramidal neurons of BDNF Val66Met mice

  • Jordan Marrocco,
  • Gordon H. Petty,
  • Mariel B. Ríos,
  • Jason D. Gray,
  • Joshua F. Kogan,
  • Elizabeth M. Waters,
  • Eric F. Schmidt,
  • Francis S. Lee,
  • Bruce S. McEwen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01014-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Animals’ response to acute stress is known to be influenced by sex and genetics. Here the authors performed RNA-seq on actively translated mRNAs in hippocampal CA3 neurons in mice, and document the effects of sex and genotype (i.e., BDNF Val66Met) on acute stress-induced gene expression.