Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

A functional role of meningeal lymphatics in sex difference of stress susceptibility in mice

  • Weiping Dai,
  • Mengqian Yang,
  • Pei Xia,
  • Chuan Xiao,
  • Shuying Huang,
  • Zhan Zhang,
  • Xin Cheng,
  • Wenchang Li,
  • Jian Jin,
  • Jingyun Zhang,
  • Binghuo Wu,
  • Yingying Zhang,
  • Pei-hui Wu,
  • Yangyang Lin,
  • Wen Wu,
  • Hu Zhao,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Wei-Jye Lin,
  • Xiaojing Ye

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32556-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 21

Abstract

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The mechanisms underlying sex differences in response to stress are unclear. Here, the authors show that meningeal lymphatics dysfunction modulates the sex difference in the stress susceptibility to depression- and anxiety-like behaviours in mice.