Sex-specific roles of hippocampal microRNAs in stress vulnerability and resilience

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作者
Krispil-Alon, Maayan [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Jovasevic, Vladimir [4 ]
Rudulovic, Jelena [5 ]
Richter-Levin, Gal [1 ,2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Haifa, Sagol Dept Neurobiol, H_efa, Israel
[2] Univ Haifa, Integrated Brain & Behav Res Ctr IBBR, H_efa, Israel
[3] Univ Haifa, Psychol Dept, H_efa, Israel
[4] Northwestern Univ, Feinberg Sch Med, Dept Pharmacol, Chicago, IL 60611 USA
[5] Albert Einstein Coll Med, Dominick P Purpura Dept Neurosci, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
关键词
GENDER-DIFFERENCES; PSYCHIATRIC-DISORDERS; LIFETIME PREVALENCE; JUVENILE STRESS; ANIMAL-MODEL; MECHANISMS; ANXIETY; MODULATION; PTSD; FEAR;
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10.1038/s41398-022-02267-4
中图分类号
R749 [精神病学];
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100205 ;
摘要
Contrary to intuition, most individuals are resilient to psychological trauma and only a minority is vulnerable. Men and women are known to respond differently to trauma exposure, however, mechanisms underlying the relationship between sex differences and trauma resilience and vulnerability are not yet fully understood. Taking advantage of the Behavioral Profiling approach, which enables differentiating between 'affected' and 'unaffected' individuals, we examined sex-associated differences in stress exposure effects on hippocampal expression of selected stress-related GABA-A receptor targeting miRNAs. Levels of the miRNA-144 and miRNA-33 were measured in male and female affected (vulnerable, e.g., higher freezing time) and unaffected (resilient) rats. In male rats, increased levels of miRNA-144 and miRNA-33 were observed in the dorsal dentate gyrus (dDG) and ventral dentate gyrus (vDG) respectively, of stress-exposed but unaffected animals. In females, we observed an increased expression of miRNA-144 and miRNA-33 in the ventral cornu ammonis 1 (vCA1) of affected animals. Accordingly, we inhibited miRNAs expression selectively in hippocampal subregions using oligonucleotides containing locked nucleic acid bases, to examine the miRNAs' causal contribution to either vulnerability or resilience to stress in each sex. Inhibition of miRNA-144 in dDG and miRNA-33 in vDG in males resulted in an increased prevalence of vulnerable animals, while inhibition of miRNA-144 and miRNA-33 in vCA1 in females increased the proportion of resilient animals. The current findings reveal a critical sex-associated difference in the role of miRNAs in stress vulnerability and resilience. This novel understanding of sex-associated epigenetic involvement in the mechanism of stress-related psychopathologies may help improve gender-specific diagnosis and effective treatment.
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