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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-6-15
pubmed:abstractText
Recent reports indicate an association between second trimester human influenza viral infection and later development of schizophrenia. Postmortem human brain studies also provide evidence for reduction in Reelin mRNA (an important secretory protein responsible for normal lamination of the brain) in schizophrenic brains. We hypothesized that human influenza infection in day 9 pregnant mice would alter the expression of reelin in day 0 neonatal brains. Prenatally-infected murine brains from postnatal day 0 showed significant reductions in reelin-positive cell counts in layer I of neocortex and other cortical and hippocampal layers when compared to controls. Whereas layer I Cajal-Retzius cells produced significantly less Reelin in infected animals, the same cells showed normal production of calretinin and nNOS when compared to control brains. Moreover, prenatal viral infection caused decreases in neocortical and hippocampal thickness. These results implicate a potential role of prenatal viral infection in causation of neuronal migration abnormalities via reduction in Reelin production in neonatal brains.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1359-4184
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
4
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
145-54
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10208446-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:10208446-Animals, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:10208446-Cell Adhesion Molecules, Neuronal, pubmed-meshheading:10208446-Cerebral Cortex, pubmed-meshheading:10208446-Extracellular Matrix Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10208446-Female, pubmed-meshheading:10208446-Hippocampus, pubmed-meshheading:10208446-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10208446-Influenza, Human, pubmed-meshheading:10208446-Influenza A virus, pubmed-meshheading:10208446-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:10208446-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:10208446-Nerve Tissue Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10208446-Pregnancy, pubmed-meshheading:10208446-Pregnancy Complications, Infectious, pubmed-meshheading:10208446-Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects, pubmed-meshheading:10208446-Reference Values, pubmed-meshheading:10208446-Schizophrenia, pubmed-meshheading:10208446-Serine Endopeptidases
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Defective corticogenesis and reduction in Reelin immunoreactivity in cortex and hippocampus of prenatally infected neonatal mice.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis 55455, USA. fatem002@gold.tc.umn.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't