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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-4-21
pubmed:abstractText
Stress affects synaptic plasticity and may alter various types of behaviour, including anxiety or memory formation. In the present study, we examined the effects of acute stress (1 h restraint with or without tail-shock) on mRNA levels of a plasticity-related serine protease neuropsin (NP) in the hippocampus using semiquantitative RT-PCR and in situ hybridization. We found that NP mRNA expression was dramatically increased shortly after exposure to the acute restraint tail-shock stress and remained at high level for at least 24 h. The level of NP mRNA would be correlated to the elevated plasma concentration of the glucocorticoid corticosterone (CORT) and to the stress intensity. Application of CORT either onto primary cultured hippocampal neurons (5 nM) or in vivo to adrenalectomized (ADX) mice (10 mg/kg B.W., s.c.) mimicked the effect of stress and significantly elevated NP mRNA. These results suggest that the upregulation of NP mRNA after stress is CORT-dependent and point to a role for neuropsin in stress-induced neuronal plasticity.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0304-3940
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
9
pubmed:volume
436
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
273-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18403117-Adrenalectomy, pubmed-meshheading:18403117-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:18403117-Animals, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:18403117-Anti-Inflammatory Agents, pubmed-meshheading:18403117-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:18403117-Corticosterone, pubmed-meshheading:18403117-Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, pubmed-meshheading:18403117-Electroshock, pubmed-meshheading:18403117-Gene Expression Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:18403117-Glucocorticoids, pubmed-meshheading:18403117-Hippocampus, pubmed-meshheading:18403117-Male, pubmed-meshheading:18403117-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:18403117-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:18403117-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:18403117-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:18403117-Serine Endopeptidases, pubmed-meshheading:18403117-Stress, Physiological, pubmed-meshheading:18403117-Time Factors
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Acute stress increases neuropsin mRNA expression in the mouse hippocampus through the glucocorticoid pathway.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Structural Cell Biology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, 630-0192 Nara, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't