Remodeling of synaptic transmission genomic fabrics in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus of a rat model of autism
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ABSTRACT: We profiled the whole transcriptomes of male and female rat hypothalamic paraventricular nuclei to determine the remodeling of the genomic fabrics responsible for the glutamatergic, GABAergic, dopaminergic, cholinergic and serotonergic transmission in autism. The rats were prenatally exposed (G15) to betamethasone followed by repeated adiministration of N-Methyl-D-Aspartic acid on postnatal days 12, 13 and 15 which triggered the infantile spasms and autism spectrum disease behavior. Pups were treated with saline on days 13, 14 and 15 prior to NMDA administration. Our Genomic Fabric Paradigm (GFP) is proposed as a transformative research approach to enhance the understanding of the brain transcriptomic alterations in autistic rats . The genomic fabric of a particular synapse is the structured transcriptome associated with the most interconnected and stably expressed gene network responsible for that type of neurotransmission. GFP refines the description of functional pathways by selecting the most prominent genes and determining their networking. Moreover, it quantifies the remodeling of functional pathways and their interplay in disease and recovery in response to a treatment. We found that priming with betamethasone had substantial consequences on the topology of the genomic fabrics of all kind of synaptic transmission and that NMDA-induced spasms strongly exacerbated the remodeling of these fabrics.
ORGANISM(S): Rattus norvegicus
PROVIDER: GSE128091 | GEO | 2019/03/12
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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