Project description:MK: MK-801. Young male C57BL/6J mice received an injection of MK-801 (300 micro-g per g body weight). RNA from control mice were extracted 1hr, 2hr, 4hr, and 6hr after MK experimental mice received their last shock treatment. MK C+S: MK-801 & Context + Shock: Young male C57BL/6J mice received an injection of MK-801 (300 micro-g per g body weight) 1 h prior to contextual fear conditioning that consisted of: Placement into a novel spatial context for 2 min. After 2 min, a 1 sec (0.5 mA) shock was administered through a floor grid. The 2 min-1 sec shock paradigm was repeated for a total of 3 shocks. 1 min after the last shock, animals were removed to their homecage. RNA was extracted 1hr, 2hr, 4hr, and 6hr after the last shock treatment. Keywords: time-course
Project description:MK: MK-801. Young male C57BL/6J mice received an injection of MK-801 (300 micro-g per g body weight). RNA from control mice were extracted 1hr, 2hr, 4hr, and 6hr after MK experimental mice received their last shock treatment. MK C+S: MK-801 & Context + Shock: Young male C57BL/6J mice received an injection of MK-801 (300 micro-g per g body weight) 1 h prior to contextual fear conditioning that consisted of: Placement into a novel spatial context for 2 min. After 2 min, a 1 sec (0.5 mA) shock was administered through a floor grid. The 2 min-1 sec shock paradigm was repeated for a total of 3 shocks. 1 min after the last shock, animals were removed to their homecage. RNA was extracted 1hr, 2hr, 4hr, and 6hr after the last shock treatment. Keywords: time-course
Project description:Schizophrenia is a group of severe mental disorders. MK-801 is a common chemical that is used to construct schizophrenic animal model. In the present study, male SD rats were received MK-801 (0.2 mg/kg) intraperitoneal injections for 2 weeks. PFC tissue samples were collected freshly when sacrificing the rats and then quickly frozen and stored under -80°C for RNA sequencing. Differentially-expressed genes (DEGs) were determined by using DESeq2. A total of 129 DEGs, including 50 down-regulated and 79 up-regulated DEGs, were determined. By comparing with the online database TargetScanHuman (Release 8.0) and miRDB (Version 6.0), we found 4 genes (SIK1, TWIST1, BTG2, EGR2) that were altered in the schizophrenic model rat PFC and also are potential targets of miR-25.
Project description:N-Methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDAr), widely located around the central nervous system, are known to be involved in behavioral disorders. Dizocilpine (commonly referred to as MK-801) is a well known non-competitive NMDAr antagonist. We treated rats with intraperitoneal injection [0.08 (low-dose) and 0.16 (high-dose) mg/kg] of MK-801. In one experiment, 40 min after NaCl (vehicle control) and MK-801 (0.08 mg/kg) injection, electrocorticogram (ECoG) signals were analyzed. In the second experiment, 40 min post-injection, the whole brain of each animal was rapidly removed and separated into amyglada, cerebral cortex, hippocampus, hypothalamus, midbrain and ventral striatum) on ice, followed by analysis using a 4x44K DNA microarray chip. Spectral analysis revealed that a single systemic injection of MK-801 significantly and selectively augmented the power of baseline (30-80 Hz) frequency oscillations. DNA microarray analysis showed the largest number (up- and down- regulations) of gene expressions in the cerebral cortex (378), midbrain (376), hippocampus (375), ventral striatum (353), amygdala (301), and hypothalamus (201) under low-dose of MK-801. Under high-dose, ventral striatum (811) showed the largest number of gene expression changes. Gene expression changes were functionally categorized to reveal expression of genes and function varies with each brain region. MK-801 increases the synchrony of baseline oscillations, causing very early changes in gene expressions in rat brain after acute MK-801 treatment, a first report. The overall goal of the present study was to identify gene expression patterns along rat chromosomes in different brain regions after a single injection of MK-801, which exerts a longer acute effect than ketamine on ongoing brain activities. Two approaches were taken, first electrophysiological and send molecular analysis, where the brain of MK-801-treated rats was subjected to a genome-wide transcriptome mapping analysis (~4400 genes) in the cerebral cortex, midbrain, hippocampus, ventral striatum, amygdala, and hypothalamus regions.