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Schizophrenia and reelin: a model based on prenatal stress to study epigenetics, brain development and behavior

Overview of attention for article published in Biological Research, March 2016
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Title
Schizophrenia and reelin: a model based on prenatal stress to study epigenetics, brain development and behavior
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Biological Research, March 2016
DOI 10.1186/s40659-016-0076-5
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Ignacio Negrón-Oyarzo, Ariel Lara-Vásquez, Ismael Palacios-García, Pablo Fuentealba, Francisco Aboitiz

Abstract

Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder that results in a significant disability for the patient. The disorder is characterized by impairment of the adaptive orchestration of actions, a cognitive function that is mainly dependent on the prefrontal cortex. This behavioral deficit, together with cellular and neurophysiological alterations in the prefrontal cortex, as well as reduced density of GABAergic cells and aberrant oscillatory activity, all indicate structural and functional deficits of the prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia. Among the several risk factors for the development of schizophrenia, stress during the prenatal period has been identified as crucial. Thus, it is proposed that prenatal stress induces neurodevelopmental alterations in the prefrontal cortex that are expressed as cognitive impairment observed in schizophrenia. However, the precise mechanisms that link prenatal stress with the impairment of prefrontal cortex function is largely unknown. Reelin is an extracellular matrix protein involved in the development of cortical neural connectivity at embryonic stages, and in synaptic plasticity at postnatal stages. Interestingly, down-regulation of reelin expression has been associated with epigenetic changes in the reelin gene of the prefrontal cortex of schizophrenic patients. We recently showed that, similar to schizophrenic patients, prenatal stress induces down-expression of reelin associated with the methylation of its promoter in the rodent prefrontal cortex. These alterations were paralleled with altered prefrontal cortex functional connectivity and impairment in prefrontal cortex-dependent behavioral tasks. Therefore, considering molecular, cellular, physiological and behavioral evidence, we propose a unifying framework that links prenatal stress and prefrontal malfunction through epigenetic alterations of the reelin gene.

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Country Count As %
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 138 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 27 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 15%
Student > Master 17 12%
Researcher 14 10%
Student > Postgraduate 8 6%
Other 14 10%
Unknown 38 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 37 27%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 15 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 15 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 10 7%
Psychology 8 6%
Other 11 8%
Unknown 43 31%
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