Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
Volume 14, Issue 5, Pages 711-717Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S1461145710000726
Keywords
Antidepressant-like effects; forced swim test; GSK-3 shRNA; hippocampal dentate gyrus; lentivirus
Funding
- National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health
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Inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) by pharmacological tools can produce antidepressantlike effects in rodents. However, the GSK-3 isoform(s) and brain region(s) involved in regulating these behavioural effects remain elusive. We studied the effects of bilateral intra-hippocampal injections of lentivirus-expressing short-hairpin (sh) RNA targeting GSK-3 beta on behavioural performance in mice subjected to chronic stress. Pre-injection of lentivirus-expressing GSK-3 beta shRNA into the hippocampal dentate gyrus significantly decreased immobility time in both forced swim and tail suspension tests, while the locomotor activity of these mice was unchanged. These results suggest that lentiviral GSK-3 beta shRNA injection induces antidepressant-like effects in chronically stressed mice. Under these conditions, the expression levels of GSK-3 beta were persistently and markedly reduced in the hippocampus following GSK-3 beta shRNA injection. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration that a single injection of lentivirus-expressing GSK-3 beta shRNA in the hippocampal dentate gyrus of chronically stressed mice has antidepressant-like effects elicited by gene silencing.
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