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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 23, Issue 10, Pages 2814-2818Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04817.x
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antidepressant; brain-derived neurotrophic factor; hippocampus; protein synthesis; synaptic plasticity; translation control
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The delayed therapeutic onset observed in response to chronic antidepressant drug treatment is little understood. While current theories emphasize effects on gene transcription, possible effects of antidepressant drugs on translation control pathways have not been explored. We examined the effect of the selective serotonergic reuptake inhibitor fluoxetine on regulation of two major determinants of mRNA translation, eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (eIF4E) and eukaryotic elongation factor 2 (eEF2). Chronic fluoxetine treatment induced hyperphosphorylation of eEF2 (Thr56) in prefrontal cortex, hippocampus and dentate gyrus of rats. By contrast, phosphorylation of eIF4E (Ser209) was observed specifically in the dentate gyrus. Acute fluoxetine treatment had no effect on translational factor activity. These findings suggest that region-specific regulation of translation contributes to the delayed action of antidepressant drugs such as fluoxetine.
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