Transcriptomic Evidence for Immaturity Induced by Antidepressant Fluoxetine in the Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex

Overview

Journal Neuropsychopharmacol Rep

Specialties Neurology
Pharmacology

Date 2019 Feb 18

PMID 30772953

Citations 12

Authors

Hideo Hagihara

Koji Ohira

Tsuyoshi Miyakawa

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Abstract

Aims: The molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the antidepressant effects of fluoxetine in the brain are not fully understood. Emerging evidence has led to the hypothesis that chronic fluoxetine treatment induces dematuration of certain types of mature neurons in rodents. These studies have focused on the properties of typical molecular and/or electrophysiological markers for neuronal maturation. Nevertheless, it remains unknown whether dematuration-related phenomena are present at the genome-wide gene expression level.

Methods: Based on the aforementioned hypothesis, we directly compared transcriptome data between fluoxetine-treated adult mice and those of naive infants in the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) to assess similarities and/or differences. We further investigated whether fluoxetine treatment caused dematuration in these brain regions in a hypothesis-free manner using a weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA).

Results: Gene expression patterns in fluoxetine-treated mice resembled those in infants in the mPFC and, to a large extent, in the hippocampus. The gene expression patterns of fluoxetine-treated adult mice were more similar to those of approximately 2-week-old infants than those of older mice. WGCNA confirmed that fluoxetine treatment was associated with maturation abnormalities, particularly in the hippocampus, and highlighted respective co-expression modules for maturity and immaturity marker genes in the hippocampus in response to fluoxetine treatment.

Conclusions: Our results strongly support the hypothesis that chronic fluoxetine treatment induces dematuration in the adult mouse brain from a transcriptomic standpoint. Detection of discrete transcriptomic regulatory networks related to fluoxetine treatment may help to further elucidate the mechanisms of antidepressant action.

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