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LPA signaling initiates schizophrenia-like brain and behavioral changes in a mouse model of prenatal brain hemorrhage

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  • Mirendil, Hope, Ph.D. in Biology, Scripps Research 2008 - 2013

authors

  • Mirendil, Hope
  • Thomas, E. A.
  • De Loera, C.
  • Okada, K.
  • Inomata, Y.
  • Chun, Jerold

publication date

  • April 2015

journal

  • Translational Psychiatry  Journal

abstract

  • Genetic, environmental and neurodevelopmental factors are thought to underlie the onset of neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. How these risk factors collectively contribute to pathology is unclear. Here, we present a mouse model of prenatal intracerebral hemorrhage--an identified risk factor for schizophrenia--using a serum-exposure paradigm. This model exhibits behavioral, neurochemical and schizophrenia-related gene expression alterations in adult females. Behavioral alterations in amphetamine-induced locomotion, prepulse inhibition, thigmotaxis and social interaction--in addition to increases in tyrosine hydroxylase-positive dopaminergic cells in the substantia nigra and ventral tegmental area and decreases in parvalbumin-positive cells in the prefrontal cortex--were induced upon prenatal serum exposure. Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), a lipid component of serum, was identified as a key molecular initiator of schizophrenia-like sequelae induced by serum. Prenatal exposure to LPA alone phenocopied many of the schizophrenia-like alterations seen in the serum model, whereas pretreatment with an antagonist against the LPA receptor subtype LPA1 prevented many of the behavioral and neurochemical alterations. In addition, both prenatal serum and LPA exposure altered the expression of many genes and pathways related to schizophrenia, including the expression of Grin2b, Slc17a7 and Grid1. These findings demonstrate that aberrant LPA receptor signaling associated with fetal brain hemorrhage may contribute to the development of some neuropsychiatric disorders.

subject areas

  • Animals
  • Behavior, Animal
  • Brain
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Female
  • Intracranial Hemorrhages
  • Lysophospholipids
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Pregnancy
  • Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects
  • Risk Factors
  • Schizophrenia
  • Signal Transduction
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Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC4462599

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 2158-3188 (Electronic) 2158-3188 (Linking)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1038/tp.2015.33

PubMed ID

  • 25849980
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Additional Document Info

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  • e541

volume

  • 5

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