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Series GSE33618 Query DataSets for GSE33618
Status Public on Apr 19, 2012
Title MAPK Signaling Determines Anxiety in the Juvenile Mouse Brain but Depression-like Behavior in Adults
Organism Mus musculus
Experiment type Expression profiling by array
Summary MAP kinase signaling has been implicated in brain development, long-term memory, and the response to antidepressants. Inducible Braf knockout mice enabled us to unravel a new role of neuronal MAPK signaling for emotional behavior. Braf mice that were induced during adulthood showed normal anxiety but increased depression-like behavior, in accordance with pharmacological findings. In contrast, the inactivation of Braf in the juvenile brain leads to normal depression-like behavior but decreased anxiety in adults. In these mutants we found no alteration of GABAergic neurotransmission but reduced neuronal arborization in the dentate gyrus. Analysis of gene expression in the hippocampus revealed nine downregulated MAPK target genes that represent candidates to cause the mutant phenotype. Our results reveal the differential function of MAPK signaling in juvenile and adult life phases and emphasize the early postnatal period as critical for the determination of anxiety in adults. Moreover, these results validate inducible gene inactivation as new valuable approach, allowing to discriminate between gene function in the adult and the developing postnatal brain.
 
Overall design Five male Braf-cko, six male homozygous Braf-flox littermates, six male heterozygous CamkII-Cre, and six male wildtype littermates were killed with CO2, the complete hippocampal tissue was prepared, and total RNA was extracted with the Trizol protocol. The integrity and quality of the RNA samples were analyzed with an RNA electrophoresis chip (RNA 6000 Nano Kit, Agilent, Boeblingen, Germany). RNA samples of high integrity and quality (RIN ≥ 7.5) were further processed with the TotalPrep RNA Amplification Kit (Ambion, Austin, TX, USA) and hybridized onto MouseWG-6 v1.1 Expression Bead-Chips (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA) following manufacturer’s instructions. Data were analyzed using the software R (used packages: beadarray, limma, and vsn).
 
Contributor(s) Wefers B, Hitz C, Hölter SM, Trümbach D, Hansen J, Weber P, Pütz B, Deussing JM, Hrabe de Angelis M, Roenneberg T, Zheng F, Alzheimer C, Silva A, Wurst W, Kühn R
Citation(s) 22529971
Submission date Nov 10, 2011
Last update date Jan 18, 2013
Contact name Benedikt Wefers
Organization name Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen
Department Institute of Developmental Genetics
Street address Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1
City Neuherberg/Munich
ZIP/Postal code 85764
Country Germany
 
Platforms (1)
GPL6105 Illumina mouse-6 v1.1 expression beadchip
Samples (36)
GSM831301 Braf-cko, biological replicate 1, technical replicate 1
GSM831302 Braf-flox, biological replicate 1, technical replicate 1
GSM831303 Braf-cko, biological replicate 2, technical replicate 1
Relations
BioProject PRJNA148495

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Supplementary file Size Download File type/resource
GSE33618_RAW.tar 5.2 Mb (http)(custom) TAR
GSE33618_non-normalized.txt.gz 11.3 Mb (ftp)(http) TXT
Processed data included within Sample table

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