PMID- 24369067 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20140801 LR - 20211021 IS - 1750-1326 (Electronic) IS - 1750-1326 (Linking) VI - 8 DP - 2013 Dec 26 TI - Behavioral and transcriptome alterations in male and female mice with postnatal deletion of TrkB in dorsal striatal medium spiny neurons. PG - 47 LID - 10.1186/1750-1326-8-47 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: The high affinity tyrosine kinase receptor, TrkB, is the primary receptor for brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and plays an important role in development, maintenance and plasticity of the striatal output medium size spiny neuron. The striatal BDNF/TrkB system is thereby implicated in many physiologic and pathophysiologic processes, the latter including mood disorders, addiction, and Huntington's disease. We crossed a mouse harboring a transgene directing cre-recombinase expression primarily to postnatal, dorsal striatal medium spiny neurons, to a mouse containing a floxed TrkB allele (fB) mouse designed for deletion of TrkB to determine its role in the adult striatum. RESULTS: We found that there were sexually dimorphic alterations in behaviors in response to stressful situations and drugs of abuse. Significant sex and/or genotype differences were found in the forced swim test of depression-like behaviors, anxiety-like behaviors on the elevated plus maze, and cocaine conditioned reward. Microarray analysis of dorsal striatum revealed significant dysregulation in individual and groups of genes that may contribute to the observed behavioral responses and in some cases, represent previously unidentified downstream targets of TrkB. CONCLUSIONS: The data point to a set of behaviors and changes in gene expression following postnatal deletion of TrkB in the dorsal striatum distinct from those in other brain regions. FAU - Unterwald, Ellen M AU - Unterwald EM FAU - Page, Michelle E AU - Page ME FAU - Brown, Timothy B AU - Brown TB FAU - Miller, Jonathan S AU - Miller JS FAU - Ruiz, Marta AU - Ruiz M FAU - Pescatore, Karen A AU - Pescatore KA FAU - Xu, Baoji AU - Xu B FAU - Reichardt, Louis French AU - Reichardt LF FAU - Beverley, Joel AU - Beverley J FAU - Tang, Bin AU - Tang B FAU - Steiner, Heinz AU - Steiner H FAU - Thomas, Elizabeth A AU - Thomas EA FAU - Ehrlich, Michelle E AU - Ehrlich ME AD - Farber Institute for Neurosciences, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA. michelle.ehrlich@mssm.edu. LA - eng GR - R01 NS081485/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States GR - DA011261/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States GR - T32 DA007237/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States GR - DA022422/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States GR - P30 DA013429/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 NS050596/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural DEP - 20131226 PL - England TA - Mol Neurodegener JT - Molecular neurodegeneration JID - 101266600 RN - EC 2.7.10.1 (Receptor, trkB) SB - IM MH - Aging MH - Animals MH - Behavior, Animal/*physiology MH - Blotting, Western MH - Corpus Striatum/*metabolism MH - Female MH - Gene Knockdown Techniques MH - In Situ Hybridization MH - Male MH - Mice MH - Mice, Transgenic MH - Neurons/*metabolism MH - Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis MH - Receptor, trkB/*deficiency/*genetics MH - Signal Transduction/genetics MH - Transcriptome PMC - PMC3880973 EDAT- 2013/12/27 06:00 MHDA- 2014/08/02 06:00 PMCR- 2013/12/26 CRDT- 2013/12/27 06:00 PHST- 2013/11/28 00:00 [received] PHST- 2013/12/19 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2013/12/27 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/12/27 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/08/02 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2013/12/26 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - #N/A [pii] AID - 1750-1326-8-47 [pii] AID - 10.1186/1750-1326-8-47 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Mol Neurodegener. 2013 Dec 26;8:47. doi: 10.1186/1750-1326-8-47.