Early life and adult stress promote sex dependent changes in hypothalamic miRNAs and environmental enrichment prevents stress-induced miRNA and gene expression changes in rats

Abstract Background The hypothalamus plays a key role in the stress response. While early life stress (ELS) increases susceptibility to psychiatric disorders including major depressive disorder (MDD), acute stress during adulthood can also precipitate MDD after ELS. Aim Here, we tested the expressio...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lauren Allen McKibben, Yogesh Dwivedi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-09-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-021-08003-4