Altered ADAR1 in mice affected by social isolation stress-induced cognitive deficits

Wei Chen; Dong An; Hong Xu; Xiaoxin Cheng; Shiwei Wang; Weizhi Yu; Deqin Yu; Dan Zhao; Yiping Sun; Wuguo Deng; Yiyuan Tang; Shengming Yin

doi:10.7287/peerj.preprints.1870v1

Altered ADAR1 in mice affected by social isolation stress-induced cognitive deficits

Wei Chen¹, Dong An¹, Hong Xu², Xiaoxin Cheng¹, Shiwei Wang³, Weizhi Yu¹, Deqin Yu¹, Dan Zhao¹, Yiping Sun¹, Wuguo Deng⁴, Yiyuan Tang⁵, Shengming Yin ¹

1 College of Basic Medical Sciences, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China

2 Department of Physiology Laboratory, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China

3 Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia

4 Institute of Cancer Stem Cell, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China

5 Texas Tech University, Texas Tech Neuroimaging Institute, Texas, USA

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.1870v1

Published: 2016-03-17
Accepted: 2016-03-17

Subject Areas: Animal Behavior, Biochemistry, Neuroscience
Keywords: cognitive ability, ADAR1, social isolation

Copyright: © 2016 Chen et al.
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Cite this article: Chen W, An D, Xu H, Cheng X, Wang S, Yu W, Yu D, Zhao D, Sun Y, Deng W, Tang Y, Yin S. 2016. Altered ADAR1 in mice affected by social isolation stress-induced cognitive deficits. PeerJ Preprints 4:e1870v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1870v1

Abstract

Adenosine deaminase acting on RNA (ADAR) activity increases in response to inflammation. Social isolation stress is related to neuroinflammation; however, it remains unclear whether ADAR1 is altered in response to social isolation stress-induced cognitive deficits. To investigate our hypothesis that ADAR1 displayed patterns of change in response to social isolation stress, we addressed this issue systemically by isolating Kunming mice for 2, 4 and 8 weeks individually since postnatal 21 days to set up isolation mouse model. Furthermore, we arranged re-socialization group to evaluate the alterations of ADAR1 in the cognitive deficits recovery. The results of behavior tests showed that social isolation stress resulted in cognitive dysfunction, which was recovered by re-socialization in re-gregarious rearing group. Furthermore, the immunohistochemistry and western blot results displayed that both the immunoreactivity and protein expression of ADAR1 in the hippocampus and frontal cortex increased obviously as compared to the same age mice without isolation. The above abnormal alterations of ADAR1 were recovered by re-socialization in re-gregarious rearing group. Our study supports the hypothesis that ADAR1 is altered in mice affected by social isolation stress-induced cognitive deficits.