Isoform-level transcriptome-wide association uncovers genetic risk mechanisms for neuropsychiatric disorders in the human brain

A Bhattacharya, DD Vo, C Jops, M Kim, C Wen… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Methods integrating genetics with transcriptomic reference panels prioritize risk genes and
mechanisms at only a fraction of trait-associated genetic loci, due in part to an overreliance …

A network pharmacology approach to predict potential targets and mechanisms of “Ramulus Cinnamomi (cassiae) – Paeonia lactiflora” herb pair in the treatment of …

HT Pan, ZQ Xi, XQ Wei, K Wang - Annals of Medicine, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Background Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) prescriptions have multiple
bioactive properties.“Gui Zhi–Shao Yao” herb pair is widely used to treat chronic pain (CP) …

Rett and Rett-related disorders: Common mechanisms for shared symptoms?

SR D'Mello - Experimental Biology and Medicine, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Rett syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by loss-of-function mutations in the
methyl-CpG binding protein-2 (MeCP2) gene that is characterized by epilepsy, intellectual …

AKT inhibition in the central nervous system induces signaling defects resulting in psychiatric symptomatology

AM Tsimberidou, A Skliris, A Valentine, J Shaw… - Cell & Bioscience, 2022 - Springer
Background Changes in the expression and activity of the AKT oncogene play an important
role in psychiatric disease. We present translational data assessing the role of AKT in …

Fine-tuning the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway intensity by sex and genotype-load: sex-dependent homozygotic threshold for somatic growth but feminization of anxious …

M Santana-Santana, JR Bayascas, L Giménez-Llort - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
According to the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), phenotypic differences among
disorders may be explained by variations in the nature and degree of neural circuitry …

[HTML][HTML] Brain mitochondrial dysfunction: a possible mechanism links early life anxiety to alzheimer's disease in later life

Q Wang, M Lu, X Zhu, X Gu, T Zhang, C Xia… - Aging and …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is usually manifested in patients with dementia, accompanied by
anxiety and other mental symptoms. Emerging evidence from humans indicates that people …

Isoform-level transcriptome-wide association uncovers extensive novel genetic risk mechanisms for neuropsychiatric disorders in the human brain

A Bhattacharya, DD Vo, C Jops, M Kim, C Wen… - medRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
Integrative methods, like colocalization and transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS),
identify transcriptomic mechanisms at only a fraction of trait-associated genetic loci from …

KRSA: An R package and R Shiny web application for an end-to-end upstream kinase analysis of kinome array data

EAK DePasquale, K Alganem, E Bentea, N Nawreen… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Phosphorylation by serine-threonine and tyrosine kinases is critical for determining protein
function. Array-based platforms for measuring reporter peptide signal levels allow for …

[HTML][HTML] Sex-Specific Alterations in Spatial Memory and Hippocampal AKT-mTOR Signaling in Adult Mice Pre-exposed to Ketamine and/or Psychological Stress …

I Garcia-Carachure, O Lira, A Themann… - … psychiatry global open …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Ketamine (KET) is administered to manage major depression in adolescent
patients. However, the long-term effects of juvenile KET exposure on memory-related tasks …

Sex differences and estradiol effects in MAPK and Akt cell signaling across subregions of the hippocampus

PAS Sheppard, TA Puri, LAM Galea - Neuroendocrinology, 2022 - karger.com
Introduction: Rapid effects of estrogens within the hippocampus of rodents are dependent
upon cell-signaling cascades, and activation of these cascades by estrogens varies by sex …