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Intake Of 7,8-Dihydroxyflavone During Juvenile And Adolescent Stages Prevents Onset Of Psychosis In Adult Offspring After Maternal Immune Activation, Mei Han, Ji-Chun Zhang, Wei Yao, Chun Yang, Tamaki Ishima, Qian Ren, Min Ma, Chao Dong, Xu-Feng Huang, Kenji Hashimoto
Intake Of 7,8-Dihydroxyflavone During Juvenile And Adolescent Stages Prevents Onset Of Psychosis In Adult Offspring After Maternal Immune Activation, Mei Han, Ji-Chun Zhang, Wei Yao, Chun Yang, Tamaki Ishima, Qian Ren, Min Ma, Chao Dong, Xu-Feng Huang, Kenji Hashimoto
Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute
Prenatal infection and subsequent abnormal neurodevelopment of offspring is involved in the etiology of schizophrenia. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and its high affinity receptor, tropomyosin receptor kinase B (TrkB) signaling plays a key role in the neurodevelopment. Pregnant mice exposed to polyriboinosinic-polyribocytidylic acid [poly(I:C)] causes schizophrenia-like behavioral abnormalities in their offspring at adulthood. Here we found that the juvenile offspring of poly(I:C)-treated mice showed cognitive deficits, as well as reduced BDNF-TrkB signaling in the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Furthermore, the adult offspring of poly(I:C)-treated mice showed cognitive deficits, prepulse inhibition (PPI) deficits, reduced BDNF-TrkB signaling, immunoreactivity of parvalbumin (PV) and peroxisome …