2024
Early adversity causes sex-specific deficits in perforant pathway connectivity and contextual memory in adolescent mice
Islam R, White J, Arefin T, Mehta S, Liu X, Polis B, Giuliano L, Ahmed S, Bowers C, Zhang J, Kaffman A. Early adversity causes sex-specific deficits in perforant pathway connectivity and contextual memory in adolescent mice. Biology Of Sex Differences 2024, 15: 39. PMID: 38715106, PMCID: PMC11075329, DOI: 10.1186/s13293-024-00616-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLateral entorhinal cortexContextual fear conditioningDorsal hippocampusHippocampal developmentSex differencesFear conditioningEarly adversityLimited beddingSevere deficitsModel of early adversitySex-specific deficitsReelin-positive neuronsPerforant pathwayReelin-positive cellsDiffusion magnetic resonance imagingEx vivo diffusion magnetic resonance imagingContextual freezingContextual memoryAdolescent miceHippocampal functionLife adversityEntorhinal cortexHippocampusDeficitsAdolescent males
2020
Endothelial cell–glucocorticoid receptor interactions and regulation of Wnt signaling
Zhou H, Mehta S, Srivastava SP, Grabinska K, Zhang X, Wong C, Hedayat A, Perrotta P, Fernández-Hernando C, Sessa WC, Goodwin JE. Endothelial cell–glucocorticoid receptor interactions and regulation of Wnt signaling. JCI Insight 2020, 5: e131384. PMID: 32051336, PMCID: PMC7098785, DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.131384.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEndothelial glucocorticoid receptorVascular inflammationGlucocorticoid receptorGlucocorticoid receptor regulationGlucocorticoid receptor resultsUpregulation of WntEndogenous glucocorticoidsExogenous glucocorticoidsGlucocorticoid response elementCardiovascular diseaseMouse endothelial cellsMouse modelEndothelial WNTInflammationReceptor regulationEndothelial cellsReceptors resultsNext-generation sequencingReceptor interactionReceptorsRegulation of WntWnt pathwayGlucocorticoidsRecent dataWnt
2019
Prefrontal cortex interneurons display dynamic sex-specific stress-induced transcriptomes
Girgenti MJ, Wohleb ES, Mehta S, Ghosal S, Fogaca MV, Duman RS. Prefrontal cortex interneurons display dynamic sex-specific stress-induced transcriptomes. Translational Psychiatry 2019, 9: 292. PMID: 31712551, PMCID: PMC6848179, DOI: 10.1038/s41398-019-0642-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsFluorescence-activated cell sortingInitiation factor 2Distinct transcriptome profilesTranslational machineryTranscriptome profilesEnriched pathwaysTranscriptional pathwaysTranscriptional profilesRNA sequencingDepressive-like behaviorSST interneuronsKey pathwaysChronic stressInterneuron subtypesSex-specific differencesPrefrontal cortexCell sortingSignificant dysregulationFactor 2PathwayStress-induced depressive-like behaviorDecreased expressionReporter miceGrowth factorNon-stressed femalesTranscriptional down-regulation of ccr5 in a subset of HIV+ controllers and their family members
Gonzalo-Gil E, Rapuano PB, Ikediobi U, Leibowitz R, Mehta S, Coskun AK, Porterfield JZ, Lampkin TD, Marconi VC, Rimland D, Walker BD, Deeks S, Sutton RE. Transcriptional down-regulation of ccr5 in a subset of HIV+ controllers and their family members. ELife 2019, 8: e44360. PMID: 30964004, PMCID: PMC6456299, DOI: 10.7554/elife.44360.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAccessible chromatinActive transcriptionATAC-seqNearby genesCell surface expressionChromosome 3p21Genetic determinantsFamily membersT cell activationHost genetic determinantsResistance phenotypeChemokine receptor mRNACCR5 cell surface expressionRNA levelsCell activationPhenotypeT cellsCellsChromatinTranscriptionGenesKbMembersReceptor mRNAMRNA