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Genetic Regulation of Behavioral and Neuronal Responses to Fluoxetine

Brooke H. Miller, Laura E. Schultz, Anisha Gulati, Michael D. Cameron and Mathew T. Pletcher

Revue : Neuropsychopharmacology

Despite widespread use of antidepressants, the factors underlying the behavioral response to antidepressants are unknown. It has been shown that antidepressant treatment promotes the proliferation and survival of neurons in the adult hippocampus via enhanced serotonergic signaling, but it is unclear whether hippocampal neurogenesis is responsible for the behavioral response to antidepressants. Furthermore, a large subpopulation of patients fails to respond to antidepressant treatment due to presumed underlying genetic factors. In the present study, we have used the phenotypic and genotypic variability of inbred mouse strains to show that there is a genetic component to both the behavioral and neuronal effects of chronic fluoxetine treatment, and that this antidepressant induces an increase in hippocampal cell proliferation only in the strains that also show a positive behavioral response to treatment. Furthermore, the behavioral and neuronal responses are associated with an upregulation of genes known to promote neuronal proliferation and survival. These results suggest that inherent genetic predisposition to increased serotonin-induced neurogenesis may be a determinant of antidepressant efficacy.

Keywords: inbred mouse strains, fluoxetine, tail suspension test, neurogenesis, BrdU, depression

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Neuropsychopharmacology (2008) 33, 1312–1322

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