Pei-Hsin Huang, Tsung-Ying Yang, Chia-Wei Yeh, Sheng-Min Huang, Ho-Ching Chang, Yun-Fen Hung, Wen-Chia Chu, Kuan-Hung Cho, Tzu-Pin Lu, Po-Hsiu Kuo, Li-Jen Lee, Li-Wei Kuo, Cheng-Chang Lien, Hwai-Jong Cheng
Mood disorders are an important public health issue and recent advances in genomic studies have indicated that molecules involved in neurodevelopment are causally related to mood disorders. BLM-s (BCL-2-like molecule, small transcript isoform), a BH3-only proapoptotic BCL-2 family member, mediates apoptosis of postmitotic immature neurons during embryonic cortical development, but its role in the adult brain is unknown. To better understand the physiological role of Blm-s gene in vivo, we generated a Blm-s-knockout (Blm-s-/- ) mouse...
September 26, 2022: Translational Psychiatry