RGS4

Vasiliki Mitsi1, Anne Ruiz1, Claire Polizu1

  • 1Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute (V.M., A.Ru., C.P., A.Ra., R.A.S., E.M.P. M.F., S.G., E.J.N., L.S.) and BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute (C.Y.T.), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York; University of Crete, Department of Basic Sciences, Crete, Greece (V.M.); Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics, Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts (Z.F., R.A.S., V.Z.); Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas (O.K.S.); and Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Rockefeller University, New York, New York (E.F.S.).

Molecular pharmacology
|February 13, 2024
PubMed
概括

介质前额叶皮层中的G蛋白信号传递4 (RGS4) 的调节者影响慢性压力脆弱性. 减少的RGS4增强了胺类抗抑郁药的作用,但增加了应激易感性,揭示了RGS4是情绪障碍的关键调节器.

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