Neurogenesis is currently an area of great interest in neuroscience.It is closely linked to brain diseases,including mental disorders and neurodevelopmental disease.Both embryonic and adult neurogeneses are influenced...Neurogenesis is currently an area of great interest in neuroscience.It is closely linked to brain diseases,including mental disorders and neurodevelopmental disease.Both embryonic and adult neurogeneses are influenced by glucocorticoids secreted from the adrenal glands in response to a variety of stressors.Moreover,proliferation/differentiation of the neural stem/progenitor cells（NSPCs）is affected by glucocorticoids through intracellular signaling pathways such as phosphoinositide 3-kinase（PI3K）/Akt,hedgehog,and Wnt.Our review presents recent evidence of the impact of glucocorticoids on NSPC behaviors and the underlying molecular mechanisms;this provides important information for understanding the pathological role of glucocorticoids on neurogenesis-associated brain diseases.展开更多
基金supported by grants from by Takeda Science Foundation(TN,NA)the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)(JSPS KAKENHI JP16K06996)(to TN)JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 17J04183(to HO)in the Ministry of Education,Culture,Sports,Science,and Technology of Japan
文摘Neurogenesis is currently an area of great interest in neuroscience.It is closely linked to brain diseases,including mental disorders and neurodevelopmental disease.Both embryonic and adult neurogeneses are influenced by glucocorticoids secreted from the adrenal glands in response to a variety of stressors.Moreover,proliferation/differentiation of the neural stem/progenitor cells（NSPCs）is affected by glucocorticoids through intracellular signaling pathways such as phosphoinositide 3-kinase（PI3K）/Akt,hedgehog,and Wnt.Our review presents recent evidence of the impact of glucocorticoids on NSPC behaviors and the underlying molecular mechanisms;this provides important information for understanding the pathological role of glucocorticoids on neurogenesis-associated brain diseases.
