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bioRxiv
date
Feb 27, 2026
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Published
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首次揭示胚胎期VPA暴露导致PVH小胶质细胞转录异常,发现空间转录组学可解析微胶质亚型分布变化,并证实催产素神经元与小胶质细胞存在双向调控机制,为社交障碍的神经免疫机制提供新视角。
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单细胞测序
空间组学
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Post
📄 原文题目
Transcriptomic Landscape of Microglia in Mouse Models of Social Dysfunction and Oxytocin-Mediated Recovery
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首次揭示胚胎期VPA暴露导致PVH小胶质细胞转录异常,发现空间转录组学可解析微胶质亚型分布变化,并证实催产素神经元与小胶质细胞存在双向调控机制,为社交障碍的神经免疫机制提供新视角。
📝 英文原版摘要
Atypical sociability is a hallmark of neurodevelopmental disorders arising from genetic susceptibility and prenatal environmental perturbations affecting diverse brain cell types. Using single-cell transcriptomics, we previously identified selective vulnerability of parvocellular oxytocin (OT) neurons in the paraventricular hypothalamus (PVH) following embryonic exposure to valproic acid (VPA), a teratogen that induces social deficits. Neonatal chemogenetic activation of OT neurons rescued these behavioral abnormalities and partially restored dysregulated gene expression. However, the effects of VPA exposure and OT neuron stimulation on non-neuronal PVH cells remained unclear. Here, we show that VPA induces transcriptional abnormalities in PVH microglia. Spatial transcriptomics revealed altered distributions of PVH microglial subtypes. Notably, neonatal OT neuron stimulation reversed a subset of VPA-induced microglial gene downregulation, while pharmacological manipulation of microglia normalized aberrant OT gene expression in putative parvocellular OT neurons. These findings support bidirectional OT neuron-microglia interactions that may underlie social dysfunction following embryonic VPA exposure.
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