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    Recent reports demonstrate that DNA damage is induced, and rapidly repaired, in circuits activated by experience. Moreover, stress hormones are known to slow DNA repair, suggesting that prolonged stress may result in persistent DNA damage. Prolonged stress is known to negatively impact physical and mental health; however, DNA damage as a factor in stress pathology has only begun to be explored. Histone H2A-X phosphorylated at serine 139 (γH2AX) is a marker of DNA double-strand breaks (DSB), a type of damage that may lead to cell death if unrepaired. We hypothesized that a 14-day period of variable stress exposure sufficient to alter anxiety-like behavior in male C57BL/6J mice would produce an increase in γH2AX levels in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST), a region implicated in anxiety and stress regulation. We observed that 14 days of variable stress, but not a single stress exposure, was associated with increased levels of γH2AX 24 h after termination of the stress paradigm. Further investigation found that phosphorylation levels of a pair of kinases associated with the DNA damage response, glycogen synthase kinase 3 β (GSK3β) and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) were also elevated following variable stress. Our results suggest that unrepaired DNA DSBs and/or repetitive attempted repair may represent an important component of the allostatic load that stress places on the brain. Copyright © 2018 IBRO. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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    Brendan D Hare, Tina M Thornton, Mercedes Rincon, Borivoj Golijanin, S Bradley King, Diane M Jaworski, William A Falls. Two Weeks of Variable Stress Increases Gamma-H2AX Levels in the Mouse Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis. Neuroscience. 2018 Mar 01;373:137-144

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