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Published in final edited form as: Cell Tissue Res. 2017 Nov 10;371(1):7–21. doi: 10.1007/s00441-017-2718-5

Table 2.

Genome-wide studies of environmentally-induced gene regulation.

Year Species Type of
expression
analysis
Stimuli/Experience Duration Tissue Reference
2001 Rat Microarray Running wheel 3 weeks Hippocampus Tong et al., 2001
2002 Rat Microarray Resistance running wheel (100 g) 3 days, 1 week, 4 weeks Hippocampus Molteni et al., 2002
2008 Mouse Microarray Running wheel 16 months Hippocampus Stranahan et al., 2008
2011 Rat Microarray Running wheel 2 weeks Hippocampus Funk et al., 2011
2011 Mouse Microarray Running wheel 8 weeks Hippocampus Kohman et al., 2011
2013 Mouse Microarray Running wheel 3 days per week 6 months Hippocampus Alvarez-Lopez et al., 2012
2014 Rat Microarray Resistance running wheel (30% body weight) 4 weeks Hippocampus Lee et al., 2014
Running wheel (no resistance
2015 Rat Microarray Forced running on treadmill (mild exercise) 1 hour per day 6 weeks Hippocampus Inoue et al., 2015
Forced running on treadmill (intense exercise) 1 hour per day
2015 Mouse Microarray Running wheel 3 days Dentate gyrus Guerrieri et al., 2015
1 week
2 weeks
2003 Rat Growth factor chip ECS: 1 shock Hippocampus Newton et al., 2003
2004 Rat Microarray ECS: 1 shock per day 10 days Hippocampus Altar et al., 2004
2006 Rat Microarray ECS: 1 shock per day 10 days DG granule cell layer Ploski et al., 2006
2007 Rat Microarray ECS: 4 shocks per day 2 days Prefrontal cortex Conti et al., 2007
Frontal cortex
Amygdala
Hypothalamus
Hippocampus
Dorsal raphe
Locus coeruleus
2008 Rat CREB ChIP + microarray ECS: 1 shock 1 day Frontal cortex, hippocampus, striatum Tanis et al., 2008
2011 Mouse Methyl-sensitive cut counting + sequencing ECS: 1 shock 1 day DG tissue Guo et al., 2011
2013 Rat miRNA microarray ECS: 1 shock per day 10 days Hippocampus O’Connor et al., 2013
2000 Mouse Microarray 6 hours daily exposure; various toys, wooden blocks, running wheel, and small houses; rearranged every half-day 3–6 hours Cortex Rampon et al., 2000
2–14 days
2004 Rat Microarray 24 hours daily; spacious 2-level glass terraria with nesting material, plastic stairs, hemp ropes, pipes, box of soil, wooden blocks, other colored objects; rearranged twice per week 2 weeks Hippocampus Keyvani et al., 2004
2005 Mouse Microarray 3 hours per day for first month, 3 sessions per week for next 4 months; large cages with running wheels, colored tunnels, toys, and chewable material 5 months Hippocampus Lazarov et al., 2005
2016 Mouse Single-nuclei RNA-seq One 15-minute session; large cages with huts and tunnels One time Individual DG neurons Lacar et al., 2016

This table summarizes published genome-wide studies discussed in section 4.

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