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ArticleiScience2026

Transcriptomic landscape of microglia in mouse models of social dysfunction and oxytocin-mediated recovery.

Masafumi Tsurutani, Haruaki Sato, Mitsue Hagihara, Dooseon Cho, Mitsutaka Kadota, Takefumi Kondo, Kazunari Miyamichi

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Article in iScience, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Masafumi TsurutaniLaboratory for Comparative Connectomics, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan.
Haruaki SatoLaboratory for Comparative Connectomics, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan.
Mitsue HagiharaLaboratory for Comparative Connectomics, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan.
Dooseon ChoLaboratory for Developmental Genome System, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan.
Mitsutaka KadotaLaboratory for Developmental Genome System, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan.
Takefumi KondoLaboratory for Developmental Genome System, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan.
Kazunari MiyamichiLaboratory for Comparative Connectomics, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan.

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Abstract

Atypical sociability is a hallmark of neurodevelopmental disorders arising from genetic susceptibility and prenatal environmental perturbations that can affect 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

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autism spectrum disordermicrogliaoxytocin neuronssingle-cell transcriptomicsspatial transcriptomics

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PMID42733638
PMCPMC13571280

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