Experts say that depressive disorder is a devastating mental syndrome and one of the leading causes of disability worldwide.
A group of scientists discovered that women suffer from depression twice as often as men and genetics is responsible for all of this. Science Advances reports.
In particular, experts are working to identify gender differences in the expression of non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), such as the type of lncRNAs named by FEDORA researchers. The researchers worked with brain tissue from recently deceased people and compared expression levels in men and women.
It turned out that the high level of FEDORA is in women who are chronically suffering from depression, and the low level is in those who take medicine for it – ketamine.
The study was also conducted on living people. They took blood samples, which showed higher levels of expression in women.
Therefore, scientists hypothesized that lncRNA is a key regulator of sex- and cell-type-dependent mood. To test this hypothesis, they injected FEDORA into mice of both sexes and again found that female mice showed more symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Earlier it was reported that in Ukraine since the beginning of the war, sales of antidepressants have increased by tens of percent.
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