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Liu J, Amar F, Corona C, So RWL, Andrews SJ, Nagy PL, Shelanski ML, Greene LA. Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Elevates Activating Transcription Factor 4 (ATF4) in Neurons and Promotes ATF4-Dependent Induction of Sesn2. Front Mol Neurosci 2018; 11:62. [PMID: 29599707 PMCID: PMC5863619 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2018.00062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2017] [Accepted: 02/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Activating transcription factor 4 (ATF4) plays important physiologic roles in the brain including regulation of learning and memory as well as neuronal survival and death. Yet, outside of translational regulation by the eIF2α-dependent stress response pathway, there is little information about how its levels are controlled in neurons. Here, we show that brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) promotes a rapid and sustained increase in neuronal ATF4 transcripts and protein levels. This increase is dependent on tropomyosin receptor kinase (TrkB) signaling, but independent of levels of phosphorylated eIF2α. The elevation in ATF4 protein occurs both in nuclei and processes. Transcriptome analysis revealed that ATF4 mediates BDNF-promoted induction of Sesn2 which encodes Sestrin2, a protector against oxidative and genotoxic stresses and a mTor complex 1 inhibitor. In contrast, BDNF-elevated ATF4 did not affect expression of a number of other known ATF4 targets including several with pro-apoptotic activity. The capacity of BDNF to elevate neuronal ATF4 may thus represent a means to maintain this transcription factor at levels that provide neuroprotection and optimal brain function without risk of triggering neurodegeneration.
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- Jin Liu
- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, United States
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Frühauf-Perez PK, Temp FR, Pillat MM, Signor C, Wendel AL, Ulrich H, Mello CF, Rubin MA. Spermine protects from LPS-induced memory deficit via BDNF and TrkB activation. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2018; 149:135-143. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2018.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2017] [Revised: 01/18/2018] [Accepted: 02/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Melas PA, Qvist JS, Deidda M, Upreti C, Wei YB, Sanna F, Fratta W, Scherma M, Fadda P, Kandel DB, Kandel ER. Cannabinoid Modulation of Eukaryotic Initiation Factors (eIF2α and eIF2B1) and Behavioral Cross-Sensitization to Cocaine in Adolescent Rats. Cell Rep 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.02.065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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cAMP, cGMP and Amyloid β: Three Ideal Partners for Memory Formation. Trends Neurosci 2018; 41:255-266. [PMID: 29501262 DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2018.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2017] [Revised: 01/25/2018] [Accepted: 02/01/2018] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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cAMP and cGMP are well established second messengers required for long-term potentiation (LTP) and memory formation/consolidation. By contrast, amyloid β (Aβ), mostly known as one of the main culprits for Alzheimer's disease (AD), has received relatively little attention in the context of plasticity and memory. Of note, however, low physiological concentrations of Aβ seem necessary for LTP induction and for memory formation. This should come as no surprise, since hormesis emerged as a central dogma in biology. Additionally, recent evidence indicates that Aβ is one of the downstream effectors for cAMP and cGMP to trigger synaptic plasticity and memory. We argue that these emerging findings depict a new scenario that should change the general view on the amyloidogenic pathway, and that could have significant implications for the understanding of AD and its pharmacological treatment in the future.
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Circadian Regulation of Hippocampal-Dependent Memory: Circuits, Synapses, and Molecular Mechanisms. Neural Plast 2018; 2018:7292540. [PMID: 29593785 PMCID: PMC5822921 DOI: 10.1155/2018/7292540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2017] [Accepted: 12/18/2017] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Circadian modulation of learning and memory efficiency is an evolutionarily conserved phenomenon, occurring in organisms ranging from invertebrates to higher mammalian species, including humans. While the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the hypothalamus functions as the master mammalian pacemaker, recent evidence suggests that forebrain regions, including the hippocampus, exhibit oscillatory capacity. This finding, as well as work on the cellular signaling events that underlie learning and memory, has opened promising new avenues of investigation into the precise cellular, molecular, and circuit-based mechanisms by which clock timing impacts plasticity and cognition. In this review, we examine the complex molecular relationship between clock timing and memory, with a focus on hippocampal-dependent tasks. We evaluate how the dysregulation of circadian timing, both at the level of the SCN and at the level of ancillary forebrain clocks, affects learning and memory. Further, we discuss experimentally validated intracellular signaling pathways (e.g., ERK/MAPK and GSK3β) and potential cellular signaling mechanisms by which the clock affects learning and memory formation. Finally, we examine how long-term potentiation (LTP), a synaptic process critical to the establishment of several forms of memory, is regulated by clock-gated processes.
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Impact of Coffee and Cacao Purine Metabolites on Neuroplasticity and Neurodegenerative Disease. Neurochem Res 2018; 44:214-227. [PMID: 29417473 DOI: 10.1007/s11064-018-2492-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2017] [Revised: 01/31/2018] [Accepted: 02/02/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Increasing evidence suggests that regular consumption of coffee, tea and dark chocolate (cacao) can promote brain health and may reduce the risk of age-related neurodegenerative disorders. However, the complex array of phytochemicals in coffee and cacao beans and tea leaves has hindered a clear understanding of the component(s) that affect neuronal plasticity and resilience. One class of phytochemicals present in relatively high amounts in coffee, tea and cacao are methylxanthines. Among such methylxanthines, caffeine has been the most widely studied and has clear effects on neuronal network activity, promotes sustained cognitive performance and can protect neurons against dysfunction and death in animal models of stroke, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Caffeine's mechanism of action relies on antagonism of various subclasses of adenosine receptors. Downstream xanthine metabolites, such as theobromine and theophylline, may also contribute to the beneficial effects of coffee, tea and cacao on brain health.
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Cao M, Fang J, Wang X, Wang Y, Duan K, Ye F, Ouyang W, Tong J. Activation of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) aggravated postoperative cognitive dysfunction and pathogenesis in aged rats. Brain Res 2018; 1684:21-29. [PMID: 29408499 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2018.01.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2017] [Revised: 01/18/2018] [Accepted: 01/21/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The upstream signal molecule modulating neuro-inflammation and synaptic changes during the pathogenesis of postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is still elusive. Here, we examined the effects and mechanisms of energy sensor AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) in the pathogenesis of POCD. Our data showed that surgery significantly increased the expression of p-AMPK in aged rats (p < 0.05), but not in adult rats (p > 0.05). Moreover, inhibiting AMPK activation via compound C during operation significantly improved surgery-induced impairment of the learning and memory of aged rats in water maze (p < 0.05). Further mechanism studies showed that corresponding to the impairment of learning and memory after surgery, surgery significantly increased the activation of microglia, decreased the expressions of NR2B and p-NR2B, and increased the expressions of Tau and p-Tau, which also were obviously restored by inhibiting AMPK during operation. In contrast, Inhibiting AMPK activation during operation didn't change ATP level in the hippocampus of aged rats after surgery. These data suggest that surgery induced activation of AMPK in hippocampus in an age-dependent manner. AMPK plays important roles in POCD of aged rats via multiple mechanisms, and is a possible molecular target for the prevention and treatment of POCD.
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- Mengya Cao
- Department of Anesthesiology, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China
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- Center for Experimental Medicine, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China; Center for Experimental Medicine, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China; Center for Experimental Medicine, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China.
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Jin N, Ma D, Gu J, Shi J, Xu X, Iqbal K, Gong CX, Liu F, Chu D. O-GlcNAcylation modulates PKA-CREB signaling in a manner specific to PKA catalytic subunit isoforms. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2018; 497:194-199. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2018.02.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2018] [Accepted: 02/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Lømo T. Discovering long-term potentiation (LTP) - recollections and reflections on what came after. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2018; 222. [PMID: 28719040 DOI: 10.1111/apha.12921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2017] [Revised: 04/17/2017] [Accepted: 07/11/2017] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Chance events led me to a lifelong career in scientific research. They paved the way for being the first to see long-term potentiation of synaptic efficiency (LTP) in Per Andersen's laboratory in Oslo in 1966. Here I describe my way to this discovery and the experiments with Tim Bliss in 1968-1969 that led to Bliss and Lømo, 1973. Surprisingly, we later failed to reproduce these results. I discuss possible reasons for this failure, which made us both leave LTP research, in my case for good, in Tim's case for several years. After 30 years of work in a different field, I renewed my interest in the hippocampus and LTP in the early 2000s and published, for the first time, results that I had obtained 40 years earlier. Here I present my take on how interest in and research on LTP evolved after the early years. This includes a discussion of the functions of hippocampus as seen in those early days, the case of patient H.M., Donald Hebb's place in the story, the search for 'memory molecules' such as PKMζ, and the primary site for LTP expression (pre- and/or post-synaptic?). Throughout, I reflect on my life in science, how science is done and what drives it. The reflections are quite personal and I admit to mixed feelings about broadcasting them.
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- T. Lømo
- Institute of Basic Medical Sciences; University of Oslo; Oslo Norway
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Porto RR, Dutra FD, Crestani AP, Holsinger RMD, Quillfeldt JA, Homem de Bittencourt PI, de Oliveira Alvares L. HSP70 Facilitates Memory Consolidation of Fear Conditioning through MAPK Pathway in the Hippocampus. Neuroscience 2018; 375:108-118. [PMID: 29374537 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.01.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2017] [Revised: 01/09/2018] [Accepted: 01/15/2018] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Heat shock proteins of the 70-kDa (HSP70) family are cytoprotective molecular chaperones that are present in neuronal cells and can be induced by a variety of homeostatically stressful situations (not only proteostatic insults), but also by synaptic activity, including learning tasks. Physiological stimuli that induce long-term memory formation are also capable of stimulating the synthesis of HSP70 through the activation of heat shock transcription factor-1 (HSF1). In this study, we investigated the influence of HSP70 on fear memory consolidation and MAPK activity. Male rats were trained in contextual fear conditioning task and HSP70 content was analyzed by western blot in the hippocampus at different time points. We observed rapid and transient elevations in HSP70 60 min following training. Double immunofluorescence with GFAP and HSP72 revealed that astrocytes were not the site for HSP72 induction by CFC training. HSP72 distribution markedly surrounded synapses between Shaffer collateral and CA1 pyramidal cells. Infusion of recombinant HSP70 (hspa1a) into the dorsal hippocampus immediately after training facilitated memory consolidation and enhanced ERK activity while decreasing the activated forms of JNK and p38 in the hippocampus. Blocking endogenous extracellular HSP70 through the administration of specific antibody did not produce any further effect on memory consolidation when applied immediately after training, suggesting that it is indeed acting intracellularly. Induction of HSP70 after fear conditioning is fast and can act as a signaling molecule, modulating MAPK downstream signaling during memory consolidation in the hippocampus, which is crucial for fear memory formation.
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- Rossana R Porto
- Neurobiology of Memory Laboratory, Biophysics Department, Biosciences Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS 91509-900, Brazil; Laboratory of Cellular Physiology, Institute of Basic Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS 90046-900, Brazil; Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Institute of Basic Health Sciences Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS 90046-900, Brazil; Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience and Dementia, Brain & Mind Centre, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales 2050, Australia
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- Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Institute of Basic Health Sciences Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS 90046-900, Brazil
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- Neurobiology of Memory Laboratory, Biophysics Department, Biosciences Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS 91509-900, Brazil; Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Institute of Basic Health Sciences Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS 90046-900, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience and Dementia, Brain & Mind Centre, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales 2050, Australia
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- Neurobiology of Memory Laboratory, Biophysics Department, Biosciences Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS 91509-900, Brazil; Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Institute of Basic Health Sciences Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS 90046-900, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Cellular Physiology, Institute of Basic Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS 90046-900, Brazil
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- Neurobiology of Memory Laboratory, Biophysics Department, Biosciences Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS 91509-900, Brazil; Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Institute of Basic Health Sciences Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS 90046-900, Brazil.
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Ohta Y, Furuta T, Nagai T, Horikawa K. Red fluorescent cAMP indicator with increased affinity and expanded dynamic range. Sci Rep 2018; 8:1866. [PMID: 29382930 PMCID: PMC5789972 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-20251-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2017] [Accepted: 01/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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cAMP is one of the most important second messengers in biological processes. Cellular dynamics of cAMP have been investigated using a series of fluorescent indicators; however, their sensitivity was sub-optimal for detecting cAMP dynamics at a low concentration range, due to a low ligand affinity and/or poor dynamic range. Seeking an indicator with improved detection sensitivity, we performed insertion screening of circularly permuted mApple, a red fluorescent protein, into the cAMP-binding motif of PKA regulatory subunit Iα and developed an improved cAMP indicator named R-FlincA (Red Fluorescent indicator for cAMP). Its increased affinity (Kd = 0.3 μM) and expanded dynamic range (860% at pH 7.2) allowed the detection of subtle changes in the cellular cAMP dynamics at sub-μM concentrations, which could not be easily observed with existing indicators. Increased detection sensitivity also strengthened the advantages of using R-FlincA as a red fluorescent indicator, as it permits a series of applications, including multi-channel/function imaging of multiple second messengers and combinatorial imaging with photo-manipulation. These results strongly suggest that R-FlincA is a promising tool that accelerates cAMP research by revealing unobserved cAMP dynamics at a low concentration range.
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- Yusaku Ohta
- Department of Optical Imaging, The Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, 3-18-15 Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima City, Tokushima, 770-8503, Japan
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- Department of Biomolecular Science, Toho University, 2-2-1 Miyama, Funabashi, 274-8510, Japan
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- Department of Biomolecular Science and Engineering, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Mihogaoka 8-1, Ibaraki, Osaka, 567-0047, Japan
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- Department of Optical Imaging, The Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, 3-18-15 Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima City, Tokushima, 770-8503, Japan.
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Ettcheto M, Petrov D, Pedrós I, Alva N, Carbonell T, Beas-Zarate C, Pallas M, Auladell C, Folch J, Camins A. Evaluation of Neuropathological Effects of a High-Fat Diet in a Presymptomatic Alzheimer's Disease Stage in APP/PS1 Mice. J Alzheimers Dis 2018; 54:233-51. [PMID: 27567882 DOI: 10.3233/jad-160150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is currently an incurable aging-related neurodegenerative disorder. Recent studies give support to the hypotheses that AD should be considered as a metabolic disease. The present study aimed to explore the relationship between hippocampal neuropathological amyloid-β (Aβ) plaque formation and obesity at an early presymptomatic disease stage (3 months of age). For this purpose, we used APPswe/PS1dE9 (APP/PS1) transgenic mice, fed with a high-fat diet (HFD) in order to investigate the potential molecular mechanisms involved in both disorders. The results showed that the hippocampus from APP/PS1 mice fed with a HFD had an early significant decrease in Aβ signaling pathway specifically in the insulin degrading enzyme protein levels, an enzyme involved in (Aβ) metabolism, and α-secretase. These changes were accompanied by a significant increase in the occurrence of plaques in the hippocampus of these mice. Furthermore, APP/PS1 mice showed a significant hippocampal decrease in PGC-1α levels, a cofactor involved in mitochondrial biogenesis. However, HFD does not provoke changes in neither insulin receptors gene expression nor enzymes involved in the signaling pathway. Moreover, there are no changes in any enzymes (kinases) involved in tau phosphorylation, such as CDK5, and neither in brain oxidative stress production. These results suggest that early changes in brains of APP/PS1 mice fed with a HFD are mediated by an increase in Aβ1 ‒ 42, which induces a decrease in PKA levels and alterations in the p-CREB/ NMDA2B /PGC1-α pathway, favoring early AD neuropathology in mice.
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- Miren Ettcheto
- Unitat de Farmacologia i Farmacognòsia, Institut de Neurociencias, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Biomedical Research Networking Center in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain
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- Unitat de Farmacologia i Farmacognòsia, Institut de Neurociencias, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Biomedical Research Networking Center in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain
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- Unitats de Bioquímica i Farmacologia, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus (Tarragona), Spain.,Biomedical Research Networking Center in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Physiology and Immunology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Physiology and Immunology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Neurobiología Celular y Molecular, División de Neurociencias, CIBO, IMSS, México.,Laboratorio de Regeneración y Desarrollo Neural, Instituto de Neurobiología, Departamento de Biología Celular y Molecular, CUCBA, México
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- Unitat de Farmacologia i Farmacognòsia, Institut de Neurociencias, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Biomedical Research Networking Center in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain
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- Departament de Biologia Cellular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Unitats de Bioquímica i Farmacologia, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus (Tarragona), Spain.,Biomedical Research Networking Center in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain
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- Unitat de Farmacologia i Farmacognòsia, Institut de Neurociencias, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Biomedical Research Networking Center in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain
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Briskin-Luchinsky V, Levy R, Halfon M, Susswein AJ. Molecular correlates of separate components of training that contribute to long-term memory formation after learning that food is inedible in Aplysia. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018; 25:90-99. [PMID: 29339560 PMCID: PMC5772390 DOI: 10.1101/lm.046326.117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2017] [Accepted: 12/04/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Training Aplysia with inedible food for a period that is too brief to produce long-term memory becomes effective in producing memory when training is paired with a nitric oxide (NO) donor. Lip stimulation for the same period of time paired with an NO donor is ineffective. Using qPCR, we examined molecular correlates of brief training versus lip stimulation, of treatment with an NO donor versus saline, and of the combined stimuli producing long-term memory. Changes were examined in mRNA expression of Aplysia homologs of C/EBP, CREB1, CREB1α, CREB1β, and CREB2, in both the buccal and cerebral ganglia controlling feeding. Both the brief training and the NO donor increased expression of C/EBP, CREB1, CREB1α, and CREB1β, but not CREB2 in the buccal ganglia. For CREB1α, there was a significant interaction between the effects of the brief training and of the NO donor. In addition, the NO donor, but not brief training, increased expression of all of the genes in the cerebral ganglion. These findings show that the components of learning that alone do not produce memory produce molecular changes in different ganglia. Thus, long-term memory is likely to arise by both additive and interactive increases in gene expression.
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- Valeria Briskin-Luchinsky
- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and The Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 52900, Israel
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- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and The Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 52900, Israel
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- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and The Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 52900, Israel
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- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and The Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 52900, Israel
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Puigdellívol M, Saavedra A, Pérez-Navarro E. Cognitive dysfunction in Huntington's disease: mechanisms and therapeutic strategies beyond BDNF. Brain Pathol 2018; 26:752-771. [PMID: 27529673 DOI: 10.1111/bpa.12432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2016] [Accepted: 07/08/2016] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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One of the main focuses in Huntington's disease (HD) research, as well as in most neurodegenerative diseases, is the development of new therapeutic strategies, as currently there is no treatment to delay or prevent the progression of the disease. Neuronal dysfunction and neuronal death in HD are caused by a combination of interrelated pathogenic processes that lead to motor, cognitive and psychiatric symptoms. Understanding how mutant huntingtin impacts on a plethora of cellular functions could help to identify new molecular targets. Although HD has been classically classified as a neurodegenerative disease affecting voluntary movement, lately cognitive dysfunction is receiving increased attention as it is very invalidating for patients. Thus, an ambitious goal in HD research is to find altered molecular mechanisms that contribute to cognitive decline. In this review, we have focused on those findings related to corticostriatal and hippocampal cognitive dysfunction in HD, as well as on the underlying molecular mechanisms, which constitute potential therapeutic targets. These include alterations in synaptic plasticity, transcriptional machinery and neurotrophic and neurotransmitter signaling.
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- Mar Puigdellívol
- Departament de Biomedicina, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.,Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red (CIBER) sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Spain
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- Departament de Biomedicina, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.,Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red (CIBER) sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Spain.,Institut de Neurociències, Universitat de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Departament de Biomedicina, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.,Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red (CIBER) sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Spain.,Institut de Neurociències, Universitat de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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McDiarmid TA, Yu AJ, Rankin CH. Beyond the response-High throughput behavioral analyses to link genome to phenome in Caenorhabditis elegans. GENES BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR 2018; 17:e12437. [DOI: 10.1111/gbb.12437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2017] [Revised: 11/03/2017] [Accepted: 11/04/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- T. A. McDiarmid
- Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health; University of British Columbia; Vancouver British Columbia Canada
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- Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health; University of British Columbia; Vancouver British Columbia Canada
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- Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health; University of British Columbia; Vancouver British Columbia Canada
- Department of Psychology; University of British Columbia; Vancouver British Columbia Canada
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Thompson EH, Lensjø KK, Wigestrand MB, Malthe-Sørenssen A, Hafting T, Fyhn M. Removal of perineuronal nets disrupts recall of a remote fear memory. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; 115:607-612. [PMID: 29279411 PMCID: PMC5776974 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1713530115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Throughout life animals learn to recognize cues that signal danger and instantaneously initiate an adequate threat response. Memories of such associations may last a lifetime and far outlast the intracellular molecules currently found to be important for memory processing. The memory engram may be supported by other more stable molecular components, such as the extracellular matrix structure of perineuronal nets (PNNs). Here, we show that recall of remote, but not recent, visual fear memories in rats depend on intact PNNs in the secondary visual cortex (V2L). Supporting our behavioral findings, increased synchronized theta oscillations between V2L and basolateral amygdala, a physiological correlate of successful recall, was absent in rats with degraded PNNs in V2L. Together, our findings suggest a role for PNNs in remote memory processing by stabilizing the neural network of the engram.
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- Elise Holter Thompson
- Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway
- Center for Integrative Neuroplasticity, University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway
- Center for Integrative Neuroplasticity, University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway
- Center for Integrative Neuroplasticity, University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Integrative Neuroplasticity, University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Integrative Neuroplasticity, University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway
- Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, 0317 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway;
- Center for Integrative Neuroplasticity, University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway
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Myeku N, Duff KE. Targeting the 26S Proteasome To Protect Against Proteotoxic Diseases. Trends Mol Med 2017; 24:18-29. [PMID: 29233753 DOI: 10.1016/j.molmed.2017.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2017] [Revised: 11/21/2017] [Accepted: 11/21/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Aggregates of misfolded proteins can compromise the function of the 26S proteasome complex, leaving neurons susceptible to accelerated and impaired protein homeostasis, thereby contributing to the pathogenesis of neurodegeneration. Strategies aimed at enhancing the function of the 26S proteasome via phosphorylation of key subunit epitopes have been effective in reducing protein aggregates in mouse models of disease. We discuss how phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitors and G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR)-targeted drugs might be considered as candidate therapeutics, acting on second messenger signal transduction. The range of candidates might address the need for region-, cell-, or even cellular compartment-specific modulation. Given the array of clinical and experimental drugs targeting cAMP/cGMP signaling, we propose that proteasome activators targeting secondary messengers might be exploited as novel agents for the treatment or prevention of some neurodegenerative diseases.
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- Natura Myeku
- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, The Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, The Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; Division of Integrative Neuroscience, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA.
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Okada K, Nishizawa K, Setogawa S, Hashimoto K, Kobayashi K. Task-dependent function of striatal cholinergic interneurons in behavioural flexibility. Eur J Neurosci 2017; 47:1174-1183. [PMID: 29119611 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2017] [Revised: 10/04/2017] [Accepted: 10/31/2017] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Flexible switching of behaviours depends on integrative functioning through the neural circuit connecting the prefrontal cortex and the dorsomedial striatum (DMS). Although cholinergic interneurons modulate striatal outputs by diverse synaptic mechanisms, the roles of cholinergic interneurons in the DMS appear to vary among different models used to validate behavioural flexibility. Here, we conducted immunotoxin-mediated cell targeting of DMS cholinergic interneurons and examined the functions of these interneurons in behavioural flexibility, with the learning conditions differing in trial spacing and discrimination type in a modified T-maze. Elimination of the DMS cholinergic cell group normally spared reversal learning in place discrimination with an intertrial interval (ITI) of 15 s, but it impaired the reversal performance in response discrimination with the same ITI. In contrast, DMS cholinergic elimination resulted in enhanced reversal performance in both place and response discrimination tasks with a 10-min ITI and accelerated the reversal of response discrimination with a 20-min ITI. Our previous study also showed an enhanced influence of cholinergic targeting on place reversal learning with a 20-min ITI, and the present results demonstrate that DMS cholinergic interneurons act to inhibit both place and response reversal performance with a relatively longer ITI, whereas their functions differ between types of reversal performance in the tasks with a shorter ITI. These findings suggest distinct roles of the DMS cholinergic cell group in behavioural flexibility dependent on the trial spacing and discrimination type constituting the learning tasks.
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- Kana Okada
- Department of Neurophysiology, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.,Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, 960-1295, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, 960-1295, Japan
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, 960-1295, Japan
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Yu NK, Uhm H, Shim J, Choi JH, Bae S, Sacktor TC, Hohng S, Kaang BK. Increased PKMζ activity impedes lateral movement of GluA2-containing AMPA receptors. Mol Brain 2017; 10:56. [PMID: 29202853 PMCID: PMC5716381 DOI: 10.1186/s13041-017-0334-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2017] [Accepted: 11/08/2017] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Protein kinase M zeta (PKMζ), a constitutively active, atypical protein kinase C isoform, maintains a high level of expression in the brain after the induction of learning and long-term potentiation (LTP). Further, its overexpression enhances long-term memory and LTP. Thus, multiple lines of evidence suggest a significant role for persistently elevated PKMζ levels in long-term memory. The molecular mechanisms of how synaptic properties are regulated by the increase in PKMζ, however, are still largely unknown. The α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptor (AMPAR) mediates most of the fast glutamatergic synaptic transmission in the brain and is known to be critical for the expression of synaptic plasticity and memory. Importance of AMPAR trafficking has been implicated in PKMζ-mediated cellular processes, but the detailed mechanisms, particularly in terms of regulation of AMPAR lateral movement, are not well understood. In the current study, using a single-molecule live imaging technique, we report that the overexpression of PKMζ in hippocampal neurons immobilized GluA2-containing AMPARs, highlighting a potential novel mechanism by which PKMζ may regulate memory and synaptic plasticity.
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- Nam-Kyung Yu
- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.,National Center for Creative Research Initiatives, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.,Institute of Applied Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.,Department of Biophysics and Chemical Biology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11203, USA.,Department of Anesthesiology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11203, USA.,Department of Neurology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11203, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea. .,National Center for Creative Research Initiatives, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea. .,Institute of Applied Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea. .,Department of Biophysics and Chemical Biology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea. .,Center for Neuron and Disease, Frontier Institute of Life Science and of Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
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London SE. Developmental song learning as a model to understand neural mechanisms that limit and promote the ability to learn. Behav Processes 2017; 163:13-23. [PMID: 29162376 DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2017.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2017] [Revised: 10/04/2017] [Accepted: 11/10/2017] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Songbirds famously learn their vocalizations. Some species can learn continuously, others seasonally, and still others just once. The zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) learns to sing during a single developmental "Critical Period," a restricted phase during which a specific experience has profound and permanent effects on brain function and behavioral patterns. The zebra finch can therefore provide fundamental insight into features that promote and limit the ability to acquire complex learned behaviors. For example, what properties permit the brain to come "on-line" for learning? How does experience become encoded to prevent future learning? What features define the brain in receptive compared to closed learning states? This piece will focus on epigenomic, genomic, and molecular levels of analysis that operate on the timescales of development and complex behavioral learning. Existing data will be discussed as they relate to Critical Period learning, and strategies for future studies to more directly address these questions will be considered. Birdsong learning is a powerful model for advancing knowledge of the biological intersections of maturation and experience. Lessons from its study not only have implications for understanding developmental song learning, but also broader questions of learning potential and the enduring effects of early life experience on neural systems and behavior.
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- Sarah E London
- Department of Psychology, Institute for Mind and Biology, Grossman Institute for Neuroscience, Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior, University of Chicago, 940 E 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
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Parsons RG. Behavioral and neural mechanisms by which prior experience impacts subsequent learning. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2017; 154:22-29. [PMID: 29155095 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2017.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2017] [Revised: 11/05/2017] [Accepted: 11/16/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Memory is often thought about in terms of its ability to recollect and store information about the past, but its function likely rests with the fact that it permits adaptation to ongoing and future experience. Thus, the brain circuitry that encodes memory must act as if stored information is likely to be modified by subsequent experience. Considerable progress has been made in identifying the behavioral and neural mechanisms supporting the acquisition and consolidation of memories, but this knowledge comes largely from studies in laboratory animals in which the training experience is presented in isolation from prior experimentally-controlled events. Given that memories are unlikely to be formed upon a clean slate, there is a clear need to understand how learning occurs upon the background of prior experience. This article reviews recent studies from an emerging body of work on metaplasticity, memory allocation, and synaptic tagging and capture, all of which demonstrate that prior experience can have a profound effect on subsequent learning. Special attention will be given to discussion of the neural mechanisms that allow past experience to affect future learning and to the time course by which past learning events can alter subsequent learning. Finally, consideration will be given to the possible significance of a non-synaptic component of the memory trace, which in some cases is likely responsible for the priming of subsequent learning and may be involved in the recovery from amnestic treatments in which the synaptic mechanisms of memory have been impaired.
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- Ryan G Parsons
- Stony Brook University, Department of Psychology, 100 Nicolls Rd., Stony Brook, NY 11794, United States.
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Nizhnikov AA, Antonets KS, Bondarev SA, Inge-Vechtomov SG, Derkatch IL. Prions, amyloids, and RNA: Pieces of a puzzle. Prion 2017; 10:182-206. [PMID: 27248002 DOI: 10.1080/19336896.2016.1181253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Amyloids are protein aggregates consisting of fibrils rich in β-sheets. Growth of amyloid fibrils occurs by the addition of protein molecules to the tip of an aggregate with a concurrent change of a conformation. Thus, amyloids are self-propagating protein conformations. In certain cases these conformations are transmissible / infectious; they are known as prions. Initially, amyloids were discovered as pathological extracellular deposits occurring in different tissues and organs. To date, amyloids and prions have been associated with over 30 incurable diseases in humans and animals. However, a number of recent studies demonstrate that amyloids are also functionally involved in a variety of biological processes, from biofilm formation by bacteria, to long-term memory in animals. Interestingly, amyloid-forming proteins are highly overrepresented among cellular factors engaged in all stages of mRNA life cycle: from transcription and translation, to storage and degradation. Here we review rapidly accumulating data on functional and pathogenic amyloids associated with mRNA processing, and discuss possible significance of prion and amyloid networks in the modulation of key cellular functions.
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- Anton A Nizhnikov
- a Dept. of Genetics and Biotechnology , St. Petersburg State University , St. Petersburg , Russia.,b Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg Branch , St. Petersburg , Russia.,c All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology , St. Petersburg , Russia
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- a Dept. of Genetics and Biotechnology , St. Petersburg State University , St. Petersburg , Russia.,b Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg Branch , St. Petersburg , Russia
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- a Dept. of Genetics and Biotechnology , St. Petersburg State University , St. Petersburg , Russia
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- a Dept. of Genetics and Biotechnology , St. Petersburg State University , St. Petersburg , Russia.,b Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg Branch , St. Petersburg , Russia
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- d Department of Neuroscience , College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, Columbia University , New York , NY , USA
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Yanai S, Ito H, Endo S. Long-term cilostazol administration prevents age-related decline of hippocampus-dependent memory in mice. Neuropharmacology 2017; 129:57-68. [PMID: 29122629 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2017.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2017] [Revised: 10/30/2017] [Accepted: 11/04/2017] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Phosphodiesterases (PDEs) are enzymes that hydrolyze and inactivate 3', 5'-cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) and/or 3', 5'-cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP). The regulation of intracellular signaling pathways mediated by cyclic nucleotides is imperative to synaptic plasticity and memory in animals. Because PDEs play an important role in this regulation, PDE inhibitors are considered as candidate compounds for treating cognitive and memory disorders. In the present study, we tested whether cilostazol, a selective PDE3 inhibitor, prevents the cognitive deterioration that occurs during the course of normal aging in mice. Ten months of cilostazol administration (1.5%) in 13-month-old mice improved spatial memory when tested at 23 months of age. First, it prevented the decline in the ability of these aged mice to recognize a change in an object's location in the object recognition task. Second, spatial memory of these cilostazol-treated aged mice in the Morris water maze was comparable to that of untreated middle-aged mice (13 months old). Cilostazol administration had no effect on the emotional states and physical ability of aged mice. Thus, long-term cilostazol administration prevented hippocampus-dependent memory decline in aged mice, allowing them to achieve a level of cognitive performance similar to middle-aged mice and without negative behavioral side effects. Considering its well-established safety in other medical contexts, cilostazol may be a potential therapeutic candidate drug for staving off cognitive decline in the aging human population.
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- Shuichi Yanai
- Aging Neuroscience Research Team, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Itabashi, Tokyo 173-0015, Japan
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- Department of CNS Research, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Tokushima, 771-0192, Japan
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- Aging Neuroscience Research Team, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Itabashi, Tokyo 173-0015, Japan.
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Yiannakas A, Rosenblum K. The Insula and Taste Learning. Front Mol Neurosci 2017; 10:335. [PMID: 29163022 PMCID: PMC5676397 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2017.00335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2017] [Accepted: 10/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The sense of taste is a key component of the sensory machinery, enabling the evaluation of both the safety as well as forming associations regarding the nutritional value of ingestible substances. Indicative of the salience of the modality, taste conditioning can be achieved in rodents upon a single pairing of a tastant with a chemical stimulus inducing malaise. This robust associative learning paradigm has been heavily linked with activity within the insular cortex (IC), among other regions, such as the amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex. A number of studies have demonstrated taste memory formation to be dependent on protein synthesis at the IC and to correlate with the induction of signaling cascades involved in synaptic plasticity. Taste learning has been shown to require the differential involvement of dopaminergic GABAergic, glutamatergic, muscarinic neurotransmission across an extended taste learning circuit. The subsequent activation of downstream protein kinases (ERK, CaMKII), transcription factors (CREB, Elk-1) and immediate early genes (c-fos, Arc), has been implicated in the regulation of the different phases of taste learning. This review discusses the relevant neurotransmission, molecular signaling pathways and genetic markers involved in novel and aversive taste learning, with a particular focus on the IC. Imaging and other studies in humans have implicated the IC in the pathophysiology of a number of cognitive disorders. We conclude that the IC participates in circuit-wide computations that modulate the interception and encoding of sensory information, as well as the formation of subjective internal representations that control the expression of motivated behaviors.
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- Adonis Yiannakas
- Sagol Department of Neuroscience, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- Sagol Department of Neuroscience, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
- Center for Gene Manipulation in the Brain, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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Jiang T, Wang XQ, Ding C, Du XL. Genistein attenuates isoflurane-induced neurotoxicity and improves impaired spatial learning and memory by regulating cAMP/CREB and BDNF-TrkB-PI3K/Akt signaling. THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY & PHARMACOLOGY : OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY AND THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF PHARMACOLOGY 2017; 21:579-589. [PMID: 29200900 PMCID: PMC5709474 DOI: 10.4196/kjpp.2017.21.6.579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2016] [Revised: 08/02/2016] [Accepted: 08/18/2016] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Anesthetics are used extensively in surgeries and related procedures to prevent pain. However, there is some concern regarding neuronal degeneration and cognitive deficits arising from regular anesthetic exposure. Recent studies have indicated that brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and cyclic AMP response element-binding protein (CREB) are involved in learning and memory processes. Genistein, a plant-derived isoflavone, has been shown to exhibit neuroprotective effects. The present study was performed to examine the protective effect of genistein against isoflurane-induced neurotoxicity in rats. Neonatal rats were exposed to isoflurane (0.75%, 6 hours) on postnatal day 7 (P7). Separate groups of rat pups were orally administered genistein at doses of 20, 40, or 80 mg/kg body weight from P3 to P15 and then exposed to isoflurane anesthesia on P7. Neuronal apoptosis was detected by TUNEL assay and FluoroJade B staining following isoflurane exposure. Genistein significantly reduced apoptosis in the hippocampus, reduced the expression of proapoptotic factors (Bad, Bax, and cleaved caspase-3), and increased the expression of Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL. RT-PCR analysis revealed enhanced BDNF and TrkB mRNA levels. Genistein effectively upregulated cAMP levels and phosphorylation of CREB and TrkB, leading to activation of cAMP/CREB-BDNF-TrkB signaling. PI3K/Akt signaling was also significantly activated. Genistein administration improved general behavior and enhanced learning and memory in the rats. These observations suggest that genistein exerts neuroprotective effects by suppressing isoflurane-induced neuronal apoptosis and by activating cAMP/CREB-BDNF-TrkB-PI3/Akt signaling.
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- Tao Jiang
- Department of Anesthesiology, Shandong Cancer Hospital, Jinan 250117, Shandong Province, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Shandong Cancer Hospital, Jinan 250117, Shandong Province, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Shandong Cancer Hospital, Jinan 250117, Shandong Province, China
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- Department of Gynecology, Shandong Cancer Hospital, Jinan 250117, Shandong Province, China
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Cyclic AMP-Responsive Element-Binding Protein (CREB) is Critical in Autoimmunity by Promoting Th17 but Inhibiting Treg Cell Differentiation. EBioMedicine 2017; 25:165-174. [PMID: 29050947 PMCID: PMC5704088 DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2017.10.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2016] [Revised: 09/30/2017] [Accepted: 10/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The molecular mechanisms that govern differential T cell development into pro-inflammatory Th17 vs. regulatory T (Treg) cells remain unclear. Here, we show that selective deletion of CREB in T cells or Th17 cells impaired Th17 cell differentiation in vitro and in vivo, and led to resistance to autoimmune diseases. Mechanistically, CREB, activated by CD3-PKC-ϴ signaling, plays a key role in regulating Th17 cell differentiation, at least in part through directly binding to the Il17-Il17f gene locus. Unexpectedly, although dispensable for FOXP3 expression and for the homeostasis and suppressive function of thymus-derived Treg cells, CREB negatively regulates the survival of TGF-β-induced Treg cells, and deletion of CREB resulted in increased FOXP3 + Treg cells in the intestine and protection in a colitis model. Thus, CREB is critical in autoimmune diseases by promoting Th17 cell and inhibiting de novo Treg cell generation. CREB is critical for autoimmunity. CREB plays a T cell- and Th17 cell-instrinsic role in controlling IL-17 expression and Th17 cell differentiation. CREB is dispensable for FOXP3 expression and the homeostasis of nTreg cells. CREB negatively regulates the survival of iTreg cells.
The balance of Th17 and Treg cells dictates development of numerous autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, and targeting Th17 cell-related pathways has been proved to be effective in treatment of related diseases. Here, we identified CREB as a critical transcription factor in regulating the differentiation of Th17 cells and survival of Treg cells in both in vitro experimental systems and mouse models of autoimmune diseases. The findings in this study might be useful for developing therapeutics against Th17 cell-related immune diseases.
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Houyoux N, Wattiez R, Ris L. A proteomic analysis of contextual fear conditioned rats reveals dynamic modifications in neuron and oligodendrocyte protein expression in the dentate gyrus. Eur J Neurosci 2017; 46:2177-2189. [PMID: 28833751 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2016] [Revised: 08/08/2017] [Accepted: 08/09/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Contextual memory is an intricate process involving synaptic plasticity and network rearrangement. Both are governed by many molecular processes including phosphorylation and modulation of protein expression. However, little is known about the molecules involved in it. Here, we exploited the advantages of a quantitative proteomic approach to identify a great number of molecules in the rat dentate gyrus after a contextual fear conditioning session. Our results allowed us to highlight protein expression patterns, not only related to neuroplasticity, but also to myelin structure, such as myelin basic protein and myelin proteolipid protein showing a decrease in expression. Validation of the modification in protein expression reveals a dynamic profile during the 48 h following the fear conditioning session. The expression of proteins involved in neurite outgrowth, such as BASP-1 and calcineurin B1, and in synaptic structure and function, VAMP2 and RAB3C, was increased in the dentate gyrus of rats submitted to fear conditioning compared to controls. We showed that the increase in BASP-1 protein was specific to fear conditioning learning as it was not present in immediate-shock rats, neither in rats exposed to a novel environment without being shocked. As myelin is known to stabilise synaptic network, the decrease in myelin proteins suggests a neuroglia interactive process taking place in the dentate gyrus in the 24 h following contextual fear learning, which has never been demonstrated before. These results therefore open the way to the study of new plasticity mechanisms underlying learning and memory.
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- Nicolas Houyoux
- Proteomics and Microbiology Department, Research Institute for Biosciences, University of Mons, Mons, Belgium
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- Proteomics and Microbiology Department, Research Institute for Biosciences, University of Mons, Mons, Belgium
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- Department of Neuroscience, Research Institute for Biosciences, University of Mons, 20 Place du Parc, 7000, Mons, Belgium
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Vithayathil J, Pucilowska J, Friel D, Landreth GE. Chronic impairment of ERK signaling in glutamatergic neurons of the forebrain does not affect spatial memory retention and LTP in the same manner as acute blockade of the ERK pathway. Hippocampus 2017; 27:1239-1249. [PMID: 28833860 DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2017] [Revised: 06/29/2017] [Accepted: 07/31/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The ERK/MAPK signaling pathway has been extensively studied in the context of learning and memory. Defects in this pathway underlie genetic diseases associated with intellectual disability, including impaired learning and memory. Numerous studies have investigated the impact of acute ERK/MAPK inhibition on long-term potentiation and spatial memory. However, genetic knockouts of the ERKs have not been utilized to determine whether developmental perturbations of ERK/MAPK signaling affect LTP and memory formation in postnatal life. In this study, two different ERK2 conditional knockout mice were generated that restrict loss of ERK2 to excitatory neurons in the forebrain, but at different time-points (embryonically and post-natally). We found that embryonic loss of ERK2 had minimal effect on spatial memory retention and novel object recognition, while loss of ERK2 post-natally had more pronounced effects in these behaviors. Loss of ERK2 in both models showed intact LTP compared to control animals, while loss of both ERK1 and ERK2 impaired late phase LTP. These findings indicate that ERK2 is not necessary for LTP and spatial memory retention and provide new insights into the functional deficits associated with the chronic impairment of ERK signaling.
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- Joseph Vithayathil
- Department of Neurosciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Neurosciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Neurosciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Neurosciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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Jun YW, Lee JA, Kaang BK, Jang DJ. PI4KII activity-dependent Golgi complex targeting of Aplysia phosphodiesterase 4 long-form mutant. Anim Cells Syst (Seoul) 2017. [DOI: 10.1080/19768354.2017.1371073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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- Yong-Woo Jun
- Department of Ecological Science, College of Ecology and Environment, Kyungpook National University, Sangju-si, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biological Science, College of Life Science and Nanotechnology, Hannam University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Ecological Science, College of Ecology and Environment, Kyungpook National University, Sangju-si, Republic of Korea
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Grinkevich LN. p38 МАРK is Involved in Regulation of Epigenetic Mechanisms of Food Aversion Learning. Bull Exp Biol Med 2017; 163:412-414. [DOI: 10.1007/s10517-017-3816-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2016] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Calcagno E, Caudano F, Passalacqua M, Pronzato MA, Fedele E, Ricciarelli R. Investigating the amyloid-beta enhancing effect of cGMP in neuro2a cells. Mech Ageing Dev 2017; 166:1-5. [PMID: 28789837 DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2017.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2017] [Revised: 07/31/2017] [Accepted: 08/02/2017] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Long-term potentiation (LTP) and the process of memory formation require activation of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) and cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) pathways. Notably, recent evidence indicated that both cyclic nucleotides boost the production of amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptides. In particular, cAMP was shown to favor hippocampal LTP by stimulating the synthesis of the amyloid precursor protein APP, whereas cGMP was found to enhance LTP and to improve memory by increasing Aβ levels without affecting the expression of APP. The results of the present study substantiate that cGMP has a role in the endocytic pathway of APP and suggest a scenario where the cyclic nucleotide enhances the production of Aβ by favoring the trafficking of APP from the cell cortex to the endolysosomal compartment.
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- Elisa Calcagno
- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy and Center of Excellence for Biomedical Research, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
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Harada K, Ito M, Wang X, Tanaka M, Wongso D, Konno A, Hirai H, Hirase H, Tsuboi T, Kitaguchi T. Red fluorescent protein-based cAMP indicator applicable to optogenetics and in vivo imaging. Sci Rep 2017; 7:7351. [PMID: 28779099 PMCID: PMC5544736 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-07820-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2017] [Accepted: 07/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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cAMP is a common second messenger that is involved in various physiological processes. To expand the colour palette of available cAMP indicators, we developed a red cAMP indicator named "Pink Flamindo" (Pink Fluorescent cAMP indicator). The fluorescence intensity of Pink Flamindo increases 4.2-fold in the presence of a saturating dose of cAMP, with excitation and emission peaks at 567 nm and 590 nm, respectively. Live-cell imaging revealed that Pink Flamindo is effective for monitoring the spatio-temporal dynamics of intracellular cAMP generated by photoactivated adenylyl cyclase in response to blue light, and in dual-colour imaging studies using a green Ca2+ indicator (G-GECO). Furthermore, we successfully monitored the elevation of cAMP levels in vivo in cerebral cortical astrocytes by two-photon imaging. We propose that Pink Flamindo will facilitate future in vivo, optogenetic studies of cell signalling and cAMP dynamics.
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- Kazuki Harada
- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo, 153-8902, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
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- Laboratory for Neuron-Glia Circuitry, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Hirosawa 2-1, Wako-shi, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
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- Laboratory for Neuron-Glia Circuitry, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Hirosawa 2-1, Wako-shi, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
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- Cell Signaling Group, WASEDA Bioscience Research Institute in Singapore (WABIOS), 11 Biopolis Way, #05-02 Helios, Singapore, 138667, Singapore
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- Department of Neurophysiology and Neural Repair, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, 371-8511, Japan
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- Department of Neurophysiology and Neural Repair, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, 371-8511, Japan
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- Laboratory for Neuron-Glia Circuitry, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Hirosawa 2-1, Wako-shi, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo, 153-8902, Japan.
- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan.
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- Cell Signaling Group, WASEDA Bioscience Research Institute in Singapore (WABIOS), 11 Biopolis Way, #05-02 Helios, Singapore, 138667, Singapore.
- Comprehensive Research Organization, Waseda University, #304, Block 120-4, 513 Wasedatsurumaki-cho, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 162-0041, Japan.
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Long-term memory requires sequential protein synthesis in three subsets of mushroom body output neurons in Drosophila. Sci Rep 2017; 7:7112. [PMID: 28769066 PMCID: PMC5540930 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-07600-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2017] [Accepted: 06/27/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Creating long-term memory (LTM) requires new protein synthesis to stabilize learning-induced synaptic changes in the brain. In the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, aversive olfactory learning forms several phases of labile memory to associate an odor with coincident punishment in the mushroom body (MB). It remains unclear how the brain consolidates early labile memory into LTM. Here, we survey 183 Gal4 lines containing almost all 21 distinct types of MB output neurons (MBONs) and show that sequential synthesis of learning-induced proteins occurs at three types of MBONs. Downregulation of oo18 RNA-binding proteins (ORBs) in any of these MBONs impaired LTM. And, neurotransmission outputs from these MBONs are all required during LTM retrieval. Together, these results suggest an LTM consolidation model in which transient neural activities of early labile memory in the MB are consolidated into stable LTM at a few postsynaptic MBONs through sequential ORB-regulated local protein synthesis.
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Singh KD, Zheng X, Milstein S, Keller M, Roschitzki B, Grossmann J, Hengartner MO. Differential regulation of germ line apoptosis and germ cell differentiation by CPEB family members in C. elegans. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0182270. [PMID: 28759574 PMCID: PMC5536308 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0182270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2017] [Accepted: 07/14/2017] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Cytoplasmic polyadenylation element binding (CPEB) proteins are evolutionary conserved RNA-binding proteins that control mRNA polyadenylation and translation. Orthologs in humans and other vertebrates are mainly involved in oogenesis. This is also the case for the C. elegans CPEB family member CPB-3, whereas two further CPEB proteins (CPB-1 and FOG-1) are involved in spermatogenesis. Here we describe the characterisation of a new missense allele of cpb-3 and show that loss of cpb-3 function leads to an increase in physiological germ cell death. To better understand the interaction and effect of C. elegans CPEB proteins on processes such as physiological apoptosis, germ cell differentiation, and regulation of gene expression, we characterised changes in the transcriptome and proteome of C. elegans CPEB mutants. Our results show that, despite their sequence similarities CPEB family members tend to have distinct overall effects on gene expression (both at the transcript and protein levels). This observation is consistent with the distinct phenotypes observed in the various CPEB family mutants.
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- Kapil Dev Singh
- Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- PhD Program in Molecular Life Science, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- PhD Program in Molecular Life Science, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America
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- Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- PhD Program in Molecular Life Science, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Functional Genomics Center Zurich, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Functional Genomics Center Zurich, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Early Preclinical Changes in Hippocampal CREB-Binding Protein Expression in a Mouse Model of Familial Alzheimer’s Disease. Mol Neurobiol 2017; 55:4885-4895. [DOI: 10.1007/s12035-017-0690-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2017] [Accepted: 07/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Role of G Protein-Coupled Receptors in the Regulation of Structural Plasticity and Cognitive Function. Molecules 2017; 22:molecules22071239. [PMID: 28737723 PMCID: PMC6152405 DOI: 10.3390/molecules22071239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2017] [Accepted: 07/14/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Cognition and other higher brain functions are known to be intricately associated with the capacity of neural circuits to undergo structural reorganization. Structural remodelling of neural circuits, or structural plasticity, in the hippocampus plays a major role in learning and memory. Dynamic modifications of neuronal connectivity in the form of dendritic spine morphology alteration, as well as synapse formation and elimination, often result in the strengthening or weakening of specific neural circuits that determine synaptic plasticity. Changes in dendritic complexity and synapse number are mediated by cellular processes that are regulated by extracellular signals such as neurotransmitters and neurotrophic factors. As many neurotransmitters act on G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), it has become increasingly apparent that GPCRs can regulate structural plasticity through a myriad of G protein-dependent pathways and non-canonical signals. A thorough understanding of how GPCRs exert their regulatory influence on dendritic spine morphogenesis may provide new insights for treating cognitive impairment and decline in various age-related diseases. In this article, we review the evidence of GPCR-mediated regulation of structural plasticity, with a special emphasis on the involvement of common as well as distinct signalling pathways that are regulated by major neurotransmitters.
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Shiratori C, Suzuki N, Momohara Y, Shiraishi K, Aonuma H, Nagayama T. Cyclic AMP-regulated opposing and parallel effects of serotonin and dopamine on phototaxis in the Marmorkrebs (marbled crayfish). Eur J Neurosci 2017; 46:1863-1874. [PMID: 28661085 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2017] [Revised: 06/20/2017] [Accepted: 06/22/2017] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Phototactic behaviours are observed from prokaryotes to amphibians and are a basic form of orientation. We showed that the marbled crayfish displays phototaxis in which the behavioural response reversed from negative to positive depending on external light conditions. Animals reared in a 12-L/12-D light cycle showed negative phototaxis during daytime and positive phototaxis during night-time. Animals reared under constant light conditioning showed negative phototaxis during day- and night-time, while animals reared under constant dark conditioning showed positive phototaxis during day- and night-time. Injection of serotonin leads to a reversal of negative to positive phototaxis in both light/dark-reared and light/light-reared animals while injection of dopamine induced reversed negative phototaxis in dark/dark-reared animals. Four hours of dark adaptation were enough for light/dark-reared animals to reverse phototaxis from negative to positive. Injection of a serotonin 5HT1 receptor antagonist blocked the reverse phototaxis while serotonin 5HT2 receptor antagonists had no effects. Similarly, dark/dark-reared animals reversed to showing negative phototaxis after 4 h of light adaptation. Injection of a dopamine DA1 receptor antagonist blocked this reverse phototaxis, while dopamine DA2 receptor antagonists had no effects. Injection of a cAMP analogue into light/dark-reared animals blocked reverse phototaxis after dark adaptation, while adenylate cyclase inhibitor in dark/dark-reared animals blocked reverse phototaxis after light adaptation. These results strongly suggest that serotonin mediates positive phototaxis owing to decreased cAMP levels, while dopamine-mediated negative phototaxis occurs due to increased cAMP levels. Supporting this, the ratio of serotonin to dopamine in the brain was much higher in dark/dark-reared than light/dark-reared animals.
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- Chihiro Shiratori
- Division of Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, 990-8560, Yamagata, Japan
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- Division of Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, 990-8560, Yamagata, Japan
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- Division of Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, 990-8560, Yamagata, Japan
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- Division of Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, 990-8560, Yamagata, Japan
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- Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, 060-0812, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, 990-8560, Yamagata, Japan
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Memory is an adaptation to particular temporal properties of past events, such as the frequency of occurrence of a stimulus or the coincidence of multiple stimuli. In neurons, this adaptation can be understood in terms of a hierarchical system of molecular and cellular time windows, which collectively retain information from the past. We propose that this system makes various timescales of past experience simultaneously available for future adjustment of behavior. More generally, we propose that the ability to detect and respond to temporally structured information underlies the nervous system's capacity to encode and store a memory at molecular, cellular, synaptic, and circuit levels.
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- Center for Neural Science, New York University, 4 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003, USA.
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Brain circuit-gene expression relationships and neuroplasticity of multisensory cortices in blind children. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017; 114:6830-6835. [PMID: 28607055 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1619121114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Sensory deprivation reorganizes neurocircuits in the human brain. The biological basis of such neuroplastic adaptations remains elusive. In this study, we applied two complementary graph theory-based functional connectivity analyses, one to evaluate whole-brain functional connectivity relationships and the second to specifically delineate distributed network connectivity profiles downstream of primary sensory cortices, to investigate neural reorganization in blind children compared with sighted controls. We also examined the relationship between connectivity changes and neuroplasticity-related gene expression profiles in the cerebral cortex. We observed that multisensory integration areas exhibited enhanced functional connectivity in blind children and that this reorganization was spatially associated with the transcription levels of specific members of the cAMP Response Element Binding protein gene family. Using systems-level analyses, this study advances our understanding of human neuroplasticity and its genetic underpinnings following sensory deprivation.
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Mantamadiotis T. Towards Targeting PI3K-Dependent Regulation of Gene Expression in Brain Cancer. Cancers (Basel) 2017; 9:cancers9060060. [PMID: 28556811 PMCID: PMC5483879 DOI: 10.3390/cancers9060060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2017] [Revised: 05/22/2017] [Accepted: 05/23/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The PI3K pathway is one of the most highly perturbed cell signaling pathways in human cancer, including the most common malignant brain tumors, gliomas, where either activating mutations of positive pathway effectors or loss/inactivation of pathway inhibitors occurs. Knowledge of the precise transcription factors modulated by PI3K in tumor cells remains elusive but there are numerous PI3K-responsive signaling factors, including kinases, which can activate many transcription factors. In the context of cancer, these transcription factors participate in the regulation of target genes expression networks to support cancer cell characteristics such as survival, proliferation, migration and differentiation. This review focuses on the role of PI3K signaling-regulated transcription in brain cancer cells from a series of recent investigations. A deeper understanding of this regulation is beginning to provide the hope of developing more sophisticated anti-cancer targeting approaches, where both upstream and downstream components of the PI3K pathway may be targeted by existing and novel drugs.
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- Theo Mantamadiotis
- Department of Pathology, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, VIC, Australia.
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Exposure to Stressors Facilitates Long-Term Synaptic Potentiation in the Lateral Habenula. J Neurosci 2017; 37:6021-6030. [PMID: 28539417 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2281-16.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2016] [Revised: 04/25/2017] [Accepted: 04/26/2017] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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The lateral habenula (LHb) is a small part of the epithalamus that projects to monoamine centers in the brain. Previously, neurotransmission onto the LHb was shown to be abnormally potentiated in animal models of depression. However, synaptic plasticity in this brain area and the effect of stressor exposure on synaptic plasticity of the LHb have not been investigated. Thus, we explored whether the LHb undergoes dynamic changes in synaptic efficacy or not. First, we observed that a moderate LTP occurs in a fraction of LHb neurons obtained from naive Sprague Dawley rats. Interestingly, a single exposure to acute stressors, such as inescapable foot shock or restraint plus tail shock (RTS), significantly enhances the magnitude of LTP in the LHb. We also observed an increased number of LHb neurons expressing phosphorylated cAMP response element-binding protein (pCREB) after exposure to stressors, which may contribute to determine the threshold for LTP induction. LTP induction in the LHb resulted in an additional increase in the number of pCREB-expressing neurons in stress-exposed animals but not in naive control animals. Together, we showed that LHb neurons have heterogeneous propensity for synaptic potentiation at rest; however, a single exposure to stressors greatly facilitates LTP induction in the LHb, suggesting that fundamental alterations in synaptic plasticity in the LHb may occur in animal models of depression or post-traumatic stress disorder.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Stress exposure is known to cause depression in human patients and animal models, although explanations at the cellular level remain to be elaborated. Here, we show that the lateral habenula (LHb) exhibits LTP after a pattern of brief strong stimulation. In addition, we show that stress exposure facilitates LTP in the LHb by lowering the threshold for LTP induction. We observed a selective increase in the number of neurons expressing pCREB in the LHb of animal models of depression. LTP induction results in a further increase in the density of pCREB-expressing neurons only after stress exposure. Our study provides the first evidence that animal models of depression exhibit altered synaptic plasticity of the LHb.
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Avgan N, Sutherland HG, Lea RA, Spriggens LK, Haupt LM, Shum DHK, Griffiths LR. A CREB1 Gene Polymorphism (rs2253206) Is Associated with Prospective Memory in a Healthy Cohort. Front Behav Neurosci 2017; 11:86. [PMID: 28559802 PMCID: PMC5432533 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2016] [Accepted: 04/25/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Prospective memory (PM) is generally defined as remembering to perform intended actions in the future and is important for functioning in daily life. Cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) responsive element binding protein 1 (CREB1) plays an important role in cognitive functions. In this study, we hypothesized that genetic variation in the CREB1 gene is associated with PM. We genotyped a CREB1 promoter polymorphism rs2253206 and tested it for association with PM in 619 healthy subjects. PM performance was measured using the Prospective and Retrospective Memory Questionnaire (PRMQ), the Comprehensive Assessment of Prospective Memory (CAPM), and the Memory for Intentions Screening Test (MIST). Generalized linear model analysis was conducted for each PM test independently using different inheritance models to identify any associations (p < 0.05). After multiple testing adjustments, a significant association was found between the rs2253206 genotype and PM performance for CAPM instrumental activities of daily living measure (p = 0.016). These results suggest that the rs2253206 polymorphism in the CREB1 gene locus is associated with PM in healthy individuals and contributes to knowledge on the genetics of this particular type of memory.
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- Nesli Avgan
- Genomics Research Centre, Chronic Disease and Ageing, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, BrisbaneQLD, Australia
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- Genomics Research Centre, Chronic Disease and Ageing, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, BrisbaneQLD, Australia
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- Genomics Research Centre, Chronic Disease and Ageing, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, BrisbaneQLD, Australia
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- Menzies Health Institute Queensland and School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Gold CoastQLD, Australia
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- Genomics Research Centre, Chronic Disease and Ageing, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, BrisbaneQLD, Australia
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- Menzies Health Institute Queensland and School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Gold CoastQLD, Australia
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- Genomics Research Centre, Chronic Disease and Ageing, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, BrisbaneQLD, Australia
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Hunter CJ, Remenyi J, Correa SA, Privitera L, Reyskens KMSE, Martin KJ, Toth R, Frenguelli BG, Arthur JSC. MSK1 regulates transcriptional induction of Arc/Arg3.1 in response to neurotrophins. FEBS Open Bio 2017; 7:821-834. [PMID: 28593137 PMCID: PMC5458472 DOI: 10.1002/2211-5463.12232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2016] [Revised: 03/23/2017] [Accepted: 03/31/2017] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The immediate early gene activity‐regulated cytoskeletal protein (Arc)/Arg3.1 and the neurotrophin brain‐derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) play important roles in synaptic plasticity and learning and memory in the mammalian brain. However, the mechanisms by which BDNF regulates the expression of Arc/Arg3.1 are unclear. In this study, we show that BDNF acts via the ERK1/2 pathway to activate the nuclear kinase mitogen‐ and stress‐activated protein kinase 1 (MSK1). MSK1 then induces Arc/Arg3.1 expression via the phosphorylation of histone H3 at the Arc/Arg3.1 promoter. MSK1 can also phosphorylate the transcription factor cyclic‐AMP response element‐binding protein (CREB) on Ser133. However, this is not required for BDNF‐induced Arc.Arg3.1 transcription as a Ser133Ala knockin mutation had no effect on Arc/Arg3.1 induction. In parallel, ERK1/2 directly activates Arc/Arg3.1 mRNA transcription via at least one serum response element on the promoter, which bind a complex of the Serum Response Factor (SRF) and a Ternary Complex Factor (TCF).
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- Chris J Hunter
- MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit College of Life Sciences Sir James Black Centre University of Dundee UK
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression Wellcome Trust Building College of Life Sciences University of Dundee UK
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- Bradford School of Pharmacy Faculty of Life Sciences University of Bradford UK
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- Division of Cell Signalling and Immunology Wellcome Trust Building College of Life Sciences University of Dundee UK
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- MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit College of Life Sciences Sir James Black Centre University of Dundee UK
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- MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit College of Life Sciences Sir James Black Centre University of Dundee UK
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- Division of Cell Signalling and Immunology Wellcome Trust Building College of Life Sciences University of Dundee UK
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A chronic low dose of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) restores cognitive function in old mice. Nat Med 2017; 23:782-787. [DOI: 10.1038/nm.4311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2015] [Accepted: 02/07/2017] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Shivarama Shetty M, Sajikumar S. 'Tagging' along memories in aging: Synaptic tagging and capture mechanisms in the aged hippocampus. Ageing Res Rev 2017; 35:22-35. [PMID: 28065806 DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2016.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2016] [Revised: 12/12/2016] [Accepted: 12/30/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Aging is accompanied by a general decline in the physiological functions of the body with the deteriorating organ systems. Brain is no exception to this and deficits in cognitive functions are quite common in advanced aging. Though a variety of age-related alterations are observed in the structure and function throughout the brain, certain regions show selective vulnerability. Medial temporal lobe, especially the hippocampus, is one such preferentially vulnerable region and is a crucial structure involved in the learning and long-term memory functions. Hippocampal synaptic plasticity, such as long-term potentiation (LTP) and depression (LTD), are candidate cellular correlates of learning and memory and alterations in these properties have been well documented in aging. A related phenomenon called synaptic tagging and capture (STC) has been proposed as a mechanism for cellular memory consolidation and to account for temporal association of memories. Mounting evidences from behavioral settings suggest that STC could be a physiological phenomenon. In this article, we review the recent data concerning STC and provide a framework for how alterations in STC-related mechanisms could contribute to the age-associated memory impairments. The enormity of impairment in learning and memory functions demands an understanding of age-associated memory deficits at the fundamental level given its impact in the everyday tasks, thereby in the quality of life. Such an understanding is also crucial for designing interventions and preventive measures for successful brain aging.
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Manning CE, Williams ES, Robison AJ. Reward Network Immediate Early Gene Expression in Mood Disorders. Front Behav Neurosci 2017; 11:77. [PMID: 28503137 PMCID: PMC5408019 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2016] [Accepted: 04/11/2017] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Over the past three decades, it has become clear that aberrant function of the network of interconnected brain regions responsible for reward processing and motivated behavior underlies a variety of mood disorders, including depression and anxiety. It is also clear that stress-induced changes in reward network activity underlying both normal and pathological behavior also cause changes in gene expression. Here, we attempt to define the reward circuitry and explore the known and potential contributions of activity-dependent changes in gene expression within this circuitry to stress-induced changes in behavior related to mood disorders, and contrast some of these effects with those induced by exposure to drugs of abuse. We focus on a series of immediate early genes regulated by stress within this circuitry and their connections, both well-explored and relatively novel, to circuit function and subsequent reward-related behaviors. We conclude that IEGs play a crucial role in stress-dependent remodeling of reward circuitry, and that they may serve as inroads to the molecular, cellular, and circuit-level mechanisms of mood disorder etiology and treatment.
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- Claire E Manning
- Department of Physiology, Michigan State UniversityEast Lansing, MI, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Michigan State UniversityEast Lansing, MI, USA
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de Matos AM, de Macedo MP, Rauter AP. Bridging Type 2 Diabetes and Alzheimer's Disease: Assembling the Puzzle Pieces in the Quest for the Molecules With Therapeutic and Preventive Potential. Med Res Rev 2017; 38:261-324. [PMID: 28422298 DOI: 10.1002/med.21440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2016] [Revised: 01/18/2017] [Accepted: 02/14/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are two age-related amyloid diseases that affect millions of people worldwide. Broadly supported by epidemiological data, the higher incidence of AD among type 2 diabetic patients led to the recognition of T2D as a tangible risk factor for the development of AD. Indeed, there is now growing evidence on brain structural and functional abnormalities arising from brain insulin resistance and deficiency, ultimately highlighting the need for new approaches capable of preventing the development of AD in type 2 diabetic patients. This review provides an update on overlapping pathophysiological mechanisms and pathways in T2D and AD, such as amyloidogenic events, oxidative stress, endothelial dysfunction, aberrant enzymatic activity, and even shared genetic background. These events will be presented as puzzle pieces put together, thus establishing potential therapeutic targets for drug discovery and development against T2D and diabetes-induced cognitive decline-a heavyweight contributor to the increasing incidence of dementia in developed countries. Hoping to pave the way in this direction, we will present some of the most promising and well-studied drug leads with potential against both pathologies, including their respective bioactivity reports, mechanisms of action, and structure-activity relationships.
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- Ana Marta de Matos
- Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Ed. C8, Campo Grande, 1749-016, Lisbon, Portugal.,CEDOC Chronic Diseases, Nova Medical School, Rua Câmara Pestana n 6, 6-A, Ed. CEDOC II, 1150-082, Lisbon, Portugal
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- CEDOC Chronic Diseases, Nova Medical School, Rua Câmara Pestana n 6, 6-A, Ed. CEDOC II, 1150-082, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Ed. C8, Campo Grande, 1749-016, Lisbon, Portugal
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LaLone CA, Villeneuve DL, Wu-Smart J, Milsk RY, Sappington K, Garber KV, Housenger J, Ankley GT. Weight of evidence evaluation of a network of adverse outcome pathways linking activation of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in honey bees to colony death. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2017; 584-585:751-775. [PMID: 28126277 PMCID: PMC6156782 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.01.113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2016] [Revised: 01/17/2017] [Accepted: 01/18/2017] [Indexed: 04/14/2023]
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Ongoing honey bee (Apis mellifera) colony losses are of significant international concern because of the essential role these insects play in pollinating crops. Both chemical and non-chemical stressors have been implicated as possible contributors to colony failure; however, the potential role(s) of commonly-used neonicotinoid insecticides has emerged as particularly concerning. Neonicotinoids act on the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) in the central nervous system to eliminate pest insects. However, mounting evidence indicates that neonicotinoids also may adversely affect beneficial pollinators, such as the honey bee, via impairments on learning and memory, and ultimately foraging success. The specific mechanisms linking activation of the nAChR to adverse effects on learning and memory are uncertain. Additionally, clear connections between observed impacts on individual bees and colony level effects are lacking. The objective of this review was to develop adverse outcome pathways (AOPs) as a means to evaluate the biological plausibility and empirical evidence supporting (or refuting) the linkage between activation of the physiological target site, the nAChR, and colony level consequences. Potential for exposure was not a consideration in AOP development and therefore this effort should not be considered a risk assessment. Nonetheless, development of the AOPs described herein has led to the identification of research gaps which, for example, may be of high priority in understanding how perturbation of pathways involved in neurotransmission can adversely affect normal colony functions, causing colony instability and subsequent bee population failure. A putative AOP network was developed, laying the foundation for further insights as to the role of combined chemical and non-chemical stressors in impacting bee populations. Insights gained from the AOP network assembly, which more realistically represents multi-stressor impacts on honey bee colonies, are promising toward understanding common sensitive nodes in key biological pathways and identifying where mitigation strategies may be focused to reduce colony losses.
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- Carlie A LaLone
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Mid-Continent Ecology Division, 6201 Congdon Blvd., Duluth, MN 55804, USA.
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Mid-Continent Ecology Division, 6201 Congdon Blvd., Duluth, MN 55804, USA
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- University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Entomology, 105A Entomology Hall, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA
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- ORISE Research Participation Program, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Mid-Continent Ecology Division, 6201 Congdon Blvd., Duluth, MN 55804, USA
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pesticide Programs, Washington D.C. 20460, USA
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pesticide Programs, Washington D.C. 20460, USA
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pesticide Programs, Washington D.C. 20460, USA
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Mid-Continent Ecology Division, 6201 Congdon Blvd., Duluth, MN 55804, USA
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Memory-enhancing effects of GEBR-32a, a new PDE4D inhibitor holding promise for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Sci Rep 2017; 7:46320. [PMID: 28402318 PMCID: PMC5389348 DOI: 10.1038/srep46320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2017] [Accepted: 03/13/2017] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Memory loss characterizes several neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Inhibition of type 4 phosphodiesterase (PDE4) and elevation of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) has emerged as a promising therapeutic approach to treat cognitive deficits. However, PDE4 exists in several isoforms and pan inhibitors cannot be used in humans due to severe emesis. Here, we present GEBR-32a, a new PDE4D full inhibitor that has been characterized both in vitro and in vivo using biochemical, electrophysiological and behavioural analyses. GEBR-32a efficiently enhances cAMP in neuronal cultures and hippocampal slices. In vivo pharmacokinetic analysis shows that GEBR-32a is rapidly distributed within the central nervous system with a very favourable brain/blood ratio. Specific behavioural tests (object location and Y-maze continuous alternation tasks) demonstrate that this PDE4D inhibitor is able to enhance memory in AD transgenic mice and concomitantly rescues their hippocampal long-term potentiation deficit. Of great relevance, our preliminary toxicological analysis indicates that GEBR-32a is not cytotoxic and genotoxic, and does not seem to possess emetic-like side effects. In conclusion, GEBR-32a could represent a very promising cognitive-enhancing drug with a great potential for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Fu W, Wang H, Ren X, Yu H, Lei Y, Chen Q. Neuroprotective effect of three caffeic acid derivatives via ameliorate oxidative stress and enhance PKA/CREB signaling pathway. Behav Brain Res 2017; 328:81-86. [PMID: 28411149 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2017.04.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2017] [Revised: 04/06/2017] [Accepted: 04/07/2017] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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This study was conducted to elucidate the neuroprotective effect of caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE), (R)-2-Hydroxy-3-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl) propionic acid (Danshensu) and Curcumin, three caffeic acid derivatives which are contained in fruits, grains and certain dietary supplements. Our results showed that these compounds significantly attenuated H2O2-induced toxicity in PC12 cells in a dose-dependent manner. Furthermore, these compounds significantly improved the behavioral performance of d-gal-treated mice in both step-down avoidance test and Morris water maze test. Biochemical examination and western blot analysis showed that these compounds could ameliorate oxidative stress and facilitate activation of the protein kinase A (PKA)-cyclic AMP response element-binding protein (CREB) pathway. Its beneficial effects may partly relate to enhancing the activity of endogenous antioxidant enzymes and modulating the PKA/CREB signaling pathway. Furthermore, our results also indicated that the presence of 3, 4-dihydroxyphenyl groups in A ring may enhance their neuroprotective activity.
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- Wei Fu
- Department of Pharmacy, Tongji Hospital Affiliated to Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, Hubei Province, PR China
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- Department of Periodontics, School of Stomatology, China Medical University, Shenyang 110002, Liaoning Province, PR China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Tongji Hospital Affiliated to Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, Hubei Province, PR China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Tongji Hospital Affiliated to Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, Hubei Province, PR China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Tongji Hospital Affiliated to Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, Hubei Province, PR China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Tongji Hospital Affiliated to Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, Hubei Province, PR China.
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