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Tsitsou-Kampeli A, Suzzi S, Schwartz M. The immune and metabolic milieu of the choroid plexus as a potential target in brain protection. Trends Neurosci 2024:S0166-2236(24)00090-0. [PMID: 38945740 DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2024.05.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2024] [Revised: 05/09/2024] [Accepted: 05/22/2024] [Indexed: 07/02/2024]
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The brain's choroid plexus (CP), which operates as an anatomical and functional 'checkpoint', regulates the communication between brain and periphery and contributes to the maintenance of healthy brain homeostasis throughout life. Evidence from mouse models and humans reveals a link between loss of CP checkpoint properties and dysregulation of the CP immune milieu as a conserved feature across diverse neurological conditions. In particular, we suggest that an imbalance between different immune signals at the CP, including CD4+ T cell-derived cytokines, type-I interferon, and complement components, can perpetuate brain inflammation and cognitive deterioration in aging and neurodegeneration. Furthermore, we highlight the role of CP metabolism in controlling CP inflammation, and propose that targeting molecules that regulate CP metabolism could be effective in safeguarding brain function.
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- Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Brain Sciences, Rehovot, Israel
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- Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Brain Sciences, Rehovot, Israel.
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Rajan A, Fame RM. Brain development and bioenergetic changes. Neurobiol Dis 2024; 199:106550. [PMID: 38849103 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2024.106550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2024] [Revised: 05/29/2024] [Accepted: 06/01/2024] [Indexed: 06/09/2024] Open
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Bioenergetics describe the biochemical processes responsible for energy supply in organisms. When these changes become dysregulated in brain development, multiple neurodevelopmental diseases can occur, implicating bioenergetics as key regulators of neural development. Historically, the discovery of disease processes affecting individual stages of brain development has revealed critical roles that bioenergetics play in generating the nervous system. Bioenergetic-dependent neurodevelopmental disorders include neural tube closure defects, microcephaly, intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorders, epilepsy, mTORopathies, and oncogenic processes. Developmental timing and cell-type specificity of these changes determine the long-term effects of bioenergetic disease mechanisms on brain form and function. Here, we discuss key metabolic regulators of neural progenitor specification, neuronal differentiation (neurogenesis), and gliogenesis. In general, transitions between glycolysis and oxidative phosphorylation are regulated in early brain development and in oncogenesis, and reactive oxygen species (ROS) and mitochondrial maturity play key roles later in differentiation. We also discuss how bioenergetics interface with the developmental regulation of other key neural elements, including the cerebrospinal fluid brain environment. While questions remain about the interplay between bioenergetics and brain development, this review integrates the current state of known key intersections between these processes in health and disease.
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- Arjun Rajan
- Developmental Biology Graduate Program, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
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Sládek M, Houdek P, Myung J, Semenovykh K, Dočkal T, Sumová A. The circadian clock in the choroid plexus drives rhythms in multiple cellular processes under the control of the suprachiasmatic nucleus. Fluids Barriers CNS 2024; 21:46. [PMID: 38802875 PMCID: PMC11131265 DOI: 10.1186/s12987-024-00547-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2024] [Accepted: 05/07/2024] [Indexed: 05/29/2024] Open
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Choroid plexus (ChP), the brain structure primarily responsible for cerebrospinal fluid production, contains a robust circadian clock, whose role remains to be elucidated. The aim of our study was to [1] identify rhythmically controlled cellular processes in the mouse ChP and [2] assess the role and nature of signals derived from the master clock in the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) that control ChP rhythms. To accomplish this goal, we used various mouse models (WT, mPer2Luc, ChP-specific Bmal1 knockout) and combined multiple experimental approaches, including surgical lesion of the SCN (SCNx), time-resolved transcriptomics, and single cell luminescence microscopy. In ChP of control (Ctrl) mice collected every 4 h over 2 circadian cycles in darkness, we found that the ChP clock regulates many processes, including the cerebrospinal fluid circadian secretome, precisely times endoplasmic reticulum stress response, and controls genes involved in neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, and frontotemporal dementia). In ChP of SCNx mice, the rhythmicity detected in vivo and ex vivo was severely dampened to a comparable extent as in mice with ChP-specific Bmal1 knockout, and the dampened cellular rhythms were restored by daily injections of dexamethasone in mice. Our data demonstrate that the ChP clock controls tissue-specific gene expression and is strongly dependent on the presence of a functional connection with the SCN. The results may contribute to the search for a novel link between ChP clock disruption and impaired brain health.
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- Martin Sládek
- Laboratory of Biological Rhythms, Institute of Physiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Videnska 1083, Prague 4, 14200, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Biological Rhythms, Institute of Physiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Videnska 1083, Prague 4, 14200, Czech Republic
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- Graduate Institute of Mind, Brain and Consciousness (GIMBC), Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Brain and Consciousness Research Centre (BCRC), TMU-Shuang Ho Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan
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- Laboratory of Biological Rhythms, Institute of Physiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Videnska 1083, Prague 4, 14200, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Biological Rhythms, Institute of Physiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Videnska 1083, Prague 4, 14200, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Biological Rhythms, Institute of Physiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Videnska 1083, Prague 4, 14200, Czech Republic.
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Pellegrini L, Silva-Vargas V, Patrizi A. Breakthroughs in choroid plexus and CSF biology from the first European Choroid plexus Scientific Forum (ECSF). Fluids Barriers CNS 2024; 21:43. [PMID: 38773599 PMCID: PMC11106960 DOI: 10.1186/s12987-024-00546-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2024] [Accepted: 05/07/2024] [Indexed: 05/24/2024] Open
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The European Choroid plexus Scientific Forum (ECSF), held in Heidelberg, Germany between the 7th and 9th of November 2023, involved 21 speakers from eight countries. ECSF focused on discussing cutting-edge fundamental and medical research related to the development and functions of the choroid plexus and its implications for health, aging, and disease, including choroid plexus tumors. In addition to new findings in this expanding field, innovative approaches, animal models and 3D in vitro models were showcased to encourage further investigation into choroid plexus and cerebrospinal fluid roles.
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- Laura Pellegrini
- Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Guys Campus, King's College London, New Hunt's House, London, UK.
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- Schaller Research Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
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Markussen FAF, Cázarez-Márquez F, Melum VJ, Hazlerigg DG, Wood SH. c-fos induction in the choroid plexus, tanycytes and pars tuberalis is an early indicator of spontaneous arousal from torpor in a deep hibernator. J Exp Biol 2024; 227:jeb247224. [PMID: 38690647 PMCID: PMC11166454 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.247224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2023] [Accepted: 04/19/2024] [Indexed: 05/02/2024]
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Hibernation is an extreme state of seasonal energy conservation, reducing metabolic rate to as little as 1% of the active state. During the hibernation season, many species of hibernating mammals cycle repeatedly between the active (aroused) and hibernating (torpid) states (T-A cycling), using brown adipose tissue (BAT) to drive cyclical rewarming. The regulatory mechanisms controlling this process remain undefined but are presumed to involve thermoregulatory centres in the hypothalamus. Here, we used the golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus), and high-resolution monitoring of BAT, core body temperature and ventilation rate, to sample at precisely defined phases of the T-A cycle. Using c-fos as a marker of cellular activity, we show that although the dorsomedial hypothalamus is active during torpor entry, neither it nor the pre-optic area shows any significant changes during the earliest stages of spontaneous arousal. Contrastingly, in three non-neuronal sites previously linked to control of metabolic physiology over seasonal and daily time scales - the choroid plexus, pars tuberalis and third ventricle tanycytes - peak c-fos expression is seen at arousal initiation. We suggest that through their sensitivity to factors in the blood or cerebrospinal fluid, these sites may mediate metabolic feedback-based initiation of the spontaneous arousal process.
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- Fredrik A. F. Markussen
- Arctic Seasonal Timekeeping Initiative (ASTI), Arctic Chronobiology and Physiology,Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, BFE, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, NO-9037, Norway
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- Arctic Seasonal Timekeeping Initiative (ASTI), Arctic Chronobiology and Physiology,Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, BFE, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, NO-9037, Norway
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- Arctic Seasonal Timekeeping Initiative (ASTI), Arctic Chronobiology and Physiology,Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, BFE, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, NO-9037, Norway
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- Arctic Seasonal Timekeeping Initiative (ASTI), Arctic Chronobiology and Physiology,Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, BFE, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, NO-9037, Norway
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- Arctic Seasonal Timekeeping Initiative (ASTI), Arctic Chronobiology and Physiology,Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, BFE, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, NO-9037, Norway
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Faraci FM, Scheer FA. Hypertension: Causes and Consequences of Circadian Rhythms in Blood Pressure. Circ Res 2024; 134:810-832. [PMID: 38484034 PMCID: PMC10947115 DOI: 10.1161/circresaha.124.323515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2024] [Accepted: 02/16/2024] [Indexed: 03/19/2024]
Abstract
Hypertension is extremely common, affecting approximately 1 in every 2 adults globally. Chronic hypertension is the leading modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease and premature mortality worldwide. Despite considerable efforts to define mechanisms that underlie hypertension, a potentially major component of the disease, the role of circadian biology has been relatively overlooked in both preclinical models and humans. Although the presence of daily and circadian patterns has been observed from the level of the genome to the whole organism, the functional and structural impact of biological rhythms, including mechanisms such as circadian misalignment, remains relatively poorly defined. Here, we review the impact of daily rhythms and circadian systems in regulating blood pressure and the onset, progression, and consequences of hypertension. There is an emphasis on the impact of circadian biology in relation to vascular disease and end-organ effects that, individually or in combination, contribute to complex phenotypes such as cognitive decline and the loss of cardiac and brain health. Despite effective treatment options for some individuals, control of blood pressure remains inadequate in a substantial portion of the hypertensive population. Greater insight into circadian biology may form a foundation for novel and more widely effective molecular therapies or interventions to help in the prevention, treatment, and management of hypertension and its related pathophysiology.
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- Frank M. Faraci
- Department of Internal Medicine, Francois M. Abboud Cardiovascular Center, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1081
- Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Francois M. Abboud Cardiovascular Center, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1081
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
- Medical Chronobiology Program, Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Departments of Medicine and Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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The brain is a complex organ, fundamentally changing across the day to perform basic functions like sleep, thought, and regulating whole-body physiology. This requires a complex symphony of nutrients, hormones, ions, neurotransmitters and more to be properly distributed across the brain to maintain homeostasis throughout 24 hours. These solutes are distributed both by the blood and by cerebrospinal fluid. Cerebrospinal fluid contents are distinct from the general circulation because of regulation at brain barriers including the choroid plexus, glymphatic system, and blood-brain barrier. In this review, we discuss the overlapping circadian (≈24-hour) rhythms in brain fluid biology and at the brain barriers. Our goal is for the reader to gain both a fundamental understanding of brain barriers alongside an understanding of the interactions between these fluids and the circadian timing system. Ultimately, this review will provide new insight into how alterations in these finely tuned clocks may lead to pathology.
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- Velia S Vizcarra
- Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, 14642, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, 14642, USA
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Fame RM, Ali I, Lehtinen MK, Kanarek N, Petrova B. Optimized Mass Spectrometry Detection of Thyroid Hormones and Polar Metabolites in Rodent Cerebrospinal Fluid. Metabolites 2024; 14:79. [PMID: 38392972 PMCID: PMC10890085 DOI: 10.3390/metabo14020079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2023] [Revised: 01/10/2024] [Accepted: 01/16/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024] Open
Abstract
Thyroid hormones (TH) are required for brain development and function. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which bathes the brain and spinal cord, contains TH as free hormones or as bound to transthyretin (TTR). Tight TH level regulation in the central nervous system is essential for developmental gene expression, which governs neurogenesis, myelination, and synaptogenesis. This integrated function of TH highlights the importance of developing precise and reliable methods for assessing TH levels in CSF. We report an optimized liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS)-based method to measure TH in rodent CSF and serum, applicable to both fresh and frozen samples. Using this new method, we find distinct differences in CSF TH in pregnant dams vs. non-pregnant adults and in embryonic vs. adult CSF. Further, targeted LC-MS metabolic profiling uncovers distinct central carbon metabolism in the CSF of these populations. TH detection and metabolite profiling of related metabolic pathways open new avenues of rigorous research into CSF TH and will inform future studies on metabolic alterations in CSF during normal development.
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- Ryann M. Fame
- Department of Pathology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Fame RM, Ali I, Lehtinen MK, Kanarek N, Petrova B. Optimized Mass Spectrometry Detection of Thyroid Hormones and Polar Metabolites in Rodent Cerebrospinal Fluid. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.12.07.570731. [PMID: 38116027 PMCID: PMC10729774 DOI: 10.1101/2023.12.07.570731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Thyroid hormones (TH) are required for brain development and function. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which bathes the brain and spinal cord, contains TH as free or transthyretin (TTR)-bound. Tight thyroid hormone level regulation in the central nervous system is essential for developmental gene expression that governs neurogenesis, myelination, and synaptogenesis. This integrated function of TH highlights the importance of developing precise and reliable methods for assessing TH levels in CSF. METHODS we report an optimized LC-MS based method to measure thyroid hormones in rodent CSF and serum, applicable to both fresh and frozen samples. RESULTS We find distinct differences in CSF thyroid hormone in pregnant dams vs. non-pregnant adults and in embryonic vs. adult CSF. Further, targeted LC-MS metabolic profiling uncovers distinct central carbon metabolism in the CSF of these populations. CONCLUSIONS TH detection and metabolite profiling of related metabolic pathways open new avenues of rigorous research into CSF thyroid hormone and will inform future studies on metabolic alterations in CSF during normal development.
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Xu H, Lotfy P, Gelb S, Pragana A, Hehnly C, Shipley FB, Zawadzki ME, Cui J, Deng L, Taylor M, Webb M, Lidov HGW, Andermann ML, Chiu IM, Ordovas-Montanes J, Lehtinen MK. A collaboration between immune cells and the choroid plexus epithelium in brain inflammation. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.08.07.552298. [PMID: 37609192 PMCID: PMC10441321 DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.07.552298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/24/2023]
Abstract
The choroid plexus (ChP) is a vital brain barrier and source of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Here, we use chronic two-photon imaging in awake mice and single-cell transcriptomics to demonstrate that in addition to these roles, the ChP is a complex immune organ that regulates brain inflammation. In a mouse meningitis model, neutrophils and monocytes accumulated in ChP stroma and surged across the epithelial barrier into the CSF. Bi-directional recruitment of monocytes from the periphery and, unexpectedly, macrophages from the CSF to the ChP helped eliminate neutrophils and repair the barrier. Transcriptomic analyses detailed the molecular steps accompanying this process, including the discovery of epithelial cells that transiently specialized to nurture immune cells, coordinate their recruitment, survival, and differentiation, and ultimately, control the opening/closing of the ChP brain barrier. Collectively, we provide a new conceptual understanding and comprehensive roadmap of neuroinflammation at the ChP brain barrier.
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Edelbo BL, Andreassen SN, Steffensen AB, MacAulay N. Day-night fluctuations in choroid plexus transcriptomics and cerebrospinal fluid metabolomics. PNAS NEXUS 2023; 2:pgad262. [PMID: 37614671 PMCID: PMC10443925 DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2023] [Revised: 07/06/2023] [Accepted: 07/31/2023] [Indexed: 08/25/2023]
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The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) provides mechanical protection for the brain and serves as a brain dispersion route for nutrients, hormones, and metabolic waste. The CSF secretion rate is elevated in the dark phase in both humans and rats, which could support the CSF flow along the paravascular spaces that may be implicated in waste clearance. The similar diurnal CSF dynamics pattern observed in the day-active human and the nocturnal rat suggests a circadian regulation of this physiological variable, rather than sleep itself. To obtain a catalog of potential molecular drivers that could provide the day-night-associated modulation of the CSF secretion rate, we determined the diurnal fluctuation in the rat choroid plexus transcriptomic profile with RNA-seq and in the CSF metabolomics with ultraperformance liquid chromatography combined with mass spectrometry. We detected significant fluctuation of 19 CSF metabolites and differential expression of 2,778 choroid plexus genes between the light and the dark phase, the latter of which encompassed circadian rhythm-related genes and several choroid plexus transport mechanisms. The fluctuating components were organized with joint pathway analysis, of which several pathways demonstrated diurnal regulation. Our results illustrate substantial transcriptional and metabolic light-dark phase-mediated changes taking place in the rat choroid plexus and its encircling CSF. The combined data provide directions toward future identification of the molecular pathways governing the fluctuation of this physiological process and could potentially be harnessed to modulate the CSF dynamics in pathology.
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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