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Hu Y, Wang Y, Wang Y, Zhang Y, Wang Z, Xu X, Zhang T, Zhang T, Zhang S, Hu R, Shi L, Wang X, Li J, Shen H, Liu J, Noda M, Peng Y, Long J. Sleep Deprivation Triggers Mitochondrial DNA Release in Microglia to Induce Neural Inflammation: Preventative Effect of Hydroxytyrosol Butyrate. Antioxidants (Basel) 2024; 13:833. [PMID: 39061901 PMCID: PMC11273532 DOI: 10.3390/antiox13070833] [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: 05/30/2024] [Revised: 07/05/2024] [Accepted: 07/10/2024] [Indexed: 07/28/2024] Open
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Sleep deprivation (SD) triggers mitochondrial dysfunction and neural inflammation, leading to cognitive impairment and mental issues. However, the mechanism involving mitochondrial dysfunction and neural inflammation still remains unclear. Here, we report that SD rats exhibited multiple behavioral disorders, brain oxidative stress, and robust brain mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) oxidation. In particular, SD activated microglia and microglial mtDNA efflux to the cytosol and provoked brain pro-inflammatory cytokines. We observed that the mtDNA efflux and pro-inflammatory cytokines significantly reduced with the suppression of the mtDNA oxidation. With the treatment of a novel mitochondrial nutrient, hydroxytyrosol butyrate (HTHB), the SD-induced behavioral disorders were significantly ameliorated while mtDNA oxidation, mtDNA release, and NF-κB activation were remarkably alleviated in both the rat brain and the N9 microglial cell line. Together, these results indicate that microglial mtDNA oxidation and the resultant release induced by SD mediate neural inflammation and HTHB prevents mtDNA oxidation and efflux, providing a potential treatment for SD-induced mental issues.
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- Yachong Hu
- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
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- School of Pharmacy, Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu 610500, China; (X.X.); (T.Z.)
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- School of Pharmacy, Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu 610500, China; (X.X.); (T.Z.)
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Toxicology and Medical Countermeasures, Beijing Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Beijing 100850, China;
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- Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Faculty of Naval Medicine, Naval Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China;
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
- School of Health and Life Science, University of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
- Research and Educational Resource Center for Immunophenotyping, RUDN University, 6 Miklukho-Maklaya St, 117198 Moscow, Russia
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
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Sengupta A, Tudor JC, Cusmano D, Baur JA, Abel T, Weljie AM. Sleep deprivation and aging are metabolically linked across tissues. Sleep 2023; 46:zsad246. [PMID: 37738102 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsad246] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2023] [Revised: 08/21/2023] [Indexed: 09/24/2023] Open
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STUDY OBJECTIVES Insufficient sleep is a concerning hallmark of modern society because sleep deprivation (SD) is a risk factor for neurodegenerative and cardiometabolic disorders. SD imparts an aging-like effect on learning and memory, although little is known about possible common molecular underpinnings of SD and aging. Here, we examine this question by profiling metabolic features across different tissues after acute SD in young adult and aged mice. METHODS Young adult and aged mice were subjected to acute SD for 5 hours. Blood plasma, hippocampus, and liver samples were subjected to UPLC-MS/MS-based metabolic profiling. RESULTS SD preferentially impacts peripheral plasma and liver profiles (e.g. ketone body metabolism) whereas the hippocampus is more impacted by aging. We further demonstrate that aged animals exhibit SD-like metabolic features at baseline. Hepatic alterations include parallel changes in nicotinamide metabolism between aging and SD in young animals. Overall, metabolism in young adult animals is more impacted by SD, which in turn induces aging-like features. A set of nine metabolites was classified (79% correct) based on age and sleep status across all four groups. CONCLUSIONS Our metabolic observations demonstrate striking parallels to previous observations in studies of learning and memory and define a molecular metabolic signature of sleep loss and aging.
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- Arjun Sengupta
- Department of Pharmacology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Current affiliation: Department of Biology, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Current Affiliation: Iowa Neuroscience Institute, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, 2312 PBDB, Iowa City, IA, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Lyons LC, Chatterjee S, Vanrobaeys Y, Gaine ME, Abel T. Translational changes induced by acute sleep deprivation uncovered by TRAP-Seq. Mol Brain 2020; 13:165. [PMID: 33272296 PMCID: PMC7713217 DOI: 10.1186/s13041-020-00702-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2020] [Accepted: 11/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Sleep deprivation is a global health problem adversely affecting health as well as causing decrements in learning and performance. Sleep deprivation induces significant changes in gene transcription in many brain regions, with the hippocampus particularly susceptible to acute sleep deprivation. However, less is known about the impacts of sleep deprivation on post-transcriptional gene regulation. To identify the effects of sleep deprivation on the translatome, we took advantage of the RiboTag mouse line to express HA-labeled Rpl22 in CaMKIIα neurons to selectively isolate and sequence mRNA transcripts associated with ribosomes in excitatory neurons. We found 198 differentially expressed genes in the ribosome-associated mRNA subset after sleep deprivation. In comparison with previously published data on gene expression in the hippocampus after sleep deprivation, we found that the subset of genes affected by sleep deprivation was considerably different in the translatome compared with the transcriptome, with only 49 genes regulated similarly. Interestingly, we found 478 genes differentially regulated by sleep deprivation in the transcriptome that were not significantly regulated in the translatome of excitatory neurons. Conversely, there were 149 genes differentially regulated by sleep deprivation in the translatome but not in the whole transcriptome. Pathway analysis revealed differences in the biological functions of genes exclusively regulated in the transcriptome or translatome, with protein deacetylase activity and small GTPase binding regulated in the transcriptome and unfolded protein binding, kinase inhibitor activity, neurotransmitter receptors and circadian rhythms regulated in the translatome. These results indicate that sleep deprivation induces significant changes affecting the pool of actively translated mRNAs.
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- Lisa C Lyons
- Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Iowa Neuroscience Institute, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
- Program in Neuroscience, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
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- Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Iowa Neuroscience Institute, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Iowa Neuroscience Institute, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Iowa Neuroscience Institute, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics (PSET), College of Pharmacy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Iowa Neuroscience Institute, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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Selecting the most important self-assessed features for predicting conversion to mild cognitive impairment with random forest and permutation-based methods. Sci Rep 2020; 10:20630. [PMID: 33244011 PMCID: PMC7692490 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-77296-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2019] [Accepted: 11/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Alzheimer's Disease is a complex, multifactorial, and comorbid condition. The asymptomatic behavior in the early stages makes the identification of the disease onset particularly challenging. Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is an intermediary stage between the expected decline of normal aging and the pathological decline associated with dementia. The identification of risk factors for MCI is thus sorely needed. Self-reported personal information such as age, education, income level, sleep, diet, physical exercise, etc. is called to play a key role not only in the early identification of MCI but also in the design of personalized interventions and the promotion of patients empowerment. In this study, we leverage a large longitudinal study on healthy aging in Spain, to identify the most important self-reported features for future conversion to MCI. Using machine learning (random forest) and permutation-based methods we select the set of most important self-reported variables for MCI conversion which includes among others, subjective cognitive decline, educational level, working experience, social life, and diet. Subjective cognitive decline stands as the most important feature for future conversion to MCI across different feature selection techniques.
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Sleep maintains the function of the entire body through homeostasis. Chronic sleep deprivation (CSD) is a prime health concern in the modern world. Previous reports have shown that CSD has profound negative effects on brain vasculature at both the cellular and molecular levels, and that this is a major cause of cognitive dysfunction and early vascular ageing. However, correlations among sleep deprivation (SD), brain vascular changes and ageing have barely been looked into. This review attempts to correlate the alterations in the levels of major neurotransmitters (acetylcholine, adrenaline, GABA and glutamate) and signalling molecules (Sirt1, PGC1α, FOXO, P66shc, PARP1) in SD and changes in brain vasculature, cognitive dysfunction and early ageing. It also aims to connect SD-induced loss in the number of dendritic spines and their effects on alterations in synaptic plasticity, cognitive disabilities and early vascular ageing based on data available in scientific literature. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first article providing a pathophysiological basis to link SD to brain vascular ageing.
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Mishra P, Panigrahi M, Ankit D. Cognition and Alertness in Medical Students: Effects of a Single Night of Partial Sleep Deprivation. Ann Neurosci 2020; 27:57-62. [PMID: 33335357 PMCID: PMC7724434 DOI: 10.1177/0972753120965083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Partial sleep deprivation is common among young adults today. Though multiple studies have stressed on the benefits of having a good sleep, medical students often compromise their sleep due to academic targets and stress. This can lead to changes in attention and cognition. The effects of acute partial sleep deprivation of a single night have been studied less and studies in the past in Indian context have shown controversial results that reaction time is decreased following acute partial sleep deprivation. PURPOSE The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effects of a single night of partial sleep deprivation on the cognitive status and alertness of medical students in the Indian context and to find out the change in auditory event-related potential (AERP) and psychomotor vigilance of medical students following a single night of partial sleep deprivation. METHODS The study was a before-after experimental trial conducted among 20 medical student volunteers of a tertiary care hospital of eastern India. Baseline psychomotor vigilance task measured by unprepared serial reaction time, and AERP measured by P300, were assessed at baseline (after normal sleep) and after four hours of sleep deprivation (intervention). RESULTS It was seen that median RT had increased from 320.4 ms to 337.6 ms after acute partial sleep deprivation (P < .001). P300 and lapses (P < .05) were also found to increase significantly (P < .05), while there was significant decrease in correctness (P < .01). CONCLUSION The study concluded that cognition is affected, including alertness and latency, following partial sleep deprivation even for a single night and contradicted earlier results of Indian studies stating variable effect on psychomotor vigilance.
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- AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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Ma T, Zhang H, Xu ZP, Lu Y, Fu Q, Wang W, Li GH, Wang YY, Yang YT, Mi WD. Activation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor signaling in the basal forebrain reverses acute sleep deprivation-induced fear memory impairments. Brain Behav 2020; 10:e01592. [PMID: 32157827 PMCID: PMC7177564 DOI: 10.1002/brb3.1592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2019] [Revised: 01/15/2020] [Accepted: 02/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION The mechanisms underlying sleep deprivation-induced memory impairments and relevant compensatory signaling pathways remain elusive. We tested the hypothesis that increased brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) expression in the basal forebrain following acute sleep deprivation was a compensatory mechanism to maintain fear memory performance. METHODS Adult male Wistar rats were deprived of 6-hr total sleep from the beginning of the light cycle. The effects of sleep deprivation on BDNF protein expression and activation of downstream tropomyosin receptor kinase B (TrkB)/phospholipase C-γ1 (PLCγ1) signaling in the basal forebrain and fear memory consolidation were examined. BDNF or selective downstream TrkB receptor antagonist ANA-12 was further injected into the basal forebrain bilaterally to observe the changes in fear memory consolidation in response to modulation of the BDNF/TrkB signaling. RESULTS Six hours of sleep deprivation-induced both short- and long-term fear memory impairments. Increased BDNF protein expression and TrkB and PLCγ1 phosphorylation in the basal forebrain were observed after sleep deprivation. Microinjection of BDNF into the basal forebrain partly reversed fear memory deficits caused by sleep deprivation, which were accompanied by increased BDNF protein levels and TrkB/PLCγ1 activation. After ANA-12 microinjection, sleep deprivation-induced activation of the BDNF/TrkB pathway was inhibited and impairments of fear memory consolidation were further aggravated. CONCLUSIONS Acute sleep deprivation induces compensatory increase of BDNF expression in the basal forebrain. Microinjection of BDNF into the basal forebrain mitigates the fear memory impairments caused by sleep deprivation by activating TrkB/PLCγ1 signaling.
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- Tao Ma
- Anesthesia and Operation Center, Chinese PLA Medical School, Beijing, China.,Department of Anesthesiology, PLA Rocket Force Characteristic Medical Center, Beijing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, PLA Rocket Force Characteristic Medical Center, Beijing, China
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- Anesthesia and Operation Center, Chinese PLA Medical School, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurology, PLA Rocket Force Characteristic Medical Center, Beijing, China
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- Anesthesia and Operation Center, Chinese PLA Medical School, Beijing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, PLA Rocket Force Characteristic Medical Center, Beijing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, PLA Rocket Force Characteristic Medical Center, Beijing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, PLA Rocket Force Characteristic Medical Center, Beijing, China.,PLA Rocket Force Characteristic Medical Center, Postgraduate Training Base of Jinzhou Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Anesthesia and Operation Center, Chinese PLA Medical School, Beijing, China
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- Anesthesia and Operation Center, Chinese PLA Medical School, Beijing, China
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Sengupta A, Weljie AM. Metabolism of sleep and aging: Bridging the gap using metabolomics. NUTRITION AND HEALTHY AGING 2019; 5:167-184. [PMID: 31984245 PMCID: PMC6971829 DOI: 10.3233/nha-180043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Sleep is a conserved behavior across the evolutionary timescale. Almost all known animal species demonstrate sleep or sleep like states. Despite extensive study, the mechanistic aspects of sleep need are not very well characterized. Sleep appears to be needed to generate resources that are utilized during the active stage/wakefulness as well as clearance of waste products that accumulate during wakefulness. From a metabolic perspective, this means sleep is crucial for anabolic activities. Decrease in anabolism and build-up of harmful catabolic waste products is also a hallmark of aging processes. Through this lens, sleep and aging processes are remarkably parallel- for example behavioral studies demonstrate an interaction between sleep and aging. Changes in sleep behavior affect neurocognitive phenotypes important in aging such as learning and memory, although the underlying connections are largely unknown. Here we draw inspiration from the similar metabolic effects of sleep and aging and posit that large scale metabolic phenotyping, commonly known as metabolomics, can shed light to interleaving effects of sleep, aging and progression of diseases related to aging. In this review, data from recent sleep and aging literature using metabolomics as principal molecular phenotyping methods is collated and compared. The present data suggests that metabolic effects of aging and sleep also demonstrate similarities, particularly in lipid metabolism and amino acid metabolism. Some of these changes also overlap with metabolomic data available from clinical studies of Alzheimer's disease. Together, metabolomic technologies show promise in elucidating interleaving effects of sleep, aging and progression of aging disorders at a molecular level.
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- Arjun Sengupta
- Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Institute of Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Institute of Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Guo X, Keenan BT, Sarantopoulou D, Lim DC, Lian J, Grant GR, Pack AI. Age attenuates the transcriptional changes that occur with sleep in the medial prefrontal cortex. Aging Cell 2019; 18:e13021. [PMID: 31549781 PMCID: PMC6826131 DOI: 10.1111/acel.13021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2019] [Revised: 06/13/2019] [Accepted: 07/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Sleep abnormalities are common with aging. Studies show that sleep plays important roles in brain functions, and loss of sleep is associated with increased risks for neurological diseases. Here, we used RNA sequencing to explore effects of age on transcriptome changes between sleep and sleep deprivation (SD) in medial prefrontal cortex and found that transcriptional changes with sleep are attenuated in old. In particular, old mice showed a 30% reduction in the number of genes significantly altered between sleep/wake and, in general, had smaller magnitudes of changes in differentially expressed genes compared to young mice. Gene ontology analysis revealed differential age effects on certain pathways. Compared to young mice, many of the wake‐active functions were similarly induced by SD in old mice, whereas many of the sleep‐active pathways were attenuated in old mice. We found similar magnitude of changes in synaptic homeostasis genes (Fos, Arc, and Bdnf) induced by SD, suggesting intact synaptic upscaling on the transcript level during extended wakefulness with aging. However, sleep‐activated processes, such as DNA repair, synaptogenesis, and axon guidance, were sensitive to the effect of aging. Old mice expressed elevated levels of immune response genes when compared to young mice, and enrichment analysis using cell‐type‐specific markers indicated upregulation of microglia and oligodendrocyte genes in old mice. Moreover, gene sets of the two cell types showed age‐specific sleep/wake regulation. Ultimately, this study enhances understanding of the transcriptional changes with sleep and aging, providing potential molecular targets for future studies of age‐related sleep abnormalities and neurological disorders.
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- Xiaofeng Guo
- Division of Sleep Medicine Department of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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- Division of Sleep Medicine Department of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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- Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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- Division of Sleep Medicine Department of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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- Division of Sleep Medicine Department of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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- Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania
- Department of Genetics University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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- Division of Sleep Medicine Department of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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Epigenetic regulation of the circadian gene Per1 contributes to age-related changes in hippocampal memory. Nat Commun 2018; 9:3323. [PMID: 30127461 PMCID: PMC6102273 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05868-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2017] [Accepted: 07/27/2018] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Aging is accompanied by impairments in both circadian rhythmicity and long-term memory. Although it is clear that memory performance is affected by circadian cycling, it is unknown whether age-related disruption of the circadian clock causes impaired hippocampal memory. Here, we show that the repressive histone deacetylase HDAC3 restricts long-term memory, synaptic plasticity, and experience-induced expression of the circadian gene Per1 in the aging hippocampus without affecting rhythmic circadian activity patterns. We also demonstrate that hippocampal Per1 is critical for long-term memory formation. Together, our data challenge the traditional idea that alterations in the core circadian clock drive circadian-related changes in memory formation and instead argue for a more autonomous role for circadian clock gene function in hippocampal cells to gate the likelihood of long-term memory formation. Circadian rhythms are known to modulate memory, but it’s not known whether clock genes in the hippocampus are required for memory consolidation. Here, the authors show that epigenetic regulation of clock gene Period1 in the hippocampus regulates memory and contributes to age-related memory decline, independent of circadian rhythms.
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Vecsey CG, Huang T, Abel T. Sleep deprivation impairs synaptic tagging in mouse hippocampal slices. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2018; 154:136-140. [PMID: 29551603 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2018.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2017] [Revised: 03/07/2018] [Accepted: 03/14/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Metaplasticity refers to the ability of experience to alter synaptic plasticity, or modulate the strength of neuronal connections. Sleep deprivation has been shown to have a negative impact on synaptic plasticity, but it is unknown whether sleep deprivation also influences processes of metaplasticity. Therefore, we tested whether 5 h of total sleep deprivation (SD) in mice would impair hippocampal synaptic tagging and capture (STC), a form of heterosynaptic metaplasticity in which combining strong stimulation in one synaptic input with weak stimulation at another input allows the weak input to induce long-lasting synaptic strengthening. STC in stratum radiatum of area CA1 occurred normally in control mice, but was impaired following SD. After SD, potentiation at the weakly stimulated synapses decayed back to baseline within 2 h. Thus, sleep deprivation disrupts a prominent form of metaplasticity in which two independent inputs interact to generate long-lasting LTP.
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- Christopher G Vecsey
- Neuroscience Program, Skidmore College, 815 N. Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866, United States; Neuroscience Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States.
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- Neuroscience Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
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- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States; Iowa Neuroscience Institute, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, United States
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Sleep deprivation disrupts the lives of millions of people every day and has a profound impact on the molecular biology of the brain. These effects begin as changes within a neuron, at the DNA and RNA level, and result in alterations in neuronal plasticity and dysregulation of many cognitive functions including learning and memory. The epigenome plays a critical role in regulating gene expression in the context of memory storage. In this review article, we begin by describing the effects of epigenetic alterations on the regulation of gene expression, focusing on the most common epigenetic mechanisms: (i) DNA methylation; (ii) histone modifications; and (iii) non-coding RNAs. We then discuss evidence suggesting that sleep loss impacts the epigenome and that these epigenetic alterations might mediate the changes in cognition seen following disruption of sleep. The link between sleep and the epigenome is only beginning to be elucidated, but clear evidence exists that epigenetic alterations occur following sleep deprivation. In the future, these changes to the epigenome could be utilized as biomarkers of sleep loss or as therapeutic targets for sleep-related disorders.
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Affiliation(s)
- Marie E Gaine
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Iowa Neuroscience Institute, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Iowa Neuroscience Institute, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Iowa Neuroscience Institute, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
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Schorr A, Carter C, Ladiges W. The potential use of physical resilience to predict healthy aging. PATHOBIOLOGY OF AGING & AGE RELATED DISEASES 2017; 8:1403844. [PMID: 29291035 PMCID: PMC5700501 DOI: 10.1080/20010001.2017.1403844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2017] [Accepted: 10/16/2017] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Abstract
Physical resilience is the ability of an organism to respond to stressors that acutely disrupt normal physiological homeostasis. By definition, resilience decreases with increasing age, while frailty, defined as a decline in tissue function, increases with increasing age. Assessment of resilience could therefore be an informative early paradigm to predict healthy aging compared to frailty, which measures late life dysfunction. Parameters for resilience in the laboratory mouse are not yet well defined, and no single standardized stress test exists. Since aging involves multiple genetic pathways, integrative responses involving multiple tissues, organs, and activities need to be measured to reveal the overall resilience status, suggesting a battery of stress tests, rather than a single all-encompassing one, would be most informative. Three simple, reliable, and inexpensive stressors are described in this review that could be used as a panel to determine levels of resilience. Brief cold water immersion allows a recovery time to normothermia as an indicator of resilience to hypothermia, i.e. the quicker the return to normal body temperature, the more robust the resilience. Sleep deprivation (SD) impairs remote memory in aged mice, and has detrimental effects on glucose metabolism. Cyclophosphamide (CYP) targets white blood cells, especially myeloid cells resulting in neutropenia with a rebound neutrophilia in an age-dependent manner. Thus a strong neutrophilic response indicates resilience. In conclusion, resilience promises to be an especially useful measurement of biological age, i.e. how fast a particular organ or tissue ages. The three stressors, cold, SD, and CYP, are applicable to human medicine and aging because they represent clinically relevant stress conditions that have effects in an age-dependent manner. They are thus an attractive perturbation for resilience testing in mice to measure the effectiveness of interventions that target basic aging processes.
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- Anna Schorr
- Department of Comparative Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Aging and Geriatric Research, Institute on Aging, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Comparative Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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Krishnan HC, Gandour CE, Ramos JL, Wrinkle MC, Sanchez-Pacheco JJ, Lyons LC. Acute Sleep Deprivation Blocks Short- and Long-Term Operant Memory in Aplysia. Sleep 2016; 39:2161-2171. [PMID: 27748243 DOI: 10.5665/sleep.6320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2016] [Accepted: 08/08/2016] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
Abstract
STUDY OBJECTIVES Insufficient sleep in individuals appears increasingly common due to the demands of modern work schedules and technology use. Consequently, there is a growing need to understand the interactions between sleep deprivation and memory. The current study determined the effects of acute sleep deprivation on short and long-term associative memory using the marine mollusk Aplysia californica, a relatively simple model system well known for studies of learning and memory. METHODS Aplysia were sleep deprived for 9 hours using context changes and tactile stimulation either prior to or after training for the operant learning paradigm, learning that food is inedible (LFI). The effects of sleep deprivation on short-term (STM) and long-term memory (LTM) were assessed. RESULTS Acute sleep deprivation prior to LFI training impaired the induction of STM and LTM with persistent effects lasting at least 24 h. Sleep deprivation immediately after training blocked the consolidation of LTM. However, sleep deprivation following the period of molecular consolidation did not affect memory recall. Memory impairments were independent of handling-induced stress, as daytime handled control animals demonstrated no memory deficits. Additional training immediately after sleep deprivation failed to rescue the induction of memory, but additional training alleviated the persistent impairment in memory induction when training occurred 24 h following sleep deprivation. CONCLUSIONS Acute sleep deprivation inhibited the induction and consolidation, but not the recall of memory. These behavioral studies establish Aplysia as an effective model system for studying the interactions between sleep and memory formation.
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- Harini C Krishnan
- Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.,Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
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- Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
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- Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
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- Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.,Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
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