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Xiang T, Liao J, Cai Y, Fan M, Li C, Zhang X, Li H, Chen Y, Pan J. Impairment of GABA inhibition in insomnia disorders: Evidence from the peripheral blood system. Front Psychiatry 2023; 14:1134434. [PMID: 36846238 PMCID: PMC9947704 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1134434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2022] [Accepted: 01/25/2023] [Indexed: 02/11/2023] Open
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AIM To explore the change characteristics and related factors of various indexes of GABAergic system in peripheral blood of patients with insomnia disorder. METHODS In this study, a total of 30 patients who met the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for insomnia disorder and 30 normal controls were included. All subjects had a structured clinical interview with the Brief International Neuropsychiatric Disorder Interview, and PSQI was used to evaluate the sleep status of the subjects. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to detect serum γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA), and RT-PCR was used to detect GABAA receptor α1 and α2 subunit mRNA. All data were statistically analyzed using SPSS 23.0. RESULTS Compared with the normal control group, the mRNA levels of GABAA receptor α1 and α2 subunits in the insomnia disorder group were significantly lower, but there was no significant difference in the serum GABA levels between the two groups. And in the insomnia disorder group, there was no significant correlation between the GABA levels and the mRNA expression levels of α1 and α2 subunits of GABAA receptors. Although no significant correlation was found between PSQI and serum levels of these two subunit mRNAs, its component factors sleep quality and sleep time were negatively correlated with GABAA receptor α1 subunit mRNA levels, and daytime function was inversely correlated with GABAA receptor α2 subunit mRNA levels. CONCLUSION The inhibitory function of serum GABA in patients with insomnia may be impaired, and the decreased expression levels of GABAA receptor α1 and α2 subunit mRNA may become a reliable indicator of insomnia disorder.
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- Ting Xiang
- Sleep Medical Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China.,Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
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- Sleep Medical Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China.,Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
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- Sleep Medical Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China.,Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
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- Sleep Medical Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
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- Sleep Medical Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
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- Sleep Medical Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
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- Sleep Medical Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China.,Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
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Progress in modelling of brain dynamics during anaesthesia and the role of sleep-wake circuitry. Biochem Pharmacol 2021; 191:114388. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2020.114388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2020] [Revised: 12/16/2020] [Accepted: 12/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Gvilia I, Suntsova N, Kostin A, Kalinchuk A, McGinty D, Basheer R, Szymusiak R. The role of adenosine in the maturation of sleep homeostasis in rats. J Neurophysiol 2016; 117:327-335. [PMID: 27784808 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00675.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2016] [Accepted: 10/24/2016] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Sleep homeostasis in rats undergoes significant maturational changes during postweaning development, but the underlying mechanisms of this process are unknown. In the present study we tested the hypothesis that the maturation of sleep is related to the functional emergence of adenosine (AD) signaling in the brain. We assessed postweaning changes in 1) wake-related elevation of extracellular AD in the basal forebrain (BF) and adjacent lateral preoptic area (LPO), and 2) the responsiveness of median preoptic nucleus (MnPO) sleep-active cells to increasing homeostatic sleep drive. We tested the ability of exogenous AD to augment homeostatic responses to sleep deprivation (SD) in newly weaned rats. In groups of postnatal day (P)22 and P30 rats, we collected dialysate from the BF/LPO during baseline (BSL) wake-sleep, SD, and recovery sleep (RS). HPLC analysis of microdialysis samples revealed that SD in P30 rats results in significant increases in AD levels compared with BSL. P22 rats do not exhibit changes in AD levels in response to SD. We recorded neuronal activity in the MnPO during BSL, SD, and RS at P22/P30. MnPO neurons exhibited adult-like increases in waking neuronal discharge across SD on both P22 and P30, but discharge rates during enforced wake were higher on P30 vs. P22. Central administration of AD (1 nmol) during SD on P22 resulted in increased sleep time and EEG slow-wave activity during RS compared with saline control. Collectively, these findings support the hypothesis that functional reorganization of an adenosinergic mechanism of sleep regulation contributes to the maturation of sleep homeostasis. NEW & NOTEWORTHY Brain mechanisms that regulate the maturation of sleep are understudied. The present study generated first evidence about a potential mechanistic role for adenosine in the maturation of sleep homeostasis. Specifically, we demonstrate that early postweaning development in rats, when homeostatic response to sleep loss become adult like, is characterized by maturational changes in wake-related production/release of adenosine in the brain. Pharmacologically increased adenosine signaling in developing brain facilitates homeostatic responses to sleep deprivation.
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- Irma Gvilia
- Research Service (151A3), Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, North Hills, California; .,Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California.,Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia; and
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- Research Service (151A3), Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, North Hills, California.,Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California
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- Research Service (151A3), Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, North Hills, California
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- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Research Service (151A3), Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, North Hills, California.,Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Research Service (151A3), Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, North Hills, California.,Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California
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Blumberg MS, Sokoloff G, Tiriac A, Del Rio-Bermudez C. A valuable and promising method for recording brain activity in behaving newborn rodents. Dev Psychobiol 2015; 57:506-17. [PMID: 25864710 DOI: 10.1002/dev.21305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2015] [Accepted: 02/25/2015] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Neurophysiological recording of brain activity has been critically important to the field of neuroscience, but has contributed little to the field of developmental psychobiology. The reasons for this can be traced largely to methodological difficulties associated with recording neural activity in behaving newborn rats and mice. Over the last decade, however, the evolution of methods for recording from head-fixed newborns has heralded a new era in developmental neurophysiology. Here, we review these recent developments and provide a step-by-step primer for those interested in applying the head-fix method to their own research questions. Until now, this method has been used primarily to investigate spontaneous brain activity across sleep and wakefulness, the contributions of the sensory periphery to brain activity, or intrinsic network activity. Now, with some ingenuity, the uses of the head-fix method can be expanded to other domains to benefit our understanding of brain-behavior relations under normal and pathophysiological conditions across early development.
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- Mark S Blumberg
- Department of Psychology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242; Department of Biology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242.
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Sokoloff G, Uitermarkt BD, Blumberg MS. REM sleep twitches rouse nascent cerebellar circuits: Implications for sensorimotor development. Dev Neurobiol 2014; 75:1140-53. [PMID: 24677804 DOI: 10.1002/dneu.22177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2013] [Revised: 03/08/2014] [Accepted: 03/25/2014] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The cerebellum is critical for sensorimotor integration and undergoes extensive postnatal development. During the first postnatal week in rats, climbing fibers polyinnervate Purkinje cells and, before granule cell migration, mossy fibers make transient, direct connections with Purkinje cells. Activity-dependent processes are assumed to play a critical role in the development and refinement of these and other aspects of cerebellar circuitry. However, the sources and patterning of activity have not been described. We hypothesize that sensory feedback (i.e., reafference) from myoclonic twitches in sleeping newborn rats is a prominent driver of activity for the developing cerebellum. Here, in 6-day-old rats, we show that Purkinje cells exhibit substantial state-dependent changes in complex and simple spike activity-primarily during active sleep. In addition, this activity increases significantly during bouts of twitching. Moreover, the surprising observation of twitch-dependent increases in simple spike activity at this age suggests a functional engagement of mossy fibers before the parallel fiber system has developed. Based on these and other results, we propose that twitching comprises a unique class of self-produced movement that drives critical aspects of activity-dependent development in the cerebellum and other sensorimotor systems.
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- Greta Sokoloff
- Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.,Delta Center, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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- Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.,Delta Center, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.,Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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Blumberg MS, Gall AJ, Todd WD. The development of sleep-wake rhythms and the search for elemental circuits in the infant brain. Behav Neurosci 2014; 128:250-63. [PMID: 24708298 DOI: 10.1037/a0035891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Despite the predominance of sleep in early infancy, developmental science has yet to play a major role in shaping concepts and theories about sleep and its associated ultradian and circadian rhythms. Here we argue that developmental analyses help us to elucidate the relative contributions of the brainstem and forebrain to sleep-wake control and to dissect the neural components of sleep-wake rhythms. Developmental analysis also makes it clear that sleep-wake processes in infants are the foundation for those of adults. For example, the infant brainstem alone contains a fundamental sleep-wake circuit that is sufficient to produce transitions among wakefulness, quiet sleep, and active sleep. In addition, consistent with the requirements of a "flip-flop" model of sleep-wake processes, this brainstem circuit supports rapid transitions between states. Later in development, strengthening bidirectional interactions between the brainstem and forebrain contribute to the consolidation of sleep and wake bouts, the elaboration of sleep homeostatic processes, and the emergence of diurnal or nocturnal circadian rhythms. The developmental perspective promoted here critically constrains theories of sleep-wake control and provides a needed framework for the creation of fully realized computational models. Finally, with a better understanding of how this system is constructed developmentally, we will gain insight into the processes that govern its disintegration due to aging and disease.
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- Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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Gall AJ, Todd WD, Blumberg MS. Development of SCN connectivity and the circadian control of arousal: a diminishing role for humoral factors? PLoS One 2012; 7:e45338. [PMID: 23028945 PMCID: PMC3441626 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2012] [Accepted: 08/20/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) is part of a wake-promoting circuit comprising the dorsomedial hypothalamus (DMH) and locus coeruleus (LC). Although widely considered a "master clock," the SCN of adult rats is also sensitive to feedback regarding an animal's behavioral state. Interestingly, in rats at postnatal day (P)2, repeated arousing stimulation does not increase neural activation in the SCN, despite doing so in the LC and DMH. Here we show that, by P8, the SCN is activated by arousing stimulation and that selective destruction of LC terminals with DSP-4 blocks this activational effect. We next show that bidirectional projections among the SCN, DMH, and LC are nearly absent at P2 but present at P8. Despite the relative lack of SCN connectivity with downstream structures at P2, day-night differences in sleep-wake activity are observed, suggesting that the SCN modulates behavior at this age via humoral factors. To test this hypothesis, we lesioned the SCN at P1 and recorded sleep-wake behavior at P2: Day-night differences in sleep and wake were eliminated. We next performed precollicular transections at P2 and P8 that isolate the SCN and DMH from the brainstem and found that day-night differences in sleep-wake behavior were retained at P2 but eliminated at P8. Finally, the SCN or DMH was lesioned at P8: When recorded at P21, rats with either lesion exhibited similarly fragmented wake bouts and no evidence of circadian modulation of wakefulness. These results suggest an age-related decline in the SCN's humoral influence on sleep-wake behavior that coincides with the emergence of bidirectional connectivity among the SCN, DMH, and LC.
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- Andrew J. Gall
- Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
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This review summarizes the brain mechanisms controlling sleep and wakefulness. Wakefulness promoting systems cause low-voltage, fast activity in the electroencephalogram (EEG). Multiple interacting neurotransmitter systems in the brain stem, hypothalamus, and basal forebrain converge onto common effector systems in the thalamus and cortex. Sleep results from the inhibition of wake-promoting systems by homeostatic sleep factors such as adenosine and nitric oxide and GABAergic neurons in the preoptic area of the hypothalamus, resulting in large-amplitude, slow EEG oscillations. Local, activity-dependent factors modulate the amplitude and frequency of cortical slow oscillations. Non-rapid-eye-movement (NREM) sleep results in conservation of brain energy and facilitates memory consolidation through the modulation of synaptic weights. Rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep results from the interaction of brain stem cholinergic, aminergic, and GABAergic neurons which control the activity of glutamatergic reticular formation neurons leading to REM sleep phenomena such as muscle atonia, REMs, dreaming, and cortical activation. Strong activation of limbic regions during REM sleep suggests a role in regulation of emotion. Genetic studies suggest that brain mechanisms controlling waking and NREM sleep are strongly conserved throughout evolution, underscoring their enormous importance for brain function. Sleep disruption interferes with the normal restorative functions of NREM and REM sleep, resulting in disruptions of breathing and cardiovascular function, changes in emotional reactivity, and cognitive impairments in attention, memory, and decision making.
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- Ritchie E Brown
- Laboratory of Neuroscience, VA Boston Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School, Brockton, Massachusetts 02301, USA
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Blumberg MS. Homology, correspondence, and continuity across development: the case of sleep. Dev Psychobiol 2012; 55:92-100. [PMID: 22711221 DOI: 10.1002/dev.21024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2011] [Accepted: 02/17/2012] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The causal relationships among developing behaviors can take many forms. At one extreme, two behaviors may emerge independently of one another and, at the other extreme, the emergence of one behavior may depend on the prior emergence of the other. Whether the two behaviors in the latter case should be designated as developmentally homologous is explored in this essay by reviewing differing approaches to conceptualizing the development of sleep. It is argued that whereas the concept of developmental homology may offer little new to the understanding of sleep development, the conventional notion of evolutionary homology remains to be fully exploited. Identifying homologous sleep processes will benefit from the adoption of a developmental comparative approach that emphasizes real-time sleep dynamics and individual sleep components. Because evolution occurs through the modification of developmental processes, a new commitment to a developmental comparative approach to sleep is a necessary next step toward a better understanding of its evolution.
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- Mark S Blumberg
- Departments of Psychology and Biology and The Delta Center, The University of Iowa, E11 Seashore Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
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Gvilia I, Suntsova N, Angara B, McGinty D, Szymusiak R. Maturation of sleep homeostasis in developing rats: a role for preoptic area neurons. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2011; 300:R885-94. [PMID: 21325650 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00727.2010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The present study evaluated the hypothesis that developmental changes in hypothalamic sleep-regulatory neuronal circuits contribute to the maturation of sleep homeostasis in rats during the fourth postnatal week. In a longitudinal study, we quantified electrographic measures of sleep during baseline and in response to sleep deprivation (SD) on postnatal days 21/29 (P21/29) and P22/30 (experiment 1). During 24-h baseline recordings on P21, total sleep time (TST) during the light and dark phases did not differ significantly. On P29, TST during the light phase was significantly higher than during the dark phase. Mean duration of non-rapid-eye-movement (NREM) sleep bouts was significantly longer on P29 vs. P21, indicating improved sleep consolidation. On both P22 and P30, rats exhibited increased NREM sleep amounts and NREM electroencephalogram delta power during recovery sleep (RS) compared with baseline. Increased NREM sleep bout length during RS was observed only on P30. In experiment 2, we quantified activity of GABAergic neurons in median preoptic nucleus (MnPN) and ventrolateral preoptic area (VLPO) during SD and RS in separate groups of P22 and P30 rats using c-Fos and glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) immunohistochemistry. In P22 rats, numbers of Fos(+)GAD(+) neurons in VLPO did not differ among experimental conditions. In P30 rats, Fos(+)GAD(+) counts in VLPO were elevated during RS. MnPN neuronal activity was state-dependent in P22 rats, but Fos(+)GAD(+) cell counts were higher in P30 rats. These findings support the hypothesis that functional emergence of preoptic sleep-regulatory neurons contributes to the maturation of sleep homeostasis in the developing rat brain.
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- Irma Gvilia
- Research Service (151A3), VA Greater Los Angeles, 16111 Plummer St., North Hills, CA 91344, USA.
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Todd WD, Gibson JL, Shaw CS, Blumberg MS. Brainstem and hypothalamic regulation of sleep pressure and rebound in newborn rats. Behav Neurosci 2010; 124:69-78. [PMID: 20141281 PMCID: PMC2823806 DOI: 10.1037/a0018100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Sleep pressure and rebound comprise the two compensatory or "homeostatic" responses to sleep deprivation. Although sleep pressure is expressed by infant rats as early as postnatal day (P)5, sleep rebound does not appear to emerge until after P11. We reexamined the developmental expression of these sleep-regulatory processes in P2 and P8 rats by depriving them of sleep for 30 min using a cold, arousing stimulus delivered to a cold-sensitive region of the snout. This method effectively increased sleep pressure over the 30-min period (i.e., increases in the number of arousing stimuli presented over time). Moreover, sleep rebound (i.e., increased sleep during the recovery period) is demonstrated for the first time at these ages. Next, we showed that precollicular transections in P2 rats prevent sleep rebound without affecting sleep pressure, suggesting that the brainstem is sufficient to support sleep pressure, but sleep rebound depends on neural mechanisms that lie rostral to the transection. Finally, again in P2 rats, we used c-fos immunohistochemistry to examine neural activation throughout the neuraxis during sleep deprivation and recovery. Sleep deprivation and rebound were accompanied by significant increases in neural activation in both brainstem and hypothalamic nuclei, including the ventrolateral preoptic area and median preoptic nucleus. This early developmental expression of sleep pressure and rebound and the apparent involvement of brainstem and hypothalamic structures in their expression further solidify the notion that sleep-wake processes in newborns-defined at these ages without reference to state-dependent EEG activity-provide the foundation on which the more familiar processes of adults are built.
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Synchronous bursts of neuronal activity in the developing hippocampus: modulation by active sleep and association with emerging gamma and theta rhythms. J Neurosci 2008; 28:10134-44. [PMID: 18829971 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1967-08.2008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The neonatal hippocampus exhibits regularly recurring waves of synchronized neuronal activity in vitro. Because active sleep (AS), characterized by bursts of phasic motor activity in the form of myoclonic twitching, may provide conditions that are conducive to activity-dependent development of hippocampal circuits, we hypothesized that the waves of synchronous neuronal activity that have been observed in vitro would be associated with AS-related twitching. Using unanesthetized 1- to 12-d-old rats, we report here that the majority of neurons in CA1 and the dentate gyrus (DG) are significantly more active during AS than during either quiet sleep or wakefulness. Neuronal activity typically occurs in phasic bursts, during which most neurons are significantly cross-correlated both within and across the CA1 and DG fields. All AS-active neurons increase their firing rates during periods of myoclonic twitching of the limbs, and a subset of these neurons exhibit a burst of activity immediately after limb twitches, suggesting that the twitches themselves provide sensory feedback to the infant hippocampus, as occurs in the infant spinal cord and neocortex. Finally, the synchronous bursts of neuronal activity are coupled to the emergence of the AS-related hippocampal gamma rhythm during the first postnatal week, as well as the emergence of the AS-related theta rhythm during the second postnatal week. We hypothesize that the phasic motor events of active sleep provide the developing hippocampus with discrete sensory stimulation that contributes to the development and refinement of hippocampal circuits as well as the development of synchronized interactions between hippocampus and neocortex.
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In week-old rats, lesions of the dorsolateral pontine tegmentum (DLPT) and nucleus pontis oralis (PnO) have opposing effects on nuchal muscle tone. Specifically, pups with DLPT lesions exhibit prolonged bouts of nuchal muscle atonia (indicative of sleep) and pups with PnO lesions exhibit prolonged bouts of high nuchal muscle tone (indicative of wakefulness). Here we test the hypothesis that nuchal muscle tone is modulated, at least in part, by cholinergically mediated interactions between these two regions. First, in unanesthetized pups, we found that chemical infusion of the cholinergic agonist carbachol (22 mm, 0.1 microL) within the DLPT produced high muscle tone. Next, chemical lesions of the PnO were used to produce a chronic state of high nuchal muscle tone, at which time the cholinergic antagonist scopolamine (10 mm, 0.1 microL) was infused into the DLPT. Scopolamine effectively decreased nuchal muscle tone, thus suggesting that lesions of the PnO increase muscle tone via cholinergic activation of the DLPT. Using 2-deoxyglucose autoradiography, metabolic activation throughout the DLPT was observed after PnO lesions. Finally, consistent with the hypothesis that PnO inactivation produces high muscle tone, infusion of the sodium channel blocker lidocaine (2%) into the PnO of unanesthetized pups produced rapid increases in muscle tone. We conclude that, even early in infancy, the DLPT is critically involved in the regulation of muscle tone and behavioral state, and that its activity is modulated by a cholinergic mechanism that is directly or indirectly controlled by the PnO.
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- Andrew J Gall
- Program in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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- Mark S. Blumberg
- Program in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology,University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Science and Engineering, Reykjavik University, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Program in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology,University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
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Best J, Diniz Behn C, Poe GR, Booth V. Neuronal models for sleep-wake regulation and synaptic reorganization in the sleeping hippocampus. J Biol Rhythms 2007; 22:220-32. [PMID: 17517912 DOI: 10.1177/0748730407301239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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In this article, we discuss mathematical models that address the control of sleep-wake behavior in the infant and adult rodent and a model that addresses changes in single-cell firing patterns in the hippocampus across wake and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep states. Each of the models describes the dynamics of experimentally identified neuronal components--either the firing activity of wake-and sleep-promoting neuronal populations or the spiking activity of hippocampal pyramidal neurons. Our discussion of each model illustrates how a mathematical model that describes the temporal dynamics of the modeled neuronal components can reveal specifics about proposed neuronal mechanisms that underlie sleep-wake regulation or sleep-specific firing patterns. For example, the dynamics of the models developed for sleep-wake regulation in the infant rodent lend insight into the involved brain-stem neuronal populations and the evolution of the network during maturation. The results of the model for sleep-wake regulation in the adult rodent suggest distinct properties of the involved neuronal populations and their interactions that account for long-lasting and brief waking bouts. The dynamics of the model for sleep-specific hippocampal neural activity proposes neural mechanisms to account for observed activity changes that can invoke synaptic reorganization associated with learning and memory consolidation.
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- Janet Best
- Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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Drew KL, Buck CL, Barnes BM, Christian SL, Rasley BT, Harris MB. Central nervous system regulation of mammalian hibernation: implications for metabolic suppression and ischemia tolerance. J Neurochem 2007; 102:1713-1726. [PMID: 17555547 PMCID: PMC3600610 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2007.04675.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Torpor during hibernation defines the nadir of mammalian metabolism where whole animal rates of metabolism are decreased to as low as 2% of basal metabolic rate. This capacity to decrease profoundly the metabolic demand of organs and tissues has the potential to translate into novel therapies for the treatment of ischemia associated with stroke, cardiac arrest or trauma where delivery of oxygen and nutrients fails to meet demand. If metabolic demand could be arrested in a regulated way, cell and tissue injury could be attenuated. Metabolic suppression achieved during hibernation is regulated, in part, by the central nervous system through indirect and possibly direct means. In this study, we review recent evidence for mechanisms of central nervous system control of torpor in hibernating rodents including evidence of a permissive, hibernation protein complex, a role for A1 adenosine receptors, mu opiate receptors, glutamate and thyrotropin-releasing hormone. Central sites for regulation of torpor include the hippocampus, hypothalamus and nuclei of the autonomic nervous system. In addition, we discuss evidence that hibernation phenotypes can be translated to non-hibernating species by H(2)S and 3-iodothyronamine with the caveat that the hypothermia, bradycardia, and metabolic suppression induced by these compounds may or may not be identical to mechanisms employed in true hibernation.
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- Kelly L. Drew
- Institute of Arctic Biology, Alaska Basic Neuroscience Program, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Alaska Basic Neuroscience Program, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
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- Institute of Arctic Biology, Alaska Basic Neuroscience Program, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
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- Institute of Arctic Biology, Alaska Basic Neuroscience Program, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Alaska Basic Neuroscience Program, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
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- Institute of Arctic Biology, Alaska Basic Neuroscience Program, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
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Blumberg MS, Coleman CM, Johnson ED, Shaw C. Developmental divergence of sleep-wake patterns in orexin knockout and wild-type mice. Eur J Neurosci 2007; 25:512-8. [PMID: 17284193 PMCID: PMC2633113 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.05292.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
Abstract
Narcolepsy, a disorder characterized by fragmented bouts of sleep and wakefulness during the day and night as well as cataplexy, has been linked in humans and nonhuman animals to the functional integrity of the orexinergic system. Adult orexin knockout mice and dogs with a mutation of the orexin receptor exhibit symptoms that mirror those seen in narcoleptic humans. As with narcolepsy, infant sleep-wake cycles in humans and rats are highly fragmented, with consolidated bouts of sleep and wakefulness developing gradually. Based on these common features of narcoleptics and infants, we hypothesized that the development of sleep-wake fragmentation in orexin knockout mice would be expressed as a developmental divergence between knockouts and wild-types, with the knockouts lagging behind the wild-types. We tested this hypothesis by recording the sleep-wake patterns of infant orexin knockout and wild-type mice across the first three postnatal weeks. Both knockouts and wild-types exhibited age-dependent, and therefore orexin-independent, quantitative and qualitative changes in sleep-wake patterning. At 3 weeks of age, however, by which time the sleep and wake bouts of the wild-types had consolidated further, the knockouts lagged behind the wild-types and exhibited significantly more bout fragmentation. These findings suggest the possibility that the fragmentation of behavioural states that characterizes narcolepsy in adults reflects reversion back toward the more fragmented sleep-wake patterns that characterize infancy.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mark S Blumberg
- Program in Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
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