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Kim RG, Cho J, Park JY, Kim YR, Lee MC, Kim HI. Neuron type-specific optogenetic stimulation for differential stroke recovery in chronic capsular infarct. Exp Mol Med 2024:10.1038/s12276-024-01253-8. [PMID: 38825647 DOI: 10.1038/s12276-024-01253-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2023] [Revised: 02/28/2024] [Accepted: 03/18/2024] [Indexed: 06/04/2024] Open
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Cortical neuromodulation (CNM) is widely used to promote recovery after stroke. Despite the beneficial results of CNM, the roles played by different neuron types in the effects of current CNM techniques are unable to be differentiated. Our aim was to use selective optogenetic cortical stimulation to explore how different subpopulations of neuronal cells contribute to poststroke recovery. We transduced the sensory-parietal cortex (SPC) of rats with CamKII-ChR2 (pyramidal neurons), PV-ChR2 (parvalbumin-expressing inhibitory neurons), or hSyn-ChR2 (pan-neuronal population) before inducing photothrombotic capsular infarct lesions. We found that selective stimulation of inhibitory neurons resulted in significantly greater motor recovery than stimulation of excitatory neurons or the pan-neuronal population. Furthermore, 2-deoxy-2-[18F] fluoro-D-glucose microPET (FDG-microPET) imaging revealed a significant reduction in cortical diaschisis and activation of the corticostriatal neural circuit, which were correlated with behavioral recovery in the PV-ChR2 group. The spatial pattern of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) expression was evident in the stimulated cortex and underlying cortico-subcortical circuit. Our results indicate that the plasticity of inhibitory neurons is crucial for functional recovery after capsular infarct. Modifying CNM parameters to potentiate the stimulation of inhibitory neurons could improve poststroke outcomes.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ra Gyung Kim
- Department of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, 123 Choemdangwagi-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
- Research Headquarter, Korea Brain Research Institute, 61 Cheomdan-ro, Dong-gu, Daegu, 41062, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, 123 Choemdangwagi-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, 123 Choemdangwagi-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, 02129, USA
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- Pathology Center, Seegene Medical Foundation, 320 Cheonho-Daero, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, 04805, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, 123 Choemdangwagi-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea.
- Department of Neurosurgery, Presbyterian Medical Center, 365 Seowon-ro, Wansan-gu, Jeonju-si, Jeollabuk-do, 54987, Republic of Korea.
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Kirton A. Advancing non-invasive neuromodulation clinical trials in children: Lessons from perinatal stroke. Eur J Paediatr Neurol 2017; 21:75-103. [PMID: 27470654 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpn.2016.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2016] [Revised: 06/21/2016] [Accepted: 07/02/2016] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Applications of non-invasive brain stimulation including therapeutic neuromodulation are expanding at an alarming rate. Increasingly established scientific principles, including directional modulation of well-informed cortical targets, are advancing clinical trial development. However, high levels of disease burden coupled with zealous enthusiasm may be getting ahead of rational research and evidence. Experience is limited in the developing brain where additional issues must be considered. Properly designed and meticulously executed clinical trials are essential and required to advance and optimize the potential of non-invasive neuromodulation without risking the well-being of children and families. Perinatal stroke causes most hemiplegic cerebral palsy and, as a focal injury of defined timing in an otherwise healthy brain, is an ideal human model of developmental plasticity. Advanced models of how the motor systems of young brains develop following early stroke are affording novel windows of opportunity for neuromodulation clinical trials, possibly directing neuroplasticity toward better outcomes. Reviewing the principles of clinical trial design relevant to neuromodulation and using perinatal stroke as a model, this article reviews the current and future issues of advancing such trials in children.
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- Adam Kirton
- Departments of Pediatrics and Clinical Neurosciences, Cumming School of Medicine, Hotchkiss Brain Institute and Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, 2888 Shaganappi Trail NW, Calgary, AB T3B6A8, Canada.
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Kirton A. Modeling developmental plasticity after perinatal stroke: defining central therapeutic targets in cerebral palsy. Pediatr Neurol 2013; 48:81-94. [PMID: 23337000 DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2012.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2012] [Accepted: 08/02/2012] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Perinatal stroke is presented as the ideal human model of developmental neuroplasticity. The precise timing, mechanisms, and locations of specific perinatal stroke diseases provide common examples of well defined, focal, perinatal brain injuries. Motor disability (hemiparetic cerebral palsy) constitutes the primary adverse outcome and the focus of models explaining how motor systems develop in health and after early injury. Combining basic science animal work with human applied technology (functional magnetic resonance imaging, diffusion tensor imaging, and transcranial magnetic stimulation), a model of plastic motor development after perinatal stroke is presented. Potential central therapeutic targets are revealed. The means to measure and modulate these targets, including evidence-based rehabilitation therapies and noninvasive brain stimulation, are suggested. Implications for clinical trials and future directions are discussed.
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- Adam Kirton
- Calgary Pediatric Stroke Program, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, and Section of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Ogourtsova T, Korner-Bitensky N, Leh SE, Eskes G, Ptito A. Superior colliculi involvement in poststroke unilateral spatial neglect: a pilot study. Top Stroke Rehabil 2012; 18:770-85. [PMID: 22436314 DOI: 10.1310/tsr1806-770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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PURPOSE The neural mechanisms underlying unilateral spatial neglect (USN) are unclear. The superior colliculi (SC) may be involved in USN expression, and the spatial summation effect (SSE), where reaction times to bilateral stimuli are faster than to unilateral, may be a behavioral index of SC function. We determined the feasibility of investigating SC contribution to poststroke USN using the SSE in 3 groups. METHODS Seven participants with left near-extrapersonal space USN (USN+) following right hemisphere stroke, 10 without (USN-), and 10 controls were tested under binocular/monocular (right eye patched) conditions while responding to unilateral/bilateral stimuli. Control and USN- groups completed the SSE paradigm. RESULTS Most USN+ participants were unable to initiate the SSE paradigm due to poor visual fi xation and demonstrated higher contrast sensitivity for left-sided stimuli. Controls showed an SSE (under both viewing conditions) while the USN- showed an abnormal SSE whereby reaction times to bilateral stimuli were faster than to unilateral-left but not to unilateral-right stimuli (under both binocular/monocular conditions). CONCLUSION This study is the fi rst to investigate SC contribution in poststroke USN using the SSE; we identifi ed higher contrast sensitivity to left-sided stimuli and poor fi xation in the USN+ group. These fi ndings suggest avenues for research that may lead to novel rehabilitation interventions.
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- Tatiana Ogourtsova
- School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Devor A, Boas DA, Einevoll GT, Buxton RB, Dale AM. Neuronal Basis of Non-Invasive Functional Imaging: From Microscopic Neurovascular Dynamics to BOLD fMRI. NEURAL METABOLISM IN VIVO 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1788-0_15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Vuong J, Henderson AK, Tuor UI, Dunn JF, Teskey GC. Persistent enhancement of functional MRI responsiveness to sensory stimulation following repeated seizures. Epilepsia 2011; 52:2285-92. [PMID: 22091536 DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2011.03317.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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PURPOSE Neural reorganization and interictal behavioral anomalies have been documented in people with epilepsy and in animal seizure models. Alterations in behavior could be due to somatosensory dysfunction. This study was designed to determine whether seizures can lead to changes in somatosensory representations and whether those changes are persistent. METHODS Twice-daily seizures were elicited by delivering 1 s of electrical stimulation through carbon fiber electrodes implanted in both the corpus callosum and sensorimotor neocortex of young adult male Long-Evans rats until a total of 20 seizures were elicited. Either 1-3 days or 3-5 weeks following the last seizure, functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used to image the brain during electrical stimulation of each forepaw independently. KEY FINDINGS Forepaw stimulation in control rats resulted in a focused and contralateral fMRI signal in the somatosensory neocortex. Rats that had repeated seizures had a 151% increase in the number of voxels activated in the contralateral hemisphere 1-3 days after the last seizure and a 166% increase at 3-5 weeks after the last seizure. The number of voxels activated in response to forepaw stimulation was positively correlated with the duration of the longest seizure experienced by each rat. The intensity of the activated voxels was not significantly increased at either time interval from the last seizure. SIGNIFICANCE The increased area of activation in somatosensory cortex, which is persistent at 3-5 weeks, is consistent with previous observations of larger motor maps following seizures. Seizure-induced changes in the functioning of sensory cortex may also contribute to interictal behavioral anomalies.
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- Jennifer Vuong
- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Yu X, Wang S, Chen DY, Dodd S, Goloshevsky A, Koretsky AP. 3D mapping of somatotopic reorganization with small animal functional MRI. Neuroimage 2009; 49:1667-76. [PMID: 19770051 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.09.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2009] [Revised: 09/01/2009] [Accepted: 09/10/2009] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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There are few in vivo noninvasive methods to study neuroplasticity in animal brains. Functional MRI (fMRI) has been developed for animal brain mapping, but few fMRI studies have analyzed functional alteration due to plasticity in animal models. One major limitation is that fMRI maps are characterized by statistical parametric mapping making the apparent boundary dependent on the statistical threshold used. Here, we developed a method to characterize the location of center-of-mass in fMRI maps that is shown not to be sensitive to statistical threshold. Utilizing centers-of-mass as anchor points to fit the spatial distribution of the BOLD response enabled quantitative group analysis of altered boundaries of functional somatosensory maps. This approach was used to study cortical reorganization in the rat primary somatosensory cortex (S1) after sensory deprivation to the barrel cortex by follicle ablation (F.A.). FMRI demonstrated an enlarged nose S1 representation in the 3D somatotopic functional maps. This result clearly demonstrates that fMRI enables the spatial mapping of functional changes that can characterize multiple regions of S1 cortex and still be sensitive to changes due to plasticity.
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- Xin Yu
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Tuor UI, Wang R, Zhao Z, Foniok T, Rushforth D, Wamsteeker JI, Qiao M. Transient hypertension concurrent with forepaw stimulation enhances functional MRI responsiveness in infarct and peri-infarct regions. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2007; 27:1819-29. [PMID: 17377516 DOI: 10.1038/sj.jcbfm.9600472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Although functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is gaining use as a tool to assess cerebral recovery following various insults, the effects of potential confounders such as hypertension are poorly defined. We hypothesized that after stroke, transient hypertension during an fMRI study could produce a detected activation unrelated to neuronal activity within the infarct. Thus, the effect of norepinephrine induced increases in blood pressure (BP) on the fMRI response to forepaw stimulation were investigated in controls or 1 week after transient middle cerebral artery occlusion in rats. Images were smoothed spatially and voxels correlating to either forepaw stimulation or the change in BP time courses were analyzed. Transient hypertension increased the signal intensity and numbers of voxels correlating to the BP time courses within and adjacent to the ischemic infarct and these exceeded the response in the contralateral hemisphere or in controls. With left paw stimulation at normotension, there was a loss of activation in right sensory-motor cortex -- a region with necrosis and disruption of cerebral vessels. As BP increased left paw stimulation also resulted in the detection of activation in the infarcted sensory-motor cortex and peri-infarct regions. Thus, BP changes synchronous with tasks in fMRI studies can result in MR signal changes consistent with a loss of cerebral blood flow (CBF) autoregulation rather than neuronal activation in necrotic brain. After stroke, the use of stressful tasks associated with BP changes in fMRI studies should be limited or the BP change should be considered as a potential source of MR signal changes.
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- Ursula I Tuor
- MR Technology, Institute for Biodiagnostics (West), National Research Council, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Wolf SL, Winstein CJ, Miller JP, Blanton S, Clark PC, Nichols-Larsen D. Looking in the Rear View Mirror When Conversing With Back Seat Drivers: The EXCITE Trial Revisited. Neurorehabil Neural Repair 2007; 21:379-87. [PMID: 17644651 DOI: 10.1177/1545968307306238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The initial Point of View: Directions for Research ( Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 2007;21:3-13) identified confounders that might limit the impact that rehabilitation multicenter clinical trials may have upon altering practice patterns. Part of that viewpoint addressed the Extremity Constraint Induced Therapy Evaluation (EXCITE) Trial and highlighted some of its perceived strengths and limitations. The present Point of View expands upon factors worthy of consideration in planning and executing clinical trials in neurorehabilitation based upon experiences encountered by the EXCITE team. Cost factors and patient attributes, both of which profoundly influence the ability of clinical researchers to execute the ideal study, are among these factors. In particular, the costs associated with large trials necessitate compromise in study design or implementation, resulting in a dichotomy between what should be undertaken and what can be accomplished.
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- Steven L Wolf
- Emory Center for Rehabilitation Medicine, Department of Rehabilitation and Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
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