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Dovek L, Marrero K, Zagha E, Santhakumar V. Cellular and circuit features distinguish dentate gyrus semilunar granule cells and granule cells activated during contextual memory formation. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.08.21.608983. [PMID: 39229181 PMCID: PMC11370351 DOI: 10.1101/2024.08.21.608983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/05/2024]
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The dentate gyrus is critical for spatial memory formation and shows task related activation of cellular ensembles considered as memory engrams. Semilunar granule cells (SGCs), a sparse dentate projection neuron subtype distinct from granule cells (GCs), were recently reported to be enriched among behaviorally activated neurons. However, the mechanisms governing SGC recruitment during memory formation and their role in engram refinement remains unresolved. By examining neurons labeled during contextual memory formation in TRAP2 mice, we empirically tested competing hypotheses for GC and SGC recruitment into memory ensembles. In support of the proposal that more excitable neurons are preferentially recruited into memory ensembles, SGCs showed greater sustained firing than GCs. Additionally, SGCs labeled during memory formation showed less adapting firing than unlabeled SGCs. Our recordings did not reveal glutamatergic connections between behaviorally labeled SGCs and GCs, providing evidence against SGCs driving local circuit feedforward excitation in ensemble recruitment. Contrary to a leading hypothesis, there was little evidence for individual SGCs or labeled neuronal ensembles supporting lateral inhibition of unlabeled neurons. Instead, pairs of GCs and SGCs within labeled neuronal cohorts received more temporally correlated spontaneous excitatory synaptic inputs than labeled-unlabeled neuronal pairs, validating a role for correlated afferent inputs in neuronal ensemble selection. These findings challenge the proposal that SGCs drive dentate GC ensemble refinement, while supporting a role for intrinsic active properties and correlated inputs in preferential SGC recruitment to contextual memory engrams. Impact Statement Evaluation of semilunar granule cell involvement in dentate gyrus contextual memory processing supports recruitment based on intrinsic and input characteristics while revealing limited contribution to ensemble refinement.
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- Laura Dovek
- Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521
- Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521
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- Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521
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- Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521
- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521
- Department of Psychology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521
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- Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521
- Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521
- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521
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Pease M, Gupta K, Moshé SL, Correa DJ, Galanopoulou AS, Okonkwo DO, Gonzalez-Martinez J, Shutter L, Diaz-Arrastia R, Castellano JF. Insights into epileptogenesis from post-traumatic epilepsy. Nat Rev Neurol 2024; 20:298-312. [PMID: 38570704 DOI: 10.1038/s41582-024-00954-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/07/2024] [Indexed: 04/05/2024]
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Post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) accounts for 5% of all epilepsies. The incidence of PTE after traumatic brain injury (TBI) depends on the severity of injury, approaching one in three in groups with the most severe injuries. The repeated seizures that characterize PTE impair neurological recovery and increase the risk of poor outcomes after TBI. Given this high risk of recurrent seizures and the relatively short latency period for their development after injury, PTE serves as a model disease to understand human epileptogenesis and trial novel anti-epileptogenic therapies. Epileptogenesis is the process whereby previously normal brain tissue becomes prone to recurrent abnormal electrical activity, ultimately resulting in seizures. In this Review, we describe the clinical course of PTE and highlight promising research into epileptogenesis and treatment using animal models of PTE. Clinical, imaging, EEG and fluid biomarkers are being developed to aid the identification of patients at high risk of PTE who might benefit from anti-epileptogenic therapies. Studies in preclinical models of PTE have identified tractable pathways and novel therapeutic strategies that can potentially prevent epilepsy, which remain to be validated in humans. In addition to improving outcomes after TBI, advances in PTE research are likely to provide therapeutic insights that are relevant to all epilepsies.
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- Matthew Pease
- Department of Neurosurgery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- The Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Paediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- The Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- The Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Witkin JM, Shafique H, Cerne R, Smith JL, Marini AM, Lipsky RH, Delery E. Mechanistic and therapeutic relationships of traumatic brain injury and γ-amino-butyric acid (GABA). Pharmacol Ther 2024; 256:108609. [PMID: 38369062 DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2024.108609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2023] [Revised: 01/18/2024] [Accepted: 02/01/2024] [Indexed: 02/20/2024]
Abstract
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a highly prevalent medical condition for which no medications specific for the prophylaxis or treatment of the condition as a whole exist. The spectrum of symptoms includes coma, headache, seizures, cognitive impairment, depression, and anxiety. Although it has been known for years that the inhibitory neurotransmitter γ-amino-butyric acid (GABA) is involved in TBI, no novel therapeutics based upon this mechanism have been introduced into clinical practice. We review the neuroanatomical, neurophysiological, neurochemical, and neuropharmacological relationships of GABA neurotransmission to TBI with a view toward new potential GABA-based medicines. The long-standing idea that excitatory and inhibitory (GABA and others) balances are disrupted by TBI is supported by the experimental data but has failed to invent novel methods of restoring this balance. The slow progress in advancing new treatments is due to the complexity of the disorder that encompasses multiple dynamically interacting biological processes including hemodynamic and metabolic systems, neurodegeneration and neurogenesis, major disruptions in neural networks and axons, frank brain lesions, and a multitude of symptoms that have differential neuronal and neurohormonal regulatory mechanisms. Although the current and ongoing clinical studies include GABAergic drugs, no novel GABA compounds are being explored. It is suggested that filling the gap in understanding the roles played by specific GABAA receptor configurations within specific neuronal circuits could help define new therapeutic approaches. Further research into the temporal and spatial delivery of GABA modulators should also be useful. Along with GABA modulation, research into the sequencing of GABA and non-GABA treatments will be needed.
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- Jeffrey M Witkin
- Laboratory of Antiepileptic Drug Discovery, Ascension St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis, IN, USA; Departments of Neuroscience and Trauma Research, Ascension St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis, IN, USA; RespireRx Pharmaceuticals Inc, Glen Rock, NJ, USA.
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- Laboratory of Antiepileptic Drug Discovery, Ascension St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis, IN, USA; RespireRx Pharmaceuticals Inc, Glen Rock, NJ, USA; Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Laboratory of Antiepileptic Drug Discovery, Ascension St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Program in Neuroscience, and Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- College of Osteopathic Medicine, Marian University, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
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Proddutur A, Nguyen S, Yeh CW, Gupta A, Santhakumar V. Reclusive chandeliers: Functional isolation of dentate axo-axonic cells after experimental status epilepticus. Prog Neurobiol 2023; 231:102542. [PMID: 37898313 PMCID: PMC10842856 DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2023.102542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2023] [Revised: 10/22/2023] [Accepted: 10/24/2023] [Indexed: 10/30/2023]
Abstract
Axo-axonic cells (AACs) provide specialized inhibition to the axon initial segment (AIS) of excitatory neurons and can regulate network output and synchrony. Although hippocampal dentate AACs are structurally altered in epilepsy, physiological analyses of dentate AACs are lacking. We demonstrate that parvalbumin neurons in the dentate molecular layer express PTHLH, an AAC marker, and exhibit morphology characteristic of AACs. Dentate AACs show high-frequency, non-adapting firing but lack persistent firing in the absence of input and have higher rheobase than basket cells suggesting that AACs can respond reliably to network activity. Early after pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus (SE), dentate AACs receive fewer spontaneous excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs and have significantly lower maximum firing frequency. Paired recordings and spatially localized optogenetic stimulation revealed that SE reduced the amplitude of unitary synaptic inputs from AACs to granule cells without altering reliability, short-term plasticity, or AIS GABA reversal potential. These changes compromised AAC-dependent shunting of granule cell firing in a multicompartmental model. These early post-SE changes in AAC physiology would limit their ability to receive and respond to input, undermining a critical brake on the dentate throughput during epileptogenesis.
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- Archana Proddutur
- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103, USA; Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103, USA; Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103, USA; Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.
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Corrubia L, Huang A, Nguyen S, Shiflett MW, Jones MV, Ewell LA, Santhakumar V. Early deficits in dentate circuit and behavioral pattern separation after concussive brain injury. Exp Neurol 2023; 370:114578. [PMID: 37858696 PMCID: PMC10712990 DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2023.114578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2023] [Revised: 09/28/2023] [Accepted: 10/16/2023] [Indexed: 10/21/2023]
Abstract
Traumatic brain injury leads to cellular and circuit changes in the dentate gyrus, a gateway to hippocampal information processing. Intrinsic granule cell firing properties and strong feedback inhibition in the dentate are proposed as critical to its ability to generate unique representation of similar inputs by a process known as pattern separation. Here we evaluate the impact of brain injury on cellular decorrelation of temporally patterned inputs in slices and behavioral discrimination of spatial locations in vivo one week after concussive lateral fluid percussion injury (FPI) in mice. Despite posttraumatic increases in perforant path evoked excitatory drive to granule cells and enhanced ΔFosB labeling, indicating sustained increase in excitability, the reliability of granule cell spiking was not compromised after FPI. Although granule cells continued to effectively decorrelate output spike trains recorded in response to similar temporally patterned input sets after FPI, their ability to decorrelate highly similar input patterns was reduced. In parallel, encoding of similar spatial locations in a novel object location task that involves the dentate inhibitory circuits was impaired one week after FPI. Injury induced changes in pattern separation were accompanied by loss of somatostatin expressing inhibitory neurons in the hilus. Together, these data suggest that the early posttraumatic changes in the dentate circuit undermine dentate circuit decorrelation of temporal input patterns as well as behavioral discrimination of similar spatial locations, both of which could contribute to deficits in episodic memory.
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- Lucas Corrubia
- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103, USA; Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53705, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103, USA; Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.
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Kurki SN, Srinivasan R, Laine J, Virtanen MA, Ala-Kurikka T, Voipio J, Kaila K. Acute neuroinflammation leads to disruption of neuronal chloride regulation and consequent hyperexcitability in the dentate gyrus. Cell Rep 2023; 42:113379. [PMID: 37922309 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2023] [Revised: 09/15/2023] [Accepted: 10/19/2023] [Indexed: 11/05/2023] Open
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Neuroinflammation is a salient part of diverse neurological and psychiatric pathologies that associate with neuronal hyperexcitability, but the underlying molecular and cellular mechanisms remain to be identified. Here, we show that peripheral injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) renders the dentate gyrus (DG) hyperexcitable to perforant pathway stimulation in vivo and increases the internal spiking propensity of dentate granule cells (DGCs) in vitro 24 h post-injection (hpi). In parallel, LPS leads to a prominent downregulation of chloride extrusion via KCC2 and to the emergence of NKCC1-mediated chloride uptake in DGCs under experimental conditions optimized to detect specific changes in transporter efficacy. These data show that acute neuroinflammation leads to disruption of neuronal chloride regulation, which unequivocally results in a loss of GABAergic inhibition in the DGCs, collapsing the gating function of the DG. The present work provides a mechanistic explanation for neuroinflammation-driven hyperexcitability and consequent cognitive disturbance.
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- Samu N Kurki
- Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Molecular and Integrative Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Neuroscience Center (HiLIFE), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
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- Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Molecular and Integrative Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Neuroscience Center (HiLIFE), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Molecular and Integrative Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Neuroscience Center (HiLIFE), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Molecular and Integrative Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Neuroscience Center (HiLIFE), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Molecular and Integrative Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Neuroscience Center (HiLIFE), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Molecular and Integrative Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Molecular and Integrative Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Neuroscience Center (HiLIFE), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
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Proddutur A, Nguyen S, Yeh CW, Gupta A, Santhakumar V. RECLUSIVE CHANDELIERS: FUNCTIONAL ISOLATION OF DENTATE AXO-AXONIC CELLS AFTER EXPERIMENTAL STATUS EPILEPTICUS. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.10.01.560378. [PMID: 37873292 PMCID: PMC10592856 DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.01.560378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2023]
Abstract
Axo-axonic cells (AACs) provide specialized inhibition to the axon initial segment (AIS) of excitatory neurons and can regulate network output and synchrony. Although hippocampal dentate AACs are structurally altered in epilepsy, physiological analyses of dentate AACs are lacking. We demonstrate that parvalbumin neurons in the dentate molecular layer express PTHLH, an AAC marker, and exhibit morphology characteristic of AACs. Dentate AACs show high-frequency, non-adapting firing but lack persistent firing in the absence of input and have higher rheobase than basket cells suggesting that AACs can respond reliably to network activity. Early after pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus (SE), dentate AACs receive fewer spontaneous excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs and have significantly lower maximum firing frequency. Paired recordings and spatially localized optogenetic stimulation revealed that SE reduced the amplitude of unitary synaptic inputs from AACs to granule cells without altering reliability, short-term plasticity, or AIS GABA reversal potential. These changes compromised AAC-dependent shunting of granule cell firing in a multicompartmental model. These early post-SE changes in AAC physiology would limit their ability to receive and respond to input, undermining a critical brake on the dentate throughput during epileptogenesis.
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- Archana Proddutur
- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey 07103
- Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521
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- Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521
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- Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey 07103
- Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey 07103
- Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521
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Somach RT, Jean ID, Farrugia AM, Cohen AS. Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Affects Orexin/Hypocretin Physiology Differently in Male and Female Mice. J Neurotrauma 2023; 40:2146-2163. [PMID: 37476962 PMCID: PMC10701510 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2023.0125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/22/2023] Open
Abstract
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is known to affect the physiology of neural circuits in several brain regions, which can contribute to behavioral changes after injury. Disordered sleep is a behavior that is often seen after TBI, but there is little research into how injury affects the circuitry that contributes to disrupted sleep regulation. Orexin/hypocretin neurons (hereafter referred to as orexin neurons) located in the lateral hypothalamus normally stabilize wakefulness in healthy animals and have been suggested as a source of dysregulated sleep behavior. Despite this, few studies have examined how TBI affects orexin neuron circuitry. Further, almost no animal studies of orexin neurons after TBI have included female animals. Here, we address these gaps by studying changes to orexin physiology using ex vivo acute brain slices and whole-cell patch clamp recording. We hypothesized that orexin neurons would have reduced afferent excitatory activity after injury. Ultimately, this hypothesis was supported but there were additional physiological changes that occurred that we did not originally hypothesize. We studied physiological properties in orexin neurons approximately 1 week after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in 6-8-week-old male and female mice. mTBI was performed with a lateral fluid percussion injury between 1.4 and 1.6 atmospheres. Mild TBI increased the size of action potential afterhyperpolarization in orexin neurons from female mice, but not male mice and reduced the action potential threshold in male mice, but not in female mice. Mild TBI reduced afferent excitatory activity and increased afferent inhibitory activity onto orexin neurons. Alterations in afferent excitatory activity occurred in different parameters in male and female animals. The increased afferent inhibitory activity after injury is more pronounced in recordings from female animals. Our results indicate that mTBI changes the physiology of orexin neuron circuitry and that these changes are not the same in male and female animals.
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- Rebecca T. Somach
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Neuroscience Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Neuroscience Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Corrubia L, Huang A, Nguyen S, Shiflett MW, Jones MV, Ewell LA, Santhakumar V. Early Deficits in Dentate Circuit and Behavioral Pattern Separation after Concussive Brain Injury. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.06.22.546120. [PMID: 37745454 PMCID: PMC10515770 DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.22.546120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/26/2023]
Abstract
Traumatic brain injury leads to cellular and circuit changes in the dentate gyrus, a gateway to hippocampal information processing. Intrinsic granule cell firing properties and strong feedback inhibition in the dentate are proposed as critical to its ability to generate unique representation of similar inputs by a process known as pattern separation. Here we evaluate the impact of brain injury on cellular decorrelation of temporally patterned inputs in slices and behavioral discrimination of spatial locations in vivo one week after concussive lateral fluid percussion injury (FPI) in mice. Despite posttraumatic increases in perforant path evoked excitatory drive to granule cells and enhanced ΔFosB labeling, indicating sustained increase in excitability, the reliability of granule cell spiking was not compromised after FPI. Although granule cells continued to effectively decorrelate output spike trains recorded in response to similar temporally patterned input sets after FPI, their ability to decorrelate highly similar input patterns was reduced. In parallel, encoding of similar spatial locations in a novel object location task that involves the dentate inhibitory circuits was impaired one week after FPI. Injury induced changes in pattern separation were accompanied by loss of somatostatin expressing inhibitory neurons in the hilus. Together, these data suggest that the early posttraumatic changes in the dentate circuit undermine dentate circuit decorrelation of temporal input patterns as well as behavioral discrimination of similar spatial locations, both of which could contribute to deficits in episodic memory.
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- Lucas Corrubia
- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey 07103
- Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521
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- Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521
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- Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53705
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California 92697
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey 07103
- Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521
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Huang TH, Lin YS, Hsiao CW, Wang LY, Ajibola MI, Abdulmajeed WI, Lin YL, Li YJ, Chen CY, Lien CC, Chiu CD, Cheng IHJ. Differential expression of GABA A receptor subunits δ and α6 mediates tonic inhibition in parvalbumin and somatostatin interneurons in the mouse hippocampus. Front Cell Neurosci 2023; 17:1146278. [PMID: 37545878 PMCID: PMC10397515 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2023.1146278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2023] [Accepted: 06/14/2023] [Indexed: 08/08/2023] Open
Abstract
Inhibitory γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-ergic interneurons mediate inhibition in neuronal circuitry and support normal brain function. Consequently, dysregulation of inhibition is implicated in various brain disorders. Parvalbumin (PV) and somatostatin (SST) interneurons, the two major types of GABAergic inhibitory interneurons in the hippocampus, exhibit distinct morpho-physiological properties and coordinate information processing and memory formation. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the specialized properties of PV and SST interneurons remain unclear. This study aimed to compare the transcriptomic differences between these two classes of interneurons in the hippocampus using the ribosome tagging approach. The results revealed distinct expressions of genes such as voltage-gated ion channels and GABAA receptor subunits between PV and SST interneurons. Gabrd and Gabra6 were identified as contributors to the contrasting tonic GABAergic inhibition observed in PV and SST interneurons. Moreover, some of the differentially expressed genes were associated with schizophrenia and epilepsy. In conclusion, our results provide molecular insights into the distinct roles of PV and SST interneurons in health and disease.
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- Tzu-Hsuan Huang
- Institute of Brain Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Program in Genetics and Genomics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States
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- Institute of Brain Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Program in Molecular Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Taiwan International Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience, College of Life Sciences, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Taiwan International Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience, College of Life Sciences, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
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- Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Brain Research Center, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Program in Molecular Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Taiwan International Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience, College of Life Sciences, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- Brain Research Center, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
- Spine Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
- Graduate Institute of Biomedical Science, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
- School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Institute of Brain Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Program in Molecular Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- Brain Research Center, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Venugopal S, Ghulam-Jhelani Z, Ahn IS, Yang X, Wiedau M, Simmons D, Chandler SH. Early deficits in GABA inhibition parallels an increase in L-type Ca 2+ currents in the jaw motor neurons of SOD1 G93A mouse model for ALS. Neurobiol Dis 2023; 177:105992. [PMID: 36623607 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2023.105992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2022] [Revised: 12/21/2022] [Accepted: 01/05/2023] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) involves protracted pre-symptomatic periods of abnormal motor neuron (MN) excitability occurring in parallel with central and peripheral synaptic perturbations. Focusing on inhibitory control of MNs, we first compared longitudinal changes in pre-synaptic terminal proteins for GABA and glycine neurotransmitters around the soma of retrogradely identified trigeminal jaw closer (JC) MNs and ChAT-labeled midbrain extraocular (EO) MNs in the SOD1G93A mouse model for ALS. Fluorescence immunocytochemistry and confocal imaging were used to quantify GAD67 and GlyT2 synaptic bouton density (SBD) around MN soma at pre-symptomatic ages ∼P12 (postnatal), ∼P50 (adult) and near disease end-stage (∼P135) in SOD1G93A mice and age-matched wild-type (WT) controls. We noted reduced GAD67 innervation in the SOD1G93A trigeminal jaw closer MNs around P12, relative to age-matched WT and no significant difference around P50 and P135. In contrast, both GAD67 and GlyT2 innervation were elevated in the SOD1G93A EO MNs at the pre-symptomatic time points. Considering trigeminal MNs are vulnerable in ALS while EO MNs are spared, we suggest that upregulation of inhibition in the latter might be compensatory. Notable contrast also existed in the innate co-expression patterns of GAD67 and GlyT2 with higher mutual information (co-dependency) in EO MNs compared to JC in both SOD1G93A and WT mice, especially at adult stages (P50 and P135). Around P12 when GAD67 terminals expression was low in the mutant, we further tested for persistent GABA inhibition in those MNs using in vitro patch-clamp electrophysiology. Our results show that SOD1G93A JC MNs have reduced persistent GABA inhibition, relative to WT. Pharmacological blocking of an underlying tonically active GABA conductance using the GABA-α5 subunit inverse agonist, L-655-708, disinhibited WT JC MNs and lowered their recruitment threshold, suggesting its role in the control of intrinsic MN excitability. Quantitative RT-PCR in laser dissected JC MNs further supported a reduction in GABA-α5 subunit mRNA expression in the mutant. In light of our previous report that JC MNs forming putative fast motor units have lower input threshold in the SOD1G93A mice, we suggest that our present result on reduced GABA-α5 tonic inhibition provides for a mechanism contributing to such imbalance. In parallel with reduced GABA inhibition, we noted an increase in voltage-gated L-type Ca2+ currents in the mutant JC MNs around P12. Together these results support that, early modifications in intrinsic properties of vulnerable MNs could be an adaptive response to counter synaptic deficits.
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- Sharmila Venugopal
- Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
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- Undergraduate Interdepartmental Program for Neuroscience, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
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Konduru SR, Isaacson JR, Lasky DJ, Zhou Z, Rao RK, Vattem SS, Rewey SJ, Jones MV, Maganti RK. Dual orexin antagonist normalized sleep homeostatic drive, enhanced GABAergic inhibition, and suppressed seizures after traumatic brain injury. Sleep 2022; 45:zsac238. [PMID: 36165953 PMCID: PMC9742898 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsac238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2022] [Revised: 09/16/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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STUDY OBJECTIVES Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can result in posttraumatic epilepsy (PTE) and sleep disturbances. We hypothesized that treatment with sleep aids after TBI can ameliorate PTE. METHODS CD-1 mice underwent controlled cortical impact (CCI), sham injury, or no craniotomy. Sham and CCI groups underwent a monthlong daily treatment with sleep aids including a dual orexin antagonist (DORA-22) or THIP (gaboxadol) or a respective vehicle starting on the day of CCI. We performed continuous EEG (electroencephalography) recordings at week 1 and months 1, 2, and 3 for ~1 week each time. Seizure analysis occurred at all-time points and sleep analysis occurred in week 1 and month-1/2 in all groups. Subsets of CCI and sham groups were subjected to voltageclamp experiments in hippocampal slices to evaluate GABAergic synaptic inhibition. RESULTS DORA-22 treatment suppressed seizures in month 1-3 recordings. TBI reduced the amplitude and frequency of miniature inhibitory synaptic currents (mIPSCs) in dentate granule cells and these changes were rescued by DORA-22 treatment. Sleep analysis showed that DORA-22 increased nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep during lights-off whereas THIP increased REM sleep during lights-on in week 1. Both treatments displayed subtle changes in time spent in NREM or REM at month-1/2 as well. TBI not only increased normalized EEG delta power (NΔ) at week-1 and month-1 but also resulted in the loss of the homeostatic diurnal oscillation of NΔ, which was restored by DORA-22 but not THIP treatment. CONCLUSIONS Dual orexin antagonists may have a therapeutic potential in suppressing PTE potentially by enhancing GABAergic inhibition and impacting sleep homeostatic drive.
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- Sruthi R Konduru
- Department of Neurology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- Rock Bridge High School, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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Harris AC, Jin XT, Greer JE, Povlishock JT, Jacobs KM. Somatostatin interneurons exhibit enhanced functional output and resilience to axotomy after mild traumatic brain injury. Neurobiol Dis 2022; 171:105801. [PMID: 35753625 PMCID: PMC9383472 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2022.105801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2022] [Revised: 06/17/2022] [Accepted: 06/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) gives rise to a remarkable breadth of pathobiological consequences, principal among which are traumatic axonal injury and perturbation of the functional integrity of neuronal networks that may arise secondary to the elimination of the presynaptic contribution of axotomized neurons. Because there exists a vast diversity of neocortical neuron subtypes, it is imperative to elucidate the relative vulnerability to axotomy among different subtypes. Toward this end, we exploited SOM-IRES-Cre mice to investigate the consequences of the central fluid percussion model of mTBI on the microanatomical integrity and the functional efficacy of the somatostatin (SOM) interneuron population, one of the principal subtypes of neocortical interneuron. We found that the SOM population is resilient to axotomy, representing only 10% of the global burden of inhibitory interneuron axotomy, a result congruous with past work demonstrating that parvalbumin (PV) interneurons bear most of the burden of interneuron axotomy. However, the intact structure of SOM interneurons after injury did not translate to normal cellular function. One day after mTBI, the SOM population is more intrinsically excitable and demonstrates enhanced synaptic efficacy upon post-synaptic layer 5 pyramidal neurons as measured by optogenetics, yet the global evoked inhibitory tone within layer 5 is stable. Simultaneously, there exists a significant increase in the frequency of miniature inhibitory post-synaptic currents within layer 5 pyramidal neurons. These results are consistent with a scheme in which 1 day after mTBI, SOM interneurons are stimulated to compensate for the release from inhibition of layer 5 pyramidal neurons secondary to the disproportionate axotomy of PV interneurons. The enhancement of SOM interneuron intrinsic excitability and synaptic efficacy may represent the initial phase of a dynamic process of attempted autoregulation of neocortical network homeostasis secondary to mTBI.
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- Alan C Harris
- Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, United States of America.
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- Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, United States of America.
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- Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, United States of America.
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- Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, United States of America.
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- Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, United States of America.
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Boychuk JA, Butler CR, Smith KC, Halmos MB, Smith BN. Zolpidem Profoundly Augments Spared Tonic GABAAR Signaling in Dentate Granule Cells Ipsilateral to Controlled Cortical Impact Brain Injury in Mice. Front Syst Neurosci 2022; 16:867323. [PMID: 35694044 PMCID: PMC9178240 DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2022.867323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2022] [Accepted: 05/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Type A GABA receptors (GABAARs) are pentameric combinations of protein subunits that give rise to tonic (ITonicGABA) and phasic (i.e., synaptic; ISynapticGABA) forms of inhibitory GABAAR signaling in the central nervous system. Remodeling and regulation of GABAAR protein subunits are implicated in a wide variety of healthy and injury-dependent states, including epilepsy. The present study undertook a detailed analysis of GABAAR signaling using whole-cell patch clamp recordings from mouse dentate granule cells (DGCs) in coronal slices containing dorsal hippocampus at 1–2 or 8–13 weeks after a focal, controlled cortical impact (CCI) or sham brain injury. Zolpidem, a benzodiazepine-like positive modulator of GABAARs, was used to test for changes in GABAAR signaling of DGCs due to its selectivity for α1 subunit-containing GABAARs. Electric charge transfer and statistical percent change were analyzed in order to directly compare tonic and phasic GABAAR signaling and to account for zolpidem’s ability to modify multiple parameters of GABAAR kinetics. We observed that baseline ITonicGABA is preserved at both time-points tested in DGCs ipsilateral to injury (Ipsi-DGCs) compared to DGCs contralateral to injury (Contra-DGCs) or after sham injury (Sham-DGCs). Interestingly, application of zolpidem resulted in modulation of ITonicGABA across groups, with Ipsi-DGCs exhibiting the greatest responsiveness to zolpidem. We also report that the combination of CCI and acute application of zolpidem profoundly augments the proportion of GABAAR charge transfer mediated by tonic vs. synaptic currents at both time-points tested, whereas gene expression of GABAAR α1, α2, α3, and γ2 subunits is unchanged at 8–13 weeks post-injury. Overall, this work highlights the shift toward elevated influence of tonic inhibition in Ipsi-DGCs, the impact of zolpidem on all components of inhibitory control of DGCs, and the sustained nature of these changes in inhibitory tone after CCI injury.
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- Jeffery A Boychuk
- Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States
- Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
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- Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States
- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, United States
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- Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States
- Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center (SCoBIRC), University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
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Golub VM, Reddy DS. Post-Traumatic Epilepsy and Comorbidities: Advanced Models, Molecular Mechanisms, Biomarkers, and Novel Therapeutic Interventions. Pharmacol Rev 2022; 74:387-438. [PMID: 35302046 PMCID: PMC8973512 DOI: 10.1124/pharmrev.121.000375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) is one of the most devastating long-term, network consequences of traumatic brain injury (TBI). There is currently no approved treatment that can prevent onset of spontaneous seizures associated with brain injury, and many cases of PTE are refractory to antiseizure medications. Post-traumatic epileptogenesis is an enduring process by which a normal brain exhibits hypersynchronous excitability after a head injury incident. Understanding the neural networks and molecular pathologies involved in epileptogenesis are key to preventing its development or modifying disease progression. In this article, we describe a critical appraisal of the current state of PTE research with an emphasis on experimental models, molecular mechanisms of post-traumatic epileptogenesis, potential biomarkers, and the burden of PTE-associated comorbidities. The goal of epilepsy research is to identify new therapeutic strategies that can prevent PTE development or interrupt the epileptogenic process and relieve associated neuropsychiatric comorbidities. Therefore, we also describe current preclinical and clinical data on the treatment of PTE sequelae. Differences in injury patterns, latency period, and biomarkers are outlined in the context of animal model validation, pathophysiology, seizure frequency, and behavior. Improving TBI recovery and preventing seizure onset are complex and challenging tasks; however, much progress has been made within this decade demonstrating disease modifying, anti-inflammatory, and neuroprotective strategies, suggesting this goal is pragmatic. Our understanding of PTE is continuously evolving, and improved preclinical models allow for accelerated testing of critically needed novel therapeutic interventions in military and civilian persons at high risk for PTE and its devastating comorbidities.
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- Victoria M Golub
- Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Bryan, Texas
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- Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Bryan, Texas
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Gupta A, Dovek L, Proddutur A, Elgammal FS, Santhakumar V. Long-Term Effects of Moderate Concussive Brain Injury During Adolescence on Synaptic and Tonic GABA Currents in Dentate Granule Cells and Semilunar Granule Cells. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:800733. [PMID: 35360164 PMCID: PMC8964009 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.800733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2021] [Accepted: 01/27/2022] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
Abstract
Progressive physiological changes in the hippocampal dentate gyrus circuits following traumatic brain injury (TBI) contribute to temporal evolution of neurological sequelae. Although early posttraumatic changes in dentate synaptic and extrasynaptic GABA currents have been reported, and whether they evolve over time and remain distinct between the two projection neuron classes, granule cells and semilunar granule cells, have not been evaluated. We examined long-term changes in tonic GABA currents and spontaneous inhibitory postsynaptic currents (sIPSCs) and in dentate projection neurons 3 months after moderate concussive fluid percussion injury (FPI) in adolescent rats. Granule cell tonic GABA current amplitude remained elevated up to 1 month after FPI, but decreased to levels comparable with age-matched controls by 3 months postinjury. Granule cell sIPSC frequency, which we previously reported to be increased 1 week after FPI, remained higher than in age-matched controls at 1 month and was significantly reduced 3 months after FPI. In semilunar granule cells, tonic GABA current amplitude and sIPSC frequency were not different from controls 3 months after FPI, which contrast with decreases observed 1 week after injury. The switch in granule cell inhibitory inputs from early increase to subsequent decrease could contribute to the delayed emergence of cognitive deficits and seizure susceptibility after brain injury.
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- Akshay Gupta
- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, United States,Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
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- Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, United States,Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, United States,Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States,*Correspondence: Vijayalakshmi Santhakumar,
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Frankowski JC, Foik AT, Tierno A, Machhor JR, Lyon DC, Hunt RF. Traumatic brain injury to primary visual cortex produces long-lasting circuit dysfunction. Commun Biol 2021; 4:1297. [PMID: 34789835 PMCID: PMC8599505 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02808-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2021] [Accepted: 10/25/2021] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
Abstract
Primary sensory areas of the mammalian neocortex have a remarkable degree of plasticity, allowing neural circuits to adapt to dynamic environments. However, little is known about the effects of traumatic brain injury on visual circuit function. Here we used anatomy and in vivo electrophysiological recordings in adult mice to quantify neuron responses to visual stimuli two weeks and three months after mild controlled cortical impact injury to primary visual cortex (V1). We found that, although V1 remained largely intact in brain-injured mice, there was ~35% reduction in the number of neurons that affected inhibitory cells more broadly than excitatory neurons. V1 neurons showed dramatically reduced activity, impaired responses to visual stimuli and weaker size selectivity and orientation tuning in vivo. Our results show a single, mild contusion injury produces profound and long-lasting impairments in the way V1 neurons encode visual input. These findings provide initial insight into cortical circuit dysfunction following central visual system neurotrauma.
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- Jan C. Frankowski
- grid.266093.80000 0001 0668 7243Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
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- grid.413454.30000 0001 1958 0162Ophthalmic Biology Group, International Centre for Translational Eye Research, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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- grid.266093.80000 0001 0668 7243Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
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- grid.266093.80000 0001 0668 7243Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
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- grid.266093.80000 0001 0668 7243Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
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- grid.266093.80000 0001 0668 7243Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
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Cavalieri D, Angelova A, Islah A, Lopez C, Bocchio M, Bollmann Y, Baude A, Cossart R. CA1 pyramidal cell diversity is rootedin the time of neurogenesis. eLife 2021; 10:69270. [PMID: 34723790 PMCID: PMC8660020 DOI: 10.7554/elife.69270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2021] [Accepted: 10/31/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Cellular diversity supports the computational capacity and flexibility of cortical circuits. Accordingly, principal neurons at the CA1 output node of the murine hippocampus are increasingly recognized as a heterogeneous population. Their genes, molecular content, intrinsic morpho-physiology, connectivity, and function seem to segregate along the main anatomical axes of the hippocampus. Since these axes reflect the temporal order of principal cell neurogenesis, we directly examined the relationship between birthdate and CA1 pyramidal neuron diversity, focusing on the ventral hippocampus. We used a genetic fate-mapping approach that allowed tagging three groups of age-matched principal neurons: pioneer, early-, and late-born. Using a combination of neuroanatomy, slice physiology, connectivity tracing, and cFos staining in mice, we show that birthdate is a strong predictor of CA1 principal cell diversity. We unravel a subpopulation of pioneer neurons recruited in familiar environments with remarkable positioning, morpho-physiological features, and connectivity. Therefore, despite the expected plasticity of hippocampal circuits, given their role in learning and memory, the diversity of their main components is also partly determined at the earliest steps of development.
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- INMED, INSERM Aix-Marseille University, marseille, France
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- INMED, French Institute of Health and Medical Research, Marseille, France
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- INMED, French Institute of Health and Medical Research, Marseille, France
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Wei YT, Wu JW, Yeh CW, Shen HC, Wu KP, Vida I, Lien CC. Morpho-physiological properties and connectivity of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-expressing interneurons in the mouse hippocampal dentate gyrus. J Comp Neurol 2021; 529:2658-2675. [PMID: 33484471 DOI: 10.1002/cne.25116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2020] [Revised: 01/16/2021] [Accepted: 01/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The hippocampus is a key brain structure for cognitive and emotional functions. Among the hippocampal subregions, the dentate gyrus (DG) is the first station that receives multimodal sensory information from the cortex. Local-circuit inhibitory GABAergic interneurons (INs) regulate the excitation-inhibition balance in the DG principal neurons (PNs) and therefore are critical for information processing. Similar to PNs, GABAergic INs also receive distinct inhibitory inputs. Among various classes of INs, vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-expressing (VIP+ ) INs preferentially target other INs in several brain regions and thereby directly modulate the GABAergic system. However, the morpho-physiological characteristics and postsynaptic targets of VIP+ INs in the DG are poorly understood. Here, we report that VIP+ INs in the mouse DG are highly heterogeneous based on their morpho-physiological characteristics. In approximately two-thirds of morphologically reconstructed cells, their axons ramify in the hilus. The remaining cells project their axons exclusively to the molecular layer (15%), to both the molecular layer and hilus (10%), or throughout the entire DG layers (8%). Generally, VIP+ INs display variable intrinsic properties and discharge patterns without clear correlation with their morphologies. Finally, VIP+ INs are recruited with a long latency in response to theta-band cortical inputs and preferentially innervate GABAergic INs over glutamatergic PNs. In summary, VIP+ INs in the DG are composed of highly diverse subpopulations and control the DG output via disinhibition.
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- Yu-Ting Wei
- Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute for Integrative Neuroanatomy, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Brain Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Traumatic Brain Injury Broadly Affects GABAergic Signaling in Dentate Gyrus Granule Cells. eNeuro 2021; 8:ENEURO.0055-20.2021. [PMID: 33514602 PMCID: PMC8116114 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0055-20.2021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2020] [Revised: 01/08/2021] [Accepted: 01/12/2021] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) causes cellular and molecular alterations that contribute to neuropsychiatric disease and epilepsy. GABAergic dysfunction figures prominently in the pathophysiology of TBI, yet the effects of TBI on tonic inhibition in hippocampus remain uncertain. We used a mouse model of severe TBI [controlled cortical impact (CCI)] to investigate GABAergic signaling in dentate gyrus granule cells (DGGCs). Basal tonic GABA currents were not affected by CCI. However, tonic currents induced by the δ subunit-selective GABAA receptor agonist 4,5,6,7-tetrahydroisoxazolo[5,4-c]pyridin-3-ol (THIP; 10 μm) were reduced by 44% in DGGCs ipsilateral to CCI (CCI-ipsi), but not in contralateral DGGCs. Reduced THIP currents were apparent one week after injury and persisted up to 15 weeks. The frequency of spontaneous IPSCs (sIPSCs) was reduced in CCI-ipsi cells, but the amplitude and kinetics of sIPSCs were unaffected. Immunohistochemical analysis showed reduced expression of GABAA receptor δ subunits and GABAB receptor B2 subunits after CCI, by 43% and 40%, respectively. Activation of postsynaptic GABAB receptors caused a twofold increase in tonic currents, and this effect was markedly attenuated in CCI-ipsi cells (92% reduction). GABAB receptor-activated K+ currents in DGGCs were also significantly reduced in CCI-ipsi cells, confirming a functional deficit of GABAB receptors after CCI. Results indicate broad disruption of GABAergic signaling in DGGCs after CCI, with deficits in both phasic and tonic inhibition and GABAB receptor function. These changes are predicted to disrupt operation of hippocampal networks and contribute to sequelae of severe TBI, including epilepsy.
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Comprehensive Estimates of Potential Synaptic Connections in Local Circuits of the Rodent Hippocampal Formation by Axonal-Dendritic Overlap. J Neurosci 2020; 41:1665-1683. [PMID: 33361464 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1193-20.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2020] [Revised: 10/19/2020] [Accepted: 12/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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A quantitative description of the hippocampal formation synaptic architecture is essential for understanding the neural mechanisms of episodic memory. Yet the existing knowledge of connectivity statistics between different neuron types in the rodent hippocampus only captures a mere 5% of this circuitry. We present a systematic pipeline to produce first-approximation estimates for most of the missing information. Leveraging the www.Hippocampome.org knowledge base, we derive local connection parameters between distinct pairs of morphologically identified neuron types based on their axonal-dendritic overlap within every layer and subregion of the hippocampal formation. Specifically, we adapt modern image analysis technology to determine the parcel-specific neurite lengths of every neuron type from representative morphologic reconstructions obtained from either sex. We then compute the average number of synapses per neuron pair using relevant anatomic volumes from the mouse brain atlas and ultrastructurally established interaction distances. Hence, we estimate connection probabilities and number of contacts for >1900 neuron type pairs, increasing the available quantitative assessments more than 11-fold. Connectivity statistics thus remain unknown for only a minority of potential synapses in the hippocampal formation, including those involving long-range (23%) or perisomatic (6%) connections and neuron types without morphologic tracings (7%). The described approach also yields approximate measurements of synaptic distances from the soma along the dendritic and axonal paths, which may affect signal attenuation and delay. Overall, this dataset fills a substantial gap in quantitatively describing hippocampal circuits and provides useful model specifications for biologically realistic neural network simulations, until further direct experimental data become available.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT The hippocampal formation is a crucial functional substrate for episodic memory and spatial representation. Characterizing the complex neuron type circuit of this brain region is thus important to understand the cellular mechanisms of learning and navigation. Here we present the first numerical estimates of connection probabilities, numbers of contacts per connected pair, and synaptic distances from the soma along the axonal and dendritic paths, for more than 1900 distinct neuron type pairs throughout the dentate gyrus, CA3, CA2, CA1, subiculum, and entorhinal cortex. This comprehensive dataset, publicly released online at www.Hippocampome.org, constitutes an unprecedented quantification of the majority of the local synaptic circuit for a prominent mammalian neural system and provides an essential foundation for data-driven, anatomically realistic neural network models.
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Traumatic Brain Injury Diminishes Feedforward Activation of Parvalbumin-Expressing Interneurons in the Dentate Gyrus. eNeuro 2020; 7:ENEURO.0195-19.2020. [PMID: 33106385 PMCID: PMC7675145 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0195-19.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2019] [Revised: 09/14/2020] [Accepted: 09/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is associated with aberrant network hyperexcitability in the dentate gyrus (DG). GABAAergic parvalbumin-expressing interneurons (PV-INs) in the DG regulate network excitability with strong, perisomatic inhibition, although the posttraumatic effects on PV-IN function after TBI are not well understood. In this study, we investigated physiological alterations in PV-INs one week after mild lateral fluid percussion injury (LFPI) in mice. PV-IN cell loss was observed in the dentate hilus after LFPI, with surviving PV-INs showing no change in intrinsic membrane properties. Whole-cell voltage clamp recordings in PV-INs revealed alterations in both EPSCs and IPSCs (EPSCs/IPSCs). Evoked EPSCs (eEPSCs) in PV-INs from perforant path electrical stimulation were diminished after injury but could be recovered with application of a GABAA-receptor antagonist. Furthermore, current-clamp recordings using minimal perforant path stimulation demonstrated a decrease in evoked PV-IN action potentials (APs) after LFPI, which could be restored by blocking GABAAergic inhibition. Together, these findings suggest that injury alters synaptic input onto PV-INs, resulting in a net inhibitory effect that reduces feedforward PV-IN activation in the DG. Decreased PV-IN activation suggests a potential mechanism of DG network hyperexcitability contributing to hippocampal dysfunction after TBI.
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An update on the association between traumatic brain injury and Alzheimer's disease: Focus on Tau pathology and synaptic dysfunction. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2020; 120:372-386. [PMID: 33171143 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.10.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2020] [Revised: 10/09/2020] [Accepted: 10/19/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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L.P. Li, J.W. Liang and H.J. Fu. An update on the association between traumatic brain injury and Alzheimer's disease: Focus on Tau pathology and synaptic dysfunction. NEUROSCI BIOBEHAV REVXXX-XXX,2020.-Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are devastating conditions that have long-term consequences on individual's cognitive functions. Although TBI has been considered a risk factor for the development of AD, the link between TBI and AD is still in debate. Aggregation of hyperphosphorylated tau and intercorrelated synaptic dysfunction, two key pathological elements in both TBI and AD, play a pivotal role in mediating neurodegeneration and cognitive deficits, providing a mechanistic link between these two diseases. In the first part of this review, we analyze the experimental literatures on tau pathology in various TBI models and review the distribution, biological features and mechanisms of tau pathology following TBI with implications in AD pathogenesis. In the second part, we review evidences of TBI-mediated structural and functional impairments in synapses, with a focus on the overlapped mechanisms underlying synaptic abnormalities in both TBI and AD. Finally, future perspectives are proposed for uncovering the complex relationship between TBI and neurodegeneration, and developing potential therapeutic avenues for alleviating cognitive deficits after TBI.
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Gupta A, Proddutur A, Chang YJ, Raturi V, Guevarra J, Shah Y, Elgammal FS, Santhakumar V. Dendritic morphology and inhibitory regulation distinguish dentate semilunar granule cells from granule cells through distinct stages of postnatal development. Brain Struct Funct 2020; 225:2841-2855. [PMID: 33124674 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-020-02162-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2020] [Accepted: 10/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Semilunar granule cells (SGCs) have been proposed as a morpho-functionally distinct class of hippocampal dentate projection neurons contributing to feedback inhibition and memory processing in juvenile rats. However, the structural and physiological features that can reliably classify granule cells (GCs) from SGCs through postnatal development remain unresolved. Focusing on postnatal days 11-13, 28-42, and > 120, corresponding with human infancy, adolescence, and adulthood, we examined the somato-dendritic morphology and inhibitory regulation in SGCs and GCs to determine the cell-type specific features. Unsupervised cluster analysis confirmed that morphological features reliably distinguish SGCs from GCs irrespective of animal age. SGCs maintain higher spontaneous inhibitory postsynaptic current (sIPSC) frequency than GCs from infancy through adulthood. Although sIPSC frequency in SGCs was particularly enhanced during adolescence, sIPSC amplitude and cumulative charge transfer declined from infancy to adulthood and were not different between GCs and SGCs. Extrasynaptic GABA current amplitude peaked in adolescence in both cell types and was significantly greater in SGCs than in GCs only during adolescence. Although GC input resistance was higher than in SGCs during infancy and adolescence, input resistance decreased with developmental age in GCs, while it progressively increased in SGCs. Consequently, GCs' input resistance was significantly lower than SGCs in adults. The data delineate the structural features that can reliably distinguish GCs from SGCs through development. The results reveal developmental differences in passive membrane properties and steady-state inhibition between GCs and SGCs which could confound their use in classifying the cell types.
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- Akshay Gupta
- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, 07103, USA.,Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, 07103, USA.,Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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- Office of Advance Research Computing, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, 07103, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, 07103, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, 07103, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, 07103, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, 07103, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, 07103, USA. .,Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA.
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Save L, Baude A, Cossart R. Temporal Embryonic Origin Critically Determines Cellular Physiology in the Dentate Gyrus. Cereb Cortex 2020; 29:2639-2652. [PMID: 29878074 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhy132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2018] [Revised: 04/12/2018] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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The dentate gyrus, the entry gate to the hippocampus, comprises 3 types of glutamatergic cells, the granule, the mossy and the semilunar granule cells. Whereas accumulating evidence indicates that specification of subclasses of neocortical neurons starts at the time of their final mitotic divisions, when cellular diversity is specified in the Dentate Gyrus remains largely unknown. Here we show that semilunar cells, like mossy cells, originate from the earliest stages of developmental neurogenesis and that early born neurons form age-matched circuits with each other. Besides morphology, adult semilunar cells display characteristic electrophysiological features that differ from most neurons but are shared among early born granule cells. Therefore, an early birthdate specifies adult granule cell physiology and connectivity whereas additional factors may combine to produce morphological identity.
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- Laurène Save
- Inserm, Marseille, France.,Aix-Marseille University, UMR, Marseille, France.,INMED, Marseille, France
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- Inserm, Marseille, France.,Aix-Marseille University, UMR, Marseille, France.,INMED, Marseille, France
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- Inserm, Marseille, France.,Aix-Marseille University, UMR, Marseille, France.,INMED, Marseille, France
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Abdul-Wahab R, Long MT, Ordaz R, Lyeth BG, Pfister BJ. Outcome measures from experimental traumatic brain injury in male rats vary with the complete temporal biomechanical profile of the injury event. J Neurosci Res 2020; 98:2027-2044. [PMID: 32741029 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.24670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2019] [Revised: 05/12/2020] [Accepted: 05/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Millions suffer a traumatic brain injury (TBI) each year wherein the outcomes associated with injury can vary greatly between individuals. This study postulates that variations in each biomechanical parameter of a head trauma lead to differences in histological and behavioral outcome measures that should be considered collectively in assessing injury. While trauma severity typically scales with the magnitude of injury, much less is known about the effects of rate and duration of the mechanical insult. In this study, a newly developed voice-coil fluid percussion injury system was used to investigate the effects of injury rate and fluid percussion impulse on a collection of post-injury outcomes in male rats. Collectively the data suggest a potential shift in the specificity and progression of neuronal injury and function rather than a general scaling of injury severity. While a faster, shorter fluid percussion first presents as a mild TBI, neuronal loss and some behavioral tasks were similar among the slower and faster fluid percussion injuries. This study concludes that the sequelae of neuronal degeneration and behavioral outcomes are related to the complete temporal profile of the fluid percussion and do not scale only with peak pressure.
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- Radia Abdul-Wahab
- Center for Injury Biomechanics, Materials and Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA.,Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Center for Injury Biomechanics, Materials and Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Center for Injury Biomechanics, Materials and Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA
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Korgaonkar AA, Nguyen S, Li Y, Sekhar D, Subramanian D, Guevarra J, Pang KCH, Santhakumar V. Distinct cellular mediators drive the Janus faces of toll-like receptor 4 regulation of network excitability which impacts working memory performance after brain injury. Brain Behav Immun 2020; 88:381-395. [PMID: 32259563 PMCID: PMC7415537 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2020.03.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2019] [Revised: 03/30/2020] [Accepted: 03/31/2020] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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The mechanisms by which the neurophysiological and inflammatory responses to brain injury contribute to memory impairments are not fully understood. Recently, we reported that the innate immune receptor, toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) enhances AMPA receptor (AMPAR) currents and excitability in the dentate gyrus after fluid percussion brain injury (FPI) while limiting excitability in controls. Here, we examine the cellular mediators underlying TLR4 regulation of dentate excitability and its impact on memory performance. In ex vivo slices, astrocytic and microglial metabolic inhibitors selectively abolished TLR4 antagonist modulation of excitability in controls, but not in rats after FPI, demonstrating that glial signaling contributes to TLR4 regulation of excitability in controls. In glia-depleted neuronal cultures from naïve mice, TLR4 ligands bidirectionally modulated AMPAR charge transfer consistent with neuronal TLR4 regulation of excitability, as observed after brain injury. In vivo TLR4 antagonism reduced early post-injury increases in mediators of MyD88-dependent and independent TLR4 signaling without altering expression in controls. Blocking TNFα, a downstream effector of TLR4, mimicked effects of TLR4 antagonist and occluded TLR4 agonist modulation of excitability in slices from both control and FPI rats. Functionally, transiently blocking TLR4 in vivo improved impairments in working memory observed one week and one month after FPI, while the same treatment impaired memory function in uninjured controls. Together these data identify that distinct cellular signaling mechanisms converge on TNFα to mediate TLR4 modulation of network excitability in the uninjured and injured brain and demonstrate a role for TLR4 in regulation of working memory function.
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- Akshata A. Korgaonkar
- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey 07103,,Correspondence: Akshata Korgaonkar, PhD, Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Ave, Campus box 8111, St Louis, MO 63110, Phone (Off): 314.362.2999,
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- Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey 07103
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey 07103,,Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey 07103,,Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey 07103
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey 07103,,Neurobehavioral Research Lab, Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center–New Jersey Health Care System, East Orange, New Jersey
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey 07103,,Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521
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Semilunar Granule Cells Are the Primary Source of the Perisomatic Excitatory Innervation onto Parvalbumin-Expressing Interneurons in the Dentate Gyrus. eNeuro 2020; 7:ENEURO.0323-19.2020. [PMID: 32571963 PMCID: PMC7340841 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0323-19.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2019] [Revised: 05/29/2020] [Accepted: 06/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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We analyzed the origin and relevance of the perisomatic excitatory inputs on the parvalbumin interneurons of the granule cell layer in mouse. Confocal analysis of the glutamatergic innervation showed that it represents ∼50% of the perisomatic synapses that parvalbumin cells receive. This excitatory input may originate from granule cell collaterals, the mossy cells, or even supramammillary nucleus. First, we assessed the input from the mossy cells on parvalbumin interneurons. Axon terminals of mossy cells were visualized by their calretinin content. Using multicolor confocal microscopy, we observed that less than 10% of perisomatic excitatory innervation of parvalbumin cells could originate from mossy cells. Correlative light and electron microscopy revealed that innervation from mossy cells, although present, was indeed infrequent, except for those parvalbumin cells whose somata were located in the inner molecular layer. Second, we investigated the potential input from supramammillary nucleus on parvalbumin cell somata using anterograde tracing or immunocytochemistry against vesicular glutamate transporter 2 (VGLUT2) and found only occasional contacts. Third, we intracellularly filled dentate granule cells in acute slice preparations using whole-cell recording and examined whether their axon collaterals target parvalbumin interneurons. We found that typical granule cells do not innervate the perisomatic region of these GABAergic cells. In sharp contrast, semilunar granule cells (SGCs), a scarce granule cell subtype often contacted the parvalbumin cell soma and proximal dendrites. Our data, therefore, show that perisomatic excitatory drive of parvalbumin interneurons in the granular layer of the dentate gyrus is abundant and originates primarily from SGCs.
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An Astrocytic Influence on Impaired Tonic Inhibition in Hippocampal CA1 Pyramidal Neurons in a Mouse Model of Rett Syndrome. J Neurosci 2020; 40:6250-6261. [PMID: 32616668 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.3042-19.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/25/2019] [Revised: 05/13/2020] [Accepted: 06/10/2020] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Rett syndrome (RTT) is a severe neurodevelopmental disease caused by mutations in the methyl-CpG binding protein 2 (MECP2) gene. Although altered interneuron development and function are clearly demonstrated in RTT mice, a particular mode of inhibition, tonic inhibition, has not been carefully examined. We report here that tonic inhibition is significantly reduced in pyramidal neurons in the CA1 region of the hippocampus in mice where Mecp2 is deleted either in all cells or specifically in astrocytes. Since no change is detected in the level of GABA receptors, such a reduction in tonic inhibition is likely a result of decreased ambient GABA level in the extracellular space. Consistent with this explanation, we observed increased expression of a GABA transporter, GABA transporter 3 (GAT3), in the hippocampus of the Mecp2 KO mice, as well as a corresponding increase of GAT3 current in hippocampal astrocytes. These phenotypes are relevant to RTT because pharmacological blockage of GAT3 can normalize tonic inhibition and intrinsic excitability in CA1 pyramidal neurons, and rescue the phenotype of increased network excitability in acute hippocampal slices from the Mecp2 KO mice. Finally, chronic administration of a GAT3 antagonist improved a composite symptom score and extended lifespan in the Mecp2 KO mice. Only male mice were used in this study. These results not only advance our understanding of RTT etiology by defining a new neuronal phenotype and revealing how it can be influenced by astrocytic alterations, but also reveal potential targets for intervention.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Our study reports a novel phenotype of reduced tonic inhibition in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons in the Rett syndrome mice, reveal a potential mechanism of increased GABA transporter expression/activity in the neighboring astrocytes, describe a disease-relevant consequence in hyperexcitability, and provide preliminary evidence that targeting this phenotype may slow down disease progression in Rett syndrome mice. These results help our understanding of the disease etiology and identify a new therapeutic target for treating Rett syndrome.
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Aravind A, Kosty J, Chandra N, Pfister BJ. Blast exposure predisposes the brain to increased neurological deficits in a model of blast plus blunt traumatic brain injury. Exp Neurol 2020; 332:113378. [PMID: 32553593 DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2020.113378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2019] [Revised: 05/20/2020] [Accepted: 06/08/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Soldiers are often exposed to more than one traumatic brain injury (TBI) over the course of their service. In recent years, more attention has been drawn to the increased risk of neurological deficits caused by the 'blast plus' polytrauma, which typically is a blast trauma combined with other forms of TBI. In this study, we investigated the behavioral and neuronal deficits resulting from a blast plus injury involving a mild-moderate blast followed by a mild blunt trauma using the fluid percussion injury model. We identified that the blast injury predisposed the brain to increased cognitive deficits, chronic ventricular enlargement, increased neurodegeneration at acute time points and chronic neuronal loss. Interestingly, a single blast and single blunt injury differed in their onset and manifestation of cognitive and regional neuronal loss. We also identified the presence of cleaved RIP1 from caspase 8 mediated apoptosis in the blunt injury while the blast injury did not activate immediate apoptosis but led to decreased hilar neuronal survival over time.
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- Aswati Aravind
- Center for Injury Biomechanics, Materials and Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 323 Dr M.L.K. Jr. Blvd, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
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- Center for Injury Biomechanics, Materials and Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 323 Dr M.L.K. Jr. Blvd, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
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- Center for Injury Biomechanics, Materials and Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 323 Dr M.L.K. Jr. Blvd, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
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- Center for Injury Biomechanics, Materials and Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 323 Dr M.L.K. Jr. Blvd, Newark, NJ 07102, USA.
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Parent M, Chitturi J, Santhakumar V, Hyder F, Sanganahalli BG, Kannurpatti SS. Kaempferol Treatment after Traumatic Brain Injury during Early Development Mitigates Brain Parenchymal Microstructure and Neural Functional Connectivity Deterioration at Adolescence. J Neurotrauma 2020; 37:966-974. [PMID: 31830867 PMCID: PMC7175625 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2019.6486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Targeting mitochondrial ion homeostasis using Kaempferol, a mitochondrial Ca2+ uniporter channel activator, improves energy metabolism and behavior soon after a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in developing rats. Because of broad TBI pathophysiology and brain mitochondrial heterogeneity, Kaempferol-mediated early-stage behavioral and brain metabolic benefits may accrue from diverse sources within the brain. We hypothesized that Kaempferol influences TBI outcome by differentially impacting the neural, vascular, and synaptic/axonal compartments. After TBI at early development (P31), functional magnetic resonance imaging and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) were applied to determine imaging outcomes at adolescence (2 months post-injury). Vehicle and Kaempferol treatments were made at 1, 24, and 48 h post-TBI, and their effects were assessed at adolescence. A significant increase in neural connectivity was observed after Kaempferol treatment as assessed by the spatial extent and strength of the somatosensory cortical and hippocampal resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) networks. However, no significant RSFC changes were observed in the thalamus. DTI measures of fractional anisotropy (FA) and apparent diffusion coefficient, representing synaptic/axonal and microstructural integrity, showed significant improvements after Kaempferol treatment, with highest changes in the frontal and parietal cortices and hippocampus. Kaempferol treatment also increased corpus callosal FA, indicating measurable improvement in the interhemispheric structural connectivity. TBI prognosis was significantly altered at adolescence by early Kaempferol treatment, with improved neural connectivity, neurovascular coupling, and parenchymal microstructure in select brain regions. However, Kaempferol failed to improve vasomotive function across the whole brain, as measured by cerebrovascular reactivity. The differential effects of Kaempferol treatment on various brain functional compartments support diverse cellular-level mitochondrial functional outcomes in vivo.
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- Maxime Parent
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Radiology, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences–New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences-New Jersey Medical School, Medical Science Building, Newark, New Jersey
- Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Neuroscience, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Radiology, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences–New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey
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Erwin SR, Sun W, Copeland M, Lindo S, Spruston N, Cembrowski MS. A Sparse, Spatially Biased Subtype of Mature Granule Cell Dominates Recruitment in Hippocampal-Associated Behaviors. Cell Rep 2020; 31:107551. [DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2019] [Revised: 02/14/2020] [Accepted: 03/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Korgaonkar AA, Li Y, Sekhar D, Subramanian D, Guevarra J, Swietek B, Pallottie A, Singh S, Kella K, Elkabes S, Santhakumar V. Toll-like Receptor 4 Signaling in Neurons Enhances Calcium-Permeable α-Amino-3-Hydroxy-5-Methyl-4-Isoxazolepropionic Acid Receptor Currents and Drives Post-Traumatic Epileptogenesis. Ann Neurol 2020; 87:497-515. [PMID: 32031699 DOI: 10.1002/ana.25698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2019] [Revised: 02/03/2020] [Accepted: 02/05/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Traumatic brain injury is a major risk factor for acquired epilepsies, and understanding the mechanisms underlying the early pathophysiology could yield viable therapeutic targets. Growing evidence indicates a role for inflammatory signaling in modifying neuronal excitability and promoting epileptogenesis. Here we examined the effect of innate immune receptor Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) on excitability of the hippocampal dentate gyrus and epileptogenesis after brain injury. METHODS Slice and in vivo electrophysiology and Western blots were conducted in rats subject to fluid percussion brain injury or sham injury. RESULTS The studies identify that TLR4 signaling in neurons augments dentate granule cell calcium-permeable α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptor (CP-AMPAR) currents after brain injury. Blocking TLR4 signaling in vivo shortly after brain injury reduced dentate network excitability and seizure susceptibility. When blocking of TLR4 signaling after injury was delayed, however, this treatment failed to reduce postinjury seizure susceptibility. Furthermore, TLR4 signal blocking was less efficacious in limiting seizure susceptibility when AMPAR currents, downstream targets of TLR4 signaling, were transiently enhanced. Paradoxically, blocking TLR4 signaling augmented both network excitability and seizure susceptibility in uninjured controls. Despite the differential effect on seizure susceptibility, TLR4 antagonism suppressed cellular inflammatory responses after injury without impacting sham controls. INTERPRETATION These findings demonstrate that independently of glia, the immune receptor TLR4 directly regulates post-traumatic neuronal excitability. Moreover, the TLR4-dependent early increase in dentate excitability is causally associated with epileptogenesis. Identification and selective targeting of the mechanisms underlying the aberrant TLR4-mediated increase in CP-AMPAR signaling after injury may prevent epileptogenesis after brain trauma. ANN NEUROL 2020;87:497-515.
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- Akshata A Korgaonkar
- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ.,Department of Molecular, Cell, and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ.,Department of Molecular, Cell, and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ.,Department of Molecular, Cell, and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA
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Circuit-Specific Early Impairment of Proprioceptive Sensory Neurons in the SOD1 G93A Mouse Model for ALS. J Neurosci 2019; 39:8798-8815. [PMID: 31530644 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1214-19.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2019] [Revised: 07/24/2019] [Accepted: 09/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease in which motor neurons degenerate, resulting in muscle atrophy, paralysis, and fatality. Studies using mouse models of ALS indicate a protracted period of disease development with progressive motor neuron pathology, evident as early as embryonic and postnatal stages. Key missing information includes concomitant alterations in the sensorimotor circuit essential for normal development and function of the neuromuscular system. Leveraging unique brainstem circuitry, we show in vitro evidence for reflex circuit-specific postnatal abnormalities in the jaw proprioceptive sensory neurons in the well-studied SOD1G93A mouse. These include impaired and arrhythmic action potential burst discharge associated with a deficit in Nav1.6 Na+ channels. However, the mechanoreceptive and nociceptive trigeminal ganglion neurons and the visual sensory retinal ganglion neurons were resistant to excitability changes in age-matched SOD1G93A mice. Computational modeling of the observed disruption in sensory patterns predicted asynchronous self-sustained motor neuron discharge suggestive of imminent reflexive defects, such as muscle fasciculations in ALS. These results demonstrate a novel reflex circuit-specific proprioceptive sensory abnormality in ALS.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Neurodegenerative diseases have prolonged periods of disease development and progression. Identifying early markers of vulnerability can therefore help devise better diagnostic and treatment strategies. In this study, we examined postnatal abnormalities in the electrical excitability of muscle spindle afferent proprioceptive neurons in the well-studied SOD1G93A mouse model for neurodegenerative motor neuron disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Our findings suggest that these proprioceptive sensory neurons are exclusively afflicted early in the disease process relative to sensory neurons of other modalities. Moreover, they presented Nav1.6 Na+ channel deficiency, which contributed to arrhythmic burst discharge. Such sensory arrhythmia could initiate reflexive defects, such as muscle fasciculations in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, as suggested by our computational model.
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Chitturi J, Santhakumar V, Kannurpatti SS. Beneficial Effects of Kaempferol after Developmental Traumatic Brain Injury Is through Protection of Mitochondrial Function, Oxidative Metabolism, and Neural Viability. J Neurotrauma 2019; 36:1264-1278. [PMID: 30430900 PMCID: PMC6479259 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2018.6100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Oxidative energy metabolism is depressed after mild/moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI) during early development, accompanied by behavioral debilitation and secondary neuronal death. A TBI metabolome analysis revealed broad effects with a striking impact on energy metabolism. Our studies on mitochondrial modulators and their effects on brain function have shown that kaempferol, a stimulator of the mitochondrial Ca2+ uniporter channel (mCU), enhanced neural and neurovascular activity in the normal brain and improved stimulus-induced brain activation and behavior after TBI during early development. Because kaempferol enhances mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake and cycling, with protective effects after TBI, we tested the hypothesis that kaempferol treatment during the acute/subacute stage after TBI (0-72 h) acted on mitochondria in improving TBI outcome. Developmental age rats (P31) underwent TBI and were treated with vehicle or kaempferol (1 mg/kg intraperitoneally) in three doses at 1, 24, and 48 h after TBI. Brains were harvested at 72 h and subjected to liquid chromatography mass spectrometric measurements. Decrease in pyruvate and tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle flux were observed in the untreated and vehicle-treated group, consistent with previously established energy metabolic decline after TBI. Kaempferol improved TCA cycle flux, maintained mitochondrial functional integrity as observed by decreased acyl carnitines, improved neural viability as evidenced by higher N-acetyl aspartate levels. The positive outcomes of kaempferol on metabolic profile corresponded with improved sensorimotor behavior.
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- Jyothsna Chitturi
- Department of Radiology, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey
- Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California
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Umemoto Y, Patel A, Huynh T, Chitravanshi VC. Wogonin attenuates the deleterious effects of traumatic brain injury in anesthetized Wistar rats. Eur J Pharmacol 2019; 848:121-130. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2019.01.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2018] [Revised: 01/17/2019] [Accepted: 01/18/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Parent M, Li Y, Santhakumar V, Hyder F, Sanganahalli BG, Kannurpatti SS. Alterations of Parenchymal Microstructure, Neuronal Connectivity, and Cerebrovascular Resistance at Adolescence after Mild-to-Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury in Early Development. J Neurotrauma 2019; 36:601-608. [PMID: 29855211 PMCID: PMC6354598 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2018.5741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of morbidity in children. To investigate outcome of early developmental TBI during adolescence, a rat model of fluid percussion injury was developed, where previous work reported deficits in sensorimotor behavior and cortical blood flow at adolescence.1 Based on the nonlocalized outcome, we hypothesized that multiple neurophysiological components of brain function, namely neuronal connectivity, synapse/axonal microstructural integrity, and neurovascular function, are altered and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods could be used to determine regional alterations. Adolescent outcomes of developmental TBI were studied 2 months after injury, using functional MRI (fMRI) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). fMRI-based resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC), representing neural connectivity, was significantly altered between sham and TBI. RSFC strength decreased in the cortex, hippocampus, and thalamus, accompanied by decrease in spatial extent of their corresponding RSFC networks and interhemispheric asymmetry. Cerebrovascular reactivity to arterial CO2 changes diminished after TBI across both hemispheres, with a more pronounced decrease in the ipsilateral hippocampus, thalamus, and motor cortex. DTI measures of fractional anisotropy and apparent diffusion coefficient, reporting on axonal and microstructural integrity of the brain, indicated similar interhemispheric asymmetry, with highest change in the ipsilateral hippocampus and regions adjoining the ipsilateral thalamus, hypothalamus, and amygdala. TBI-induced corpus callosal microstructural alterations indicated measurable changes in interhemispheric structural connectivity. Hippocampus, thalamus, and select cortical regions were most consistently affected in multiple imaging markers. The multi-modal MRI results demonstrate cortical and subcortical alterations in neural connectivity, cerebrovascular resistance, and parenchymal microstructure in the adolescent brain, indicating the highly diffuse and persistent nature of the lateral fluid percussion TBI early in development.
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- Maxime Parent
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences–New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences–New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey
- Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Neuroscience, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Radiology, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences–New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey
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Ngwenya LB, Danzer SC. Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury on Neurogenesis. Front Neurosci 2019; 12:1014. [PMID: 30686980 PMCID: PMC6333744 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2018.01014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2018] [Accepted: 12/17/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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New neurons are generated in the hippocampal dentate gyrus from early development through adulthood. Progenitor cells and immature granule cells in the subgranular zone are responsive to changes in their environment; and indeed, a large body of research indicates that neuronal interactions and the dentate gyrus milieu regulates granule cell proliferation, maturation, and integration. Following traumatic brain injury (TBI), these interactions are dramatically altered. In addition to cell losses from injury and neurotransmitter dysfunction, patients often show electroencephalographic evidence of cortical spreading depolarizations and seizure activity after TBI. Furthermore, treatment for TBI often involves interventions that alter hippocampal function such as sedative medications, neuromodulating agents, and anti-epileptic drugs. Here, we review hippocampal changes after TBI and how they impact the coordinated process of granule cell adult neurogenesis. We also discuss clinical TBI treatments that have the potential to alter neurogenesis. A thorough understanding of the impact that TBI has on neurogenesis will ultimately be needed to begin to design novel therapeutics to promote recovery.
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- Laura B Ngwenya
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States.,Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States.,Neurotrauma Center, University of Cincinnati Gardner Neuroscience Institute, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Department of Anesthesia, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States.,Department of Anesthesia, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States.,Center for Pediatric Neuroscience, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States.,Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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Danzer SC. Contributions of Adult-Generated Granule Cells to Hippocampal Pathology in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: A Neuronal Bestiary. Brain Plast 2018; 3:169-181. [PMID: 30151341 PMCID: PMC6091048 DOI: 10.3233/bpl-170056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Hippocampal neurogenesis continues throughout life in mammals – including humans. During the development of temporal lobe epilepsy, newly-generated hippocampal granule cells integrate abnormally into the brain. Abnormalities include ectopic localization of newborn cells, de novo formation of abnormal basal dendrites, and disruptions of the apical dendritic tree. Changes in granule cell position and dendritic structure fundamentally alter the types of inputs these cells are able to receive, as well as the relative proportions of remaining inputs. Dendritic abnormalities also create new pathways for recurrent excitation in the hippocampus. These abnormalities are hypothesized to contribute to the development of epilepsy, and may underlie cognitive disorders associated with the disease as well. To test this hypothesis, investigators have used pharmacological and genetic strategies in animal models to alter neurogenesis rates, or ablate the newborn cells outright. While findings are mixed and many unanswered questions remain, numerous studies now demonstrate that ablating newborn granule cells can have disease modifying effects in epilepsy. Taken together, findings provide a strong rationale for continued work to elucidate the role of newborn granule cells in epilepsy: both to understand basic mechanisms underlying the disease, and as a potential novel therapy for epilepsy.
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- Steve C Danzer
- Department of Anesthesia, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.,Departments of Anesthesia and Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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Chitturi J, Li Y, Santhakumar V, Kannurpatti SS. Early behavioral and metabolomic change after mild to moderate traumatic brain injury in the developing brain. Neurochem Int 2018; 120:75-86. [PMID: 30098378 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuint.2018.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2018] [Revised: 07/31/2018] [Accepted: 08/06/2018] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Pathophysiology of developmental traumatic brain injury (TBI) is unique due to intrinsic differences in the developing brain. Energy metabolic studies of the brain during early development (P13 to P30) have indicated acute oxidative energy metabolic decreases below 24 h after TBI, which generally recovered by 48 h. However, marked neurodegeneration and altered neural functional connectivity have been observed at later stages into adolescence. As secondary neurodegeneration is most prominent during the first week after TBI in the rat model, we hypothesized that the subacute TBI-metabolome may contain predictive markers of neurodegeneration. Sham and TBI metabolomes were examined at 72 h after a mild to moderate intensity TBI in male Sprague-Dawley rats aged P31. Sensorimotor behavior was assessed at 24, 48 and 72 h after injury, followed by 72-hour postmortem brain removal for metabolomics using Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) measurement. Broad TBI-induced metabolomic shifts occurred with relatively higher intensity in the injury-lateralized (ipsilateral) hemisphere. Intensity of metabolomic perturbation correlated with the extent of sensorimotor behavioral deficit. N-acetyl-aspartate (NAA) levels at 72 h after TBI, predicted the extent of neurodegeneration assessed histochemically 7-days post TBI. Results from the multivariate untargeted approach clearly distinguished metabolomic shifts induced by TBI. Several pathways including amino acid, fatty acid and energy metabolism continued to be affected at 72 h after TBI, whose collective effects may determine the overall pathological response after TBI in early development including neurodegeneration.
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- Jyothsna Chitturi
- Department of Radiology, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Administrative Complex Building 5 (ADMC5), 30 Bergen Street Room 575, Newark, NJ, 07101, USA.
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, MSB-H-512, 185 S. Orange Ave, Newark, NJ, 07103, USA.
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, MSB-H-512, 185 S. Orange Ave, Newark, NJ, 07103, USA; Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Spieth 1308, 3401 Watkins Drive, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA.
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- Department of Radiology, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Administrative Complex Building 5 (ADMC5), 30 Bergen Street Room 575, Newark, NJ, 07101, USA.
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Frankowski JC, Kim YJ, Hunt RF. Selective vulnerability of hippocampal interneurons to graded traumatic brain injury. Neurobiol Dis 2018; 129:208-216. [PMID: 30031783 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2018.07.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2018] [Revised: 06/26/2018] [Accepted: 07/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Traumatic brain injury is a major risk factor for many long-term mental health problems. Although underlying mechanisms likely involve compromised inhibition, little is known about how individual subpopulations of interneurons are affected by neurotrauma. Here we report long-term loss of hippocampal interneurons following controlled cortical impact (CCI) injury in young-adult mice, a model of focal cortical contusion injury in humans. Brain injured mice displayed subfield and cell-type specific decreases in interneurons 30 days after impact depths of 0.5 mm and 1.0 mm, and increasing the depth of impact led to greater cell loss. In general, we found a preferential reduction of interneuron cohorts located in principal cell and polymorph layers, while cell types positioned in the molecular layer appeared well preserved. Our results suggest a dramatic shift of interneuron diversity following contusion injury that may contribute to the pathophysiology of traumatic brain injury.
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- Jan C Frankowski
- Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
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Wang W, Zinsmaier AK, Firestone E, Lin R, Yatskievych TA, Yang S, Zhang J, Bao S. Blocking Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha Expression Prevents Blast-Induced Excitatory/Inhibitory Synaptic Imbalance and Parvalbumin-Positive Interneuron Loss in the Hippocampus. J Neurotrauma 2018; 35:2306-2316. [PMID: 29649942 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2018.5688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of neurological disorder and death in civilian and military populations. It comprises two components-direct injury from the traumatic impact and secondary injury from ensuing neural inflammatory responses. Blocking tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), a central regulator of neural inflammation, has been shown to improve functional recovery after TBI. However, the mechanisms underlying those therapeutic effects are still poorly understood. Here, we examined effects of 3,6'-dithiothalidomide (dTT), a potentially therapeutic TNF-α inhibitor, in mice with blast-induced TBI. We found that blast exposure resulted in elevated expression of TNF-α, activation of microglial cells, enhanced excitatory synaptic transmission, reduced inhibitory synaptic transmission, and a loss of parvalbumin-positive (PV+) inhibitory interneurons. Administration of dTT for 5 days after the blast exposure completely suppressed blast-induced increases in TNF-α transcription, largely reversed blasted-induced synaptic changes, and prevented PV+ neuron loss. However, blocking TNF-α expression by dTT failed to mitigate blast-induced microglial activation in the hippocampus, as evidenced by their non-ramified morphology. These results indicate that TNF-α plays a major role in modulating neuronal functions in blast-induced TBI and that it is a potential target for treatment of TBI-related brain disorders.
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- Weihua Wang
- 1 Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Arizona , Tucson, Arizona
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- 1 Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Arizona , Tucson, Arizona
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- 2 Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, School of Medicine, Wayne State University , Detroit, Michigan
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- 1 Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Arizona , Tucson, Arizona.,3 Department of Genetics and Endocrinology, Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University , Guangzhou, China
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- 1 Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Arizona , Tucson, Arizona
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- 4 Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong , Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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- 2 Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, School of Medicine, Wayne State University , Detroit, Michigan
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- 1 Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Arizona , Tucson, Arizona
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Folweiler KA, Samuel S, Metheny HE, Cohen AS. Diminished Dentate Gyrus Filtering of Cortical Input Leads to Enhanced Area Ca3 Excitability after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. J Neurotrauma 2018; 35:1304-1317. [PMID: 29338620 PMCID: PMC5962932 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2017.5350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) disrupts hippocampal function and can lead to long-lasting episodic memory impairments. The encoding of episodic memories relies on spatial information processing within the hippocampus. As the primary entry point for spatial information into the hippocampus, the dentate gyrus is thought to function as a physiological gate, or filter, of afferent excitation before reaching downstream area Cornu Ammonis (CA3). Although injury has previously been shown to alter dentate gyrus network excitability, it is unknown whether mTBI affects dentate gyrus output to area CA3. In this study, we assessed hippocampal function, specifically the interaction between the dentate gyrus and CA3, using behavioral and electrophysiological techniques in ex vivo brain slices 1 week following mild lateral fluid percussion injury (LFPI). Behaviorally, LFPI mice were found to be impaired in an object-place recognition task, indicating that spatial information processing in the hippocampus is disrupted. Extracellular recordings and voltage-sensitive dye imaging demonstrated that perforant path activation leads to the aberrant spread of excitation from the dentate gyrus into area CA3 along the mossy fiber pathway. These results suggest that after mTBI, the dentate gyrus has a diminished capacity to regulate cortical input into the hippocampus, leading to increased CA3 network excitability. The loss of the dentate filtering efficacy reveals a potential mechanism by which hippocampal-dependent spatial information processing is disrupted, and may contribute to memory dysfunction after mTBI.
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- Kaitlin A. Folweiler
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Department of Anesthesiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Neuroscience Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Department of Anesthesiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Department of Anesthesiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Department of Anesthesiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Neuroscience Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Vascak M, Jin X, Jacobs KM, Povlishock JT. Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Induces Structural and Functional Disconnection of Local Neocortical Inhibitory Networks via Parvalbumin Interneuron Diffuse Axonal Injury. Cereb Cortex 2018; 28:1625-1644. [PMID: 28334184 PMCID: PMC5907353 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhx058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2016] [Revised: 01/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Diffuse axonal injury (DAI) plays a major role in cortical network dysfunction posited to cause excitatory/inhibitory imbalance after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Current thought holds that white matter (WM) is uniquely vulnerable to DAI. However, clinically diagnosed mTBI is not always associated with WM DAI. This suggests an undetected neocortical pathophysiology, implicating GABAergic interneurons. To evaluate this possibility, we used mild central fluid percussion injury to generate DAI in mice with Cre-driven tdTomato labeling of parvalbumin (PV) interneurons. We followed tdTomato+ profiles using confocal and electron microscopy, together with patch-clamp analysis to probe for DAI-mediated neocortical GABAergic interneuron disruption. Within 3 h post-mTBI tdTomato+ perisomatic axonal injury (PSAI) was found across somatosensory layers 2-6. The DAI marker amyloid precursor protein colocalized with GAD67 immunoreactivity within tdTomato+ PSAI, representing the majority of GABAergic interneuron DAI. At 24 h post-mTBI, we used phospho-c-Jun, a surrogate DAI marker, for retrograde assessments of sustaining somas. Via this approach, we estimated DAI occurs in ~9% of total tdTomato+ interneurons, representing ~14% of pan-neuronal DAI. Patch-clamp recordings of tdTomato+ interneurons revealed decreased inhibitory transmission. Overall, these data show that PV interneuron DAI is a consistent and significant feature of experimental mTBI with important implications for cortical network dysfunction.
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- Michal Vascak
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, PO Box 980709, Richmond, VA 23298-0709, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, PO Box 980709, Richmond, VA 23298-0709, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, PO Box 980709, Richmond, VA 23298-0709, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, PO Box 980709, Richmond, VA 23298-0709, USA
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Cheng JP, Leary JB, O'Neil DA, Meyer EA, Free KE, Bondi CO, Kline AE. Spontaneous recovery of traumatic brain injury-induced functional deficits is not hindered by daily administration of lorazepam. Behav Brain Res 2017; 339:215-221. [PMID: 29203336 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2017.11.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2017] [Revised: 11/02/2017] [Accepted: 11/30/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Agitation and aggression are common sequelae of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and pose a challenge to physicians and other health providers during acute patient care and subsequent neurorehabilitation. Antipsychotic drugs (APDs) are routinely administered to manage TBI patients displaying such maladaptive behaviors despite several clinical and preclinical studies demonstrating that they hinder recovery. A potentially viable alternative to APDs may be the benzodiazepines, which have differing mechanisms of action. Hence, the aim of the study was to test the hypothesis that lorazepam (LOR) would not impede recovery after TBI. Anesthetized adult male rats received a cortical impact or sham injury and then were intraperitoneally administered LOR (0.1mg/kg, 1.0mg/kg, or 2.0mg/kg) or vehicle (VEH; 1mL/kg) commencing 24-h after surgery and once daily for 19days. Motor and cognitive outcomes were assessed on post-operative days 1-5 and 14-19, respectively. No differences were revealed among the four sham control groups and thus they were pooled into one inclusive SHAM group. The SHAMs performed better than all TBI groups on all assessments (p<0.05). Regarding TBI, the 2.0mg/kg LOR group performed better than the VEH and 0.1mg/kg or 1.0mg/kg LOR groups on every task (p<0.05); no differences were observed among the latter three groups on any endpoint (p>0.05). Overall, these preclinical behavioral data support the hypothesis and reveal a therapeutic benefit with the higher dose of LOR. The findings suggest that LOR may be an alternative, to APDs, for controlling agitation without compromising spontaneous recovery and perhaps could afford a dual benefit by also promoting therapeutic efficacy.
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- Jeffrey P Cheng
- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States; Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States
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- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States; Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States
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- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States; Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States
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- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States; Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States
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- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States; Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States
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- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States; Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States; Center for Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States
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- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States; Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States; Center for Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States; Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States; Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States; Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States.
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Neuberger EJ, Gupta A, Subramanian D, Korgaonkar AA, Santhakumar V. Converging early responses to brain injury pave the road to epileptogenesis. J Neurosci Res 2017; 97:1335-1344. [PMID: 29193309 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.24202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2017] [Revised: 11/06/2017] [Accepted: 11/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Epilepsy, characterized by recurrent seizures and abnormal electrical activity in the brain, is one of the most prevalent brain disorders. Over two million people in the United States have been diagnosed with epilepsy and 3% of the general population will be diagnosed with it at some point in their lives. While most developmental epilepsies occur due to genetic predisposition, a class of "acquired" epilepsies results from a variety of brain insults. A leading etiological factor for epilepsy that is currently on the rise is traumatic brain injury (TBI), which accounts for up to 20% of all symptomatic epilepsies. Remarkably, the presence of an identified early insult that constitutes a risk for development of epilepsy provides a therapeutic window in which the pathological processes associated with brain injury can be manipulated to limit the subsequent development of recurrent seizure activity and epilepsy. Recent studies have revealed diverse pathologies, including enhanced excitability, activated immune signaling, cell death, and enhanced neurogenesis within a week after injury, suggesting a period of heightened adaptive and maladaptive plasticity. An integrated understanding of these processes and their cellular and molecular underpinnings could lead to novel targets to arrest epileptogenesis after trauma. This review attempts to highlight and relate the diverse early changes after trauma and their role in development of epilepsy and suggests potential strategies to limit neurological complications in the injured brain.
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- Eric J Neuberger
- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
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Brain Injury-Induced Synaptic Reorganization in Hilar Inhibitory Neurons Is Differentially Suppressed by Rapamycin. eNeuro 2017; 4:eN-NWR-0134-17. [PMID: 29085896 PMCID: PMC5659239 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0134-17.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2017] [Revised: 09/07/2017] [Accepted: 09/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Following traumatic brain injury (TBI), treatment with rapamycin suppresses mammalian (mechanistic) target of rapamycin (mTOR) activity and specific components of hippocampal synaptic reorganization associated with altered cortical excitability and seizure susceptibility. Reemergence of seizures after cessation of rapamycin treatment suggests, however, an incomplete suppression of epileptogenesis. Hilar inhibitory interneurons regulate dentate granule cell (DGC) activity, and de novo synaptic input from both DGCs and CA3 pyramidal cells after TBI increases their excitability but effects of rapamycin treatment on the injury-induced plasticity of interneurons is only partially described. Using transgenic mice in which enhanced green fluorescent protein (eGFP) is expressed in the somatostatinergic subset of hilar inhibitory interneurons, we tested the effect of daily systemic rapamycin treatment (3 mg/kg) on the excitability of hilar inhibitory interneurons after controlled cortical impact (CCI)-induced focal brain injury. Rapamycin treatment reduced, but did not normalize, the injury-induced increase in excitability of surviving eGFP+ hilar interneurons. The injury-induced increase in response to selective glutamate photostimulation of DGCs was reduced to normal levels after mTOR inhibition, but the postinjury increase in synaptic excitation arising from CA3 pyramidal cell activity was unaffected by rapamycin treatment. The incomplete suppression of synaptic reorganization in inhibitory circuits after brain injury could contribute to hippocampal hyperexcitability and the eventual reemergence of the epileptogenic process upon cessation of mTOR inhibition. Further, the cell-selective effect of mTOR inhibition on synaptic reorganization after CCI suggests possible mechanisms by which rapamycin treatment modifies epileptogenesis in some models but not others.
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Neuberger EJ, Swietek B, Corrubia L, Prasanna A, Santhakumar V. Enhanced Dentate Neurogenesis after Brain Injury Undermines Long-Term Neurogenic Potential and Promotes Seizure Susceptibility. Stem Cell Reports 2017; 9:972-984. [PMID: 28826852 PMCID: PMC5599224 DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2017.07.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2017] [Revised: 07/19/2017] [Accepted: 07/20/2017] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Hippocampal dentate gyrus is a focus of enhanced neurogenesis and excitability after traumatic brain injury. Increased neurogenesis has been proposed to aid repair of the injured network. Our data show that an early increase in neurogenesis after fluid percussion concussive brain injury is transient and is followed by a persistent decrease compared with age-matched controls. Post-injury changes in neurogenesis paralleled changes in neural precursor cell proliferation and resulted in a long-term decline in neurogenic capacity. Targeted pharmacology to restore post-injury neurogenesis to control levels reversed the long-term decline in neurogenic capacity. Limiting post-injury neurogenesis reduced early increases in dentate excitability and seizure susceptibility. Our results challenge the assumption that increased neurogenesis after brain injury is beneficial and show that early post-traumatic increases in neurogenesis adversely affect long-term outcomes by exhausting neurogenic potential and enhancing epileptogenesis. Treatments aimed at limiting excessive neurogenesis can potentially restore neuroproliferative capacity and limit epilepsy after brain injury. Increase in neurogenesis after TBI is transient and leads to long-term decline Altered neural precursor proliferation underlies post-TBI changes in neurogenesis Brief antagonism of VEGFR2 restores post-injury neurogenesis to control levels Limiting neurogenesis improves excitability and seizure susceptibility after TBI
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- Eric J Neuberger
- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers Biomedical & Health Sciences, MSB-H-512, 185 S. Orange Ave., Newark, NJ 07103, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers Biomedical & Health Sciences, MSB-H-512, 185 S. Orange Ave., Newark, NJ 07103, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers Biomedical & Health Sciences, MSB-H-512, 185 S. Orange Ave., Newark, NJ 07103, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers Biomedical & Health Sciences, MSB-H-512, 185 S. Orange Ave., Newark, NJ 07103, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers Biomedical & Health Sciences, MSB-H-512, 185 S. Orange Ave., Newark, NJ 07103, USA.
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de Castro MRT, Ferreira APDO, Busanello GL, da Silva LRH, da Silveira Junior MEP, Fiorin FDS, Arrifano G, Crespo-López ME, Barcelos RP, Cuevas MJ, Bresciani G, González-Gallego J, Fighera MR, Royes LFF. Previous physical exercise alters the hepatic profile of oxidative-inflammatory status and limits the secondary brain damage induced by severe traumatic brain injury in rats. J Physiol 2017; 595:6023-6044. [PMID: 28726269 DOI: 10.1113/jp273933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2016] [Accepted: 06/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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KEY POINTS An early inflammatory response and oxidative stress are implicated in the signal transduction that alters both hepatic redox status and mitochondrial function after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Peripheral oxidative/inflammatory responses contribute to neuronal dysfunction after TBI Exercise training alters the profile of oxidative-inflammatory status in liver and protects against acute hyperglycaemia and a cerebral inflammatory response after TBI. Approaches such as exercise training, which attenuates neuronal damage after TBI, may have therapeutic potential through modulation of responses by metabolic organs. The vulnerability of the body to oxidative/inflammatory in TBI is significantly enhanced in sedentary compared to physically active counterparts. ABSTRACT Although systemic responses have been described after traumatic brain injury (TBI), little is known regarding potential interactions between brain and peripheral organs after neuronal injury. Accordingly, we aimed to investigate whether a peripheral oxidative/inflammatory response contributes to neuronal dysfunction after TBI, as well as the prophylactic role of exercise training. Animals were submitted to fluid percussion injury after 6 weeks of swimming training. Previous exercise training increased mRNA expression of X receptor alpha and ATP-binding cassette transporter, and decreased inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α and interleukin (IL)-6 expression per se in liver. Interestingly, exercise training protected against hepatic inflammation (COX-2, iNOS, TNF-α and IL-6), oxidative stress (decreases in non-protein sulfhydryl and glutathione, as well as increases in 2',7'-dichlorofluorescein diacetate oxidation and protein carbonyl), which altered hepatic redox status (increases in myeloperoxidase and superoxide dismutase activity, as well as inhibition of catalase activity) mitochondrial function (decreases in methyl-tetrazolium and Δψ, as well as inhibition of citrate synthase activity) and ion gradient homeostasis (inhibition of Na+ ,K+ -ATPase activity inhibition) when analysed 24 h after TBI. Previous exercise training also protected against dysglycaemia, impaired hepatic signalling (increase in phosphorylated c-Jun NH2-terminal kinase, phosphorylated decreases in insulin receptor substrate and phosphorylated AKT expression), high levels of circulating and neuronal cytokines, the opening of the blood-brain barrier, neutrophil infiltration and Na+ ,K+ -ATPase activity inhibition in the ipsilateral cortex after TBI. Moreover, the impairment of protein function, neurobehavioural (neuromotor dysfunction and spatial learning) disability and hippocampal cell damage in sedentary rats suggests that exercise training also modulates peripheral oxidative/inflammatory pathways in TBI, which corroborates the ever increasing evidence regarding health-related outcomes with respect to a physically active lifestyle.
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- Mauro Robson Torres de Castro
- Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Física.,Centro de Educação Física e Desportos, Laboratório de Bioquímica do Exercício
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- Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Física.,Centro de Educação Física e Desportos, Laboratório de Bioquímica do Exercício
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- Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas: Bioquímica Toxicológica, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Farmacologia Molecular, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas (ICB), Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Farmacologia Molecular, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas (ICB), Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas: Bioquímica Toxicológica, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil
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- Institute of Biomedicine (IBIOMED) and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), University of León, León, Spain
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- Escuela de Educación Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso (PUCV), Valparaiso, Chile
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- Institute of Biomedicine (IBIOMED) and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), University of León, León, Spain
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- Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Física.,Centro de Educação Física e Desportos, Laboratório de Bioquímica do Exercício.,Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas: Bioquímica Toxicológica, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Física.,Centro de Educação Física e Desportos, Laboratório de Bioquímica do Exercício.,Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas: Bioquímica Toxicológica, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil
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Paterno R, Folweiler KA, Cohen AS. Pathophysiology and Treatment of Memory Dysfunction After Traumatic Brain Injury. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep 2017; 17:52. [PMID: 28500417 PMCID: PMC5861722 DOI: 10.1007/s11910-017-0762-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Memory is fundamental to everyday life, and cognitive impairments resulting from traumatic brain injury (TBI) have devastating effects on TBI survivors. A contributing component to memory impairments caused by TBI is alteration in the neural circuits associated with memory function. In this review, we aim to bring together experimental findings that characterize behavioral memory deficits and the underlying pathophysiology of memory-involved circuits after TBI. While there is little doubt that TBI causes memory and cognitive dysfunction, it is difficult to conclude which memory phase, i.e., encoding, maintenance, or retrieval, is specifically altered by TBI. This is most likely due to variation in behavioral protocols and experimental models. Additionally, we review a selection of experimental treatments that hold translational potential to mitigate memory dysfunction following injury.
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- Rosalia Paterno
- Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3615 Civic Center Boulevard, Abramson Research Center, Rm. 816-h, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Joseph Stokes, Jr. Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 3615 Civic Center Boulevard, Abramson Research Center, Rm. 816-h, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Joseph Stokes, Jr. Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 3615 Civic Center Boulevard, Abramson Research Center, Rm. 816-h, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3615 Civic Center Boulevard, Abramson Research Center, Rm. 816-h, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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