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Jeong KH, Zhu J, Park S, Kim WJ. Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 6 Modulates Aberrant Axonal Sprouting in a Mouse Model of Pilocarpine-Induced Epilepsy. Mol Neurobiol 2024; 61:2839-2853. [PMID: 37940780 DOI: 10.1007/s12035-023-03748-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2023] [Accepted: 10/26/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023]
Abstract
Transient receptor potential vanilloid 6 (TRPV6) is a highly selective calcium-ion channel that belongs to the TRPV family. TRPV6 is widely distributed in the brain, but its role in neurological diseases such as epilepsy remains unknown. Here, we report for the first time that TRPV6 expression is upregulated in the hippocampus of a pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus model, mainly in the suprapyramidal bundle of the mossy fiber (MF) projection of the hippocampal CA3 regions. We found that TRPV6 overexpression via viral vector transduction attenuated abnormal MF sprouting (MFS), whereas TRPV6 knockdown aggravated the development of MFS and the incidence of recurrent seizures during epileptogenic progression. In the in vitro experiments, our results showed that modulation of TRPV6 expression resulted in a change in axonal formation in cultured hippocampal neurons. In addition, we found that TRPV6 was implicated in the regulation of Akt-glycogen synthase kinase-3-β activity, which is closely related to the cellular mechanism of axonal outgrowth. Therefore, these findings suggest that TRPV6 may regulate the formation of aberrant synaptic circuits during epileptogenesis.
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- Kyoung Hoon Jeong
- Epilepsy Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Brain Korea 21 Project, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Brain Korea 21 Project, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 06273, Republic of Korea.
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Jeong M, Jang JH, Oh SJ, Park J, Lee J, Hwang S, Oh YS. Maladaptation of dentate gyrus mossy cells mediates contextual discrimination deficit after traumatic stress. Cell Rep 2024; 43:114000. [PMID: 38527063 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2023] [Revised: 02/15/2024] [Accepted: 03/10/2024] [Indexed: 03/27/2024] Open
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Fear overgeneralization is a maladaptive response to traumatic stress that is associated with the inability to discriminate between threat and safety contexts, a hallmark feature of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, the neural mechanisms underlying this deficit remain unclear. Here, we show that traumatic stress exposure impairs contextual discrimination between threat and safety contexts in the learned helplessness (LH) model. Mossy cells (MCs) in the dorsal hippocampus are suppressed in response to traumatic stress. Bidirectional manipulation of MC activity in the LH model reveals that MC inhibition is causally linked to impaired contextual discrimination. Mechanistically, MC inhibition increases the number of active granule cells in a given context, significantly overlapping context-specific ensembles. Our study demonstrates that maladaptive inhibition of MCs after traumatic stress is a substantial mechanism underlying fear overgeneralization with contextual discrimination deficit, suggesting a potential therapeutic target for cognitive symptoms of PTSD.
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- Minseok Jeong
- Department of Brain Sciences, Daegu-Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Hyeonpung-eup, Dalseong-gun, Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Brain Sciences, Daegu-Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Hyeonpung-eup, Dalseong-gun, Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Brain Sciences, Daegu-Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Hyeonpung-eup, Dalseong-gun, Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Brain Sciences, Daegu-Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Hyeonpung-eup, Dalseong-gun, Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Brain Sciences, Daegu-Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Hyeonpung-eup, Dalseong-gun, Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Brain Sciences, Daegu-Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Hyeonpung-eup, Dalseong-gun, Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Brain Sciences, Daegu-Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Hyeonpung-eup, Dalseong-gun, Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea; Emotion, Cognition & Behavior Research Group, Korea Brain Research Institute, 61 Cheomdan-ro, Daegu 41062, Republic of Korea.
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Skupien-Jaroszek A, Walczak A, Czaban I, Pels KK, Szczepankiewicz AA, Krawczyk K, Ruszczycki B, Wilczynski GM, Dzwonek J, Magalska A. The interplay of seizures-induced axonal sprouting and transcription-dependent Bdnf repositioning in the model of temporal lobe epilepsy. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0239111. [PMID: 34086671 PMCID: PMC8177504 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2020] [Accepted: 05/17/2021] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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The Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor is one of the most important trophic proteins in the brain. The role of this growth factor in neuronal plasticity, in health and disease, has been extensively studied. However, mechanisms of epigenetic regulation of Bdnf gene expression in epilepsy are still elusive. In our previous work, using a rat model of neuronal activation upon kainate-induced seizures, we observed a repositioning of Bdnf alleles from the nuclear periphery towards the nuclear center. This change of Bdnf intranuclear position was associated with transcriptional gene activity. In the present study, using the same neuronal activation model, we analyzed the relation between the percentage of the Bdnf allele at the nuclear periphery and clinical and morphological traits of epilepsy. We observed that the decrease of the percentage of the Bdnf allele at the nuclear periphery correlates with stronger mossy fiber sprouting-an aberrant form of excitatory circuits formation. Moreover, using in vitro hippocampal cultures we showed that Bdnf repositioning is a consequence of transcriptional activity. Inhibition of RNA polymerase II activity in primary cultured neurons with Actinomycin D completely blocked Bdnf gene transcription and repositioning occurring after neuronal excitation. Interestingly, we observed that histone deacetylases inhibition with Trichostatin A induced a slight increase of Bdnf gene transcription and its repositioning even in the absence of neuronal excitation. Presented results provide novel insight into the role of BDNF in epileptogenesis. Moreover, they strengthen the statement that this particular gene is a good candidate to search for a new generation of antiepileptic therapies.
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- Anna Skupien-Jaroszek
- Laboratory of Molecular and Systemic Neuromorphology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Systemic Neuromorphology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Systemic Neuromorphology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Systemic Neuromorphology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Systemic Neuromorphology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Systemic Neuromorphology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Systemic Neuromorphology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Systemic Neuromorphology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Systemic Neuromorphology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
- * E-mail: (AM); (JD)
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Systemic Neuromorphology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
- Laboratory of Molecular Basis of Cell Motility, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
- * E-mail: (AM); (JD)
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Garad M, Edelmann E, Leßmann V. Long-term depression at hippocampal mossy fiber-CA3 synapses involves BDNF but is not mediated by p75NTR signaling. Sci Rep 2021; 11:8535. [PMID: 33879805 PMCID: PMC8058084 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-87769-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2020] [Accepted: 03/31/2021] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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BDNF plays a crucial role in the regulation of synaptic plasticity. It is synthesized as a precursor (proBDNF) that can be proteolytically cleaved to mature BDNF (mBDNF). Previous studies revealed a bidirectional mode of BDNF actions, where long-term potentiation (LTP) was mediated by mBDNF through tropomyosin related kinase (Trk) B receptors whereas long-term depression (LTD) depended on proBDNF/p75 neurotrophin receptor (p75NTR) signaling. While most experimental evidence for this BDNF dependence of synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus was derived from Schaffer collateral (SC)-CA1 synapses, much less is known about the mechanisms of synaptic plasticity, in particular LTD, at hippocampal mossy fiber (MF) synapses onto CA3 neurons. Since proBDNF and mBDNF are expressed most abundantly at MF-CA3 synapses in the rodent brain and we had shown previously that MF-LTP depends on mBDNF/TrkB signaling, we now explored the role of proBDNF/p75NTR signaling in MF-LTD. Our results show that neither acute nor chronic inhibition of p75NTR signaling impairs MF-LTD, while short-term plasticity, in particular paired-pulse facilitation, at MF-CA3 synapses is affected by a lack of functional p75NTR signaling. Furthermore, MF-CA3 synapses showed normal LTD upon acute inhibition of TrkB receptor signaling. Nonetheless, acute inhibition of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), an inhibitor of both intracellular and extracellular proBDNF cleavage, impaired MF-LTD. This seems to indicate that LTD at MF-CA3 synapses involves BDNF, however, MF-LTD does not depend on p75NTRs. Altogether, our experiments demonstrate that p75NTR signaling is not warranted for all glutamatergic synapses but rather needs to be checked separately for every synaptic connection.
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- Machhindra Garad
- Institute of Physiology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, 39120, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Institute of Physiology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, 39120, Magdeburg, Germany.
- Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences (CBBS), Magdeburg, Germany.
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- Institute of Physiology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, 39120, Magdeburg, Germany.
- Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences (CBBS), Magdeburg, Germany.
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Grovola MR, Paleologos N, Wofford KL, Harris JP, Browne KD, Johnson V, Duda JE, Wolf JA, Cullen DK. Mossy cell hypertrophy and synaptic changes in the hilus following mild diffuse traumatic brain injury in pigs. J Neuroinflammation 2020; 17:44. [PMID: 32005260 PMCID: PMC6993507 DOI: 10.1186/s12974-020-1720-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2019] [Accepted: 01/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Each year in the USA, over 2.4 million people experience mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), which can induce long-term neurological deficits. The dentate gyrus of the hippocampus is notably susceptible to damage following TBI, as hilar mossy cell changes in particular may contribute to post-TBI dysfunction. Moreover, microglial activation after TBI may play a role in hippocampal circuit and/or synaptic remodeling; however, the potential effects of chronic microglial changes are currently unknown. The objective of the current study was to assess neuropathological and neuroinflammatory changes in subregions of the dentate gyrus at acute to chronic time points following mild TBI using an established model of closed-head rotational acceleration induced TBI in pigs. METHODS This study utilized archival tissue of pigs which were subjected to sham conditions or rapid head rotation in the coronal plane to generate mild TBI. A quantitative assessment of neuropathological changes in the hippocampus was performed via immunohistochemical labeling of whole coronal tissue sections at 3 days post-injury (DPI), 7 DPI, 30 DPI, and 1 year post-injury (YPI), with a focus on mossy cell atrophy and synaptic reorganization, in context with microglial alterations (e.g., density, proximity to mossy cells) in the dentate gyrus. RESULTS There were no changes in mossy cell density between sham and injured animals, indicating no frank loss of mossy cells at the mild injury level evaluated. However, we found significant mossy cell hypertrophy at 7 DPI and 30 DPI in anterior (> 16% increase in mean cell area at each time; p = < 0.001 each) and 30 DPI in posterior (8.3% increase; p = < 0.0001) hippocampus. We also found dramatic increases in synapsin staining around mossy cells at 7 DPI in both anterior (74.7% increase in synapsin labeling; p = < 0.0001) and posterior (82.7% increase; p = < 0.0001) hippocampus. Interestingly, these morphological and synaptic alterations correlated with a significant change in microglia in proximity to mossy cells at 7 DPI in anterior and at 30 DPI in the posterior hippocampus. For broader context, while we found that there were significant increases in microglia density in the granule cell layer at 30 DPI (anterior and posterior) and 1 YPI (posterior only) and in the molecular layer at 1 YPI (anterior only), we found no significant changes in overall microglial density in the hilus at any of the time points evaluated post-injury. CONCLUSIONS The alterations of mossy cell size and synaptic inputs paired with changes in microglia density around the cells demonstrate the susceptibility of hilar mossy cells after even mild TBI. This subtle hilar mossy cell pathology may play a role in aberrant hippocampal function post-TBI, although additional studies are needed to characterize potential physiological and cognitive alterations.
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- Michael R Grovola
- Center for Neurotrauma, Neurodegeneration & Restoration, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Center for Brain Injury & Repair, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania, 105E Hayden Hall/3320 Smith Walk, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Center for Neurotrauma, Neurodegeneration & Restoration, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Center for Brain Injury & Repair, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania, 105E Hayden Hall/3320 Smith Walk, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Center for Neurotrauma, Neurodegeneration & Restoration, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Center for Brain Injury & Repair, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania, 105E Hayden Hall/3320 Smith Walk, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
- School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Center for Neurotrauma, Neurodegeneration & Restoration, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Center for Brain Injury & Repair, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania, 105E Hayden Hall/3320 Smith Walk, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Center for Neurotrauma, Neurodegeneration & Restoration, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Center for Brain Injury & Repair, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania, 105E Hayden Hall/3320 Smith Walk, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Center for Brain Injury & Repair, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania, 105E Hayden Hall/3320 Smith Walk, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Center for Neurotrauma, Neurodegeneration & Restoration, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Parkinson's Disease Research, Education and Clinical Center, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Center for Neurotrauma, Neurodegeneration & Restoration, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Center for Brain Injury & Repair, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania, 105E Hayden Hall/3320 Smith Walk, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Center for Neurotrauma, Neurodegeneration & Restoration, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
- Center for Brain Injury & Repair, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania, 105E Hayden Hall/3320 Smith Walk, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
- Department of Bioengineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, 105E Hayden Hall/3320 Smith Walk, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
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Maglione M, Kochlamazashvili G, Eisenberg T, Rácz B, Michael E, Toppe D, Stumpf A, Wirth A, Zeug A, Müller FE, Moreno-Velasquez L, Sammons RP, Hofer SJ, Madeo F, Maritzen T, Maier N, Ponimaskin E, Schmitz D, Haucke V, Sigrist SJ. Spermidine protects from age-related synaptic alterations at hippocampal mossy fiber-CA3 synapses. Sci Rep 2019; 9:19616. [PMID: 31873156 PMCID: PMC6927957 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-56133-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2019] [Accepted: 12/06/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Aging is associated with functional alterations of synapses thought to contribute to age-dependent memory impairment (AMI). While therapeutic avenues to protect from AMI are largely elusive, supplementation of spermidine, a polyamine normally declining with age, has been shown to restore defective proteostasis and to protect from AMI in Drosophila. Here we demonstrate that dietary spermidine protects from age-related synaptic alterations at hippocampal mossy fiber (MF)-CA3 synapses and prevents the aging-induced loss of neuronal mitochondria. Dietary spermidine rescued age-dependent decreases in synaptic vesicle density and largely restored defective presynaptic MF-CA3 long-term potentiation (LTP) at MF-CA3 synapses (MF-CA3) in aged animals. In contrast, spermidine failed to protect CA3-CA1 hippocampal synapses characterized by postsynaptic LTP from age-related changes in function and morphology. Our data demonstrate that dietary spermidine attenuates age-associated deterioration of MF-CA3 synaptic transmission and plasticity. These findings provide a physiological and molecular basis for the future therapeutic usage of spermidine.
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- Marta Maglione
- Department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Cell Biology, Leibniz Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), 13125, Berlin, Germany
- NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, Charité Universitätsmedizin, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Cell Biology, Leibniz Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), 13125, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, NAWI Graz, University of Graz, 8010, Graz, Austria
- BioTechMed-Graz, 8010, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Anatomy and Histology, University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest, 1078, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195, Berlin, Germany
- NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, Charité Universitätsmedizin, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195, Berlin, Germany
- NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, Charité Universitätsmedizin, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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- NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, Charité Universitätsmedizin, 10117, Berlin, Germany
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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- Cellular Neurophysiology, Hannover Medical School, 30625, Hannover, Germany
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- Cellular Neurophysiology, Hannover Medical School, 30625, Hannover, Germany
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- Cellular Neurophysiology, Hannover Medical School, 30625, Hannover, Germany
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- NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, Charité Universitätsmedizin, 10117, Berlin, Germany
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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- NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, Charité Universitätsmedizin, 10117, Berlin, Germany
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, NAWI Graz, University of Graz, 8010, Graz, Austria
- BioTechMed-Graz, 8010, Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, NAWI Graz, University of Graz, 8010, Graz, Austria
- BioTechMed-Graz, 8010, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Cell Biology, Leibniz Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), 13125, Berlin, Germany
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- NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, Charité Universitätsmedizin, 10117, Berlin, Germany
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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- Cellular Neurophysiology, Hannover Medical School, 30625, Hannover, Germany
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- NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, Charité Universitätsmedizin, 10117, Berlin, Germany
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Cell Biology, Leibniz Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), 13125, Berlin, Germany.
- NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, Charité Universitätsmedizin, 10117, Berlin, Germany.
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- Department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
- NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, Charité Universitätsmedizin, 10117, Berlin, Germany.
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Christensen KR, Beach TG, Serrano GE, Kanaan NM. Pathogenic tau modifications occur in axons before the somatodendritic compartment in mossy fiber and Schaffer collateral pathways. Acta Neuropathol Commun 2019; 7:29. [PMID: 30819250 PMCID: PMC6394076 DOI: 10.1186/s40478-019-0675-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2019] [Accepted: 02/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
Abstract
The deposition of tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease (AD) may occur first in axons of neurons and then progress back into the cell bodies to form neurofibrillary tangles, however, studies have not directly analyzed this relationship in relatively discrete circuits within the human hippocampus. In the early phases of tau deposition, both AT8 phosphorylation and exposure of the amino terminus of tau occurs in tauopathies, and these modifications are linked to mechanisms of synaptic and axonal dysfunction. Here, we examined the localization of these tau pathologies in well-characterized post-mortem human tissue samples from the hippocampus of 44 cases ranging between non-demented and mild cognitively impaired to capture a time at which intrahippocampal pathways show a range in the extent of tau deposition. The tissue sections were analyzed for AT8 (AT8 antibody), amino terminus exposure (TNT2 antibody), and amyloid-β (MOAB2 antibody) pathology in hippocampal strata containing the axons and neuronal cell bodies of the CA3-Schaffer collateral and dentate granule-mossy fiber pathways. We show that tau pathology first appears in the axonal compartment of affected neurons in the absence of observable tau pathology in the corresponding cell bodies in several cases. Additionally, deposition of tau in these intrahippocampal pathways was independent of the presence of Aβ plaques. We confirmed that the majority of tau pathology positive neuropil threads were axonal in origin and not dendritic using an axonal marker (i.e. SMI312 antibody) and somatodendritic marker (i.e. MAP2 antibody). Taken together, these results support the hypothesis that AT8 phosphorylation and amino terminus exposure are early pathological events and that the deposition of tau pathology, at least in the studied pathways, occurs first in the axonal compartment prior to observable pathology in the somata. These findings highlight the importance on targeting tau deposition, ideally in the initial phases of its deposition in axons.
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- Kyle R Christensen
- Department of Translational Science and Molecular Medicine, Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine, 400 Monroe Ave NW, Grand Rapids, MI, 49053, USA
- Neuroscience Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Department of Translational Science and Molecular Medicine, Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine, 400 Monroe Ave NW, Grand Rapids, MI, 49053, USA.
- Neuroscience Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
- Hauenstein Neuroscience Center, Mercy Health Saint Mary's, Grand Rapids, MI, USA.
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Rami A, Benz A. Exclusive Activation of Caspase-3 in Mossy Fibers and Altered Dynamics of Autophagy Markers in the Mice Hippocampus upon Status Epilepticus Induced by Kainic Acid. Mol Neurobiol 2018; 55:4492-4503. [PMID: 28685385 DOI: 10.1007/s12035-017-0665-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2017] [Accepted: 06/19/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
Abstract
Epileptic seizures are generally associated with pathological changes in the hippocampus such as astrogliosis, mossy fiber sprouting, and neuronal damage. However, more than 30% of temporal lobe epilepsy in humans shows neither neuronal damage nor mossy fiber sprouting despite chronic epileptic seizures. A similar situation exists in certain commonly used strains of mice, specifically C57BL/6 and BALB/c, which exhibit epileptic seizures, but no neuronal damage upon kainic acid administration. This suggests that intrinsic factors may influence the pathological manifestations of epilepsy. Mechanisms which are behind the resistance of hippocampal cells to KA-induced neuronal death are unknown. Autophagy seems to be involved in the pathogenesis of many brain insults and to have a dual nature in neuroprotection and cell death. This study addresses the role of autophagy upon status epilepticus (SE) that has been induced by kainic acid (KA) in the C57BL/6 strain which is classified as seizure resistant. We analyzed the dynamics in the expression of autophagic and cell death markers in the hippocampus upon SE. Immunofluorescence data show that KA did not induce neuronal death in the hippocampal CA1-CA3 subfields; however, it leads to an exclusive activation of caspase-3 in the mossy fibers. We also found alterations in the expression of core proteins of the autophagic machinery. Levels of MAP1LC3, phospho-mTOR/mTOR, and Beclin 1 were significantly increased after induction of seizures. However, levels of Atg3, Atg14, Atg5-Atg12, Atg7, BAG3, Hsp70, and LAMP1 showed no significant alterations compared to controls. Although KA did not induce neuronal death, this study provides morphological and biochemical evidence that status epilepticus induced by KA activates caspase-3 in mossy fibers and induces autophagy in the C57BL/6 hippocampus. These data indicate that autophagic factors may modulate the sensitivity of pyramidal cells to KA and that autophagy may constitute a part of an endogenous neuroprotective arsenal which might be behind the resistance of C57BL/6-hippocampal cells to KA-induced neuronal death.
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- A Rami
- Institut für Zelluläre und Molekulare Anatomie (Anatomie III), Universitätsklinikum, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60590, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
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- Institut für Zelluläre und Molekulare Anatomie (Anatomie III), Universitätsklinikum, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60590, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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Dang J, Tian F, Li F, Huang W, Song M, Ding D, Huang X. Roles of Rho guanine nucleotide triphosphatases in hippocampal mossy fiber sprouting in the pentylenetetrazole kindling model. Clin Lab 2014; 60:175-84. [PMID: 24660528 DOI: 10.7754/clin.lab.2013.130320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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BACKGROUND One unique feature of chronic human and experimental epilepsy is hippocampal dentate granule cell axon (mossy fiber) sprouting which creates an aberrant positive-feedback circuit that may be epileptogenic. However, the mechanism underlying this process remains unclear. Rho guanine nucleotide triphosphatases (RhoGTP ases) Rac1 and RhoA are important regulators of axon growth and synaptic plasticity and can be blocked by treatment with fasudil. We hypothesized that Rac1 and RhoA are involved in aberrant mossy fiber sprouting (MFS). METHODS A temporal lobe epilepsy model was established by intraperitoneal pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) injection for animals in PTZ group, and fasudil was injected 30 minutes prior to PTZ injection for animals in PTZ + Fas group. The expression of Rac1 and RhoA in the rat hippocampus was tested at different time points by immunohistochemistry, Western blot and quantitative real-time PCR. Mossy fiber sprouting in the hippocampus was evaluated by Timm staining. RESULTS Rac1 and RhoA were significantly up-regulated in the PTZ group, and as predicted, the degree of aberrant MFS was correspondingly increased. However, the expression of Rac1 and RhoA was not inhibited in the PTZ + Fas group, and the epileptiform activity, EEG and aberrant MFS were not suppressed following PTZ + Fas treatment. CONCLUSIONS RhoGTPases play a role in MFS but fasudil is not sufficient to inhibit RhoGTPases and MFS in the PTZ kindling model.
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Wang H, Megill A, Wong PC, Kirkwood A, Lee HK. Postsynaptic target specific synaptic dysfunctions in the CA3 area of BACE1 knockout mice. PLoS One 2014; 9:e92279. [PMID: 24637500 PMCID: PMC3956924 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2013] [Accepted: 02/20/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Beta-amyloid precursor protein cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE1), a major neuronal β-secretase critical for the formation of β-amyloid (Aβ) peptide, is considered one of the key therapeutic targets that can prevent the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Although a complete ablation of BACE1 gene prevents Aβ formation, we previously reported that BACE1 knockouts (KOs) display presynaptic deficits, especially at the mossy fiber (MF) to CA3 synapses. Whether the defect is specific to certain inputs or postsynaptic targets in CA3 is unknown. To determine this, we performed whole-cell recording from pyramidal cells (PYR) and the stratum lucidum (SL) interneurons in the CA3, both of which receive excitatory MF terminals with high levels of BACE1 expression. BACE1 KOs displayed an enhancement of paired-pulse facilitation at the MF inputs to CA3 PYRs without changes at the MF inputs to SL interneurons, which suggests postsynaptic target specific regulation. The synaptic dysfunction in CA3 PYRs was not restricted to excitatory synapses, as seen by an increase in the paired-pulse ratio of evoked inhibitory postsynaptic currents from SL to CA3 PYRs. In addition to the changes in evoked synaptic transmission, BACE1 KOs displayed a reduction in the frequency of miniature excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic currents (mEPSCs and mIPSCs) in CA3 PYRs without alteration in mEPSCs recorded from SL interneurons. This suggests that the impairment may be more global across diverse inputs to CA3 PYRs. Our results indicate that the synaptic dysfunctions seen in BACE1 KOs are specific to the postsynaptic target, the CA3 PYRs, independent of the input type.
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- Hui Wang
- Department of Neuroscience, Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Neuroscience, Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Neuroscience, Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Neuroscience, Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
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Wilke SA, Raam T, Antonios JK, Bushong EA, Koo EH, Ellisman MH, Ghosh A. Specific disruption of hippocampal mossy fiber synapses in a mouse model of familial Alzheimer's disease. PLoS One 2014; 9:e84349. [PMID: 24454724 PMCID: PMC3890281 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2013] [Accepted: 11/14/2013] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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The earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are characterized by deficits in memory and cognition indicating hippocampal pathology. While it is now recognized that synapse dysfunction precedes the hallmark pathological findings of AD, it is unclear if specific hippocampal synapses are particularly vulnerable. Since the mossy fiber (MF) synapse between dentate gyrus (DG) and CA3 regions underlies critical functions disrupted in AD, we utilized serial block-face electron microscopy (SBEM) to analyze MF microcircuitry in a mouse model of familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD). FAD mutant MF terminal complexes were severely disrupted compared to control - they were smaller, contacted fewer postsynaptic spines and had greater numbers of presynaptic filopodial processes. Multi-headed CA3 dendritic spines in the FAD mutant condition were reduced in complexity and had significantly smaller sites of synaptic contact. Significantly, there was no change in the volume of classical dendritic spines at neighboring inputs to CA3 neurons suggesting input-specific defects in the early course of AD related pathology. These data indicate a specific vulnerability of the DG-CA3 network in AD pathogenesis and demonstrate the utility of SBEM to assess circuit specific alterations in mouse models of human disease.
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- Scott A. Wilke
- Neurobiology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Neurobiology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Neurobiology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Neurobiology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Neuroscience Discovery and Translational Area, pRED, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel, Switzerland
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Zhuravleva ZN, Zhuravlev GI, Khutsian SS. [Inductive role of mossy fibers of hippocampus in the development of dendritic spines in aberrant synaptogenesis at neurotransplantation]. Ontogenez 2014; 45:42-49. [PMID: 25720264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The dentate fascia of the hippocampal formation isolated from 20-day-old Wistar rat fetuses was subjected to heterotopic transplantation into the somatosensory area of the neocortex of adult rats of the same strain. Five months after surgery, neurotransplantates, together with neighboring area of the neocortex, were studied using light and electron microscopy. We carried out a detailed study of the ultrastructure of the ectopic synaptic endings formed by the axons of granular neurons of the dentate fascia (mossy fibers) with neurons of the neocortex unusual for them in a normal state. Ultrastructural analysis revealed that most ectopic synaptic endings produce its determinant morphological features: giant sizes ofpresynaptic knobs, active zones with branched dendritic spines, and adherens junctions with the surface of dendrites. The data indicate that the mossy fibers growing from neurotransplantates induce structural and chemical reorganization of dendrites of the neocortex using transmembrane adherens junctions, such as puncta adherentia junctions. This results in the differentiation of active zones and development of dendritic spines typical for giant synaptic endings that are invaginated into presynaptic endings. Thus, the ability of neurons of the dentate fascia to form aberrant synaptic connections at transplantation results from the inductive synaptogenic properties of mossy fibers.
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Stagni F, Magistretti J, Guidi S, Ciani E, Mangano C, Calzà L, Bartesaghi R. Pharmacotherapy with fluoxetine restores functional connectivity from the dentate gyrus to field CA3 in the Ts65Dn mouse model of down syndrome. PLoS One 2013; 8:e61689. [PMID: 23620781 PMCID: PMC3631158 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2012] [Accepted: 03/13/2013] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Down syndrome (DS) is a high-incidence genetic pathology characterized by severe impairment of cognitive functions, including declarative memory. Impairment of hippocampus-dependent long-term memory in DS appears to be related to anatomo-functional alterations of the hippocampal trisynaptic circuit formed by the dentate gyrus (DG) granule cells - CA3 pyramidal neurons - CA1 pyramidal neurons. No therapies exist to improve cognitive disability in individuals with DS. In previous studies we demonstrated that pharmacotherapy with fluoxetine restores neurogenesis, granule cell number and dendritic morphology in the DG of the Ts65Dn mouse model of DS. The goal of the current study was to establish whether treatment rescues the impairment of synaptic connectivity between the DG and CA3 that characterizes the trisomic condition. Euploid and Ts65Dn mice were treated with fluoxetine during the first two postnatal weeks and examined 45-60 days after treatment cessation. Untreated Ts65Dn mice had a hypotrophyc mossy fiber bundle, fewer synaptic contacts, fewer glutamatergic contacts, and fewer dendritic spines in the stratum lucidum of CA3, the terminal field of the granule cell projections. Electrophysiological recordings from CA3 pyramidal neurons showed that in Ts65Dn mice the frequency of both mEPSCs and mIPSCs was reduced, indicating an overall impairment of excitatory and inhibitory inputs to CA3 pyramidal neurons. In treated Ts65Dn mice all these aberrant features were fully normalized, indicating that fluoxetine can rescue functional connectivity between the DG and CA3. The positive effects of fluoxetine on the DG-CA3 system suggest that early treatment with this drug could be a suitable therapy, possibly usable in humans, to restore the physiology of the hippocampal networks and, hence, memory functions.
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- Fiorenza Stagni
- Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology “L. Spallanzani”, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Health Sciences and Technologies - Interdepartmental Center for Industrial Research (HST-ICIR), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Health Sciences and Technologies - Interdepartmental Center for Industrial Research (HST-ICIR), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Lanore F, Labrousse VF, Szabo Z, Normand E, Blanchet C, Mulle C. Deficits in morphofunctional maturation of hippocampal mossy fiber synapses in a mouse model of intellectual disability. J Neurosci 2012; 32:17882-93. [PMID: 23223307 PMCID: PMC6621665 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2049-12.2012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2012] [Revised: 10/16/2012] [Accepted: 10/18/2012] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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The grik2 gene, coding for the kainate receptor subunit GluK2 (formerly GluR6), is associated with autism spectrum disorders and intellectual disability. Here, we tested the hypothesis that GluK2 could play a role in the appropriate maturation of synaptic circuits involved in learning and memory. We show that both the functional and morphological maturation of hippocampal mossy fiber to CA3 pyramidal cell (mf-CA3) synapses is delayed in mice deficient for the GluK2 subunit (GluK2⁻/⁻). In GluK2⁻/⁻ mice this deficit is manifested by a transient reduction in the amplitude of AMPA-EPSCs at a critical time point of postnatal development, whereas the NMDA component is spared. By combining multiple probability peak fluctuation analysis and immunohistochemistry, we have provided evidence that the decreased amplitude reflects a decrease in the quantal size per mf-CA3 synapse and in the number of active synaptic sites. Furthermore, we analyzed the time course of structural maturation of CA3 synapses by confocal imaging of YFP-expressing cells followed by tridimensional (3D) anatomical reconstruction of thorny excrescences and presynaptic boutons. We show that major changes in synaptic structures occur subsequently to the sharp increase in synaptic transmission, and more importantly that the course of structural maturation of synaptic elements is impaired in GluK2⁻/⁻ mice. This study highlights how a mutation in a gene linked to intellectual disability in the human may lead to a transient reduction of synaptic strength during postnatal development, impacting on the proper formation of neural circuits linked to memory.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Animals, Outbred Strains
- Disease Models, Animal
- Excitatory Amino Acid Agonists/pharmacology
- Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials/genetics
- Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials/physiology
- Intellectual Disability/genetics
- Intellectual Disability/metabolism
- Intellectual Disability/pathology
- Intellectual Disability/physiopathology
- Mice
- Mice, Knockout
- Mossy Fibers, Hippocampal/drug effects
- Mossy Fibers, Hippocampal/growth & development
- Mossy Fibers, Hippocampal/pathology
- Mossy Fibers, Hippocampal/physiopathology
- N-Methylaspartate/pharmacology
- Presynaptic Terminals/pathology
- Receptors, Kainic Acid/agonists
- Receptors, Kainic Acid/genetics
- Receptors, Kainic Acid/physiology
- Synapses/pathology
- alpha-Amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic Acid/pharmacology
- GluK2 Kainate Receptor
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- Frederic Lanore
- Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, University of Bordeaux, and
- CNRS UMR 5297, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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- Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, University of Bordeaux, and
- CNRS UMR 5297, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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- Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, University of Bordeaux, and
- CNRS UMR 5297, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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- Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, University of Bordeaux, and
- CNRS UMR 5297, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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- Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, University of Bordeaux, and
- CNRS UMR 5297, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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- Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, University of Bordeaux, and
- CNRS UMR 5297, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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Pun RY, Rolle IJ, LaSarge CL, Hosford BE, Rosen JM, Uhl JD, Schmeltzer SN, Faulkner C, Bronson SL, Murphy BL, Richards DA, Holland KD, Danzer SC. Excessive activation of mTOR in postnatally generated granule cells is sufficient to cause epilepsy. Neuron 2012; 75:1022-34. [PMID: 22998871 PMCID: PMC3474536 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 200] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/02/2012] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
Abstract
The dentate gyrus is hypothesized to function as a "gate," limiting the flow of excitation through the hippocampus. During epileptogenesis, adult-generated granule cells (DGCs) form aberrant neuronal connections with neighboring DGCs, disrupting the dentate gate. Hyperactivation of the mTOR signaling pathway is implicated in driving this aberrant circuit formation. While the presence of abnormal DGCs in epilepsy has been known for decades, direct evidence linking abnormal DGCs to seizures has been lacking. Here, we isolate the effects of abnormal DGCs using a transgenic mouse model to selectively delete PTEN from postnatally generated DGCs. PTEN deletion led to hyperactivation of the mTOR pathway, producing abnormal DGCs morphologically similar to those in epilepsy. Strikingly, animals in which PTEN was deleted from ≥ 9% of the DGC population developed spontaneous seizures in about 4 weeks, confirming that abnormal DGCs, which are present in both animals and humans with epilepsy, are capable of causing the disease.
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- Raymund Y.K. Pun
- Department of Anesthesia, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, Cincinnati, OH, 45229
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- Program in Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45267
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- Department of Anesthesia, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, Cincinnati, OH, 45229
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- Program in Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45267
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- Department of Anesthesia, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, Cincinnati, OH, 45229
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- Division of Molecular and Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre Research Foundation, Cincinnati, OH, 45229
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- Department of Anesthesia, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, Cincinnati, OH, 45229
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- Program in Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45267
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- Department of Anesthesia, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, Cincinnati, OH, 45229
- Departments of Anesthesia and Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45267
- Program in Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45267
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- Department of Neurology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, Cincinnati, OH, 45229
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- Department of Anesthesia, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, Cincinnati, OH, 45229
- Departments of Anesthesia and Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45267
- Program in Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45267
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Malheiros JM, Polli RS, Paiva FF, Longo BM, Mello LE, Silva AC, Tannús A, Covolan L. Manganese-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging detects mossy fiber sprouting in the pilocarpine model of epilepsy. Epilepsia 2012; 53:1225-32. [PMID: 22642664 PMCID: PMC3389594 DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2012.03521.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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PURPOSE Mossy fiber sprouting (MFS) is a frequent finding following status epilepticus (SE). The present study aimed to test the feasibility of using manganese-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MEMRI) to detect MFS in the chronic phase of the well-established pilocarpine (Pilo) rat model of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). METHODS To modulate MFS, cycloheximide (CHX), a protein synthesis inhibitor, was coadministered with Pilo in a subgroup of animals. In vivo MEMRI was performed 3 months after induction of SE and compared to the neo-Timm histologic labeling of zinc mossy fiber terminals in the dentate gyrus (DG). KEY FINDINGS Chronically epileptic rats displaying MFS as detected by neo-Timm histology had a hyperintense MEMRI signal in the DG, whereas chronically epileptic animals that did not display MFS had minimal MEMRI signal enhancement compared to nonepileptic control animals. A strong correlation (r = 0.81, p < 0.001) was found between MEMRI signal enhancement and MFS. SIGNIFICANCE This study shows that MEMRI is an attractive noninvasive method for detection of mossy fiber sprouting in vivo and can be used as an evaluation tool in testing therapeutic approaches to manage chronic epilepsy.
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- Jackeline M. Malheiros
- Department of Physiology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP, São Paulo, SP, 04023-06; Brazil
- Centro de Imagens e Espectroscopia in vivo por Ressonância Magnética (CIERMag), Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo (IFSC-USP) - São Carlos, SP, 13566-590; Brazil
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- Department of Physiology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP, São Paulo, SP, 04023-06; Brazil
- Centro de Imagens e Espectroscopia in vivo por Ressonância Magnética (CIERMag), Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo (IFSC-USP) - São Carlos, SP, 13566-590; Brazil
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- Centro de Imagens e Espectroscopia in vivo por Ressonância Magnética (CIERMag), Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo (IFSC-USP) - São Carlos, SP, 13566-590; Brazil
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- Department of Physiology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP, São Paulo, SP, 04023-06; Brazil
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- Department of Physiology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP, São Paulo, SP, 04023-06; Brazil
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- Cerebral Microcirculation Unit/Laboratory of Functional and Molecular Imaging/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892-1065; USA
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- Centro de Imagens e Espectroscopia in vivo por Ressonância Magnética (CIERMag), Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo (IFSC-USP) - São Carlos, SP, 13566-590; Brazil
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- Department of Physiology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP, São Paulo, SP, 04023-06; Brazil
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Lee CY, Jaw T, Tseng HC, Chen IC, Liou HH. Lovastatin modulates glycogen synthase kinase-3β pathway and inhibits mossy fiber sprouting after pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus. PLoS One 2012; 7:e38789. [PMID: 22761705 PMCID: PMC3383707 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2012] [Accepted: 05/10/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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This study was undertaken to assay the effect of lovastatin on the glycogen synthase kinase-3 beta (GSK-3β) and collapsin responsive mediator protein-2 (CRMP-2) signaling pathway and mossy fiber sprouting (MFS) in epileptic rats. MFS in the dentate gyrus (DG) is an important feature of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and is highly related to the severity and the frequency of spontaneous recurrent seizures. However, the molecular mechanism of MFS is mostly unknown. GSK-3β and CRMP-2 are the genes responsible for axonal growth and neuronal polarity in the hippocampus, therefore this pathway is a potential target to investigate MFS. Pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus animal model was taken as our researching material. Western blot, histological and electrophysiological techniques were used as the studying tools. The results showed that the expression level of GSK-3β and CRMP-2 were elevated after seizure induction, and the administration of lovastatin reversed this effect and significantly reduced the extent of MFS in both DG and CA3 region in the hippocampus. The alteration of expression level of GSK-3β and CRMP-2 after seizure induction proposes that GSK-3β and CRMP-2 are crucial for MFS and epiletogenesis. The fact that lovastatin reversed the expression level of GSK-3β and CRMP-2 indicated that GSK-3β and CRMP-2 are possible to be a novel mechanism of lovatstain to suppress MFS and revealed a new therapeutic target and researching direction for studying the mechanism of MFS and epileptogenesis.
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- Chun-Yao Lee
- Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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Scharfman HE, Pierce JP. New insights into the role of hilar ectopic granule cells in the dentate gyrus based on quantitative anatomic analysis and three-dimensional reconstruction. Epilepsia 2012; 53 Suppl 1:109-15. [PMID: 22612815 PMCID: PMC3920449 DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2012.03480.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The dentate gyrus is one of two main areas of the mammalian brain where neurons are born throughout adulthood, a phenomenon called postnatal neurogenesis. Most of the neurons that are generated are granule cells (GCs), the major principal cell type in the dentate gyrus. Some adult-born granule cells develop in ectopic locations, such as the dentate hilus. The generation of hilar ectopic granule cells (HEGCs) is greatly increased in several animal models of epilepsy and has also been demonstrated in surgical specimens from patients with intractable temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Herein we review the results of our quantitative neuroanatomic analysis of HEGCs that were filled with Neurobiotin following electrophysiologic characterization in hippocampal slices. The data suggest that two types of HEGCs exist, based on a proximal or distal location of the cell body relative to the granule cell layer, and based on the location of most of the dendrites, in the molecular layer or hilus. Three-dimensional reconstruction revealed that the dendrites of distal HEGCs can extend along the transverse and longitudinal axis of the hippocampus. Analysis of axons demonstrated that HEGCs have projections that contribute to the normal mossy fiber innervation of CA3 as well as the abnormal sprouted fibers in the inner molecular layer of epileptic rodents (mossy fiber sprouting). These data support the idea that HEGCs could function as a "hub" cell in the dentate gyrus and play a critical role in network excitability.
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- Helen E Scharfman
- The Nathan Kline Institute, Center for Dementia Research, 140 Old Orangeburg Rd.,Orangeburg, NY 10962, U.S.A.
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Hunt RF, Haselhorst LA, Schoch KM, Bach EC, Rios-Pilier J, Scheff SW, Saatman KE, Smith BN. Posttraumatic mossy fiber sprouting is related to the degree of cortical damage in three mouse strains. Epilepsy Res 2012; 99:167-70. [PMID: 22047981 PMCID: PMC3290720 DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2011.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2011] [Revised: 09/16/2011] [Accepted: 10/09/2011] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Controlled cortical impact injury was used to examine relationships between focal posttraumatic cortical damage and mossy fiber sprouting (MFS) in the dentate gyrus in three mouse strains. Posttraumatic MFS was more robust when cortical injury impinged upon the hippocampus, versus contusions restricted to neocortex, and was qualitatively similar among CD-1, C57BL/6, and FVB/N background strains. Impact parameters influencing injury severity may be critical in reproducing epilepsy-related changes in neurotrauma models.
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- Robert F. Hunt
- Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0298, USA
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- Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0298, USA
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- Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0298, USA
- Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0298, USA
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- Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0298, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0298, USA
- Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0298, USA
- Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0298, USA
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- Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0298, USA
- Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0298, USA
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- Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0298, USA
- Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0298, USA
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Xie C, Sun J, Qiao W, Lu D, Wei L, Na M, Song Y, Hou X, Lin Z. Administration of simvastatin after kainic acid-induced status epilepticus restrains chronic temporal lobe epilepsy. PLoS One 2011; 6:e24966. [PMID: 21949812 PMCID: PMC3176286 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2011] [Accepted: 08/22/2011] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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In this study, we examined the effect of chronic administration of simvastatin immediately after status epilepticus (SE) on rat brain with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). First, we evaluated cytokines expression at 3 days post KA-lesion in hippocampus and found that simvastatin-treatment suppressed lesion-induced expression of interleukin (IL)-1β and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α). Further, we quantified reactive astrocytosis using glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) staining and neuron loss using Nissl staining in hippocampus at 4-6 months after KA-lesion. We found that simvastatin suppressed reactive astrocytosis demonstrated by a significant decrease in GFAP-positive cells, and attenuated loss of pyramidal neurons in CA3 and interneurons in dentate hilar (DH). We next assessed aberrant mossy fiber sprouting (MFS) that is known to contribute to recurrence of spontaneous seizure in epileptic brain. In contrast to the robust MFS observed in saline-treated animals, the extent of MFS was restrained by simvastatin in epileptic rats. Attenuated MFS was related to decreased neuronal loss in CA3 and DH, which is possibly a mechanism underlying decreased hippocampal susceptibility in animal treated with simvastatin. Electronic encephalography (EEG) was recorded during 4 to 6 months after KA-lesion. The frequency of abnormal spikes in rats with simvastatin-treatment decreased significantly compared to the saline group. In summary, simvastatin treatment suppressed cytokines expression and reactive astrocytosis and decreased the frequency of discharges of epileptic brain, which might be due to the inhibition of MFS in DH. Our study suggests that simvastatin administration might be a possible intervention and promising strategy for preventing SE exacerbating to chronic epilepsy.
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- Chuncheng Xie
- Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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Jung JH, An K, Kwon OB, Kim HS, Kim JH. Pathway-specific alteration of synaptic plasticity in Tg2576 mice. Mol Cells 2011; 32:197-201. [PMID: 21638202 PMCID: PMC3887667 DOI: 10.1007/s10059-011-0077-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2011] [Revised: 05/25/2011] [Accepted: 05/25/2011] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Various animal models of Alzheimer disease (AD) are characterized by deficits in spatial memory that are causally related to altered synaptic function and impairment of long-term potentiation (LTP) in the hippocampus. In Tg2576 AD mice, we compared LTP in 2 major hippocampal pathways, Schaffer collateral (SC) and mossy fiber (MF) pathways. Whereas LTP was completely abolished in the SC pathway of Tg2576 mice, we found no decrease in LTP induced by stimulation of the MF pathway. In fact, we found that in the MF pathway, LTP was slightly, but significantly, enhanced compared with that in the MF pathway of WT littermates. This pathway-specific impairment of LTP is not attributable to alterations in transmitter release, as indicated by an unaltered paired-pulse ratio. These results suggest that the spatial memory deficits normally seen in AD models arise primarily from LTP impairment at the SC pathway.
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- Department of Pharmacology, Seoul National University, College of Medicine, Seoul 110-799, Korea
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Tian FF, Zeng C, Guo TH, Chen Y, Chen JM, Ma YF, Fang J, Cai XF, Li FR, Wang XH, Huang WJ, Fu JJ, Dang J. Mossy fiber sprouting, hippocampal damage and spontaneous recurrent seizures in pentylenetetrazole kindling rat model. Acta Neurol Belg 2009; 109:298-304. [PMID: 20120210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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AIM The aim of this study was to determine the correlations among hippocampal damage, spontaneous recurrent seizures (SRS), and mossy fiber sprouting (MFS) using pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) kindling model. METHODS Chronic epileptic model was established by administration of PTZ. Behaviour and EEG seizure activity were recorded. Rats' hippocampus were analyzed with haematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stain for histological lesions and evaluated for MFS with Timm stain. RESULTS Prominent MFS was observed in area CA3 rather than the inner molecular layer in PTZ treated rats and the degree of MFS progressed with the development of behavioral kindled seizures. MFS preceded the occurrence of spontaneous seizures. No obvious neuronal necrosis and loss were observed in different regions of the hippocampus during kindling progression. CONCLUSION MFS is not the outcome of SRS. Severe hippocampal damage is not required in the development of MFS and SRS.
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- Fa-Fa Tian
- Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
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Ni H, Jiang YW, Tao LY, Cen JN, Wu XR. Effects of penicillin-induced developmental epilepticus on hippocampal regenerative sprouting, related gene expression and cognitive deficits in rats. Toxicol Lett 2009; 188:161-6. [PMID: 19446251 DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2009.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2009] [Revised: 03/31/2009] [Accepted: 04/01/2009] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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For the purpose of investigating the long-term effects of seizures in developmental rats on spatial learning ability and hippocampal mossy fiber sprouting related gene expressions in adult rat brain, a seizure was induced by penicillin quaque die alterna in Sprague-Dawley rats from postnatal day 29 (P29). Rats were assigned into the recurrent seizure group (RS, seizures were induced in 11 consecutive days) and the control group. During P51-P56, P81-P84 and P92-P95, the rats were tested for spatial learning ability with the Morris water maze task. On P95, the authors examined mossy fiber sprouting and gene expression of zinc transporters 1 and 3 (ZnT-1, ZnT-3), calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IIalpha (CaMK-IIalpha), NMDA receptor 2C (NR2C) and glutamate receptor 2 (GluR2) in hippocampus by Timm staining and real-time RT-PCR analysis. The escape latencies from the water maze of the rats in the RS group were significantly longer than those of the control rats at d5 of the first test, at d1 of the second test, and at d2 of the third test. In the spatial probe test, the ratio between the swim time in the third quadrant and the total swim time in control group was significantly higher than RS group (p<0.05) in the entire three probe tests. The Timm scores in CA3 and dentate gyrus in the RS animals were significantly higher than that in the control. Compared with the control rats, the expressions of ZnT-1, CaMK-IIalpha and GluR2 transcripts in the hippocampus of the RS group was significantly decreased while unchanged in transcriptional levels of ZnT-3 and NR2C. There were positive linear correlations among ZnT-3, CaMKIIalpha, and NR2C in control group and among CaMKIIalpha, ZnT-1 and GluR2 in RS group. The results suggest that recurrent seizures induced in developmental rats could cause long-term disturbance on the hippocampal mossy fiber sprouting related gene expressions, which might play an important role in long-term cognitive deficit and hippocampal aberrant mossy fiber sprouting.
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- Hong Ni
- Neurology Laboratory, Soochow University Affiliated Children's Hospital, Laboratory of Aging and Nervous Diseases, Soochow University, Suzhou 215003, China.
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Wu Z, Xu Q, Zhang L, Kong D, Ma R, Wang L. Protective effect of resveratrol against kainate-induced temporal lobe epilepsy in rats. Neurochem Res 2009; 34:1393-400. [PMID: 19219549 DOI: 10.1007/s11064-009-9920-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/24/2009] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Resveratrol (Res) is a phytoalexin produced naturally by several plants, which has multi functional effects such as neuroprotection, anti-inflammatory, and anti-cancer. The present study was to evaluate a possible anti-epileptic effect of Res against kainate-induced temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) in rat. We performed behavior monitoring, intracranial electroencepholography (IEEG) recording, histological analysis, and Western blotting to evaluate the anti-epilepsy effect of Res in kainate-induced epileptic rats. Res decreased the frequency of spontaneous seizures and inhibited the epileptiform discharges. Moreover, Res could protect neurons against kainate-induced neuronal cell death in CA1 and CA3a regions and depressed mossy fiber sprouting, which are general histological characteristics both in TLE patients and animal models. Western blot revealed that the expression level of kainate receptors (KARs) in hippocampus was reduced in Res-administrated rats compared to that in epileptic ones. These results suggest that Res is a potent anti-epilepsy agent, which protects against epileptogenesis and progression of the kainate-induced TLE animal.
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- Zheng Wu
- Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Science, Anhui Medical University, 230032 Hefei, China
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OBJECTIVES To review the understanding about co-localisation of amino acid transmitters in the brain. RESULTS The idea that neurons release the same transmitter at all their synapses is associated with Henry Dale and formulated as Dale's principle by John Eccles. This idea has been modified during the last years based on several studies showing that transmitters can co-exist at the same synapse. First, a large body of evidence was presented showing that a classical transmitter can be co-localized with different types of neuropeptides. Then, several studies showed that a synapse could co-release two classical transmitters. CONCLUSION This review presents and discusses data from our laboratory showing co-release of glutamate/gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), aspartate/glutamate and aspartate/GABA from different types of hippocampal synapses.
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- V Gundersen
- Department of Anatomy and the CMBN, University of Oslo, Norway.
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WINAWER MR, MAKARENKO N, McCLOSKEY DP, HINTZ TM, NAIR N, PALMER AA, SCHARFMAN HE. Acute and chronic responses to the convulsant pilocarpine in DBA/2J and A/J mice. Neuroscience 2007; 149:465-75. [PMID: 17904758 PMCID: PMC2640947 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2007.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2007] [Revised: 06/01/2007] [Accepted: 06/10/2007] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Characterizing the responses of different mouse strains to experimentally-induced seizures can provide clues to the genes that are responsible for seizure susceptibility, and factors that contribute to epilepsy. This approach is optimal when sequenced mouse strains are available. Therefore, we compared two sequenced strains, DBA/2J (DBA) and A/J. These strains were compared using the chemoconvulsant pilocarpine, because pilocarpine induces status epilepticus, a state of severe, prolonged seizures. In addition, pilocarpine-induced status is followed by changes in the brain that are associated with the pathophysiology of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Therefore, pilocarpine can be used to address susceptibility to severe seizures, as well as genes that could be relevant to TLE. A/J mice had a higher incidence of status, but a longer latency to status than DBA mice. DBA mice exhibited more hippocampal pyramidal cell damage. DBA mice developed more ectopic granule cells in the hilus, a result of aberrant migration of granule cells born after status. DBA mice experienced sudden death in the weeks following status, while A/J mice exhibited the most sudden death in the initial hour after pilocarpine administration. The results support previous studies of strain differences based on responses to convulsants. They suggest caution in studies of seizure susceptibility that are based only on incidence or latency. In addition, the results provide new insight into the strain-specific characteristics of DBA and A/J mice. A/J mice provide a potential resource to examine the progression to status. The DBA mouse may be valuable to clarify genes regulating other seizure-associated phenomena, such as seizure-induced neurogenesis and sudden death.
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- M. R. WINAWER
- Department of Neurology and G.H. Sergievsky Center, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- CNRRR, Helen Hayes Hospital, Route 9W, West Haverstraw, NY 10993-1195, USA
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- CNRRR, Helen Hayes Hospital, Route 9W, West Haverstraw, NY 10993-1195, USA
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- CNRRR, Helen Hayes Hospital, Route 9W, West Haverstraw, NY 10993-1195, USA
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- CNRRR, Helen Hayes Hospital, Route 9W, West Haverstraw, NY 10993-1195, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- CNRRR, Helen Hayes Hospital, Route 9W, West Haverstraw, NY 10993-1195, USA
- Departments of Pharmacology and Neurology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
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Walter C, Murphy BL, Pun RYK, Spieles-Engemann AL, Danzer SC. Pilocarpine-induced seizures cause selective time-dependent changes to adult-generated hippocampal dentate granule cells. J Neurosci 2007; 27:7541-52. [PMID: 17626215 PMCID: PMC6672603 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0431-07.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Aberrantly interconnected granule cells are characteristic of temporal lobe epilepsy. By reducing network stability, these abnormal neurons may contribute directly to disease development. Only subsets of granule cells, however, exhibit abnormalities. Why this is the case is not known. Ongoing neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus may provide an explanation. Newly generated granule cells may be uniquely vulnerable to environmental disruptions relative to their mature neighbors. Here, we determine whether there is a critical period after neuronal birth during which neuronal integration can be disrupted by an epileptogenic insult. By bromodeoxyuridine birthdating cells in green fluorescent protein-expressing transgenic mice, we were able to noninvasively label granule cells born 8 weeks before (mature), 1 week before (immature), or 3 weeks after (newborn) pilocarpine-epileptogenesis. Neuronal morphology was examined 4 and 8 weeks after pilocarpine treatment. Strikingly, almost 50% of immature granule cells exposed to pilocarpine-epileptogenesis exhibited aberrant hilar basal dendrites. In contrast, only 9% of mature granule cells exposed to the identical insult possessed basal dendrites. Moreover, newborn cells were even more severely impacted than immature cells, with 40% exhibiting basal dendrites and an additional 20% exhibiting migration defects. In comparison, <5% of neurons from normal animals exhibited either abnormality, regardless of age. Together, these data demonstrate the existence of a critical period after the birth of adult-generated neurons during which they are vulnerable to being recruited into epileptogenic neuronal circuits. Pathological brain states therefore may pose a significant hurdle for the appropriate integration of newly born endogenous, and exogenous, neurons.
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- Cynthia Walter
- Department of Anesthesia, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229
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- Department of Anesthesia, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229
- Program in Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229
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- Department of Anesthesia, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229
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- Department of Anesthesia, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229
- Departments of Anesthesia and Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, and
- Program in Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229
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OBJECTIVE The contribution of seizures to cognitive changes remains controversial. We tested the hypothesis that a single episode of neonatal seizures (sNS) on rat postnatal day (P) 7 permanently impairs hippocampal-dependent function in mature (P60) rats because of long-lasting changes at the synaptic level. METHODS sNS was induced with subcutaneously injected kainate on P7. Learning, memory, mossy fiber sprouting, spine density, hippocampal synaptic plasticity, and glutamate receptor expression and subcellular distribution were measured at P60. RESULTS sNS selectively impaired working memory in a hippocampal-dependent radial arm water-maze task without inducing mossy fiber sprouting or altering spine density. sNS impaired CA1 hippocampal long-term potentiation and enhanced long-term depression. Subcellular fractionation and cross-linking, used to determine whether glutamate receptor trafficking underlies the alterations of memory and synaptic plasticity, demonstrated that sNS induced a selective reduction in the membrane pool of glutamate receptor 1 subunits. sNS induced a decrease in the total amount of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor 2A and an increase in the primary subsynaptic scaffold, PSD-95. INTERPRETATION These molecular consequences are consistent with the alterations in plasticity and memory caused by sNS at the synaptic level. Our data demonstrate the cognitive impact of sNS and associate memory deficits with specific alterations in glutamatergic synaptic function.
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- Brandon J Cornejo
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Denver, CO 80262, USA
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Pierce JP, Punsoni M, McCloskey DP, Scharfman HE. Mossy cell axon synaptic contacts on ectopic granule cells that are born following pilocarpine-induced seizures. Neurosci Lett 2007; 422:136-40. [PMID: 17611032 PMCID: PMC3119631 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2006] [Revised: 03/13/2007] [Accepted: 06/11/2007] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Granule cell neurogenesis increases following seizures, and some newly born granule cells develop at abnormal locations within the hilus. These ectopic granule cells (EGCs) demonstrate regular bursts of action potentials that are synchronized with CA3 pyramidal cell burst discharges and the bursts of hilar neurons, including mossy cells. Such findings suggest that mossy cells may participate in circuits that activate EGCs. Electron microscopic immunolabeling was therefore used to determine if mossy cell axon terminals form synapses with hilar EGC dendrites, using animals that underwent pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus. Pilocarpine was administered to adult male rats, and those which developed status epilepticus were perfused 5-7 months later, after the period of EGC genesis. Hippocampal sections were processed for dual electron microscopic immunolabeling (using calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) as a marker for mossy cells and calbindin (CaBP) as a marker for EGCs). Light microscopic analysis revealed large CGRP-immunoreactive cells in the hilus, with the appearance and distribution of mossy cells. Electron microscopic analysis revealed numerous CaBP-immunoreactive dendrites in the hilus, some of which were innervated by CGRP-immunoreactive terminals. The results suggest that mossy cells participate in the excitatory circuits which activate EGCs, providing further insight into the network rearrangements that accompany seizure-induced neurogenesis in this animal model of epilepsy.
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- Joseph P Pierce
- Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 411 E 69th Street, New York, NY 10021, USA.
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Celsi F, Svedberg M, Unger C, Cotman CW, Carrì MT, Ottersen OP, Nordberg A, Torp R. Beta-amyloid causes downregulation of calcineurin in neurons through induction of oxidative stress. Neurobiol Dis 2007; 26:342-52. [PMID: 17344052 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2006.12.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2006] [Revised: 12/01/2006] [Accepted: 12/31/2006] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Calcineurin is an abundant cytosolic protein that is implicated in the modulation of glutamate release. Here we show that the expression level of this enzyme is reduced in primary neuronal cultures treated with beta-amyloid. Parallel experiments in ETNA cell lines expressing SOD1 suggested that the effect of beta-amyloid on calcineurin expression is mediated by oxidative stress. The relevance of the in vitro experiments was assessed by analysis of tissue from patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and tissue from two strains of transgenic mice that mimic aspects of AD. The tissue from the AD brains displayed a pronounced downregulation of calcineurin immunoreactivity in profiles that were negative for glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP). In the hippocampus of the transgenic animals (which were analyzed in an early stage of the disease) the downregulation of calcineurin was restricted to mossy fiber terminals. A downregulation of the presynaptic pool of calcineurin may contribute to the dysregulation of glutamate release that is considered a hallmark of AD.
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- F Celsi
- Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
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PURPOSE Nogo-A, one of the axon regeneration inhibitors, has been shown to be up-regulated in both the experimental and human temporal lobe epilepsy. However, the role of Nogo-A in mossy fiber sprouting (MFS) relative to epileptogenesis is unknown. This work was designed to examine the relationship of the hippocampal Nogo-A protein expression with MFS during the development of amygdala kindling. METHODS Using immunohistochemistry and neo-Timm's histological procedures, we evaluated the distribution and density of Nogo-A and Nogo-66 receptor (Ng-R) expression and MFS in the bilateral hippocampus of amygdala kindling rats. RESULTS Nogo-A expression in the ipsilateral hippocampus gradually increased with the development of kindling in the sector CA2-3. In contrast, no increased Nogo-A expression was observed in the contralateral hippocampus as the rats advanced to stage 5 kindled seizures. Furthermore, poorer Nogo-A and Nogo-66 receptor (Ng-R) expression were observed in the dentate granule cells as aberrant MFS occurred. CONCLUSIONS In amygdala kindling rats, generalized stage 5 seizures were not associated with increased Nogo-A expression in the contralateral hippocampus supporting the concept that seizures by themselves do not induce Nogo-A expression. Furthermore, in the ipsilateral hippocampus, the expression of Nogo-A relative to MSF suggests that this protein may partially control aberrant synaptic reorganization during epileptogenesis.
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- Yu Takeda
- Department of Neurosurgery, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Oita, Japan
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Accumulated evidence have shown that a series of morphological alternations occur in patients with epilepsy and in different epileptic animal models. Given most of animal model studies have been focused on adulthood stage, the effect of recurrent seizures to immature brain in neonatal period has not been well established. This study was designed to observe the certain morphological changes following recurrent seizures occurred in the neonatal rats. For seizure induction, neonatal Wistar rats were intraperitoneally injected with pilocarpine on postnatal day 1 (P1), P4 and P7. Rat pups were grouped and sacrificed at 1d, 7d, 14d and 42d after the last pilocarpine injection respectively. Bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) was intraperitoneally administered 36h before the rats were sacrificed. BrdU single and double labeling with neuronal markers were used to analyze cell proliferation and differentiation. Nissl and Timm staining were performed to evaluate cell loss and mossy fiber sprouting. Rats with neonatal seizures had a significant reduction in the number of Bromodeoxyuridine-(BrdU) labeled cells in the dentate gyrus compared with the control groups when the animals were killed either 1 or 7 days after the third seizure (P<0.05) but there was no difference between two groups on P21. On the contrary, BrdU-labeled cells significantly increased in the experimental group compared with control group on P49 (P<0.05). The majority of the BrdU-labeled cells colocalized with neuronal marker-NF200 (Neurofilament-200). Nissl staining showed that there was no obvious neuronal loss after seizure induction over all different time points. Rats with the survival time of 42 days after neonatal seizures developed to increased mossy fiber sprouting in both the CA3 region and supragranular zone of the dentate gyrus compared with the control groups (P<0.05). Taken together, the present findings suggest that synaptic reorganization only occurs at the later time point following recurrent seizures in neonatal rats, and neonatal recurrent seizures can modulate neurogenesis oppositely over different time window with a down-regulation at early time and up-regulation afterwards.
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- Shi Xiu-Yu
- Department of Pediatrics, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University, No. 107, Wen Hua Xi Road, Jinan, Shandong 250012, China.
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Yoshiyama Y, Higuchi M, Zhang B, Huang SM, Iwata N, Saido TC, Maeda J, Suhara T, Trojanowski JQ, Lee VMY. Synapse loss and microglial activation precede tangles in a P301S tauopathy mouse model. Neuron 2007; 53:337-51. [PMID: 17270732 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2007.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1424] [Impact Index Per Article: 83.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2006] [Revised: 12/06/2006] [Accepted: 01/10/2007] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Filamentous tau inclusions are hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related tauopathies, but earlier pathologies may herald disease onset. To investigate this, we studied wild-type and P301S mutant human tau transgenic (Tg) mice. Filamentous tau lesions developed in P301S Tg mice at 6 months of age, and progressively accumulated in association with striking neuron loss as well as hippocampal and entorhinal cortical atrophy by 9-12 months of age. Remarkably, hippocampal synapse loss and impaired synaptic function were detected in 3 month old P301S Tg mice before fibrillary tau tangles emerged. Prominent microglial activation also preceded tangle formation. Importantly, immunosuppression of young P301S Tg mice with FK506 attenuated tau pathology and increased lifespan, thereby linking neuroinflammation to early progression of tauopathies. Thus, hippocampal synaptic pathology and microgliosis may be the earliest manifestations of neurodegenerative tauopathies, and abrogation of tau-induced microglial activation could retard progression of these disorders.
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- Yasumasa Yoshiyama
- The Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Lin H, Wu LW, Huang YG, Chen YC, Wen XN. [Correlation between hippocampal mossy fiber sprouting and synaptic reorganization and mechanisms of temporal lobe epilepsy]. Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi 2007; 87:341-4. [PMID: 17456365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To explore the effects of the ultrastructural features of sprouted mossy fiber synapses in the mechanism of temporal lobe epilepsy. To explore the correlation between axon guidance molecule-netrin-1 gene expression and mossy fiber synaptic reorganization. METHODS Sixty-one SD rats underwent intraperitoneal injection of lithium chloride and pilocarpine to establish models of status epilepticus characterized with temporal lobe epilepsy. Nineteen rats were used as controls. One, 2, and 4 weeks after the injection, a certain numbers of rat were killed with their brains taken out. The sprouted mossy fiber synaptic terminals were labeled by Timm histochemistry and the ultrastructure of new synapses were observed by electron microscopy. By in situ hybridization, the mRNA expression of netrin-1 gene was observed. RESULTS The sprouted mossy fiber synapses in epileptic rats most commonly formed asymmetric synapses with dendritic spines and occasionally with granule cell somata. Seven days after the injection, up-regulation of netrin-1 mRNA expression was seen in the dentate granule cell layers of hippocampus and continued to 4 weeks after the injection. The time course of the increase of netrin-1 mRNA in the dentate granule cell layers was correlated with the time course of mossy fiber sprouting and synaptic reorganization in hippocampus. CONCLUSION The ultrastructural features of sprouted mossy fiber synapses support the viewpoint that the reorganization of synapses prominently involves the formation of recurrent excitatory circuits. The axon guidance molecule- netrin-1 plays an important role in the process of mossy fiber axonal outgrowth and synaptogenesis in the hippocampal dentate gyrus.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Disease Models, Animal
- Epilepsy/chemically induced
- Epilepsy/genetics
- Epilepsy/pathology
- Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe/metabolism
- Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe/pathology
- In Situ Hybridization
- Lithium Chloride
- Male
- Microscopy, Electron
- Mossy Fibers, Hippocampal/metabolism
- Mossy Fibers, Hippocampal/pathology
- Mossy Fibers, Hippocampal/ultrastructure
- Nerve Growth Factors/genetics
- Netrin-1
- Pilocarpine
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Random Allocation
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Synapses/metabolism
- Synapses/pathology
- Synapses/ultrastructure
- Tumor Suppressor Proteins/genetics
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- Hua Lin
- Department of Neurology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing 100730, China
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Cardoso A, Assunção M, Andrade JP, Pereira PA, Madeira MD, Paula-Barbosa MM, Lukoyanov NV. Loss of synapses in the entorhinal-dentate gyrus pathway following repeated induction of electroshock seizures in the rat. J Neurosci Res 2007; 86:71-83. [PMID: 17705293 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.21474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The goal of this study was to answer the question of whether repeated administration of electroconvulsive shock (ECS) seizures causes structural changes in the entorhinal-dentate projection system, whose neurons are known to be particularly vulnerable to seizure activity. Adult rats were administered six ECS seizures, the first five of which were spaced by 24-hr intervals, whereas the last two were only 2 hr apart. Stereological approaches were employed to compare the total neuronal and synaptic numbers in sham- and ECS-treated rats. Golgi-stained material was used to analyze dendritic arborizations of the dentate gyrus granule cells. Treatment with ECS produced loss of neurons in the entorhinal layer III and in the hilus of the dentate gyrus. The number of neurons in the entorhinal layer II, which provides the major source of dentate afferents, and in the granular layer of the dentate gyrus, known to receive entorhinal projections, remained unchanged. Despite this, the number of synapses established between the entorhinal layer II neurons and their targets, dentate granule cells, was reduced in ECS-treated rats. In addition, administration of ECS seizures produced atrophic changes in the dendritic arbors of dentate granule cells. The total volumes of entorhinal layers II, III, and V-VI were also found to be reduced in ECS-treated rats. By showing that treatment with ECS leads to partial disconnection of the entorhinal cortex and dentate gyrus, these findings shed new light on cellular processes that may underlie structural and functional brain changes induced by brief, generalized seizures.
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- Armando Cardoso
- Department of Anatomy, Porto Medical School, Porto, Portugal
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Hanson JE, Blank M, Valenzuela RA, Garner CC, Madison DV. The functional nature of synaptic circuitry is altered in area CA3 of the hippocampus in a mouse model of Down's syndrome. J Physiol 2006; 579:53-67. [PMID: 17158177 PMCID: PMC2075378 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.114868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Down's syndrome (DS) is the most common cause of mental retardation, and memory impairments are more severe in DS than in most if not all other causes of mental retardation. The Ts65Dn mouse, a genetic model of DS, exhibits phenotypes of DS, including memory impairments indicative of hippocampal dysfunction. We examined functional synaptic connectivity in area CA3 of the hippocampus of Ts65Dn mice using organotypic slice cultures as a model. We found reductions in multiple measures of synaptic function in both excitatory and inhibitory inputs to pyramidal neurons in CA3 of the Ts65Dn hippocampus. However, associational synaptic connections between pyramidal neurons were more abundant and more likely to be active rather than silent in the Ts65Dn hippocampus. Synaptic potentiation was normal in these associational connections. Decreased overall functional synaptic input onto pyramidal neurons expressed along with the specific hyperconnectivity of associational connections between pyramidal neurons will result in predictable alterations of CA3 network function, which may contribute to the memory impairments seen in DS.
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- Jesse E Hanson
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5345, USA
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Xu XP, Sun RP, Jin RF. Effect of ketogenic diet on hippocampus mossy fiber sprouting and GluR5 expression in kainic acid induced rat model. Chin Med J (Engl) 2006; 119:1925-9. [PMID: 17134593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023] Open
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- Xiang-ping Xu
- Department of Pediatrics, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China
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Cross DJ, Cavazos JE. Synaptic reorganization in subiculum and CA3 after early-life status epilepticus in the kainic acid rat model. Epilepsy Res 2006; 73:156-65. [PMID: 17070016 PMCID: PMC1876715 DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2006.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2006] [Revised: 09/13/2006] [Accepted: 09/22/2006] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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PURPOSE The immature rat brain is highly susceptible to seizures, but has a resistance to pathological changes induced by seizures as compared to adult rats. However, prolonged seizures during early-life enhance cellular injury and hyperexcitability induced by convulsive insults later in adulthood. The mechanisms underlying these phenomena are not understood. In adult models, the CA1 axons reorganize their projections to subiculum. Seizure induced plasticity in this pathway has not been investigated in immature seizure models, and may contribute to the vulnerability to later seizures. METHODS On postnatal day 15, rats experienced convulsive status epilepticus with kainic acid (KA). Seizure induced plasticity was examined with Timm histochemistry and iontophoretic injections of sodium selenite, a retrograde tracer. Cellular injury was evaluated with Fluoro-Jade B histochemistry. RESULTS Retrograde tracing experiments determined a 67% larger dorsoventral extent of retrograde labeling in the CA1 pyramidal region after tracer injections in subiculum. The synaptic reorganization of the CA1 projection to subiculum was noted in the absence of overt neuronal injury in subiculum or CA1. In contrast, mossy fiber sprouting was detected into the stratum oriens of CA3 with limited neuronal injury to CA3 pyramidal neurons. No mossy fiber sprouting into the inner molecular layer of the dentate gyrus, or CA1 sprouting into the stratum moleculare of CA1 were noted. CONCLUSIONS The results indicate that the developing brain has distinct mechanisms of seizure induced reorganization as compared to the adult brain. Our experiments show that the concept of "resistance of the immature brain to excitotoxicity" is considerably more complicated than generally believed. Morphological plasticity in the immature brain appears more extensive in distal, but not proximal, projections of hippocampal pathways, and across hippocampal lamellae. The abnormal connectivity between hippocampal lamellae might play a role in the increased susceptibility to injury and hyperexcitability associated with later convulsive insults.
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- Devin J Cross
- Department of Medicine (Neurology), University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229-3900, USA
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Kang TC, Kim DS, Kwak SE, Kim JE, Won MH, Kim DW, Choi SY, Kwon OS. Epileptogenic roles of astroglial death and regeneration in the dentate gyrus of experimental temporal lobe epilepsy. Glia 2006; 54:258-71. [PMID: 16845674 DOI: 10.1002/glia.20380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Recent studies have demonstrated that blockade of neuronal death in the hippocampus cannot prevent epileptogenesis in various epileptic models. These reports indicate that neurodegeneration alone is insufficient to cause epilepsy, and that the role of astrocytes in epileptogenesis should be reconsidered. Therefore, the present study was designed to elucidate whether altered morphological organization or the functionalities of astrocytes induced by status epilepticus (SE) is responsible for epileptogenesis. Glial responses (reactive microgliosis followed by astroglial death) in the dentate gyrus induced by pilocarpine-induced SE were found to precede neuronal damage and these alterations were closely related to abnormal neurotransmission related to altered vesicular glutamate and GABA transporter expressions, and mossy fiber sprouting in the dentate gyrus. In addition, newly generated astrocytes showed down-regulated expressions of glutamine synthase, glutamate dehydrogenase, and glial GABA transporter. Taken together, our findings suggest that glial responses after SE may contribute to epileptogenesis and the acquisition of the properties of the epileptic hippocampus. Thus, we believe that it is worth considering new therapeutic approaches to epileptogenesis involving targeting the inactivation of microglia and protecting against astroglial loss.
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- Tae-Cheon Kang
- Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Hallym University, Chunchon, Kangwon-Do, South Korea.
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Ni H. [Seizure-induced brain injury in brain development and Zn2+ metastasis in hippocampus]. Sheng Li Ke Xue Jin Zhan 2006; 37:331-4. [PMID: 17262967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Zn2 + is a novel ionic mediator of neurotoxic injury in central nervous system. Zn2 + homeostasis in hippocampal Zinc-rich mossy fiber (MF) pathway is important in keeping the balance between excitatory and inhibitory system, and in maintaining cognitive functions of the brain. Abnormal Zn2+ metastasis occurred during MS sprouting induced by developmental seizures and influenced the function of hippocampus. The Zn2+ transporters, Ca2 + permeable AMPA/kainate channels, metal binding proteins and mitochondrion may involved in this process. In addition to pathological effects of rapid intraneuronal Zn2+ accumulation, it is probable that following lower exposures, activation of signaling pathways by intracellular Zn2+ has important yet largely obscure effects on physiological synaptic functioning or synaptic plasticity. This unique ionic trans-synaptic messenger probably plays important roles in normal physiological functioning as well as in disease. Further elucidation of the process of Zn2+ metastasis in hippocampus should yield breakthroughs both in understanding the mechanism of developing seizure-induced brain injury and contributing the effects for making proper early intervention.
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- Hong Ni
- Children Hospital Affiliated to Suzhou University, Suzhou 215003, China
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Ullal GR, Satishchandra P, Kalladka D, Rajashekar K, Archana K, Mahadevan A, Shankar SK. Kindling & mossy fibre sprouting in the rat hippocampus following hot water induced hyperthermic seizures. Indian J Med Res 2006; 124:331-42. [PMID: 17085837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Hot water epilepsy (HWE) is well recognized reflex epilepsy with possible genetic susceptibility. Rat model and human experimentation had proven that HWE is a type of hyperthermic seizure with possible kindling on repeated stimulation in animals. The present study was undertaken to investigate kindling associated with hyperthermic seizures induced by repeated hot water stimulation in the rat model and to prove hyperthermic kindling. METHODS Epileptic seizures were induced in 36 male Wistar albino rats by means of hot water sprays at 48 h time intervals. Progression of seizure activity was investigated by studying the behaviour, severity and duration of the seizure. Threshold of rectal temperatures and timed latency for seizure induction were studied. Seizure discharges (EEG) were recorded from ventral hippocampus in six of these rats. Timm's staining was used to study the neuronal sprouting as a consequence of kindling. Studying the seizure threshold, latency, duration of seizure discharge and behavioural seizure following a stimulus-free interval of 30 days tested permanence of kindling. RESULTS Following 8-12 episodes of hot water stimulations there was progressive epileptic activity manifested in the form of lowering of rectal temperature thresholds from 41.5 to 40.0 degrees C, drop in latency for developing seizures from 185 to 118 sec, increase in duration of hippocampal seizure discharge from 15 to 140 sec, along with progressive increase in complexity of EEG after discharges, increase in behavioural seizure severity from Grade 1 to 5 in all the rats, and neuronal sprouting observed in supragranular molecular layer and in stratum lacunosum. INTERPRETATION & CONCLUSION Our study covered all aspects of kindling and provided a useful animal model for human hot water epilepsy. Hyperthermic seizures induced by hot water in the rat model kindle as demonstrated by Timm's staining.
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- Gautam R Ullal
- Department of Physiology, Molecular Epilepsy-Research Laboratory, M.S. Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore, India
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Domínguez-Escribà L, Hernández-Rabaza V, Soriano-Navarro M, Barcia JA, Romero FJ, García-Verdugo JM, Canales JJ. Chronic cocaine exposure impairs progenitor proliferation but spares survival and maturation of neural precursors in adult rat dentate gyrus. Eur J Neurosci 2006; 24:586-94. [PMID: 16903860 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04924.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Recent observations indicate that drugs of abuse, including alcohol and opiates, impair adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus. We have studied in rats the impact of cocaine treatment (20 mg/kg, daily, i.p.) on cell proliferation, survival and maturation following short-term (8-day) and long-term (24-day) exposure. Using 5'-bromo-2-deoxyuridine (BrdU) and Ki-67 as mitotic markers at the end of the drug treatments, we found that both short- and long-term cocaine exposures significantly reduced cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus (DG) of the hippocampus. By labelling mitotic cells with BrdU pulses before or during the early stages of the drug treatment, we determined that long-term cocaine exposure did not affect the survival of newly generated cells. In register with this finding, cocaine chronic exposure did not increase the number of apoptotic cells labelled by TUNEL (terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick-end labelling). Using doublecortin (DCX) immunocytochemistry and electron microscopy, we next examined the effects of cocaine exposure on the maturation of the neural precursors and on synaptic output to CA3. DCX immunocytochemistry showed that immature hippocampal cells of rats exposed to cocaine displayed normal arborization patterns and similar degrees of colocalization with BrdU at two different developmental stages. Moreover, cocaine did not produce significant morphological alterations of the mossy fibre projection system to stratum lucidum in the CA3 area of the hippocampus. The results presented demonstrate that chronic cocaine exposure impairs proliferation dynamics in the DG without significantly altering either the survival and growth of immature cells or the structural features of terminal projections to CA3.
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- L Domínguez-Escribà
- Laboratorio de Biopsicología y Neurociencia Comparada, Instituto Cavanilles, Universidad de Valencia, Poligono de la Coma s/n, Paterna, 46980 Valencia, Spain
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Kharatishvili I, Nissinen JP, McIntosh TK, Pitkänen A. A model of posttraumatic epilepsy induced by lateral fluid-percussion brain injury in rats. Neuroscience 2006; 140:685-97. [PMID: 16650603 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.03.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 266] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2005] [Revised: 03/03/2006] [Accepted: 03/07/2006] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Although traumatic brain injury is a major cause of symptomatic epilepsy, the mechanism by which it leads to recurrent seizures is unknown. An animal model of posttraumatic epilepsy that reliably reproduces the clinical sequelae of human traumatic brain injury is essential to identify the molecular and cellular substrates of posttraumatic epileptogenesis, and perform preclinical screening of new antiepileptogenic compounds. We studied the electrophysiologic, behavioral, and structural features of posttraumatic epilepsy induced by severe, non-penetrating lateral fluid-percussion brain injury in rats. Data from two independent experiments indicated that 43% to 50% of injured animals developed epilepsy, with a latency period between 7 weeks to 1 year. Mean seizure frequency was 0.3+/-0.2 seizures per day and mean seizure duration was 113+/-46 s. Behavioral seizure severity increased over time in the majority of animals. Secondarily-generalized seizures comprised an average of 66+/-37% of all seizures. Mossy fiber sprouting was increased in the ipsilateral hippocampus of animals with posttraumatic epilepsy compared with those subjected to traumatic brain injury without epilepsy. Stereologic cell counts indicated a loss of dentate hilar neurons ipsilaterally following traumatic brain injury. Our data suggest that posttraumatic epilepsy occurs with a frequency of 40% to 50% after severe non-penetrating fluid-percussion brain injury in rats, and that the lateral fluid percussion model can serve as a clinically-relevant tool for pathophysiologic and preclinical studies.
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- I Kharatishvili
- Epilepsy Research Laboratory, A. I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Kuopio, and Department of Neurology, Kuopio University Hospital, Finland
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The mechanisms underlying mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) remain uncertain. Putative mechanisms should account for several features characteristic of the clinical presentation and the neurophysiological and neuropathological abnormalities observed in patients with intractable MTLE. Synaptic reorganization of the mossy fiber pathway has received considerable attention over the past two decades as a potential mechanism that increases the excitability of the hippocampal network through the formation of new recurrent excitatory collaterals. Morphological plasticity beyond the mossy fiber pathway has not been as thoroughly investigated. Recently, plasticity of the CA1 pyramidal axons has been demonstrated in acute and chronic experimental models of MTLE. As the hippocampal formation is topographically organized in stacks of slices (lamellae), synaptic reorganization of CA1 axons projecting to subiculum appears to increase the connectivity between lamellae, providing a mechanism for translamellar synchronization of cellular hyperexcitability, leading to pharmacologically intractable seizures.
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- Jose E Cavazos
- South Texas Comprehensive Epilepsy Center and Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.
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Xu XP, Sun RP, Jin RF. [Effect of ketogenic diet on hippocampus synaptic reorganization and GluR5 expression in kainic acid induced rat model of epilepsy]. Zhonghua Er Ke Za Zhi 2006; 44:100-4. [PMID: 16624024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Ketogenic diet (KD) is a high fat, low protein, low carbohydrate diet. Its antiepileptic effect is certain but the underlying mechanism is unknown. The aim of the study was to reveal the possible mechanism from the view points of synaptic reorganization and GluR(5) expression in hippocampus. METHODS Epilepsy was induced in Sprague-Dawley rats by kainic acid at postnatal day 28, all control animals were fed with normal rodent chow, whereas experimental rats were fed with ketogenic feed for 8 weeks. Spontaneous recurrent seizures were recorded. Mossy fiber sprouting and neuron damage in hippocampus were investigated by Timm staining and Nissl staining. Western blot and RT-PCR methods were applied to detect the expression of GluR(5) and GluR(5) mRNA in hippocampus. RESULTS KD-fed rats (1.40 +/- 1.03) had significantly fewer spontaneous recurrent seizures than control diet-fed rats (7.36 +/- 3.75). The mean A of mossy fiber sprouting in the inner molecular layer of dentate gyrus was markedly higher in KA induced animals than that in saline control animals but it was similar in different diet fed groups. No significant differences were found in the mean A of Timm staining in CA(3) area and Nissl staining of neuron in hilus, CA(3) and CA(1) area. After KA kindling, KD-fed animals [(189.38 +/- 40.03)/mg pro] had significantly higher GluR(5) expression in hippocampus than control diet-fed animals [(128.79 +/- 46.51)/mg pro] although their GluR(5) mRNA was the same. CONCLUSION Mossy fiber sprouting may be responsible for epileptogenesis in KA induced model and KD can suppress seizures in these animals. KD may upregulate young rat GluR(5) in inhibitory interneurons of CA(1) thus lead to an increased inhibition to prevent the propagation of seizure.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Blotting, Western
- CA1 Region, Hippocampal/metabolism
- CA1 Region, Hippocampal/pathology
- CA3 Region, Hippocampal/metabolism
- CA3 Region, Hippocampal/pathology
- Chromosome Pairing/drug effects
- Dentate Gyrus/metabolism
- Dentate Gyrus/pathology
- Diet, Ketogenic/methods
- Disease Models, Animal
- Epilepsy/chemically induced
- Epilepsy/diet therapy
- Epilepsy/genetics
- Epilepsy/metabolism
- Epilepsy/pathology
- Excitatory Amino Acid Agonists
- Hippocampus/drug effects
- Hippocampus/metabolism
- Hippocampus/pathology
- Kainic Acid
- Male
- Mossy Fibers, Hippocampal/metabolism
- Mossy Fibers, Hippocampal/pathology
- Pyramidal Cells/metabolism
- Pyramidal Cells/pathology
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Rats
- Receptors, Kainic Acid/genetics
- Receptors, Kainic Acid/metabolism
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
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- Xiang-ping Xu
- Department of Pediatrics, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China
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Pierce JP, Melton J, Punsoni M, McCloskey DP, Scharfman HE. Mossy fibers are the primary source of afferent input to ectopic granule cells that are born after pilocarpine-induced seizures. Exp Neurol 2006; 196:316-31. [PMID: 16342370 PMCID: PMC1431686 DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2005.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Granule cell (GC) neurogenesis increases following seizures, and some newborn GCs develop in abnormal locations within the hilus. These ectopic GCs (EGCs) display robust spontaneous and evoked excitatory activity. However, the pattern of afferent input they receive has not been fully defined. This study used electron microscopic immunolabeling to quantitatively evaluate mossy fiber (MF) input to EGCs since MFs densely innervate the hilus normally and undergo sprouting in many animal models of epilepsy. EGC dendrites were examined in tissue from epileptic rats that had initially been treated with pilocarpine to induce status epilepticus and subsequently had spontaneous seizures. MF terminals were labeled with a zinc transporter-3 antibody, and calbindin immunoreactivity was used to label hilar EGCs and GC layer GCs. The pattern of input provided by sprouted MF terminals to EGC dendrites was then compared to the pattern of MF input to GC dendrites in the inner molecular layer (IML), where most sprouted fibers are thought to project. Analysis of EGC dendrites demonstrated that MF terminals represented their predominant source of afferent input: they comprised 63% of all terminals and, on average, occupied 40% and 29% of the dendritic surface in the dorsal and ventral dentate gyrus, respectively, forming frequent synapses. These measures of connectivity were significantly greater than comparable values for MF innervation of GC dendrites located in the IML of the same tissue sections. Thus, EGCs develop a pattern of synaptic connections that could help explain their previously identified predisposition to discharge in epileptiform bursts and suggest that they play an important role in the generation of seizure activity in the dentate gyrus.
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- Joseph P Pierce
- Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, NY 10021, USA.
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Mayer D, Fischer H, Schneider U, Heimrich B, Schwemmle M. Borna disease virus replication in organotypic hippocampal slice cultures from rats results in selective damage of dentate granule cells. J Virol 2005; 79:11716-23. [PMID: 16140749 PMCID: PMC1212617 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.79.18.11716-11723.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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In the hippocampus of Borna disease virus (BDV)-infected newborn rats, dentate granule cells undergo progressive cell death. BDV is noncytolytic, and the pathogenesis of this neurodevelopmental damage in the absence of immunopathology remains unclear. A suitable model system to study early events of the pathology is lacking. We show here that organotypic hippocampal slice cultures from newborn rat pups are a suitable ex vivo model to examine BDV neuropathogenesis. After challenging hippocampal slice cultures with BDV, we observed a progressive loss of calbindin-positive granule cells 21 to 28 days postinfection. This loss was accompanied by reduced numbers of mossy fiber boutons when compared to mock-infected cultures. Similarly, the density of dentate granule cell axons, the mossy fiber axons, appeared to be substantially reduced. In contrast, hilar mossy cells and pyramidal neurons survived, although BDV was detectable in these cells. Despite infection of dentate granule cells 2 weeks postinfection, the axonal projections of these cells and the synaptic connectivity patterns were comparable to those in mock-infected cultures, suggesting that BDV-induced damage of granule cells is a post-maturation event that starts after mossy fiber synapses are formed. In summary, we find that BDV infection of rat organotypic hippocampal slice cultures results in selective neuronal damage similar to that observed with infected newborn rats and is therefore a suitable model to study BDV-induced pathology in the hippocampus.
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- Daniel Mayer
- Department of Virology, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Strasse 11, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Rao MS, Hattiangady B, Shetty AK. Fetal hippocampal CA3 cell grafts enriched with FGF-2 and BDNF exhibit robust long-term survival and integration and suppress aberrant mossy fiber sprouting in the injured middle-aged hippocampus. Neurobiol Dis 2005; 21:276-90. [PMID: 16099669 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2005.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2005] [Revised: 06/20/2005] [Accepted: 07/06/2005] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Cell transplants that successfully replace the lost neurons and facilitate the reconstruction of the disrupted circuitry in the injured aging hippocampus are invaluable for treating acute head injury, stroke and status epilepticus in the elderly. This is because apt graft integration has the potential to prevent the progression of the acute injury into chronic epilepsy in the elderly. However, neural transplants into the injured middle-aged or aged hippocampus exhibit poor cell survival, suggesting that apt graft augmentation strategies are critical for robust integration of grafted cells into the injured aging hippocampus. We examined the efficacy of pre-treatment and grafting of donor fetal CA3 cells with a blend of fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) for lasting survival and integration of grafted cells in the injured middle-aged (12 months old) hippocampus of F344 rats. Grafts were placed at 4 days after the kainic-acid-induced hippocampal injury and were analyzed at 6 months post-grafting. We demonstrate that 80% of grafted cells exhibit prolonged survival and 71% of grafted cells differentiate into CA3 pyramidal neurons. Grafts also receive a robust afferent input from the host mossy fibers and project efferent axons into the denervated zones of the dentate gyrus and the CA1 subfield. Consequently, the aberrant sprouting of the dentate mossy fibers, an epileptogenic change that typically ensues after the hippocampal injury, was suppressed. Thus, grafts of fetal CA3 cells enriched with FGF-2 and BDNF exhibit robust integration and dampen the abnormal mossy fiber sprouting in the injured middle-aged hippocampus. Because the aberrantly sprouted mossy fibers contribute to the generation of seizures, the results suggest that the grafting intervention using FGF-2 and BDNF is efficacious for suppressing epileptogenesis in the injured middle-aged hippocampus.
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- Muddanna S Rao
- Medical Research and Surgery Services, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham NC 27705, USA
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Lister JP, Blatt GJ, DeBassio WA, Kemper TL, Tonkiss J, Galler JR, Rosene DL. Effect of prenatal protein malnutrition on numbers of neurons in the principal cell layers of the adult rat hippocampal formation. Hippocampus 2005; 15:393-403. [PMID: 15669101 DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Malnutrition has been associated with a variety of functional and anatomical impairments of the hippocampal formation. One of the more striking of these is widespread loss of hippocampal neurons in postnatally malnourished rats. In the present study we have investigated the effect of prenatal malnutrition on these same neuronal populations, neurons that are all generated during the period of the dietary restriction. In prenatally protein deprived rats, using design-based stereology, we have measured the regional volume and number of neurons in the hilus of the dentate gyrus and the pyramidal cell layers of CA3, CA2, CA1, and the subiculum of 90-day-old animals. These results demonstrated a statistically significant reduction of 20% in neuron numbers in the CA1 subfield, while numbers in the other subfields were unchanged. There was a corresponding significant reduction of 22% in the volume of the CA1 subfield and a significant 14% decrease in the volume of the pyramidal layer of the subiculum. The change in volume of the pyramidal layer of the subiculum without neuron loss may reflect loss of CA1 afferent input to the pyramidal layer. Although the effect of nutritional deprivation on the neuronal population appears to be different in pre- and postnatal malnutrition, both dietary paradigms highlight the vulnerability of key components of the hippocampal trisynaptic circuit (consisting of the dentate granule cell mossy fibers projection to CA3 pyramids and the CA3 projection to the CA1 pyramids), which is an essential circuit for memory and learning.
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- James P Lister
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
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Tang FR, Chia SC, Zhang S, Chen PM, Gao H, Liu CP, Khanna S, Lee WL. Glutamate receptor 1-immunopositive neurons in the gliotic CA1 area of the mouse hippocampus after pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus. Eur J Neurosci 2005; 21:2361-74. [PMID: 15932595 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04071.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Significant reduction in glutamate receptor 1 (GluR1)- and GluR2/3-immunopositive neurons was demonstrated in the hilus of the dentate gyrus in mice killed on days 1, 7 and 60 after pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus (PISE). In addition, GluR1 and GluR2/3 immunostaining in the strata oriens, radiatum and lacunosum moleculare of areas CA1-3 decreased drastically on days 7 and 60 after PISE. Neuronal loss observed in the above regions may account, at least in part, for a decrease in GluR immunoreactivity. By contrast, many GluR1-immunopositive neurons were observed in the gliotic area of CA1. Of these, about 42.8% were immunopositive for markers for hippocampal interneurons, namely calretinin (7.6%), calbindin (12.8%) and parvalbumin (22.4%). GluR1 or GluR2/3 and BrdU double-labelling showed that the GluR1- and GluR2/3-immunopositive neurons at 60 days after PISE were neurons that had survived rather than newly generated neurons. Furthermore, anterograde tracer and double-labelling studies performed on animals at 60 days after PISE indicated a projection from the hilus of the dentate gyrus to gliotic areas in both CA3 and CA1, where the projecting fibres apparently established connections with GluR1-immunopositive neurons. The projection to CA1 was unexpected. These novel findings suggest that the intrinsic hippocampal neuronal network is altered after PISE. We speculate that GluR1-immunopositive neurons in gliotic CA1 act as a bridge between dentate gyrus and subiculum contributing towards epileptogenesis.
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- Feng Ru Tang
- Epilepsy Research Laboratory, National Neuroscience Institute, 11 Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore 308433.
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