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Whoolery CW, Yun S, Reynolds RP, Lucero MJ, Soler I, Tran FH, Ito N, Redfield RL, Richardson DR, Shih HY, Rivera PD, Chen BPC, Birnbaum SG, Stowe AM, Eisch AJ. Multi-domain cognitive assessment of male mice shows space radiation is not harmful to high-level cognition and actually improves pattern separation. Sci Rep 2020; 10:2737. [PMID: 32066765 PMCID: PMC7026431 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-59419-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [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: 11/15/2019] [Accepted: 01/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Astronauts on interplanetary missions - such as to Mars - will be exposed to space radiation, a spectrum of highly-charged, fast-moving particles that includes 56Fe and 28Si. Earth-based preclinical studies show space radiation decreases rodent performance in low- and some high-level cognitive tasks. Given astronaut use of touchscreen platforms during training and space flight and given the ability of rodent touchscreen tasks to assess functional integrity of brain circuits and multiple cognitive domains in a non-aversive way, here we exposed 6-month-old C57BL/6J male mice to whole-body space radiation and subsequently assessed them on a touchscreen battery. Relative to Sham treatment, 56Fe irradiation did not overtly change performance on tasks of visual discrimination, reversal learning, rule-based, or object-spatial paired associates learning, suggesting preserved functional integrity of supporting brain circuits. Surprisingly, 56Fe irradiation improved performance on a dentate gyrus-reliant pattern separation task; irradiated mice learned faster and were more accurate than controls. Improved pattern separation performance did not appear to be touchscreen-, radiation particle-, or neurogenesis-dependent, as 56Fe and 28Si irradiation led to faster context discrimination in a non-touchscreen task and 56Fe decreased new dentate gyrus neurons relative to Sham. These data urge revisitation of the broadly-held view that space radiation is detrimental to cognition.
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- Cody W Whoolery
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
- Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience and Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
- Oriental Medicine Research Center, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
- Department of Biology, Hope College, Holland, MI, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
- Department of Neurology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
- Department of Neuroscience and Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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de Guzman AE, Ahmed M, Li YQ, Wong CS, Nieman BJ. p53 Loss Mitigates Early Volume Deficits in the Brains of Irradiated Young Mice. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2018; 103:511-520. [PMID: 30243572 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2018.09.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [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: 04/18/2018] [Revised: 08/25/2018] [Accepted: 09/11/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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PURPOSE Pediatric cranial radiation therapy results in lasting changes in brain structure. Though different facets of radiation response have been characterized, the relative contributions of each to altered development is unclear. We sought to determine the role of radiation-induced programmed cell death, as mediated by the Trp53 (p53) gene, on neuroanatomic development. METHODS AND MATERIALS Mice having a conditional knockout of p53 (p53KO) or wildtype p53 (WT) were irradiated with a whole-brain dose of 7 Gy (IR; n = 30) or 0 Gy (sham; n = 28) at 16 days of age. In vivo magnetic resonance imaging was performed before irradiation and at 4 time points after irradiation, until 3 months posttreatment, followed by ex vivo magnetic resonance imaging and immunohistochemistry. The role of p53 in development was assessed at 6 weeks of age in another group of untreated mice (n = 37). RESULTS Neuroanatomic development in p53KO mice was normal. After cranial irradiation, alterations in neuroanatomy were detectable in WT mice and emerged through 2 stages: an early volume loss within 1 week and decreased growth through development. In many structures, the early volume loss was partially mitigated by p53KO. However, p53KO had a neutral or negative impact on growth; thus, p53KO did not widely improve volume at endpoint. Partial volume recovery was observed in the dentate gyrus and olfactory bulbs of p53KO-IR mice, with corresponding increases in neurogenesis compared with WT-IR mice. CONCLUSIONS Although p53 is known to play an important role in mediating radiation-induced apoptosis, this is the first study to look at the cumulative effect of p53KO through development after cranial irradiation across the entire brain. It is clear that apoptosis plays an important role in volume loss early after radiation therapy. This early preservation alone was insufficient to normalize brain development on the whole, but regions reliant on neurogenesis exhibited a significant benefit.
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- A Elizabeth de Guzman
- Mouse Imaging Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Translational Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Mouse Imaging Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Translational Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Odette Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Radiation Oncology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Odette Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Mouse Imaging Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Translational Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Bingham CS, Loizos K, Yu GJ, Gilbert A, Bouteiller JMC, Song D, Lazzi G, Berger TW. Model-Based Analysis of Electrode Placement and Pulse Amplitude for Hippocampal Stimulation. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2018; 65:2278-2289. [PMID: 29993519 PMCID: PMC6224291 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2018.2791860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Objective: The ideal form of a neural-interfacing device is highly dependent upon the anatomy of the region with which it is meant to interface. Multiple-electrode arrays provide a system which can be adapted to various neural geometries. Computational models of stimulating systems have proven useful for evaluating electrode placement and stimulation protocols, but have yet to be adequately adapted to the unique features of the hippocampus. Methods: As an approach to understanding potential memory restorative devices, an Admittance Method-NEURON model was constructed to predict the direct and synaptic response of a region of the rat dentate gyrus to electrical stimulation of the perforant path. Results: A validation of estimated local field potentials against experimental recordings is performed and results of a bi-linear electrode placement and stimulation amplitude parameter search are presented. Conclusion: The parametric analysis presented herein suggests that stimulating electrodes placed between the lateral and medial perforant path, near the crest of the dentate gyrus, yield a larger relative population response to given stimuli. Significance: Beyond deepening understanding of the hippocampal tissue system, establishment of this model provides a method to evaluate candidate stimulating devices and protocols.
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Whoolery CW, Walker AK, Richardson DR, Lucero MJ, Reynolds RP, Beddow DH, Clark KL, Shih HY, LeBlanc JA, Cole MG, Amaral WZ, Mukherjee S, Zhang S, Ahn F, Bulin SE, DeCarolis NA, Rivera PD, Chen BPC, Yun S, Eisch AJ. Whole-Body Exposure to 28Si-Radiation Dose-Dependently Disrupts Dentate Gyrus Neurogenesis and Proliferation in the Short Term and New Neuron Survival and Contextual Fear Conditioning in the Long Term. Radiat Res 2017; 188:532-551. [PMID: 28945526 PMCID: PMC5901735 DOI: 10.1667/rr14797.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [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: 01/11/2023]
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Astronauts traveling to Mars will be exposed to chronic low doses of galactic cosmic space radiation, which contains highly charged, high-energy (HZE) particles. 56Fe-HZE-particle exposure decreases hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG) neurogenesis and disrupts hippocampal function in young adult rodents, raising the possibility of impaired astronaut cognition and risk of mission failure. However, far less is known about how exposure to other HZE particles, such as 28Si, influences hippocampal neurogenesis and function. To compare the influence of 28Si exposure on indices of neurogenesis and hippocampal function with previous studies on 56Fe exposure, 9-week-old C57BL/6J and Nestin-GFP mice (NGFP; made and maintained for 10 or more generations on a C57BL/6J background) received whole-body 28Si-particle-radiation exposure (0, 0.2 and 1 Gy, 300 MeV/n, LET 67 KeV/μ, dose rate 1 Gy/min). For neurogenesis assessment, the NGFP mice were injected with the mitotic marker BrdU at 22 h postirradiation and brains were examined for indices of hippocampal proliferation and neurogenesis, including Ki67+, BrdU+, BrdU+NeuN+ and DCX+ cell numbers at short- and long-term time points (24 h and 3 months postirradiation, respectively). In the short-term group, stereology revealed fewer Ki67+, BrdU+ and DCX+ cells in 1-Gy-irradiated group relative to nonirradiated control mice, fewer Ki67+ and DCX+ cells in 0.2 Gy group relative to control group and fewer BrdU+ and DCX+ cells in 1 Gy group relative to 0.2 Gy group. In contrast to the clearly observed radiation-induced, dose-dependent reductions in the short-term group across all markers, only a few neurogenesis indices were changed in the long-term irradiated groups. Notably, there were fewer surviving BrdU+ cells in the 1 Gy group relative to 0- and 0.2-Gy-irradiated mice in the long-term group. When the short- and long-term groups were analyzed by sex, exposure to radiation had a similar effect on neurogenesis indices in male and female mice, although only male mice showed fewer surviving BrdU+ cells in the long-term group. Fluorescent immunolabeling and confocal phenotypic analysis revealed that most surviving BrdU+ cells in the long-term group expressed the neuronal marker NeuN, definitively confirming that exposure to 1 Gy 28Si radiation decreased the number of surviving adult-generated neurons in male mice relative to both 0- and 0.2-Gy-irradiated mice. For hippocampal function assessment, 9-week-old male C57BL/6J mice received whole-body 28Si-particle exposure and were then assessed long-term for performance on contextual and cued fear conditioning. In the context test the animals that received 0.2 Gy froze less relative to control animals, suggesting decreased hippocampal-dependent function. However, in the cued fear conditioning test, animals that received 1 Gy froze more during the pretone portion of the test, relative to controls and 0.2-Gy-irradiated mice, suggesting enhanced anxiety. Compared to previously reported studies, these data suggest that 28Si-radiation exposure damages neurogenesis, but to a lesser extent than 56Fe radiation and that low-dose 28Si exposure induces abnormalities in hippocampal function, disrupting fear memory but also inducing anxiety-like behavior. Furthermore, exposure to 28Si radiation decreased new neuron survival in long-term male groups but not females suggests that sex may be an important factor when performing brain health risk assessment for astronauts traveling in space.
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- Cody W. Whoolery
- Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
- Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
- Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Xuan W, Agrawal T, Huang L, Gupta GK, Hamblin MR. Low-level laser therapy for traumatic brain injury in mice increases brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and synaptogenesis. J Biophotonics 2015; 8:502-11. [PMID: 25196192 PMCID: PMC5379854 DOI: 10.1002/jbio.201400069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2014] [Revised: 07/22/2014] [Accepted: 07/24/2014] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Transcranial low-level laser (light) therapy (LLLT) is a new non-invasive approach to treating a range of brain disorders including traumatic brain injury (TBI). We (and others) have shown that applying near-infrared light to the head of animals that have suffered TBI produces improvement in neurological functioning, lessens the size of the brain lesion, reduces neuroinflammation, and stimulates the formation of new neurons. In the present study we used a controlled cortical impact TBI in mice and treated the mice either once (4 h post-TBI, 1-laser), or three daily applications (3-laser) with 810 nm CW laser 36 J/cm(2) at 50 mW/cm(2). Similar to previous studies, the neurological severity score improved in laser-treated mice compared to untreated TBI mice at day 14 and continued to further improve at days 21 and 28 with 3-laser being better than 1-laser. Mice were sacrificed at days 7 and 28 and brains removed for immunofluorescence analysis. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) was significantly upregulated by laser treatment in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus (DG) and the subventricular zone (SVZ) but not in the perilesional cortex (lesion) at day 7 but not at day 28. Synapsin-1 (a marker for synaptogenesis, the formation of new connections between existing neurons) was significantly upregulated in lesion and SVZ but not DG, at 28 days but not 7 days. The data suggest that the benefit of LLLT to the brain is partly mediated by stimulation of BDNF production, which may in turn encourage synaptogenesis. Moreover the pleiotropic benefits of BDNF in the brain suggest LLLT may have wider applications to neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders. Neurological Severity Score (NSS) for TBI mice.
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- Weijun Xuan
- Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 40 Blossom Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
- Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, Traditional Chinese Medical University of Guangxi, Nanning, China
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- Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, Traditional Chinese Medical University of Guangxi, Nanning, China
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- Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, Traditional Chinese Medical University of Guangxi, Nanning, China
- Department of Infectious Diseases, First Affiliated College & Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, 530021, China
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- Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, Traditional Chinese Medical University of Guangxi, Nanning, China
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA 02111, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
- Department of Otolaryngology, Traditional Chinese Medical University of Guangxi, Nanning, China.
- Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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Fan XW, Chen F, Chen Y, Chen GH, Liu HH, Guan SK, Deng Y, Liu Y, Zhang SJ, Peng WJ, Jiang GL, Wu KL. Electroacupuncture prevents cognitive impairments by regulating the early changes after brain irradiation in rats. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0122087. [PMID: 25830357 PMCID: PMC4382177 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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: 10/19/2014] [Accepted: 02/17/2015] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Cognitive impairments severely affect the quality of life of patients who undergo brain irradiation, and there are no effective preventive strategies. In this study, we examined the therapeutic potential of electroacupuncture (EA) administered immediately after brain irradiation in rats. We detected changes in cognitive function, neurogenesis, and synaptic density at different time points after irradiation, but found that EA could protect the blood-brain barrier (BBB), inhibit neuroinflammatory cytokine expression, upregulate angiogenic cytokine expression, and modulate the levels of neurotransmitter receptors and neuropeptides in the early phase. Moreover, EA protected spatial memory and recognition in the delayed phase. At the cellular/molecular level, the preventative effect of EA on cognitive dysfunction was not dependent on hippocampal neurogenesis; rather, it was related to synaptophysin expression. Our results suggest that EA applied immediately after brain irradiation can prevent cognitive impairments by protecting against the early changes induced by irradiation and may be a novel approach for preventing or ameliorating cognitive impairments in patients with brain tumors who require radiotherapy.
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- Xing-Wen Fan
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China, 200032
- Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 200032
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- Department of Integrative Medicine and Neurobiology, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 200032
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- Department of Integrative Medicine and Neurobiology, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 200032
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China, 200032
- Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 200032
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- Department of Radiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, 200032
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China, 200032
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China, 200032
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China, 200032
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- Department of Radiology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China, 200032
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- Department of Radiology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China, 200032
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China, 200032
- Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 200032
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China, 200032
- Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 200032
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Yang YJ, Kim YS, Shin MS, Chang HK, Lee TH, Sim YJ, Shin MC, Park HY, Kim S, Park HK, Kim CJ. Effects of acupuncture on the intrastriatal hemorrhage-induced caspase3 expression and newly cell birth in rats. Neurol Res 2013; 29 Suppl 1:S65-71. [PMID: 17359644 DOI: 10.1179/016164107x172266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [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: 10/31/2022]
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BACKGROUND Intracerebral hemorrhage is one of the most devastating types of stroke. Caspases are essential players in apoptotic cell death both as initiators and executioners. The v-Fos FBJ murine osteosarcoma viral oncogene homolog (Fos, c-Fos) is an immediate early gene, and Fos expression is sometimes used as a marker for stimuli-induced changes in the metabolic activity of neurons. The expressions of caspase3 and Fos are enhanced with neuroregeneration and with neuronal cell death, respectively. Cells proliferation the dentate gyrus of adult rodents is enhanced by certain pathologic events as seizures and ischemic insult, and such up-regulation of cell proliferation occurring during pathologic situations is thought to be a compensatory response to lesion-induced cell death in the brain. In the present study, we investigated the effects of acupuncture on the intrastriatal hemorrhage-induced caspase3 expression in the striatum and on the Fos expression and cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus of rats. METHODS For this study, immunohistochemistry for caspase3, Fos and 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdU) was performed. RESULTS Caspase3 expression in the striatum was increased by intrastriatal hemorrhage. Fos expression and cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus of rats with intracerebral hemorrhage were also increased. Acupunctural treatment, especially at the ST36 acupoint, suppressed the intracerebral hemorrhage-induced caspase3 expression in the stratum, and it also inhibited expression of Fos and cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus. CONCLUSION In the present study, we have shown that acupuncture treatment has a neuroprotective effect on intrastrstriatal hemorrhage-induced neuronal cell death, and this suggests that acupuncture can aid in the recovery of the central nervous system following stroke.
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- Yong-Jun Yang
- Department of Anatomy-Meridian, College of Oriental Medicine, Kyungwon University, Seongnam 461-701, Korea
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Chakraborti A, Allen A, Allen B, Rosi S, Fike JR. Cranial irradiation alters dendritic spine density and morphology in the hippocampus. PLoS One 2012; 7:e40844. [PMID: 22815839 PMCID: PMC3397939 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [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: 04/25/2012] [Accepted: 06/14/2012] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Therapeutic irradiation of the brain is a common treatment modality for brain tumors, but can lead to impairment of cognitive function. Dendritic spines are sites of excitatory synaptic transmission and changes in spine structure and number are thought to represent a morphological correlate of altered brain functions associated with hippocampal dependent learning and memory. To gain some insight into the temporal and sub region specific cellular changes in the hippocampus following brain irradiation, we investigated the effects of 10 Gy cranial irradiation on dendritic spines in young adult mice. One week or 1 month post irradiation, changes in spine density and morphology in dentate gyrus (DG) granule and CA1 pyramidal neurons were quantified using Golgi staining. Our results showed that in the DG, there were significant reductions in spine density at both 1 week (11.9%) and 1 month (26.9%) after irradiation. In contrast, in the basal dendrites of CA1 pyramidal neurons, irradiation resulted in a significant reduction (18.7%) in spine density only at 1 week post irradiation. Analysis of spine morphology showed that irradiation led to significant decreases in the proportion of mushroom spines at both time points in the DG as well as CA1 basal dendrites. The proportions of stubby spines were significantly increased in both the areas at 1 month post irradiation. Irradiation did not alter spine density in the CA1 apical dendrites, but there were significant changes in the proportion of thin and mushroom spines at both time points post irradiation. Although the mechanisms involved are not clear, these findings are the first to show that brain irradiation of young adult animals leads to alterations in dendritic spine density and morphology in the hippocampus in a time dependent and region specific manner.
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- Ayanabha Chakraborti
- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Brain and Spinal Injury Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Brain and Spinal Injury Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Brain and Spinal Injury Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Brain and Spinal Injury Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Brain and Spinal Injury Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Jahanshahi M, Khoshbin Khoshnazar A, Azami NS, Heidari M. Radiation-induced lowered neurogenesis associated with shortened latency of inhibitory avoidance memory response. Folia Neuropathol 2011; 49:103-108. [PMID: 21845538] [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: 05/31/2023] Open
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The neural system is less sensitive to radiation than other late-responding organs and tissues such as the kidney and lung. The generation of new neurons in the adult mammalian brain has been documented in several works. Many studies show that adult hippocampal neurogenesis relates to hippocampal function, in several ways. In this study, we assessed the effect of single and fractionated cobalt radiation on neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampal formation. The irradiation time for delivering 2 Gy (for fractionated dose radiation) and 10 Gy (for single dose radiation) at maximum depth were respectively 1.98 min and 9.92 min. To study the association with memory function we examined inhibitory avoidance memory using a step-through device. Brains were withdrawn and fixed, and then sections were stained with cresyl violet for neurons. We found that a 10 Gy dose can induce lower neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus (p < 0.05), in such a way that a fractionated dose (5 fractions of 2 Gy) is more effective than a single dose (one fraction of 10 Gy). Moreover, a fractionated dose could reduce step-through latency corresponding to damaged inhibitory avoidance memory (p < 0.05). Synergic action of an anaesthetic drug may be the cause of more reduction of neurogenesis in fractionated irradiated rats. There was no significant difference in latency of the inhibitory avoidance memory response between the single 10 Gy group and the sham group, while fractionated 10 Gy could reduce latency. Different mechanisms of action in the two regimens of irradiation may be a reason.
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- Mehrdad Jahanshahi
- Department of Biochemistry and Medical Physics, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran
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Lacefield CO, Itskov V, Reardon T, Hen R, Gordon JA. Effects of adult-generated granule cells on coordinated network activity in the dentate gyrus. Hippocampus 2010; 22:106-16. [PMID: 20882540 DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [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] [Accepted: 06/25/2010] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Throughout the adult life of most mammals, new neurons are continuously generated in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampal formation. Recent work has documented specific cognitive deficits after elimination of adult hippocampal neurogenesis in rodents, suggesting that these neurons may contribute to information processing in hippocampal circuits. Young adult-born neurons exhibit enhanced excitability and have altered capacity for synaptic plasticity in hippocampal slice preparations in vitro. Still, little is known about the effect of adult-born granule cells on hippocampal activity in vivo. To assess the impact of these new neurons on neural circuits in the dentate, we recorded perforant-path evoked responses and spontaneous network activity from the dentate gyrus of urethane-anesthetized mice whose hippocampus had been focally X-irradiated to eliminate the population of young adult-born granule cells. After X-irradiation, perforant-path responses were reduced in magnitude. In contrast, there was a marked increase in the amplitude of spontaneous γ-frequency bursts in the dentate gyrus and hilus, as well as increased synchronization of dentate neuron firing to these bursts. A similar increase in gamma burst amplitude was also found in animals in which adult neurogenesis was eliminated using the GFAP:TK pharmacogenetic ablation technique. These data suggest that young neurons may inhibit or destabilize recurrent network activity in the dentate and hilus. This unexpected result yields a new perspective on how a modest number of young adult-generated granule cells may modulate activity in the larger population of mature granule cells, rather than acting solely as independent encoding units.
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- Clay O Lacefield
- Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Dr., Kolb Annex, Unit 87, NewYork, NY 10032, USA.
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Li YQ, Aubert I, Wong CS. Abrogation of early apoptosis does not alter late inhibition of hippocampal neurogenesis after irradiation. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2010; 77:1213-22. [PMID: 20610042 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.01.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2009] [Revised: 01/12/2010] [Accepted: 01/12/2010] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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PURPOSE Irradiation of the adult brain results in acute apoptosis of neural progenitors and vascular endothelial cells, as well as late dysfunction of neural progenitors and inhibition of neurogenesis. We sought to determine whether the early apoptotic response has a causative role in late inhibition of neurogenesis after cranial irradiation. METHODS AND MATERIALS Using a genetic approach with p53 and smpd1 transgenic mice and a pharmacologic approach with basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) to abrogate the early apoptotic response, we evaluated the late inhibition of neurogenesis in the hippocampal dentate gyrus after cranial irradiation. RESULTS In dentate gyrus, subgranular neural progenitors underwent p53-dependent apoptosis within 24 h after irradiation. Despite a near abrogation of neural progenitor apoptosis in p53-/- mice, the reduction in newborn neurons in dentate gyrus at 9 weeks after irradiation in p53-/- mice was not different from that observed in wildtype controls. Endothelial cell apoptosis after radiation is mediated by membrane damage initiated by activation of acid sphingomyelinase (ASMase). Deletion of the smpd1 gene (which encodes ASMase) attenuated the apoptotic response of endothelial cells. At 9 weeks after irradiation, the inhibition of hippocampal neurogenesis was not rescued by ASMase deficiency. Intravenous administration of bFGF protected both endothelial cells and neural progenitors against radiation-induced apoptosis. There was no protection against inhibition of neurogenesis at 9 weeks after irradiation in bFGF-treated mice. CONCLUSION Early apoptotic death of neural progenitors, endothelial cells, or both does not have a causative association with late inhibition of neurogenesis after irradiation.
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- Yu-Qing Li
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
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Barlind A, Karlsson N, Åberg ND, Björk-Eriksson T, Blomgren K, Isgaard J. The growth hormone secretagogue hexarelin increases cell proliferation in neurogenic regions of the mouse hippocampus. Growth Horm IGF Res 2010; 20:49-54. [PMID: 19800825 DOI: 10.1016/j.ghir.2009.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2009] [Revised: 08/27/2009] [Accepted: 09/04/2009] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Radiation therapy (RT) to the brain is often used in the treatment of children with different types of malignant diseases affecting the brain. However, RT in childhood may also have severe side effects including impaired brain maturation and intellectual development. For childhood cancer survivors these adverse effects of RT can cause lifelong disability and suffering. Therefore, there is an unmet need to limit late effects after RT. Precursor cells in the subgranular zone of the dentate gyrus (DG) in the hippocampus are particularly sensitive to irradiation (IR). This may be of significance as newly generated neurons in the DG are important for memory and learning. GH secretagogues (GHS) have previously been shown to promote neurogenesis and to have neuroprotective effects. In addition, several parts of the brain, including the hippocampus, have been shown to express the GHS receptor 1a (GHS-R1a). The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential effect of the GHS hexarelin on proliferation and survival of progenitor cells in the hippocampus after brain IR in a mouse model. DESIGN In the present study, 10-day-old male mice received 6Gy cranial IR. Non-irradiated sham animals were used as controls. We treated one group of irradiated and one sham group with hexarelin (100microg/kg/day) for 28days and used immunohistochemical labeling of bromo-deoxy uridine (BrdU) and phospho-histone H3 of the granular cell layer of the DG to evaluate proliferation and cell survival after IR at postnatal day ten. RESULTS Our results show that hexarelin significantly increased the number of BrdU-positive cells in the granule cell layer by approximately 50% compared to controls. CONCLUSION The increased number of BrdU-positive cells in the granule cell layer suggests a partial restoration in the pool of proliferating cells by hexarelin after IR.
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- Anna Barlind
- Laboratory of Experimental Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Hellström NAK, Björk-Eriksson T, Blomgren K, Kuhn HG. Differential recovery of neural stem cells in the subventricular zone and dentate gyrus after ionizing radiation. Stem Cells 2009; 27:634-41. [PMID: 19056908 DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2008-0732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Radiation therapy is a widely used treatment for malignant central nervous system tumors. Mature neurons are terminally differentiated, whereas stem and progenitor cells have a prominent proliferative capacity and are therefore highly vulnerable to irradiation. Our aim was to investigate how cranial radiation in young rats would affect stem/progenitor cells in the two niches of adult neurogenesis, the subventricular zone (SVZ) and the dentate gyrus of the hippocampal formation. Nine weeks after irradiation we found that in irradiated animals, hippocampal neurogenesis was reduced to 5% of control levels. Similarly, the numbers of actively proliferating cells and radial glia-like stem cells (nestin+/glial fibrillary acidic protein [GFAP]+) in the dentate gyrus were reduced to 10% and 15% of control levels, respectively. In the irradiated olfactory bulb, neurogenesis was reduced to 40% of control levels, and the number of actively proliferating cells in the SVZ was reduced to 53% of control levels. However, the number of nestin+/GFAP+ cells in the SVZ was unchanged compared with controls. To evaluate the immediate response to the radiation injury, we quantified the amount of proliferation in the SVZ and dentate gyrus 1 day after irradiation. We found an equal reduction in proliferating cells both in dentate gyrus and SVZ. In summary, we show an initial response to radiation injury that is similar in both brain stem cell niches. However, the long-term effects on stem cells and neurogenesis in these two areas differ significantly: the dentate gyrus is severely affected long-term, whereas the SVZ appears to recover with time.
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- Nina A K Hellström
- Center for Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, Institute for Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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Radiation is an important therapeutic tool in the treatment of cancer. The tremendous development in radiotherapeutic techniques and dosimetry has made it possible to augment the patient survival. Therefore, attention has focused on long-range treatment side effects especially in relation to the neurocognitive changes. As cognitive health of an organism is considered to be maintained by the capacity of hippocampal neurogenesis, this study designed to evaluate the delayed effect of cranial irradiation on hippocampal neurogenesis, possible implication of oxidative stress and prophylactic action of melatonin in mice. One month after cranial irradiation (6 Gy, X-ray), changes in the population of immature and proliferating neurons in dentate gyrus were localized through the expression of the microtubule binding protein doublecortin (Dcx) and proliferation marker Ki-67. We found a substantial reduction in the Dcx and Ki-67 positive cells after irradiation. Melatonin pretreatment significantly ameliorated the radiation-induced decline in the Dcx and Ki-67 positive cells. In addition, profound increase in the 4-hydroxynonenal (4-HNE) and 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine positive cells were reported in subventricular zone, granular cell layer and hilus after day 30 postirradiation. Immunoreactivity of these oxidative stress markers were significantly inhibited by melatonin pretreatment. To confirm the magnitude of free-radical scavenging potential of melatonin, we measured the in-vitro OH radical scavenging power of melatonin by electron spin resonance. Interestingly, the melatonin was capable of scavenging the OH radicals at very low concentration (IC(50) = 214.46 nm). The findings indicate the possible benefit of melatonin treatment to combat the delayed side effects of cranial radiotherapy.
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- Kailash Manda
- National Institute of Radiological Science, Chiba, Japan.
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Manda K, Ueno M, Anzai K. Space radiation-induced inhibition of neurogenesis in the hippocampal dentate gyrus and memory impairment in mice: ameliorative potential of the melatonin metabolite, AFMK. J Pineal Res 2008; 45:430-8. [PMID: 18631288 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-079x.2008.00611.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Evaluation of potential health effects from high energy charged particle radiation exposure during long duration space travel is important for the future of manned missions. Cognitive health of an organism is considered to be maintained by the capacity of hippocampal precursors to proliferate and differentiate. Environmental stressors including irradiation have been shown to inhibit neurogenesis and are associated with the onset of cognitive impairments. The present study reports on the protective effects of N(1)-acetyl-N(2)-formyl-5-methoxykynuramine (AFMK), a melatonin metabolite, against high energy charged particle radiation-induced oxidative damage to the brain. We observed that radiation exposure (2.0 Gy of 500 MeV/nucleon (56)Fe beams, a ground-based model of space radiation) impaired the spatial memory of mice at later intervals without affecting the motor activities. AFMK pretreatment significantly ameliorated these neurobehavioral ailments. Radiation-induced changes in the population of immature and proliferating neurons in the dentate gyrus were localized using anti-doublecortin (Dcx) and anti-Ki-67 expression. AFMK pretreatment significantly inhibited the loss of Dcx and Ki-67 positive cells. Moreover, AFMK pretreatment ameliorated the radiation-induced augmentation of protein carbonyls and 4-hydroxyalkenal + malondialdehyde (MDA + HAE) in the brain and maintained the total antioxidant capacity of plasma and nonprotein sulfhydryl contents in brain.
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- Kailash Manda
- National Institute of Radiological Science, Chiba, Japan.
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Shi L, Molina DP, Robbins ME, Wheeler KT, Brunso-Bechtold JK. Hippocampal neuron number is unchanged 1 year after fractionated whole-brain irradiation at middle age. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2008; 71:526-32. [PMID: 18474312 PMCID: PMC2805196 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.02.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [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: 12/14/2007] [Revised: 02/08/2008] [Accepted: 02/13/2008] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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PURPOSE To determine whether hippocampal neurons are lost 12 months after middle-aged rats received a fractionated course of whole-brain irradiation (WBI) that is expected to be biologically equivalent to the regimens used clinically in the treatment of brain tumors. METHODS AND MATERIALS Twelve-month-old Fischer 344 X Brown Norway male rats were divided into WBI and control (CON) groups (n = 6 per group). Anesthetized WBI rats received 45 Gy of (137)Cs gamma rays delivered as 9 5-Gy fractions twice per week for 4.5 weeks. Control rats were anesthetized but not irradiated. Twelve months after WBI completion, all rats were anesthetized and perfused with paraformaldehyde, and hippocampal sections were immunostained with the neuron-specific antibody NeuN. Using unbiased stereology, total neuron number and the volume of the neuronal and neuropil layers were determined in the dentate gyrus, CA3, and CA1 subregions of hippocampus. RESULTS No differences in tissue integrity or neuron distribution were observed between the WBI and CON groups. Moreover, quantitative analysis demonstrated that neither total neuron number nor the volume of neuronal or neuropil layers differed between the two groups for any subregion. CONCLUSIONS Impairment on a hippocampal-dependent learning and memory test occurs 1 year after fractionated WBI at middle age. The same WBI regimen, however, does not lead to a loss of neurons or a reduction in the volume of hippocampus.
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- Lei Shi
- Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1010, USA.
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Ionizing irradiation is an effective treatment for intracranial tumors but is limited by the potential adverse effects induced in surrounding normal brain. These effects can include cognitive impairments, and whereas the pathogenesis of such injury has not yet been definitively established, it may involve injury to the neurogenic cell population that exists in the dentate subgranular zone (SGZ) of the hippocampus. Understanding the issues surrounding this topic could have a major impact in the management of specific sequelae associated with cranial irradiation. Although radiation is now becoming a useful tool in investigations into the biology of neurogenesis, the perspective of this review is directed more toward the potential relevance of studying radiation and the stem/precursor cell response.
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- Marta Andres-Mach
- Department of Neurological Surgery, San Francisco General Hospital, Bldg. 1, 1001 Potrero Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94110-0899, USA.
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Håvik B, Røkke H, Dagyte G, Stavrum AK, Bramham CR, Steen VM. Synaptic activity-induced global gene expression patterns in the dentate gyrus of adult behaving rats: induction of immunity-linked genes. Neuroscience 2007; 148:925-36. [PMID: 17764852 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2007.07.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [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] [Received: 05/06/2007] [Revised: 07/02/2007] [Accepted: 08/02/2007] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Gene expression in adult neuronal circuits is dynamically modulated in response to synaptic activity. Persistent changes in synaptic strength, as seen during high-frequency stimulation (HFS)-induced long-term potentiation (LTP), require new gene expression. While modulation of many individual genes has been shown, an understanding of LTP as a complex dynamical response requires elucidation of the global gene expression signature and its impact on biologically meaningful gene sets. In this study, we demonstrate that LTP induction in the dentate gyrus of awake freely moving rats was associated with changes in the expression of genes linked to signal transduction, protein trafficking, cell structure and motility, and other processes consistent with the induction of mechanisms of synaptic reorganization and growth. Interestingly, the most significantly over-represented gene sets were related to immunity and defense, including T-cell-mediated immunity and major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I-mediated immunity. Real-time PCR confirmed the upregulation of a panel of immune-linked genes including the rt1-a/ce family, and the MHC class II members cd74, rt1-Ba and rt1-Da. These genes were N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor-independent and not induced following HFS-LTP induction in anesthetized rats, indicating a gene response specific to behaving rats. Our data support recent assumptions that immunity-associated processes are functionally linked to adaptive neuronal responses in the brain, although the differential expression of immunity-linked genes could also be related to the HFS per se.
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- B Håvik
- Dr. Einar Martens' Research Group for Biological Psychiatry, and Bergen Mental Health Research Center, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, N-5021 Bergen, Norway.
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Brillaud E, Piotrowski A, de Seze R. Effect of an acute 900MHz GSM exposure on glia in the rat brain: a time-dependent study. Toxicology 2007; 238:23-33. [PMID: 17624651 DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2007.05.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [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: 09/29/2006] [Revised: 05/10/2007] [Accepted: 05/14/2007] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Because of the increasing use of mobile phones, the possible risks of radio frequency electromagnetic fields adverse effects on the human brain has to be evaluated. In this work we measured GFAP expression, to evaluate glial evolution 2, 3, 6 and 10 days after a single GSM exposure (15min, brain averaged SAR=6W/kg, 900MHz signal) in the rat brain. A statistically significant increase of GFAP stained surface area was observed 2 days after exposure in the frontal cortex and the caudate putamen. A smaller statistically significant increase was noted 3 days after exposure in the same areas and in the cerebellum cortex. Our results confirm the Mausset-Bonnefont et al. study [Mausset-Bonnefont, A.L., Hirbec, H., Bonnefont, X., Privat, A., Vignon, J., de Seze, R., 2004. Acute exposure to GSM 900MHz electromagnetic fields induces glial reactivity and biochemical modifications in the rat brain. Neurobiol. Dis. 17, 445-454], showing the existence of glial reactivity after a 15min GSM acute exposure at a brain averaged SAR of 6W/kg. We conclude to a temporary effect, probably due to a hypertrophy of glial cells, with a temporal and a spatial modulation of the effect. Whether this effect could be harmful remains to be studied.
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- Elsa Brillaud
- INERIS, Unité de Toxicologie Expérimentale, Parc Technologique ALATA, BP no. 2, 60550 Verneuil-en-Halatte, France.
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Vollmann H, Wölfel S, Ohneseit P, Stransky E, Vonthein R, Wick W, Meyermann R, Simon P. Differential Expression of Egr1 and Activation of Microglia Following Irradiation in the Rat Brain. Strahlenther Onkol 2007; 183:248-55. [PMID: 17497096 DOI: 10.1007/s00066-007-1664-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [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: 08/09/2006] [Revised: 11/13/2006] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Little is known about the immediate effects of whole-brain gamma-irradiation. The authors hypothesize that Egr1 as an immediate early gene and microglia both participate in early reactions. MATERIAL AND METHODS Both, expression of Egr1 and cellular distribution were studied in a temporal sequence in different brain regions of rats subjected to irradiation with 10 Gy. Brain tissue was examined using immunohistochemistry, real-time RT-PCR (reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction), and Western blotting. RESULTS Astroglia and oligodendroglia showed increased Egr1 immunoreactivity within the first hours following irradiation. This was accompanied by a strong peak in CD68 immunoreactivity histologically attributable to activated microglia. A high constitutive expression of Egr1 protein in the nuclei of activated neurons was reduced following irradiation and RT-PCR demonstrated significantly reduced levels of egr1-lv as a neuronal activity-related mRNA variant. CONCLUSION The induction of Egr1 in glial cells, as well as the activation of microglia take place earlier than histological changes reported so far. The authors revealed a temporal sequence of reactions that point toward the initiation of an immediate inflammatory response including reduced neuronal activity.
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Cumiskey D, Butler MP, Moynagh PN, O'connor JJ. Evidence for a role for the group I metabotropic glutamate receptor in the inhibitory effect of tumor necrosis factor-α on long-term potentiation. Brain Res 2007; 1136:13-9. [PMID: 17198691 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.12.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [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: 07/31/2006] [Revised: 12/04/2006] [Accepted: 12/08/2006] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Pro-inflammatory cytokines are known to be elevated in several neuropathological states that are associated with learning and memory. We have previously demonstrated in our laboratory that the inhibition of long-term potentiation (LTP) in the dentate gyrus region of the rat hippocampus, by tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha, represents a biphasic response, an early phase dependent on p38 mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) activation and a later phase, possible dependent on protein synthesis. Many of the factors involved in the early modulation of LTP by TNF-alpha have yet to be elucidated. This study investigated if metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) are functionally linked to the inhibitory effect of TNF-alpha on LTP in the rat dentate gyrus in vitro. We report that the impairment of early-LTP by TNF-alpha is significantly attenuated by prior application of the group I/II mGluR antagonist MCPG and more specifically the mGluR5 antagonist MPEP. Since TNF-alpha is now known to cause transient increases in intracellular Ca(2+) levels from ryanodine-sensitive stores, we explored the possibility that disruption of intracellular Ca(2+) homeostasis could be involved. Ryanodine was found to significantly reverse the inhibition of LTP by TNF-alpha. From these studies we propose that the TNF-alpha inhibition of LTP is dependent upon the activation of TNFR1 and mGlu5-receptors. Importantly this study provides the first proof of the involvement of ryanodine-sensitive intracellular Ca(2+) stores in TNF-alpha mediated inhibition of LTP.
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- D Cumiskey
- UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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Ben Abdallah NMB, Slomianka L, Lipp HP. Reversible effect of X-irradiation on proliferation, neurogenesis, and cell death in the dentate gyrus of adult mice. Hippocampus 2007; 17:1230-40. [PMID: 17764075 DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [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] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Therapeutic cranial X-irradiation causes cognitive deficits in adult and pediatric patients, in particular, when the exposed area includes the medial temporal lobes. Effects on adult neurogenesis within the hippocampus may be related to such deficits. To investigate this relation, we irradiated the brain of young adult C57Bl/6j mice with a single dose of 4 Gy at a dose-rate of 27.5 cGy/min. We observed an approximately 80% decrease in the number of cells immunoreactive for the proliferation marker Ki67, 16 and 48 h after exposure, which was restored to control values after 1 week. The number of doublecortin- and NeuroD-immunoreactive cells of neuronal lineage was reduced by 60-70% up to 1 week after irradiation, but not after 1 month. The number of pyknotic cells increased approximately 2.5 fold after 16 h, decreased to approximately 50% of control numbers after 48 h and 1 week, and was again at normal levels after 1 month. Granule cell number did not differ between different groups and time points. There was no apparent activation of microglia or astrocytes. Our findings consist of an acute and reversible effect of X-irradiation on proliferation, neurogenesis, and cell death. Transient changes of neurogenesis may play a role in transient impairments of cognitive performance of patients exposed to X-irradiation. We present an experimental approach to temporarily alter adult hippocampal neurogenesis (AhN), allowing mechanistic investigations of AhN and its relevance to cognitive performances. The work also represents a step toward optimized radiotherapy schedules.
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Considerable data are now available regarding the radiation responsiveness of neural precursor cells that exist in the neurogenic regions of the mammalian forebrain. These cells and their progeny are extremely sensitive to irradiation, undergoing apoptosis after clinically relevant doses that do not result in overt tissue injury. In addition, there is compelling evidence that radiation significantly affects the whole process of neurogenesis and that the sensitivity depends, at least in part, on alterations in the microenvironment within which the precursor cells exist. Although provocative data exist suggesting that inflammation, oxidative stress, or morphologic relations influence neurogenesis, the precise mechanisms involved remain obscure and need to be investigated. Additionally, it is important to try to understand what these findings may mean in the context of radiation paradigms associated with the treatment of intracranial disease. Understanding how neural precursor cells respond to noxious stimuli is likely to lead to new therapeutic approaches that should restore neurogenesis and perhaps improve cognitive performance.
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- John R Fike
- Department of Neurological Surgery and Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, USA.
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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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The purpose of this study is to investigate the mechanism of alternative responses to low dose irradiation for neuronal cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus of rats. To determine the effect of a single exposure to radiation, rats were irradiated with a single dose of 0.1, 1, 10 or 20 Gy. To determine the effect of the cumulative dose, the animals were irradiated daily with 0.01 Gy or 0.1 Gy from 1 to 4 days. The neuronal cell proliferation was evaluated using immunohistochemistry for 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdU), Ki-67 and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end-labeling (TUNEL) staining. Four consecutive daily irradiations with a 0.01 Gy/fraction increased the number of BrdU-positive and Ki-67-positive cells in a dose dependent manner, but this did not affect the number of TUNEL-positive cells. However, there was not a dose dependent relationship for the 0.1 Gy/fraction irradiation with the number of BrdU, Ki-67 and TUNEL positive cells. Our data support the explanation that the adaptive response, induced by low-dose radiation, in the hippocampus of rats is more likely a reflection of the perturbations of cell cycle progression.
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- Jin Oh Kang
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Kyung Hee University Hospital, 1 Hoiki-Dong, Dongdaemun-Gu, Seoul, Korea.
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Wang Y, Sherwood JL, Lodge D. The alpha4beta2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor agonist TC-2559 impairs long-term potentiation in the dentate gyrus in vivo. Neurosci Lett 2006; 406:183-8. [PMID: 16935422 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.06.075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [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: 05/03/2006] [Revised: 06/26/2006] [Accepted: 06/29/2006] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR) are widely expressed throughout the nervous system, are involved in some fast excitatory neurotransmission, and play an important role in modulating the release of several neurotransmitters, including the major excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters, glutamate and GABA. We used a recently characterised alpha4beta2 nAChR subunit selective partial agonist, TC-2559, to study the effect of alpha4beta2 nAChR activation on synaptic plasticity in the medio-dorsal perforant pathway input to the dentate gyrus, in the intact nervous system in vivo. We show for the first time, that the selective activation of alpha4beta2 containing nAChR can reduce the level of long-term potentiation (LTP) induced by high frequency stimulation, an effect that was reversed by the selective antagonist, dihydro-beta-erythroidine (DbetaHE). This modulator role of nAChRs is in contrast to previous findings that used broad spectrum agonists, highlighting the complex actions of nicotine.
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- Yun Wang
- Lilly Research Centre, Eli Lilly & Co Ltd, Erl Wood Manor, Windlesham, Surrey, UK
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We investigated the effect of low dose radiation on diabetes induced suppression of neurogenesis in the hippocampal dentate gyrus of rat. After 0.01 Gy, 0.1 Gy, 1 Gy and 10 Gy radiation was delivered, the dentate gyrus of hippocampus of streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic rats were evaluated using immunohistochemistry for 5-bromo-2-deoxyuridine (BrdU), caspase-3, and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated nick end-labeling (TUNEL) staining. The number of BrdU positive cells in the non-diabetic rats, diabetic rats without radiation, diabetic rats with 0.01 Gy radiation, diabetic rats with 0.1 Gy radiation, diabetic rats with 1 Gy radiation and diabetic rats with 10 Gy radiation were 55.4+/-8.5/mm2, 33.3+/-6.4/mm2, 67.7+/-10.5/mm2, 66.6+/-10.0/mm2, 23.5+/-6.3/mm2 and 14.3+/-7.2/mm2, respectively. The number of caspase-3 positive cells was 132.6+/-37.4/mm2, 378.6+/-99.1/mm2, 15.0+/-2.8/mm2, 57.1+/-16.9/mm2, 191.8+/-44.8/mm2 and 450.4+/-58.3/mm2, respectively. The number of TUNEL-positive cells was 24.5+/-2.0/mm2, 21.7+/-4.0/mm2, 20.4+/-2.0/mm2, 18.96+/-2.1/mm2, 58.3+/-7.9/mm2, and 106.0+/-9.8/mm2, respectively. These results suggest low doses of radiation paradoxically improved diabetes induced neuronal cell suppression in the hippocampal dentate gyrus of rat.
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- Jin Oh Kang
- Department of Radiation Oncology, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.
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"Loss of function" experiments have been the mainstay approach in studies seeking to determine functional roles of various brain regions in learning and memory. The hippocampal formation consists of several distinct regions that are thought to play different, yet interrelated, roles in the memory processes. Ionizing radiation offers a selective and highly flexible, relatively uninvasive method to further advance such studies. Focused applications of the radiation beam to the head under general anesthesia can selectively reduce ongoing adult neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus without causing any detectable damage to mature neurons. Further refinements of the methodology should offer many opportunities to extend our present knowledge of how and when adult neurogenesis plays a role in learning and memory.
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- J Martin Wojtowicz
- Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Meshi D, Drew MR, Saxe M, Ansorge MS, David D, Santarelli L, Malapani C, Moore H, Hen R. Hippocampal neurogenesis is not required for behavioral effects of environmental enrichment. Nat Neurosci 2006; 9:729-31. [PMID: 16648847 DOI: 10.1038/nn1696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 353] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.6] [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: 02/01/2006] [Accepted: 04/11/2006] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Environmental enrichment increases adult hippocampal neurogenesis and alters hippocampal-dependent behavior in rodents. To investigate a causal link between these two observations, we analyzed the effect of enrichment on spatial learning and anxiety-like behavior while blocking adult hippocampal neurogenesis. We report that environmental enrichment alters behavior in mice regardless of their hippocampal neurogenic capability, providing evidence that the newborn cells do not mediate these effects of enrichment.
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- Dar Meshi
- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
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Naie K, Manahan-Vaughan D. Investigations of the protein synthesis dependency of mGluR-induced long-term depression in the dentate gyrus of freely moving rats. Neuropharmacology 2005; 49 Suppl 1:35-44. [PMID: 16023684 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2005.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [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: 01/20/2005] [Revised: 05/24/2005] [Accepted: 06/03/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Hippocampal long-term depression (LTD) comprises an activity-dependent weakening of synaptic strength. In this study we compared persistent LTD induced by the group I mGluR agonist, DHPG, or the group III mGluR agonist, AP4, in the dentate gyrus of freely moving rats. The role of protein translation, using the translation inhibitors, anisomycin and emetine, was also investigated. Potentials were evoked from medial perforant path-dentate gyrus granule cell synapses of male Wistar rats by means of chronically implanted electrodes. Immediately after intracerebral (ventricular) application of DHPG or AP4 robust LTD (>24 h) occurred. Paired-pulse analysis during LTD, and application of mGluR antagonists after stabilisation of depression, supported that LTD genuinely occurred and that the depression was not a consequence of persistence of the agonists at the synapse. Application of a protein synthesis inhibitor 2 h prior to DHPG injection inhibited the expression of LTD (from ca. 6 h post-injection) but did not affect LTD induced by AP4. These data highlight differences in chemical LTD elicited by group I and group III mGluRs. Whereas AP4-induced LTD may arise as a result of modulation of presynaptic glutamate release mechanisms, the protein synthesis dependency of DHPG-induced LTD suggests an additional postsynaptic expression mechanism for this phenomenon.
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- Katja Naie
- Institute for Physiology of the Charité, Synaptic Plasticity Research Group, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
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Lamont SR, Stanwell BJ, Hill R, Reid IC, Stewart CA. Ketamine pre-treatment dissociates the effects of electroconvulsive stimulation on mossy fibre sprouting and cellular proliferation in the dentate gyrus. Brain Res 2005; 1053:27-32. [PMID: 16045900 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2005.06.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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: 12/30/2004] [Revised: 06/02/2005] [Accepted: 06/05/2005] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Electroconvulsive stimulation (ECS), the experimental analogue of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), has been shown to produce both functional and structural effects in the hippocampal formation in infrahuman species. These changes may relate to the antidepressant and cognitive effects of ECT observed in patients treated for severe depressive disorders. Recent studies have described both enhanced neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus and sprouting of mossy fibre projections from granule cells. The behavioural significance of these effects remains uncertain. In this study, we examined whether ketamine, a clinically available non-competitive NMDA receptor channel blocker, could block both of these "trophic" effects. Rats were given a course of eight spaced ECS or sham treatments under either halothane or ketamine anaesthesia. The thymidine analogue bromodeoxyuridine was administered to assess the degree of hippocampal cell proliferation and mossy fibre sprouting was quantified using the Timm staining method. Pre-treatment with ketamine dissociated these effects such that mossy fibre sprouting was attenuated significantly, while cell proliferation was unaffected. This dissociation may prove useful in determining the behavioural significance of these hippocampal changes, if any, for either the antidepressant or cognitive consequences of ECT.
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- Steven R Lamont
- University of Dundee, Division of Pathology and Neuroscience, Section of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY, UK
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Fukuda A, Fukuda H, Jönsson M, Swanpalmer J, Hertzman S, Lannering B, Björk-Eriksson T, Màrky I, Blomgren K. Progenitor cell injury after irradiation to the developing brain can be modulated by mild hypothermia or hyperthermia. J Neurochem 2005; 94:1604-19. [PMID: 16086699 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2005.03313.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [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: 11/27/2022]
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Ionizing radiation induced acute cell death in the dentate gyrus subgranular zone (SGZ) and the subventricular zone (SVZ). Hypomyelination was also observed. The effects of mild hypothermia and hyperthermia for 4 h after irradiation (IR) were studied in postnatal day 9 rats. One hemisphere was irradiated with a single dose of 8 Gy and animals were randomized to normothermia (rectal temperature 36 degrees C for 4 h), hypothermia (32 degrees C for 4 h) or hyperthermia (39 degrees C for 4 h). Cellular injury, e.g. chromatin condensation and nitrotyrosine formation, appeared to proceed faster when the body temperature was higher. Caspase-3 activation was more pronounced in the hyperthermia group and nuclear translocation of p53 was less pronounced in the hypothermia group 6 h after IR. In the SVZ the loss of nestin-positive progenitors was more pronounced (48%) and the size was smaller (45%) in the hyperthermia group 7 days post-IR. Myelination was not different after hypo- or hyperthermia. This is the first report to demonstrate that hypothermia may be beneficial and that hyperthermia may aggravate the adverse side-effects after radiation therapy to the developing brain.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Apoptosis/physiology
- Apoptosis/radiation effects
- Body Temperature/physiology
- Brain/growth & development
- Brain/physiopathology
- Brain/radiation effects
- Brain Damage, Chronic/physiopathology
- Brain Damage, Chronic/prevention & control
- Brain Damage, Chronic/therapy
- Caspase 3
- Caspases/metabolism
- Dentate Gyrus/growth & development
- Dentate Gyrus/physiopathology
- Dentate Gyrus/radiation effects
- Female
- Hyperthermia, Induced/adverse effects
- Hypothermia, Induced
- Intermediate Filament Proteins/metabolism
- Male
- Nerve Degeneration/physiopathology
- Nerve Degeneration/prevention & control
- Nerve Degeneration/therapy
- Nerve Tissue Proteins/metabolism
- Nestin
- Neurons/physiology
- Neurons/radiation effects
- Radiation Injuries, Experimental/physiopathology
- Radiation Injuries, Experimental/prevention & control
- Radiation Injuries, Experimental/therapy
- Radiation, Ionizing
- Rats
- Rats, Wistar
- Stem Cells/physiology
- Stem Cells/radiation effects
- Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/metabolism
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- Aya Fukuda
- The Arvid Carlsson Institute of Neuroscience at the Institute of Clinical Neuroscience, Sahlgrenska Academy, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden
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Fukuda A, Fukuda H, Swanpalmer J, Hertzman S, Lannering B, Marky I, Björk-Eriksson T, Blomgren K. Age-dependent sensitivity of the developing brain to irradiation is correlated with the number and vulnerability of progenitor cells. J Neurochem 2005; 92:569-84. [PMID: 15659227 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2004.02894.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [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: 11/30/2022]
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In a newly established model of unilateral, irradiation (IR)-induced injury we compared the outcome after IR to the immature and juvenile brain, using rats at postnatal days 9 or 23, respectively. We demonstrate that (i) the immature brains contained more progenitors in the subventricular zone (SVZ) and subgranular zone (SGZ) compared with the juvenile brains; (ii) cellular injury, as judged by activation of caspase 3 and p53, as well as nitrotyrosine formation, was more pronounced in the SVZ and SGZ in the immature brains 6 h after IR; (iii) the number of progenitor and immature cells in the SVZ and SGZ decreased 6 h and 7 days post-IR, corresponding to acute and subacute effects in humans, respectively, these effects were more pronounced in immature brains; (iv) myelination was impaired after IR at both ages, and much more pronounced after IR to immature brains; (v) the IR-induced changes remained significant for at least 10 weeks, corresponding to late effects in humans, and were most pronounced after IR to immature brains. It appears that IR induces both an acute loss of progenitors through apoptosis and a perturbed microenvironment incompatible with normal proliferation and differentiation, and that this is more pronounced in the immature brain.
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- Aya Fukuda
- Arvid Carlsson Institute for Neuroscience, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Sahlgrenska Academy, Göteborg University, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden
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Pöschel B, Manahan-Vaughan D. Group II mGluR-induced long term depression in the dentate gyrus in vivo is NMDA receptor-independent and does not require protein synthesis. Neuropharmacology 2005; 49 Suppl 1:1-12. [PMID: 16084931 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2005.06.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [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: 02/15/2005] [Revised: 06/24/2005] [Accepted: 06/27/2005] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Long term depression (LTD) can be induced by low frequency stimulation (LFS) as well as by agonist activation of neurotransmitter receptors. Group II metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) play an essential role in the regulation of electrically-induced LTD in the hippocampus in vivo: LTD is inhibited by antagonists, and enhanced by agonists of group II mGluRs. Here we investigated induction of LTD by activation of group II mGluRs as well as the cellular mechanisms which might mediate group II mGluR-induced LTD. Rats were implanted with electrodes to enable chronic measurement of evoked potentials from medial perforant path-dentate gyrus synapses. Drug application was made through a cannula implanted into the ipsilateral cerebral ventricle. LTD could be induced by agonist activation of either group II mGluRs, or the group II mGluR subtype, mGluR3. Both, group II mGluR-induced LTD and mGluR3-induced LTD were not abolished by mRNA/protein synthesis inhibition. Furthermore, mGluR3-induced LTD was not inhibited by NMDA receptor antagonists or altered by L-type voltage-gated calcium channel blockers. Our data suggest that sole activation of group II mGluRs can mediate LTD in vivo. Intriguingly, this form of LTD is not dependent on protein synthesis or activation of NMDA receptors.
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- Beatrice Pöschel
- Learning and Memory Research, Medical Faculty, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
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Naie K, Manahan-Vaughan D. Pharmacological antagonism of metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 regulates long-term potentiation and spatial reference memory in the dentate gyrus of freely moving rats viaN-methyl-d-aspartate and metabotropic glutamate receptor-dependent mechanisms. Eur J Neurosci 2005; 21:411-21. [PMID: 15673440 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.03864.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [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: 11/29/2022]
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Group I metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) are critically required for multiple forms of hippocampal synaptic plasticity in vivo. The role of the receptor subtype mGluR1 in long-term potentiation (LTP) and learning is unclear. We examined the contribution of mGluR1 to hippocampal LTP and spatial learning using the selective antagonist (S)-(+)-alpha-amino-4carboxy-2-methylbenzene-acetic acid (LY367385). Male Wistar rats were chronically implanted with recording and stimulating electrodes to enable measurement of evoked potentials from medial perforant path-dentate gyrus granule cell synapses. An injection cannula was inserted into the ipsilateral cerebral ventricle to enable drug application. Experiments were begun 10 days after the implantation procedure. We induced a robust LTP which lasted over 25 h with a 200-Hz tetanization. Injections of LY367385 at all concentrations under investigation (4-32 nmol in a 5-microL injection volume) did not affect basal synaptic transmission. In contrast, we observed a dose-dependent impairment of LTP expression: LY367385 (4 nmol) had no effect on LTP induction, whereas 8 and 16 nmol LY367385 reduced both LTP induction and expression, suggestive of an interaction with N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors. We assessed the effects of daily LY367385 application (8 nmol) on performance in an eight-arm radial maze. LY367385-treated rats showed deficits in reference but not working memory performance compared with vehicle-treated controls. Rearing, grooming and locomotor activity were unaffected by LY367385. These data suggest an important role for mGluR1 in LTP and learning and highlight the specific significance of this mGluR subtype for reference memory.
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- Katja Naie
- Institute for Physiology of the Charite, Synaptic Plasticity Research Group, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
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Jenrow KA, Ratkewicz AE, Lemke NW, Kadiyala M, Zalinski DN, Burdette DE, Elisevich KV. Effects of kindling and irradiation on neuronal density in the rat dentate gyrus. Neurosci Lett 2004; 371:45-50. [PMID: 15500964 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.08.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [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: 02/23/2004] [Revised: 08/12/2004] [Accepted: 08/17/2004] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Low-dose radiosurgery is presently in use as a treatment modality for focal epilepsy, but the mechanisms underlying the associated changes in seizure expression are poorly understood. We investigated whether total and parvalbumin expressing (PV+) neuronal densities within the hippocampus and amygdala are affected by analogous focal irradiation in amygdala-kindled rats. Adult rats were kindled by electrical stimulation through 10 stage 5 seizures. The kindled amygdala was then focally irradiated at 18 or 25 Gy, and generalized seizure thresholds were subsequently monitored for approximately 6 months. Histological and immunohistochemical assays of total and PV+ neuronal densities were performed bilaterally throughout the hippocampus and within the basolateral amygdala. PV+ neuronal densities were unaffected by kindling or irradiation in these regions. Kindling selectively reduced neuronal densities in the dentate granule cell layer, and medial CA3 pyramidal cell layer. Irradiation at 25 Gy, but not at 18 Gy, prevented or reversed this kindling-associated reduction in density.
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- Kenneth A Jenrow
- Epilepsy Research Laboratory, Department of Neurosurgery, Henry Ford Health Sciences Center, Detroit, MI 48202, USA.
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Csaba Z, Richichi C, Bernard V, Epelbaum J, Vezzani A, Dournaud P. Plasticity of somatostatin and somatostatin sst2A receptors in the rat dentate gyrus during kindling epileptogenesis. Eur J Neurosci 2004; 19:2531-8. [PMID: 15128406 DOI: 10.1111/j.0953-816x.2004.03361.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [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: 11/27/2022]
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Increasing evidence suggests that somatostatin may control neuronal excitability during epileptogenesis. In the hippocampus, sst2A receptors are likely to mediate somatostatin inhibitory actions but little is known about their status in kindled tissues. In the present study, sst2A receptor and somatostatin immunoreactivity were examined by confocal microscopy in the hippocampus during and after kindling acquisition. In control rats, somatostatin-positive axon terminals were mainly found in the stratum lacunosum moleculare of CA1 area and in the outer molecular layer of the dentate gyrus. sst2A receptor immunoreactivity was diffusely distributed in the strata radiatum and oriens of CA1 and in the stratum moleculare of the dentate gyrus. Immunogold electron microscopy revealed that sst2A receptors were predominantly localized postsynaptically, at the plasma membrane of dendritic shafts and spines of principal neurons. During kindling epileptogenesis, qualitative and semiquantitative analysis revealed a progressive decrease of sst2A immunoreactivity in the outer molecular layer, which was spatially associated with an increase in somatostatin immunoreactivity. No obvious changes in sst2A receptor immunoreactivity were observed in other hippocampal subfields. These results suggest that the decrease of sst2A receptor immunoreactivity in the outer molecular layer reflects receptor down-regulation in distal dendrites of granule cells in response to chronic somatostatin release. Because the sst2A receptor appears to mediate anticonvulsant and antiepileptogenic effects of somatostatin, this may represent a pivotal mechanism contributing to epileptogenesis.
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- Zsolt Csaba
- INSERM U549, IFR Broca-Sainte Anne, Centre Paul Broca, 2ter rue d'Alésia, 75014 Paris, France
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BACKGROUND A plethora of indirect findings suggests that mood disorders may be caused by or result in structural changes in the brain, namely decreased hippocampal cell proliferation. METHODS To test for these hypotheses, we used a rat model of depression, learned helplessness. Moderate unpredictable and inescapable foot shocks induced learned helplessness only in a portion of the rats. Rats that showed helpless behavior were compared to those behaving normally after inescapable shock. Proliferating cells in the dentate gyrus were labeled with BrdU (bromodeoxyuridine). RESULTS Helpless behavior appeared before the decrease of dentate gyrus cell proliferation was maximal. Cell proliferation was decreased to the same extent in animals that developed helplessness as those that were not helpless. Furthermore, immobilization stress, which reduced the rate of cell proliferation, did not induce learned helplessness. CONCLUSION These results are in line with reports that the rate of dentate gyrus cell proliferation is acutely down-regulated by stress, but the development of helpless behavior does not correlate with this process. Further studies will have to clarify if during learned helpless behavior neurogenesis is impaired by altered differentiation or survival of cells.
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Cranial radiation therapy causes a progressive decline in cognitive function that is linked to impaired neurogenesis. Chronic inflammation accompanies radiation injury, suggesting that inflammatory processes may contribute to neural stem cell dysfunction. Here, we show that neuroinflammation alone inhibits neurogenesis and that inflammatory blockade with indomethacin, a common nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, restores neurogenesis after endotoxin-induced inflammation and augments neurogenesis after cranial irradiation.
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- Michelle L Monje
- Stanford University, Department of Neurosurgery, MSLS P309, Mail Code 5487, 1201 Welch Road, Stanford, CA 94305-5487, USA
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Madsen TM, Kristjansen PEG, Bolwig TG, Wörtwein G. Arrested neuronal proliferation and impaired hippocampal function following fractionated brain irradiation in the adult rat. Neuroscience 2003; 119:635-42. [PMID: 12809684 DOI: 10.1016/s0306-4522(03)00199-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 379] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [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: 01/09/2023]
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The generation of new neurons in the adult mammalian brain has been documented in numerous recent reports. Studies undertaken so far indicate that adult hippocampal neurogenesis is related in a number of ways to hippocampal function.Here, we report that subjecting adult rats to fractionated brain irradiation blocked the formation of new neurons in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus. At different time points after the termination of the irradiation procedure, the animals were tested in two tests of short-term memory that differ with respect to their dependence on hippocampal function. Eight and 21 days after irradiation, the animals with blocked neurogenesis performed poorer than controls in a hippocampus-dependent place-recognition task, indicating that the presence of newly generated neurons may be necessary for the normal function of this brain area. The animals were never impaired in a hippocampus-independent object-recognition task. These results are in line with other reports documenting the functional significance of newly generated neurons in this region. As our irradiation procedure models prophylactic cranial irradiation used in the treatment of different cancers, we suggest that blocked neurogenesis contributes to the reported deleterious side effects of this treatment, consisting of memory impairment, dysphoria and lethargy.
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- T M Madsen
- Laboratory of Neuropsychiatry, Department of Psychiatry O-6102, H:S Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej 9, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Mizumatsu S, Monje ML, Morhardt DR, Rola R, Palmer TD, Fike JR. Extreme sensitivity of adult neurogenesis to low doses of X-irradiation. Cancer Res 2003; 63:4021-7. [PMID: 12874001] [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] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/03/2023]
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Therapeutic irradiation of the brain is associated with a number of adverse effects, including cognitive impairment. Although the pathogenesis of radiation-induced cognitive injury is unknown, it may involve loss of neural precursor cells from the subgranular zone (SGZ) of the hippocampal dentate gyrus and alterations in new cell production (neurogenesis). Young adult male C57BL mice received whole brain irradiation, and 6-48 h later, hippocampal tissue was assessed using immunohistochemistry for detection of apoptosis and numbers of proliferating cells and immature neurons. Apoptosis peaked 12 h after irradiation, and its extent was dose dependent. Forty-eight h after irradiation, proliferating SGZ cells were reduced by 93-96%; immature neurons were decreased from 40 to 60% in a dose-dependent fashion. To determine whether acute cell sensitivity translated into long-term changes, we quantified neurogenesis 2 months after irradiation with 0, 2, 5, or 10 Gy. Multiple injections of BrdUrd were given to label proliferating cells, and 3 weeks later, confocal microscopy was used to determine the percentage of BrdUrd-labeled cells that showed mature cell phenotypes. The production of new neurons was significantly reduced by X-rays; that change was dose dependent. In contrast, there were no apparent effects on the production of new astrocytes or oligodendrocytes. Measures of activated microglia indicated that changes in neurogenesis were associated with a significant inflammatory response. Given the known effects of radiation on cognitive function and the relationship between hippocampal neurogenesis and associated memory formation, our data suggest that precursor cell radiation response and altered neurogenesis may play a contributory if not causative role in radiation-induced cognitive impairment.
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- Shinichiro Mizumatsu
- Brain Tumor Research Center, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW For many cancers, survival depends on aggressive combined therapies, but treatment comes at a price. Children and adults who receive radiotherapy involving the brain frequently experience a progressive cognitive decline. The overt pathologies of radiation injury such as white matter necrosis or vasculopathy are the obvious "smoking guns" of dysfunction. However, many patients exhibit severe learning and memory deficits with no overt pathologic changes. This is especially true when the radiation field involves the temporal lobes. The cause of this debilitating dysfunction is currently unknown and untreatable. RECENT FINDINGS Within the temporal lobe, the hippocampal formation plays a central role in short-term learning and memory--the functions most notably affected by radiation. Recent work has also shown that hippocampus-dependent learning and memory are strongly influenced by the activity of neural stem cells and their proliferative progeny. The hippocampal granule cell layer undergoes continuous renewal and restructuring by the addition of new neurons. Radiation at much lower doses than that needed to injure the more resistant post-mitotic neurons and glia of the brain has been found to affect these highly proliferative progenitors severely. The stem/progenitor cell is so sensitive to radiation that a single low dose to the cranium of a mature rat is sufficient to ablate hippocampal neurogenesis. SUMMARY Progressive learning and memory deficits following irradiation may be caused by the accumulating hippocampal dysfunction that results from a long-term absence of normal stem/progenitor activity. Here, the authors describe the nature of this stem cell dysfunction and contemplate how restoration of stem/progenitor cell activity might be approached in experimental models and, eventually, the clinic.
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- Michelle L Monje
- Department of Neurosurgery, MSLS P309, MC-5487, Stanford, CA, USA
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Moreira RDCM, Bueno JLO. Conditional discrimination learning and negative patterning in rats with neonatal hippocampal lesion induced by ionizing radiation. Behav Brain Res 2003; 138:29-44. [PMID: 12493628 DOI: 10.1016/s0166-4328(02)00227-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [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: 10/27/2022]
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This study was undertaken to investigate the associative process underlying serial feature positive conditional discrimination learning (X-->A+/A-) and the role of the hippocampus in the solution of tasks demanding a configural association strategy such as the negative patterning discrimination (XA-/X+/A+). It has been suggested that the hippocampus is essential for the learning of complex tasks, so, it is expected that hippocampal lesions would prove equally detrimental to performance in both tasks, but would not interfere with simple discrimination learning. Hippocampal lesions were made with X-radiation exposure to neonate rats after completion of a parametric study 'J. Neurosci. Methods 75 (1997) 41' that established the best radiation parameters to selectively lesion the hippocampal dentate gyrus. When adults, rats were submitted to a serial feature positive conditional discrimination task with the trials 'House light/Tone: water (H-->T+)', 'Tone: no water (T-)', and two simple discrimination with the trials 'Clicker: water (C+)' and 'Noise: no water (N-)' in Experiment I. In Experiment II, adult rats, irradiated and control, were submitted to the negative patterning task with the trials 'House light/Tone: no water (HT-)', 'House light: water (H+)', 'Tone: water (T+)', and to the non-conditional discrimination with the trial Noise: no water (N-)'. In contrast to the expectation of impaired performance in these tasks by lesioned rats, animals with damage to the hippocampal dentate gyrus learned the complex and the simple tasks as well as control subjects. These results suggest that the dentate gyrus does not participate directly in the modulation of acquisition of tasks demanding a complex strategy of occasion setting in procedures of serial conditional discrimination or a configural strategy, important for the negative patterning discrimination solution.
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- Rita de Cássia Margarido Moreira
- Departamento de Psicologia e Educação-FFCLRP, Universidade de São Paulo, Av dos Bandeirantes 3900, 14049-901, Ribeirão Preto, SP Brazil
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Ferland RJ, Williams JP, Gross RA, Applegate CD. The effects of brain-irradiation-induced decreases in hippocampal mitotic activity on flurothyl-induced epileptogenesis in adult C57BL/6J mice. Exp Neurol 2003; 179:71-82. [PMID: 12504869 DOI: 10.1006/exnr.2002.8051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [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: 11/22/2022]
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Previous studies have demonstrated that seizures are potent inducers of mitotic activity in the rodent hippocampus. The role of this mitotic activity in epileptogenesis currently remains unknown. In the present study, we investigated the effect of alterations in hippocampal mitotic activity on changes in seizure threshold and phenotype using flurothyl kindling. In flurothyl kindling, eight repeated flurothyl-induced generalized forebrain (clonic) seizures result in a rapid, progressive, and permanent lowering of the generalized seizure threshold in mice and in a slowly evolving increase in the percentage of animals expressing forebrain-brain stem (clonic-tonic) seizures when reexposed to flurothyl following a 2- to 4-week stimulation-free period. Therefore, flurothyl kindling serves as an excellent model for evaluating mechanisms of generalized seizure threshold and seizure propagation. To investigate this relationship between hippocampal mitotic activity and epileptogenesis, mice were given brain irradiation, focused mainly on the hippocampus, bilaterally, and were exposed to the flurothyl kindling model of epileptogenesis. Brain irradiation virtually eliminated all basal and seizure-induced mitotic activity in the hippocampal dentate gyrus of mice. In addition, animals that underwent irradiation and flurothyl kindling did not differ from control mice on measures of seizure threshold (threshold induction and maintenance) and seizure phenotype. Overall, these results suggest that seizure-induced increases in mitotic activity in the hippocampal dentate gyrus are not directly related to the processes that underlie the shift in behavioral seizure phenotype or in either the induction or the maintenance of lowered seizure threshold that is observed in this flurothyl model of epileptogenesis.
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- Russell J Ferland
- Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Strong Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
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Diva (also called Boo/Bcl-B) is a member of the Bcl-2 gene family and most likely functions during apoptosis. Diva is highly expressed in the ovary, and both pro- and antiapoptotic functions have been ascribed to this protein. To determine the role of Diva during murine development, we used gene targeting to inactivate DIVA: The Diva-null mice are born at the expected ratios, are fertile, and have no obvious histological abnormalities, and long-term survival did not differ from littermate controls. Additionally, Diva was not required for apoptosis occurring from genotoxic insult in the ovaries or other organs. Thus, Diva is not critical for the normal development of the ovaries, or in its absence its function is subserved by another protein.
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- Helen R Russell
- Department of Genetics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, USA
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Hoffmann K, Bagorda F, Stevenson AF, Teuchert-Noodt G. Electromagnetic exposure effects the hippocampal dentate cell proliferation in gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus). Indian J Exp Biol 2001; 39:1220-6. [PMID: 12018515] [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: 02/25/2023]
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The chronic effect on hippocampal neurogenesis after exposure (30 min/day for 14 days) to a high frequency (35,53 kHz) electromagnetic field, double modulated at extremely low frequencies (ELF; 1, 8, 12, 29 and 50 Hz), was studied in young adult gerbils. Immediately after the last exposure proliferation of dentate granule cells was identified by in vivo labeling with 5-bromo-2-desoxyuridine (BrdU). Exposure to 1, 29 and 50 Hz resulted in a statistically significant reduction of cell proliferation rates, but only the 50 Hz-group manifested the effect highly significantly (-29,3 %). On the other hand, gerbils exposed to 8 and 12 Hz showed no significant change of postmitotic cell proliferation as compared with the sham treated controls. The results suggest that the effects of ELF on the granule cell proliferation are mediated by neurotransmitters and hormones which regulate hippocampal neurogenesis.
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- K Hoffmann
- Department of Neuroanatomy, Faculty of Biology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
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Ongoing neurogenesis in the adult hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG) generates a substantial population of young neurons. This phenomenon is present in all species examined thus far, including humans. Although the regulation of adult neurogenesis by various physiologically relevant factors such as learning and stress has been documented, the functional contributions of the newly born neurons to hippocampal functions are not known. We investigated possible contributions of the newly born granule neurons to synaptic plasticity in the hippocampal DG. In the standard hippocampal slice preparation perfused with artificial cerebrospinal fluid (ACSF), a small (10%) long-term potentiation (LTP) of the evoked field potentials is seen after tetanic stimulation of the afferent medial perforant pathway (MPP). The induction of this ACSF-LTP is resistant to a N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor blocker, D,L-2-amino-5-phosphonovaleric acid (APV), but is completely prevented by ifenprodil, a blocker of NR2B subtype of NMDA receptors. In contrast, slices perfused with picrotoxin (PICRO), a GABA-receptor blocker, revealed a larger (40--50%), APV-sensitive but ifenprodil-insensitive LTP. The ACSF-LTP required lower frequency of stimulation and fewer stimuli for its induction than the PICRO-LTP. All these characteristics of ACSF-LTP are in agreement with the properties of the putative individual new granule neurons examined previously with the use of the whole cell recording technique in a similar preparation. A causal relationship between neurogenesis and ACSF-LTP was confirmed in experiments using low dose of gamma radiation applied to the brain 3 wk prior to the electrophysiological experiments. In these experiments, the new cell proliferation was drastically reduced and ACSF-LTP was selectively blocked. We conclude that the young, adult-generated granule neurons play a significant role in synaptic plasticity in the DG. Since DG is the major source of the afferent inputs into the hippocampus, the production and the plasticity of new neurons may have an important role in the hippocampal functions such as learning and memory.
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- J S Snyder
- Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
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The effects of X-irradiation on proliferating cells in the dentate subgranular zone were assessed in young adult Fisher 344 rats exposed to a range of X-ray doses and followed for up to 120 days. Apoptosis was quantified using morphology and end-labeling immunohistochemistry, and cell proliferation was detected using antibodies against the thymidine analog BrdU and the cyclin-dependent kinase p34(cdc2). Radiation-induced apoptosis occurred rapidly, with maximum morphological and end-labeling changes observed 3-6h after irradiation. Twenty-four hours after irradiation cell proliferation was significantly reduced relative to sham-irradiated controls. The number of apoptotic nuclei increased rapidly with radiation dose, reaching a plateau at about 3Gy. The maximum number of apoptotic nuclei was substantially higher than the number of proliferating cells, suggesting that non-proliferating as well as proliferating cells in the subgranular zone were sensitive to irradiation. Subgranular zone cell proliferation was significantly reduced relative to age-matched controls 120 days after doses of 5Gy or higher. These findings suggest that neural precursor cells of the dentate gyrus are very sensitive to irradiation and are not capable of repopulating the subgranular zone at least up to 120 days after irradiation. This may help explain, in part, how ionizing irradiation induces cognitive impairments in animals and humans.
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- E Tada
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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BACKGROUND Radiation therapy is an effective approach in the treatment of highly radiosensitive brain tumors such as germinomas. However, recent studies have reported intellectual disturbances in patients who underwent whole-brain irradiation as children. We detected apoptosis in the infantile murine cerebrum after systemic X-ray irradiation. METHODS Subjects were 100 ICR mice 4 weeks old, of which 90 were systemically exposed to 18 Gy X-rays (0.45 Gy/min); 10 each were decapitated and the cerebrums were removed 1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 48, and 72 hours after irradiation. Controls were 10 unirradiated mice. DNA fragmentation analysis was carried out by agarose gel electrophoresis, and morphological analysis was by the TUNEL method. RESULTS According to agarose gel electrophoresis, the cerebral DNA ladders were detected only over 6 to 24 hr, peaking in 9 hr. Even at the peak, band intensity was nearly double that of the unirradiated normal thymus. According to the TUNEL analysis, radiation-induced apoptosis increased, with a peak at 9 hours, but decreased 24 hours after irradiation. Apoptotic cells were always localized exclusively in the hippocampal dentate granule cells. CONCLUSIONS We found that vulnerability to radiation existed in the hippocampal dentate granule cells. Intellectual disturbances in patients who have undergone whole-brain irradiation may be caused by injury to the hippocampus.
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- R Nagai
- Graduate School of Science and Laboratory of Radiation Biology, Research Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Japan
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Sasaki R, Matsumoto A, Itoh K, Kawabe T, Ota Y, Yamada K, Maruta T, Soejima T, Sugimura K. Target cells of apoptosis in the adult murine dentate gyrus and O4 immunoreactivity after ionizing radiation. Neurosci Lett 2000; 279:57-60. [PMID: 10670787 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3940(99)00910-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The occurrence of radiation-induced apoptosis and the determination of target cells were investigated by using the TdT-mediated dUTP-biotin nick end labeling assay and immunohistochemical analyses. The O4 immunoreactivity, an oligodendrocytes surface antigen, was also evaluated by using western blotting analysis. C57BL/6J adult female mice were subjected to single dose irradiation of 10 Gy. Eight hours after irradiation, the most significant increase of apoptotic cells was detected in the subgranular zone and the hilus of the dentate gyrus. The target cells of radiation-induced apoptosis are the subgranular progenitor cells and the oligodendrocytes in the hilus. The amount of the O4 immunoreactivity, a marker for premature oligodendrocytes, was unchanged until 8 h but enhanced after 12 h of irradiation. These results are the first to show the increase of the O4 immunoreactivity after irradiation and may be associated with the pathogenesis of radiation injury.
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- R Sasaki
- Department of Radiology, Kobe University School of Medicine, Kobe Japan.
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