Cognitive impairment after traumatic brain injury is associated with reduced long-term depression of excitatory postsynaptic potential in the rat hippocampal dentate gyrus

Traumatic brain injury can cause loss of neuronal tissue, remote symptomatic epilepsy, and cognitive deficits. However, the mechanisms underlying the effects of traumatic brain injury are not yet clear. Hippocampal excitability is strongly correlated with cognitive dysfunction and remote symptomatic epilepsy. In this study, we examined the relationship between traumatic brain injury-induced neuronal loss and subsequent hippocampal regional excitability. We used hydraulic percussion to generate a rat model of traumatic brain injury. At 7 days after injury, the mean modified neurological severity score was 9.5, suggesting that the neurological function of the rats was remarkably impaired. Electrophysiology and immunocytochemical staining revealed increases in the slope of excitatory postsynaptic potentials and long-term depression (indicating weakened long-term inhibition), and the numbers of cholecystokinin and parvalbumin immunoreactive cells were clearly reduced in the rat hippocampal dentate gyrus. These results indicate that interneuronal loss and changes in excitability occurred in the hippocampal dentate gyrus. Thus, traumatic brain injury-induced loss of interneurons appears to be associated with reduced long-term depression in the hippocampal dentate gyrus.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Neural regeneration research - 13(2018), 10 vom: 02. Okt., Seite 1753-1758

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhang, Bao-Liang [VerfasserIn]
Fan, Yue-Shan [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Ji-Wei [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Zi-Wei [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Yin-Gang [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Meng-Chen [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Dong-Dong [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jian-Ning [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cholecystokinin
Dentate gyrus
Electrophysiology
Excitability
Hippocampus
Interneurons
Journal Article
Long-term depression
Nerve regeneration
Neural regeneration
Parvalbumin
Quantification
Traumatic brain injury

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Date Revised 30.09.2020

published: Print

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.4103/1673-5374.238618

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM287750450