Spreading Depressions and Periinfarct Spreading Depolarizations in the Context of Cortical Plasticity

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Studies of cortical function-recovery require a comparison between normal and post-stroke conditions that lead to changes in cortical metaplasticity. Focal cortical stroke impairs experience-dependent plasticity in the neighboring somatosensory cortex and usually evokes periinfarct depolarizations (PiDs) - spreading depression-like waves. Experimentally induced spreading depressions (SDs) affect gene expression and some of these changes persist for at least 30 days. In this study we compare the effects of non-stroke depolarizations that impair cortical experience-dependent plasticity to the effects of stroke, by inducing experience-dependent plasticity in rats with SDs or PiDs by a month of contralateral partial whiskers deprivation. We found that whiskers' deprivation after SDs resulted in normal cortical representation enlargement suggesting that SDs and PiDs depolarization have no influence on experience-dependent plasticity cortical map reorganization. PiDs and the MMP-9, -3, -2 or COX-2 proteins, which are assumed to influence metaplasticity in rats after stroke were compared between SDs induced by high osmolarity KCl solution and the PiDs that followed cortical photothrombotic stroke (PtS). We found that none of these factors directly caused cortical post-stroke metaplasticity changes. The only significant difference between stoke and induced SD was a greater imbalance in interhemispheric activity equilibrium after stroke. The interhemispheric interactions that were modified by stroke may therefore be promising targets for future studies of post-stroke experience-dependent plasticity and of recuperation studies.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:453

Enthalten in:

Neuroscience - 453(2021) vom: 15. Jan., Seite 81-101

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sadowska, Maria [VerfasserIn]
Mehlhorn, Clemens [VerfasserIn]
Średniawa, Władysław [VerfasserIn]
Szewczyk, Łukasz M [VerfasserIn]
Szlachcic, Aleksandra [VerfasserIn]
Urban, Paulina [VerfasserIn]
Winiarski, Maciej [VerfasserIn]
Jabłonka, Jan A [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Barrel field
COX-2
Cortical plasticity
Journal Article
Periinfarct depolarizations
Photothrombotic stroke
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Spreading depression

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Date Completed 14.05.2021

Date Revised 14.05.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.10.032

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM317941828