Structural changes of CA1 pyramidal neurons after stroke in the contralesional hippocampus

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Significant progress has been made with regard to understanding how the adult brain responds after a stroke. However, a large number of patients continue to suffer lifelong disabilities without adequate treatment. In the present study, we have analyzed possible microanatomical alterations in the contralesional hippocampus from the ischemic stroke mouse model tMCAo 12-14 weeks after transient middle cerebral artery occlusion. After individually injecting Lucifer yellow into pyramidal neurons from the CA1 field of the hippocampus, we performed a detailed three-dimensional analysis of the neuronal complexity, dendritic spine density, and morphology. We found that, in both apical (stratum radiatum) and basal (stratum oriens) arbors, CA1 pyramidal neurons in the contralesional hippocampus of tMCAo mice have a significantly higher neuronal complexity, as well as reduced spine density and alterations in spine volume and spine length. Our results show that when the ipsilateral hippocampus is dramatically damaged, the contralesional hippocampus exhibits several statistically significant selective alterations. However, these alterations are not as significant as expected, which may help to explain the recovery of hippocampal function after stroke. Further anatomical and physiological studies are necessary to better understand the modifications in the "intact" contralesional lesioned brain regions, which are probably fundamental to recover functions after stroke.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:34

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Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) - 34(2024), 3 vom: 01. Apr., Seite e13222

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Merino-Serrais, Paula [VerfasserIn]
Plaza-Alonso, Sergio [VerfasserIn]
Hellal, Farida [VerfasserIn]
Valero-Freitag, Susana [VerfasserIn]
Kastanauskaite, Asta [VerfasserIn]
Plesnila, Nikolaus [VerfasserIn]
DeFelipe, Javier [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Contralesonal hemisphere
Dendritic spines
Intracellular injections
Journal Article
Neuronal complexity
TMCAo

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Date Completed 12.04.2024

Date Revised 25.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/bpa.13222

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM365032476