Magnetic resonance elastography captures a transient benefit of exercise intervention on forebrain stiffness in a rat model of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
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BACKGROUND: Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD), a group of prevalent conditions resulting from prenatal alcohol exposure, affect the maturation of cerebral white matter as first identified with neuroimaging. However, traditional methods are unable to track subtle microstructural alterations to white matter. This preliminary study uses a highly sensitive and clinically translatable magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) protocol to assess brain tissue microstructure through its mechanical properties following an exercise intervention in a rat model of FASD.
METHODS: Female rat pups were either alcohol-exposed (AE) via intragastric intubation of alcohol in milk substitute (5.25 g/kg/day) or sham-intubated (SI) on postnatal days (PD) four through nine to model alcohol exposure during the brain growth spurt. On PD 30, half of AE and SI rats were randomly assigned to either a wheel-running or standard cage for 12 days. Magnetic resonance elastography was used to measure whole brain and callosal mechanical properties at the end of the intervention (around PD 42) and at 1 month post-intervention, and findings were validated with histological quantification of oligoglia.
RESULTS: Alcohol exposure reduced forebrain stiffness (p = 0.02) in standard-housed rats. The adolescent exercise intervention mitigated this effect, confirming that increased aerobic activity supports proper neurodevelopmental trajectories. Forebrain damping ratio was lowest in standard-housed AE rats (p < 0.01), but this effect was not mitigated by intervention exposure. At 1 month post-intervention, all rats exhibited comparable forebrain stiffness and damping ratio (p > 0.05). Callosal stiffness and damping ratio increased with age. With cessation of exercise, there was a negative rebound effect on the quantity of callosal oligodendrocytes, irrespective of treatment group, which diverged from our MRE results.
CONCLUSIONS: This is the first application of MRE to measure the brain's mechanical properties in a rodent model of FASD. MRE successfully captured alcohol-related changes in forebrain stiffness and damping ratio. Additionally, MRE identified an exercise-related increase to forebrain stiffness in AE rats.
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:48 |
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Alcohol, clinical & experimental research - 48(2024), 3 vom: 15. März, Seite 466-477 |
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Milbocker, Katrina A [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Revised 13.03.2024 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
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| 520 | |a BACKGROUND: Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD), a group of prevalent conditions resulting from prenatal alcohol exposure, affect the maturation of cerebral white matter as first identified with neuroimaging. However, traditional methods are unable to track subtle microstructural alterations to white matter. This preliminary study uses a highly sensitive and clinically translatable magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) protocol to assess brain tissue microstructure through its mechanical properties following an exercise intervention in a rat model of FASD | ||
| 520 | |a METHODS: Female rat pups were either alcohol-exposed (AE) via intragastric intubation of alcohol in milk substitute (5.25 g/kg/day) or sham-intubated (SI) on postnatal days (PD) four through nine to model alcohol exposure during the brain growth spurt. On PD 30, half of AE and SI rats were randomly assigned to either a wheel-running or standard cage for 12 days. Magnetic resonance elastography was used to measure whole brain and callosal mechanical properties at the end of the intervention (around PD 42) and at 1 month post-intervention, and findings were validated with histological quantification of oligoglia | ||
| 520 | |a RESULTS: Alcohol exposure reduced forebrain stiffness (p = 0.02) in standard-housed rats. The adolescent exercise intervention mitigated this effect, confirming that increased aerobic activity supports proper neurodevelopmental trajectories. Forebrain damping ratio was lowest in standard-housed AE rats (p < 0.01), but this effect was not mitigated by intervention exposure. At 1 month post-intervention, all rats exhibited comparable forebrain stiffness and damping ratio (p > 0.05). Callosal stiffness and damping ratio increased with age. With cessation of exercise, there was a negative rebound effect on the quantity of callosal oligodendrocytes, irrespective of treatment group, which diverged from our MRE results | ||
| 520 | |a CONCLUSIONS: This is the first application of MRE to measure the brain's mechanical properties in a rodent model of FASD. MRE successfully captured alcohol-related changes in forebrain stiffness and damping ratio. Additionally, MRE identified an exercise-related increase to forebrain stiffness in AE rats | ||
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