Generalization of rapidly recurring seizures is suppressed in mice lacking glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor family receptor alpha2.
Nanobashvili, Avtandil LU ; Kokaia, Zaal LU
and Lindvall, Olle
LU
(2003)
In Neuroscience
118(3).
p.845-852
- Abstract
- Recent experimental evidence indicates that neurotrophic factors play a role in the pathophysiology of epilepsy. The objective of this study was to explore whether signaling through one of the glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor family receptors, GFRα2, influences the severity of kindling-evoked, rapidly recurring seizures and the subsequent development of permanent hyperexcitability. We applied the rapid kindling model to adult mice, using 40 threshold stimulations delivered with 5-min interval in the ventral hippocampus. Generalized seizures were fewer and developed later in response to kindling stimulations in mice lacking GFRα2. However, GFRα2 gene deletion did not influence the acquisition of the permanent abnormal... (More)
- Recent experimental evidence indicates that neurotrophic factors play a role in the pathophysiology of epilepsy. The objective of this study was to explore whether signaling through one of the glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor family receptors, GFRα2, influences the severity of kindling-evoked, rapidly recurring seizures and the subsequent development of permanent hyperexcitability. We applied the rapid kindling model to adult mice, using 40 threshold stimulations delivered with 5-min interval in the ventral hippocampus. Generalized seizures were fewer and developed later in response to kindling stimulations in mice lacking GFRα2. However, GFRα2 gene deletion did not influence the acquisition of the permanent abnormal excitability as assessed 4 weeks later. In situ hybridization revealed marked and dynamic changes of GFRα2 mRNA levels in several forebrain areas following the stimulus-evoked seizures. Our findings provide evidence that signaling through the GFRα2 receptor contributes to seizure generalization in rapid kindling. (Less)
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- Nanobashvili, Avtandil
LU
; Kokaia, Zaal
LU
and Lindvall, Olle
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2003
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- neurotrophic factors, gene regulation, epilepsy, transgenic mice, in situ hybridization, kindling
- in
- Neuroscience
- volume
- 118
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 845 - 852
- publisher
- Elsevier
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- wos:000182609700023
- pmid:12710991
- scopus:0037466777
- ISSN
- 1873-7544
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0306-4522(02)00998-3
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 388e5630-7c4c-4309-9050-0ff1cd2e4579 (old id 113192)
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title = {{Generalization of rapidly recurring seizures is suppressed in mice lacking glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor family receptor alpha2.}},
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