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Systemic Injection of Kainic Acid Differently Affects LTP Magnitude Depending on its Epileptogenic Efficiency

Seizures have profound impact on synaptic function and plasticity. While kainic acid is a popular method to induce seizures and to potentially affect synaptic plasticity, it can also produce physiological-like oscillations and trigger some forms of long-term potentiation (LTP). Here, we examine whet...

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Autores principales: Suárez, Luz M., Cid, Elena, Gal, Beatriz, Inostroza, Marion, Brotons-Mas, Jorge R., Gómez-Domínguez, Daniel, de la Prida, Liset Menéndez, Solís, José M.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3485282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23118939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048128
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author Suárez, Luz M.
Cid, Elena
Gal, Beatriz
Inostroza, Marion
Brotons-Mas, Jorge R.
Gómez-Domínguez, Daniel
de la Prida, Liset Menéndez
Solís, José M.
author_facet Suárez, Luz M.
Cid, Elena
Gal, Beatriz
Inostroza, Marion
Brotons-Mas, Jorge R.
Gómez-Domínguez, Daniel
de la Prida, Liset Menéndez
Solís, José M.
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description Seizures have profound impact on synaptic function and plasticity. While kainic acid is a popular method to induce seizures and to potentially affect synaptic plasticity, it can also produce physiological-like oscillations and trigger some forms of long-term potentiation (LTP). Here, we examine whether induction of LTP is altered in hippocampal slices prepared from rats with different sensitivity to develop status epilepticus (SE) by systemic injection of kainic acid. Rats were treated with multiple low doses of kainic acid (5 mg/kg; i.p.) to develop SE in a majority of animals (72–85% rats). A group of rats were resistant to develop SE (15–28%) after several accumulated doses. Animals were subsequently tested using chronic recordings and object recognition tasks before brain slices were prepared for histological studies and to examine basic features of hippocampal synaptic function and plasticity, including input/output curves, paired-pulse facilitation and theta-burst induced LTP. Consistent with previous reports in kindling and pilocapine models, LTP was reduced in rats that developed SE after kainic acid injection. These animals exhibited signs of hippocampal sclerosis and developed spontaneous seizures. In contrast, resistant rats did not become epileptic and had no signs of cell loss and mossy fiber sprouting. In slices from resistant rats, theta-burst stimulation induced LTP of higher magnitude when compared with control and epileptic rats. Variations on LTP magnitude correlate with animals’ performance in a hippocampal-dependent spatial memory task. Our results suggest dissociable long-term effects of treatment with kainic acid on synaptic function and plasticity depending on its epileptogenic efficiency.
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spelling pubmed-34852822012-11-01 Systemic Injection of Kainic Acid Differently Affects LTP Magnitude Depending on its Epileptogenic Efficiency Suárez, Luz M. Cid, Elena Gal, Beatriz Inostroza, Marion Brotons-Mas, Jorge R. Gómez-Domínguez, Daniel de la Prida, Liset Menéndez Solís, José M. PLoS One Research Article Seizures have profound impact on synaptic function and plasticity. While kainic acid is a popular method to induce seizures and to potentially affect synaptic plasticity, it can also produce physiological-like oscillations and trigger some forms of long-term potentiation (LTP). Here, we examine whether induction of LTP is altered in hippocampal slices prepared from rats with different sensitivity to develop status epilepticus (SE) by systemic injection of kainic acid. Rats were treated with multiple low doses of kainic acid (5 mg/kg; i.p.) to develop SE in a majority of animals (72–85% rats). A group of rats were resistant to develop SE (15–28%) after several accumulated doses. Animals were subsequently tested using chronic recordings and object recognition tasks before brain slices were prepared for histological studies and to examine basic features of hippocampal synaptic function and plasticity, including input/output curves, paired-pulse facilitation and theta-burst induced LTP. Consistent with previous reports in kindling and pilocapine models, LTP was reduced in rats that developed SE after kainic acid injection. These animals exhibited signs of hippocampal sclerosis and developed spontaneous seizures. In contrast, resistant rats did not become epileptic and had no signs of cell loss and mossy fiber sprouting. In slices from resistant rats, theta-burst stimulation induced LTP of higher magnitude when compared with control and epileptic rats. Variations on LTP magnitude correlate with animals’ performance in a hippocampal-dependent spatial memory task. Our results suggest dissociable long-term effects of treatment with kainic acid on synaptic function and plasticity depending on its epileptogenic efficiency. Public Library of Science 2012-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3485282/ /pubmed/23118939 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048128 Text en © 2012 Suárez et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Suárez, Luz M.
Cid, Elena
Gal, Beatriz
Inostroza, Marion
Brotons-Mas, Jorge R.
Gómez-Domínguez, Daniel
de la Prida, Liset Menéndez
Solís, José M.
Systemic Injection of Kainic Acid Differently Affects LTP Magnitude Depending on its Epileptogenic Efficiency
title Systemic Injection of Kainic Acid Differently Affects LTP Magnitude Depending on its Epileptogenic Efficiency
title_full Systemic Injection of Kainic Acid Differently Affects LTP Magnitude Depending on its Epileptogenic Efficiency
title_fullStr Systemic Injection of Kainic Acid Differently Affects LTP Magnitude Depending on its Epileptogenic Efficiency
title_full_unstemmed Systemic Injection of Kainic Acid Differently Affects LTP Magnitude Depending on its Epileptogenic Efficiency
title_short Systemic Injection of Kainic Acid Differently Affects LTP Magnitude Depending on its Epileptogenic Efficiency
title_sort systemic injection of kainic acid differently affects ltp magnitude depending on its epileptogenic efficiency
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3485282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23118939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048128
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