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Functional Alterations in the Olfactory Neuronal Circuit Occur before Hippocampal Plasticity Deficits in the P301S Mouse Model of Tauopathy: Implications for Early Diagnosis and Translational Research in Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by neuronal loss and impaired synaptic transmission, ultimately leading to cognitive deficits. Early in the disease, the olfactory track seems most sensitive to tauopathy, while most plasticity studies focused on the hippocampal circuits. Functional network...

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Autores principales: Ahnaou, Abdallah, Rodriguez-Manrique, Daniela, Biermans, Ria, Embrechts, Sofie, Manyakov, Nikolay V., Drinkenburg, Wilhelmus H.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7432464/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32751531
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21155431
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author Ahnaou, Abdallah
Rodriguez-Manrique, Daniela
Biermans, Ria
Embrechts, Sofie
Manyakov, Nikolay V.
Drinkenburg, Wilhelmus H.
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Rodriguez-Manrique, Daniela
Biermans, Ria
Embrechts, Sofie
Manyakov, Nikolay V.
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description Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by neuronal loss and impaired synaptic transmission, ultimately leading to cognitive deficits. Early in the disease, the olfactory track seems most sensitive to tauopathy, while most plasticity studies focused on the hippocampal circuits. Functional network connectivity (FC) and long-term potentiation (LTP), considered as the plasticity substrate of learning and memory, were longitudinally assessed in mice of the P301S model of tauopathy following the course (time and location) of progressively neurodegenerative pathology (i.e., at 3, 6, and 9 months of age) and in their wild type (WT) littermates. Using in vivo local field potential (LFP) recordings, early (at three months) dampening in the gamma oscillatory activity and impairments in the phase-amplitude theta-gamma coupling (PAC) were found in the olfactory bulb (OB) circuit of P301S mice, which were maintained through the whole course of pathology development. In contrast, LFP oscillatory activity and PAC indices were normal in the entorhinal cortex, hippocampal CA1 and CA3 nuclei. Field excitatory postsynaptic potential (fEPSP) recordings from the Shaffer collateral (SC)-CA1 hippocampal stratum pyramidal revealed a significant altered synaptic LTP response to high-frequency stimulation (HFS): at three months of age, no significant difference between genotypes was found in basal synaptic activity, while signs of a deficit in short term plasticity were revealed by alterations in the fEPSPs. At six months of age, a slight deviance was found in basal synaptic activity and significant differences were observed in the LTP response. The alterations in network oscillations at the OB level and impairments in the functioning of the SC-CA1 pyramidal synapses strongly suggest that the progression of tau pathology elicited a brain area, activity-dependent disturbance in functional synaptic transmission. These findings point to early major alterations of neuronal activity in the OB circuit prior to the disturbance of hippocampal synaptic plasticity, possibly involving tauopathy in the anomalous FC. Further research should determine whether those early deficits in the OB network oscillations and FC are possible mechanisms that potentially promote the emergence of hippocampal synaptic impairments during the progression of tauopathy.
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spelling pubmed-74324642020-08-24 Functional Alterations in the Olfactory Neuronal Circuit Occur before Hippocampal Plasticity Deficits in the P301S Mouse Model of Tauopathy: Implications for Early Diagnosis and Translational Research in Alzheimer’s Disease Ahnaou, Abdallah Rodriguez-Manrique, Daniela Biermans, Ria Embrechts, Sofie Manyakov, Nikolay V. Drinkenburg, Wilhelmus H. Int J Mol Sci Article Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by neuronal loss and impaired synaptic transmission, ultimately leading to cognitive deficits. Early in the disease, the olfactory track seems most sensitive to tauopathy, while most plasticity studies focused on the hippocampal circuits. Functional network connectivity (FC) and long-term potentiation (LTP), considered as the plasticity substrate of learning and memory, were longitudinally assessed in mice of the P301S model of tauopathy following the course (time and location) of progressively neurodegenerative pathology (i.e., at 3, 6, and 9 months of age) and in their wild type (WT) littermates. Using in vivo local field potential (LFP) recordings, early (at three months) dampening in the gamma oscillatory activity and impairments in the phase-amplitude theta-gamma coupling (PAC) were found in the olfactory bulb (OB) circuit of P301S mice, which were maintained through the whole course of pathology development. In contrast, LFP oscillatory activity and PAC indices were normal in the entorhinal cortex, hippocampal CA1 and CA3 nuclei. Field excitatory postsynaptic potential (fEPSP) recordings from the Shaffer collateral (SC)-CA1 hippocampal stratum pyramidal revealed a significant altered synaptic LTP response to high-frequency stimulation (HFS): at three months of age, no significant difference between genotypes was found in basal synaptic activity, while signs of a deficit in short term plasticity were revealed by alterations in the fEPSPs. At six months of age, a slight deviance was found in basal synaptic activity and significant differences were observed in the LTP response. The alterations in network oscillations at the OB level and impairments in the functioning of the SC-CA1 pyramidal synapses strongly suggest that the progression of tau pathology elicited a brain area, activity-dependent disturbance in functional synaptic transmission. These findings point to early major alterations of neuronal activity in the OB circuit prior to the disturbance of hippocampal synaptic plasticity, possibly involving tauopathy in the anomalous FC. Further research should determine whether those early deficits in the OB network oscillations and FC are possible mechanisms that potentially promote the emergence of hippocampal synaptic impairments during the progression of tauopathy. MDPI 2020-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7432464/ /pubmed/32751531 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21155431 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Ahnaou, Abdallah
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Manyakov, Nikolay V.
Drinkenburg, Wilhelmus H.
Functional Alterations in the Olfactory Neuronal Circuit Occur before Hippocampal Plasticity Deficits in the P301S Mouse Model of Tauopathy: Implications for Early Diagnosis and Translational Research in Alzheimer’s Disease
title Functional Alterations in the Olfactory Neuronal Circuit Occur before Hippocampal Plasticity Deficits in the P301S Mouse Model of Tauopathy: Implications for Early Diagnosis and Translational Research in Alzheimer’s Disease
title_full Functional Alterations in the Olfactory Neuronal Circuit Occur before Hippocampal Plasticity Deficits in the P301S Mouse Model of Tauopathy: Implications for Early Diagnosis and Translational Research in Alzheimer’s Disease
title_fullStr Functional Alterations in the Olfactory Neuronal Circuit Occur before Hippocampal Plasticity Deficits in the P301S Mouse Model of Tauopathy: Implications for Early Diagnosis and Translational Research in Alzheimer’s Disease
title_full_unstemmed Functional Alterations in the Olfactory Neuronal Circuit Occur before Hippocampal Plasticity Deficits in the P301S Mouse Model of Tauopathy: Implications for Early Diagnosis and Translational Research in Alzheimer’s Disease
title_short Functional Alterations in the Olfactory Neuronal Circuit Occur before Hippocampal Plasticity Deficits in the P301S Mouse Model of Tauopathy: Implications for Early Diagnosis and Translational Research in Alzheimer’s Disease
title_sort functional alterations in the olfactory neuronal circuit occur before hippocampal plasticity deficits in the p301s mouse model of tauopathy: implications for early diagnosis and translational research in alzheimer’s disease
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7432464/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32751531
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21155431
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