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Dysfunction of parvalbumin-expressing cells in the thalamic reticular nucleus induces cortical spike-and-wave discharges and an unconscious state
Spike-and-wave discharges and an accompanying loss of consciousness are hallmarks of absence seizure, which is a childhood generalized epilepsy disorder. In absence seizure, dysfunction of the cortico-thalamo-cortico circuitry is thought to engage in abnormal cortical rhythms. Previous studies demon...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8887905/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35243344 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcac010 |
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author | Abdelaal, Manal S. Midorikawa, Mitsuharu Suzuki, Toru Kobayashi, Kenta Takata, Norio Miyata, Mariko Mimura, Masaru Tanaka, Kenji F. |
author_facet | Abdelaal, Manal S. Midorikawa, Mitsuharu Suzuki, Toru Kobayashi, Kenta Takata, Norio Miyata, Mariko Mimura, Masaru Tanaka, Kenji F. |
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description | Spike-and-wave discharges and an accompanying loss of consciousness are hallmarks of absence seizure, which is a childhood generalized epilepsy disorder. In absence seizure, dysfunction of the cortico-thalamo-cortico circuitry is thought to engage in abnormal cortical rhythms. Previous studies demonstrated that the thalamic reticular nucleus has a critical role in the formation of normal cortical rhythms; however, whether thalamic reticular nucleus dysfunction leads directly to abnormal rhythms, such as epilepsy, is largely unknown. We found that expressing the inhibitory opsin, archaerhodopsin, including in the thalamic reticular nucleus, caused abnormal cortical rhythms in Pvalb-tetracycline transactivator::tetO-ArchT (PV-ArchT) double transgenic mice. We validated the PV-ArchT line as a new mouse model of absence seizure through physiological and pharmacological analyses, as well as through examining their behavioural features. We then discovered that archaerhodopsin expression exclusively in thalamic reticular nucleus parvalbumin-positive neurons was sufficient to induce cortical spike-and-wave discharges using adeno-associated virus-mediated thalamic reticular nucleus targeting. Furthermore, we found that archaerhodopsin expression impaired rebound burst firing and T-current in thalamic reticular nucleus parvalbumin-positive cells by slice physiology. Although T-current in the thalamic reticular nucleus was impaired, the T-current blocker ethosuximide still had a therapeutic effect in PV-ArchT mice, suggesting a gain of function of T-type calcium channels in this absence seizure model. However, we did not find any over- or misexpression of T-type calcium channel genes in the thalamus or the cortex. Thus, we demonstrated that thalamic reticular nucleus dysfunction led to an absence seizure-like phenotype in mice. In a final set of experiments, we showed that the archaerhodopsin-mediated absence seizure-like phenotype disappeared after the removal of archaerhodopsin by using a time-controllable transgenic system. These data may provide a hint as to why many absence seizures naturally regress. |
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spelling | pubmed-88879052022-03-02 Dysfunction of parvalbumin-expressing cells in the thalamic reticular nucleus induces cortical spike-and-wave discharges and an unconscious state Abdelaal, Manal S. Midorikawa, Mitsuharu Suzuki, Toru Kobayashi, Kenta Takata, Norio Miyata, Mariko Mimura, Masaru Tanaka, Kenji F. Brain Commun Original Article Spike-and-wave discharges and an accompanying loss of consciousness are hallmarks of absence seizure, which is a childhood generalized epilepsy disorder. In absence seizure, dysfunction of the cortico-thalamo-cortico circuitry is thought to engage in abnormal cortical rhythms. Previous studies demonstrated that the thalamic reticular nucleus has a critical role in the formation of normal cortical rhythms; however, whether thalamic reticular nucleus dysfunction leads directly to abnormal rhythms, such as epilepsy, is largely unknown. We found that expressing the inhibitory opsin, archaerhodopsin, including in the thalamic reticular nucleus, caused abnormal cortical rhythms in Pvalb-tetracycline transactivator::tetO-ArchT (PV-ArchT) double transgenic mice. We validated the PV-ArchT line as a new mouse model of absence seizure through physiological and pharmacological analyses, as well as through examining their behavioural features. We then discovered that archaerhodopsin expression exclusively in thalamic reticular nucleus parvalbumin-positive neurons was sufficient to induce cortical spike-and-wave discharges using adeno-associated virus-mediated thalamic reticular nucleus targeting. Furthermore, we found that archaerhodopsin expression impaired rebound burst firing and T-current in thalamic reticular nucleus parvalbumin-positive cells by slice physiology. Although T-current in the thalamic reticular nucleus was impaired, the T-current blocker ethosuximide still had a therapeutic effect in PV-ArchT mice, suggesting a gain of function of T-type calcium channels in this absence seizure model. However, we did not find any over- or misexpression of T-type calcium channel genes in the thalamus or the cortex. Thus, we demonstrated that thalamic reticular nucleus dysfunction led to an absence seizure-like phenotype in mice. In a final set of experiments, we showed that the archaerhodopsin-mediated absence seizure-like phenotype disappeared after the removal of archaerhodopsin by using a time-controllable transgenic system. These data may provide a hint as to why many absence seizures naturally regress. Oxford University Press 2022-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8887905/ /pubmed/35243344 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcac010 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Guarantors of Brain. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Abdelaal, Manal S. Midorikawa, Mitsuharu Suzuki, Toru Kobayashi, Kenta Takata, Norio Miyata, Mariko Mimura, Masaru Tanaka, Kenji F. Dysfunction of parvalbumin-expressing cells in the thalamic reticular nucleus induces cortical spike-and-wave discharges and an unconscious state |
title | Dysfunction of parvalbumin-expressing cells in the thalamic reticular nucleus induces cortical spike-and-wave discharges and an unconscious state |
title_full | Dysfunction of parvalbumin-expressing cells in the thalamic reticular nucleus induces cortical spike-and-wave discharges and an unconscious state |
title_fullStr | Dysfunction of parvalbumin-expressing cells in the thalamic reticular nucleus induces cortical spike-and-wave discharges and an unconscious state |
title_full_unstemmed | Dysfunction of parvalbumin-expressing cells in the thalamic reticular nucleus induces cortical spike-and-wave discharges and an unconscious state |
title_short | Dysfunction of parvalbumin-expressing cells in the thalamic reticular nucleus induces cortical spike-and-wave discharges and an unconscious state |
title_sort | dysfunction of parvalbumin-expressing cells in the thalamic reticular nucleus induces cortical spike-and-wave discharges and an unconscious state |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8887905/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35243344 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcac010 |
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