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Optogenetic Low-Frequency Stimulation of Principal Neurons, but Not Parvalbumin-Positive Interneurons, Prevents Generation of Ictal Discharges in Rodent Entorhinal Cortex in an In Vitro 4-Aminopyridine Model

Low-frequency electrical stimulation is used to treat some drug-resistant forms of epilepsy. Despite the effectiveness of the method in suppressing seizures, there is a considerable risk of side effects. An optogenetic approach allows the targeting of specific populations of neurons, which can incre...

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Autores principales: Proskurina, Elena Y., Chizhov, Anton V., Zaitsev, Aleksey V.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9820186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36613660
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms24010195
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author Proskurina, Elena Y.
Chizhov, Anton V.
Zaitsev, Aleksey V.
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Chizhov, Anton V.
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description Low-frequency electrical stimulation is used to treat some drug-resistant forms of epilepsy. Despite the effectiveness of the method in suppressing seizures, there is a considerable risk of side effects. An optogenetic approach allows the targeting of specific populations of neurons, which can increase the effectiveness and safety of low-frequency stimulation. In our study, we tested the efficacy of the suppression of ictal activity in entorhinal cortex slices in a 4-aminopyridine model with three variants of low-frequency light stimulation (LFLS): (1) activation of excitatory and inhibitory neurons (on Thy1-ChR2-YFP mice), (2) activation of inhibitory interneurons only (on PV-Cre mice after virus injection with channelrhodopsin2 gene), and (3) hyperpolarization of excitatory neurons (on Wistar rats after virus injection with archaerhodopsin gene). Only in the first variant did simultaneous LFLS of excitatory and inhibitory neurons replace ictal activity with interictal activity. We suggest that LFLS caused changes in the concentration gradients of K(+) and Na(+) cations across the neuron membrane, which activated Na-K pumping. According to the mathematical modeling, the increase in Na-K pump activity in neurons induced by LFLS led to an antiepileptic effect. Thus, a less specific and generalized optogenetic effect on entorhinal cortex neurons was more effective in suppressing ictal activity in the 4-aminopyridine model.
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spelling pubmed-98201862023-01-07 Optogenetic Low-Frequency Stimulation of Principal Neurons, but Not Parvalbumin-Positive Interneurons, Prevents Generation of Ictal Discharges in Rodent Entorhinal Cortex in an In Vitro 4-Aminopyridine Model Proskurina, Elena Y. Chizhov, Anton V. Zaitsev, Aleksey V. Int J Mol Sci Article Low-frequency electrical stimulation is used to treat some drug-resistant forms of epilepsy. Despite the effectiveness of the method in suppressing seizures, there is a considerable risk of side effects. An optogenetic approach allows the targeting of specific populations of neurons, which can increase the effectiveness and safety of low-frequency stimulation. In our study, we tested the efficacy of the suppression of ictal activity in entorhinal cortex slices in a 4-aminopyridine model with three variants of low-frequency light stimulation (LFLS): (1) activation of excitatory and inhibitory neurons (on Thy1-ChR2-YFP mice), (2) activation of inhibitory interneurons only (on PV-Cre mice after virus injection with channelrhodopsin2 gene), and (3) hyperpolarization of excitatory neurons (on Wistar rats after virus injection with archaerhodopsin gene). Only in the first variant did simultaneous LFLS of excitatory and inhibitory neurons replace ictal activity with interictal activity. We suggest that LFLS caused changes in the concentration gradients of K(+) and Na(+) cations across the neuron membrane, which activated Na-K pumping. According to the mathematical modeling, the increase in Na-K pump activity in neurons induced by LFLS led to an antiepileptic effect. Thus, a less specific and generalized optogenetic effect on entorhinal cortex neurons was more effective in suppressing ictal activity in the 4-aminopyridine model. MDPI 2022-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9820186/ /pubmed/36613660 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms24010195 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Proskurina, Elena Y.
Chizhov, Anton V.
Zaitsev, Aleksey V.
Optogenetic Low-Frequency Stimulation of Principal Neurons, but Not Parvalbumin-Positive Interneurons, Prevents Generation of Ictal Discharges in Rodent Entorhinal Cortex in an In Vitro 4-Aminopyridine Model
title Optogenetic Low-Frequency Stimulation of Principal Neurons, but Not Parvalbumin-Positive Interneurons, Prevents Generation of Ictal Discharges in Rodent Entorhinal Cortex in an In Vitro 4-Aminopyridine Model
title_full Optogenetic Low-Frequency Stimulation of Principal Neurons, but Not Parvalbumin-Positive Interneurons, Prevents Generation of Ictal Discharges in Rodent Entorhinal Cortex in an In Vitro 4-Aminopyridine Model
title_fullStr Optogenetic Low-Frequency Stimulation of Principal Neurons, but Not Parvalbumin-Positive Interneurons, Prevents Generation of Ictal Discharges in Rodent Entorhinal Cortex in an In Vitro 4-Aminopyridine Model
title_full_unstemmed Optogenetic Low-Frequency Stimulation of Principal Neurons, but Not Parvalbumin-Positive Interneurons, Prevents Generation of Ictal Discharges in Rodent Entorhinal Cortex in an In Vitro 4-Aminopyridine Model
title_short Optogenetic Low-Frequency Stimulation of Principal Neurons, but Not Parvalbumin-Positive Interneurons, Prevents Generation of Ictal Discharges in Rodent Entorhinal Cortex in an In Vitro 4-Aminopyridine Model
title_sort optogenetic low-frequency stimulation of principal neurons, but not parvalbumin-positive interneurons, prevents generation of ictal discharges in rodent entorhinal cortex in an in vitro 4-aminopyridine model
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9820186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36613660
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms24010195
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