2022年12月
Hippocampus-related cognitive disorders develop in the absence of epilepsy and ataxia in the heterozygous Cacna1a mutant mice tottering.
Channels (Austin, Tex.)
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- 開始ページ
- 113
- 終了ページ
- 126
- 記述言語
- 英語
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- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.1080/19336950.2022.2072449
CACNA1A-associated epilepsy and ataxia frequently accompany cognitive impairments as devastating co-morbidities. However, it is unclear whether the cognitive deficits are consequences secondary to the neurological symptoms elicited by CACNA1A mutations. To address this issue, Cacna1a mutant mice tottering (tg), and in particular tg/+ heterozygotes, serve as a suitable model system, given that tg/+ heterozygotes fail to display spontaneous absence epilepsy and ataxia typically observed in tg/tg homozygotes. Here, we examined hippocampus-dependent behaviors and hippocampal learning-related synaptic plasticity in tg mice. In behavioral analyses of tg/+ and tg/tg, acquisition and retention of spatial reference memory were characteristically impaired in the Morris water maze task, while working memory was intact in the eight-arm radial maze and T-maze tasks. tg/+ heterozygotes showed normal motor function in contrast to tg/tg homozygotes. In electrophysiological analyses, Schaffer collateral-CA1 synapses showed a deficit in the maintenance of long-term potentiation in tg/+ and tg/tg mice and an increased paired-pulse facilitation induced by paired pulses with 100 ms in tg/tg mice. Our results indicate that the tg mutation causes a dominant disorder of the hippocampus-related memory and synaptic plasticity, raising the possibility that in CACNA1A-associated human diseases, functionally aberrant CaV2.1 Ca2+ channels actively induce the observed cognitive deficits independently of the neurological symptoms.
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- DOI : 10.1080/19336950.2022.2072449
- PubMed ID : 35548926
- PubMed Central 記事ID : PMC9103357