論文

国際誌
2022年9月14日

Cerebrocortical activation following unilateral labyrinthectomy in mice characterized by whole-brain clearing: implications for sensory reweighting.

Scientific reports
  • Ryota Kai
  • ,
  • Kuniyuki Takahashi
  • ,
  • Kazuki Tainaka
  • ,
  • Yuriko Iwakura
  • ,
  • Hisaaki Namba
  • ,
  • Nae Saito
  • ,
  • Toshikuni Sasaoka
  • ,
  • Shun Yamaguchi
  • ,
  • Hiroyuki Nawa
  • ,
  • Arata Horii

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開始ページ
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終了ページ
15424
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1038/s41598-022-19678-4

Posture and gait are maintained by sensory inputs from the vestibular, visual, and somatosensory systems and motor outputs. Upon vestibular damage, the visual and/or somatosensory systems functionally substitute by cortical mechanisms called "sensory reweighting". We investigated the cerebrocortical mechanisms underlying sensory reweighting after unilateral labyrinthectomy (UL) in mice. Arc-dVenus transgenic mice, in which the gene encoding the fluorescent protein dVenus is transcribed under the control of the promoter of the immediate early gene Arc, were used in combination with whole-brain three-dimensional (3D) imaging. Performance on the rotarod was measured as a behavioral correlate of sensory reweighting. Following left UL, all mice showed the head roll-tilt until UL10, indicating the vestibular periphery damage. The rotarod performance worsened in the UL mice from UL1 to UL3, which rapidly recovered. Whole-brain 3D imaging revealed that the number of activated neurons in S1, but not in V1, in UL7 was higher than that in sham-treated mice. At UL7, medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and agranular insular cortex (AIC) activation was also observed. Therefore, sensory reweighting to the somatosensory system could compensate for vestibular dysfunction following UL; further, mPFC and AIC contribute to the integration of sensory and motor functions to restore balance.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19678-4
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36104440
PubMed Central
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9474865
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1038/s41598-022-19678-4
  • PubMed ID : 36104440
  • PubMed Central 記事ID : PMC9474865

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