Masala, Nicola: Targeting aberrant dendritic integration to treat cognitive comorbidities of epilepsy. - Bonn, 2022. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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@phdthesis{handle:20.500.11811/10003,
urn: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5-67215,
author = {{Nicola Masala}},
title = {Targeting aberrant dendritic integration to treat cognitive comorbidities of epilepsy},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2022,
month = jul,

note = {Memory deficits are one of the most debilitating and common symptoms of temporal lobe epilepsy. However, so far, little is known about mechanisms underlying cognitive deficits and how pharmacologically target them. In most CNS pyramidal neurons, dendrites generate local spikes initiated by dendritic voltage-gated Na+ channels activation. Dendritic spikes are elicited by precisely spatiotemporally clustered inputs that only arise if specific ensembles of presynaptic neurons are synchronously active. They have been proposed to endow neurons with the capability to act as input feature detectors. Indeed, dendritic spikes are relevant for triggering place-related firing in CA1 neurons and are strongly implicated in spatial navigation. They thus constitute a key mechanism for dendritic integration and neuronal input-output computations.
Dendritic spikes rely on the targeted expression of voltage-gated ion channels in dendritic branches. In epilepsy and numerous other CNS disorders, the expression and function of ion channels are profoundly altered in CA1 neuron dendrites. In chronic epilepsy models, many channelopathies such as changes in K+ channels, T-type Ca2+ channels, HCN channels, or Na+ channels have been identified. However, these studies have mainly focused on larger caliber, apical dendrites of pyramidal neurons, while the integrative properties of thin, higher-order dendrites and how they change in chronic epilepsy have not been investigated so far.
In this study, I describe a channel-dependent Nav1.3 mechanism. This is based on a changed dendritic integration of the hippocampus and deteriorated location coding in vivo and spatial memory deficits in experimental chronic temporal lobe epilepsy.
Two-photon glutamate uncaging experiments in vitro revealed that the mechanisms constraining the generation of dendritic spikes in first-order hippocampal pyramidal cell dendrites are profoundly degraded in experimental epilepsy. This phenomenon was reversed by selectively blocking Nav1.3 sodium channels.
In-vivo two-photon imaging in awake mice revealed that spatial representations in hippocampal neurons were significantly less precise in epileptic animals. The blocking of Nav1.3 channels significantly improved the precision of spatial coding and reversed hippocampal memory deficits in epileptic animals.
Thus, a proximal dendritic channelopathy that can be pharmacologically targeted may underlie cognitive deficits in epilepsy and constitute a new avenue to enhance cognition in chronic epilepsy.},

url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/10003}
}

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