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NATURE MEDICINE
Volume 18, Issue 8, Pages 1271-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nm.2850
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan [19790048, 22115003]
- Research Foundation for Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Funding Program for Next Generation World-Leading Researchers [LS023]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [12J10550, 10J10641, 19790048, 10J05408] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is accompanied by an abnormal location of granule cells in the dentate gyrus. Using a rat model of complex febrile seizures, which are thought to be a precipitating insult of TLE later in life, we report that aberrant migration of neonatal-generated granule cells results in granule cell ectopia that persists into adulthood. Febrile seizures induced an upregulation of GABA(A) receptors (GABA(A)-Rs) in neonatally generated granule cells, and hyperactivation of excitatory GABA(A)-Rs caused a reversal in the direction of granule cell migration. This abnormal migration was prevented by RNAi-mediated knockdown of the Na(+)K(+)2Cl(-) co-transporter (NKCC1), which regulates the excitatory action of GABA. NKCC1 inhibition with bumetanide after febrile seizures rescued the granule cell ectopia, susceptibility to limbic seizures and development of epilepsy. Thus, this work identifies a previously unknown pathogenic role of excitatory GABA(A)-R signaling and highlights NKCC1 as a potential therapeutic target for preventing granule cell ectopia and the development of epilepsy after febrile seizures.
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