Journal
EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY
Volume 355, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2022.114118
Keywords
Estrous cycle; Gonadal hormones; Hippocampus; Kainic acid; Lateralization; Pituitary
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- NIH Office of Research on Women's Health [R03 NS103029, R01 NS105825]
- CURE Epilepsy Research Continuity Fund Grant
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Clinical evidence suggests that there are differential outcomes of comorbid conditions in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) based on the lateralization of the seizure focus. This study evaluated the effects of targeting left or right dorsal hippocampus in a model of TLE, and found that it produced different outcomes in granule cell dispersion, body weight gain, and reproductive endocrine dysfunction in female mice. The findings suggest that lateralization of the epileptogenic insult may contribute to similar reproductive endocrine outcomes.
Clinical evidence indicates that patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) often show differential outcomes of comorbid conditions in relation to the lateralization of the seizure focus. A particularly strong relationship exists between the side of seizure focus and the propensity for distinct reproductive endocrine comorbidities in women with TLE. Therefore, here we evaluated whether targeting of left or right dorsal hippocampus for intrahippocampal kainic acid (IHKA) injection, a model of TLE, produces different outcomes in hippocampal granule cell dispersion, body weight gain, and multiple measures of reproductive endocrine dysfunction in female mice. One, two, and four months after IHKA or saline injection, in vivo measurements of estrous cycles and weight were followed by ex vivo examination of hippocampal dentate granule cell dispersion, circulating ovarian hormone and corticosterone levels, ovarian morphology, and pituitary gene expression. IHKA mice with right-targeted injection (IHKA-R) showed greater granule cell dispersion and pituitary Fshb expression compared to mice with left-targeted injection (IHKA-L). By contrast, pituitary expression of Lhb and Gnrhr were higher in IHKA-L mice compared to IHKA-R, but these values were not different from respective saline-injected controls. IHKA-L mice also showed an increased rate of weight gain compared to IHKA-R mice. Increases in estrous cycle length, however, were similar in both IHKA-L and IHKA-R mice. These findings indicate that although major reproductive endocrine dysfunction phenotypes present similarly after targeting left or right dorsal hippocampus for IHKA injection, distinct underlying mechanisms based on lateralization of epileptogenic insult may contribute to produce similar emergent reproductive endocrine outcomes.
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