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EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY
Volume 255, Issue -, Pages 137-144Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2014.02.020
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Cisplatin; Chemotherapy; Hippocampal dendritic spines; Postsynaptic density-95 protein (P5D95); Neural stem/precursor cells (NSCs); Neuronal apoptosis; Annexin V
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- National Institute for Neurological Diseases and Stroke [NS072234]
- UCI Cancer Center from the National Cancer Institute [P30CA062203]
- Ralph and Suzanne Stern
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Chemotherapy-related cognitive deficits are a major neurological problem, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. The death of neural stem/precursor cell (NSC) by cisplatin has been reported as a potential cause, but this requires high doses of chemotherapeutic agents. Cisplatin is frequently used in modern oncology, and it achieves high concentrations in the patient's brain. Here we report that exposure to low concentrations of cisplatin (0.1 mu M) causes the loss of dendritic spines and synapses within 30 min. Longer exposures injured dendritic branches and reduced dendritic complexity. At this low concentration, cisplatin did not affect NSC viability nor provoke apoptosis. However, higher cisplatin levels (1 mu M) led to the rapid loss of synapses and dendritic disintegration, and neuronal but not NSC apoptosis. In-vivo treatment with cisplatin at clinically relevant doses also caused a reduction of dendritic branches and decreased spine density in CA1 and CM hippocampal neurons. An acute increase in cell death was measured in the CA1 and CA3 neurons, as well as in the NSC population located in the subgranular zone of the dentate gyrus in the cisplatin treated animals. The density of dendritic spines is related to the degree of neuronal connectivity and function, and pathological changes in spine number or structure have significant consequences for brain function. Therefore, this synapse and dendritic damage might contribute to the cognitive impairment observed after cisplatin treatment. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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