期刊
EPILEPSIA
卷 51, 期 -, 页码 56-60出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02611.x
关键词
Pilocarpine; Hippocampus; Development; Injury
资金
- Epilepsy Foundation of America
- VHA Research Service, NINDS [RO1 NS13515]
- UC MEXUS-CONACyT
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE [R01NS013515] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
P>Status epilepticus in the immature brain induces neuronal injury in the hippocampal formation, but the mode and mechanism of death are poorly understood. Our laboratory has recently investigated the role of caspase-3, -8, and -9 in neuronal injury, using a lithium-pilocarpine model of status epilepticus in 2-week-old rat pups. Our results showed that dying neurons in the dentate gyrus and CA1-subiculum area do not share the same mechanism of death. In CA1-subiculum, caspase-8 upregulation preceded caspase-3 activation in morphologically necrotic neurons. The pan-caspase inhibitor Q-VD-OPH reduced CA1 damage, showing that caspases contribute to status epilepticus-induced necrosis. In the dentate gyrus, dying neurons were caspase-9 and -3 immunoreactive and morphologically apoptotic. It is not clear why the same seizures cause different types of cell death in neurons that are connected in series along the same hippocampal circuit, but the apoptotic dentate neurons express doublecortin, and do not express calbindin-D28k, suggesting that their immaturity may be a factor in producing an apoptotic mode of death.
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