Slow and Fast Neocortical Oscillations in the Senescence-Accelerated Mouse Model SAMP8
Castano-Prat, Patricia (Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer)
Perez-Zabalza, María (Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer)
Perez-Mendez, Lorena (Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer)
Escorihuela, Rosa M. (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Neurociències)
Sánchez-Vives, María V (Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats)

Data:	2017
Resum:	The senescence-accelerated mouse prone 8 (SAMP8) model is characterized by accelerated, progressive cognitive decline as well as Alzheimer's disease (AD)-like neurodegenerative changes, and resembles the etiology of multicausal, sporadic late-onset/age-related AD in humans. Our aim was to find whether these AD-like pathological features, together with the cognitive deficits present in the SAMP8 strain, are accompanied by disturbances in cortical network activity with respect to control mice (SAM resistance 1, SAMR1) and, if so, how the alterations in cortical activity progress with age. For this purpose, we characterized the extracellular spontaneous oscillatory activity in different regions of the cerebral cortex of SAMP8 and SAMR1 mice under ketamine anesthesia at 5 and 7 months of age. Under these conditions, slow oscillations and fast rhythms generated in the cortical network were recorded and different parameters of these oscillations were quantified and compared between SAMP8 and their control, SAMR1 mice. The average frequency of slow oscillations in SAMP8 mice was decreased with respect to the control mice at both studied ages. An elongation of the silent periods or Down states was behind the decreased slow oscillatory frequency while the duration of active or Up states remained stable. SAMP8 mice also presented increased cycle variability and reduced high frequency components during Down states. During Up states, the power peak in the gamma range was displaced towards lower frequencies in all the cortical areas of SAMP8 with respect to control mice suggesting that the spectral profile of SAMP8 animals is shifted towards lower frequencies. This shift is reminiscent to one of the principal hallmarks of electroencephalography (EEG) abnormalities in patients with Alzheimer's disease, and adds evidence in support of the suitability of the SAMP8 mouse as a model of this disease. Although some of the differences between SAMP8 and control mice were emphasized with age, the evolution of the studied parameters as SAMR1 mice got older indicates that the SAMR1 phenotype tends to converge with that of SAMP8 animals. To our knowledge, this is the first systematic characterization of the cortical slow and fast rhythms in the SAMP8 strain and it provides useful insights about the cellular and synaptic mechanisms underlying the reported alterations.
Ajuts:	Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad BFU2014-52467-R Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad PCIN-2015-162-C02-01
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Slow waves ; Slow oscillations ; Aging ; Gamma ; Cerebral cortex ; Up states ; Alzheimer ; Brain rhythms
Publicat a:	Frontiers in aging neuroscience, Vol. 9 (may 2017) , ISSN 1663-4365

DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2017.00141
PMID: 28620295

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