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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2011

Optogenetic-guided cortical plasticity after nerve injury.

Nan Li, John E Downey, Amnon Bar-Shir, Assaf A Gilad, Piotr Walczak, Heechul Kim, Suresh E Joel, James J Pekar, Nitish V Thakor, Galit Pelled

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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10 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Nan LiFM Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
John E Downey
Amnon Bar-Shir
Assaf A Gilad
Piotr Walczak
Heechul Kim
Suresh E Joel
James J Pekar
Nitish V Thakor
Galit Pelled
Kennedy Krieger Institute · USJohns Hopkins University · USJohns Hopkins Medicine · US

Funding

The Role of the Transcallosal Pathway in Neuroplasticity Following Nerve InjuryR01NS072171 · NINDS · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI PELLED, GALIT · 2010 to 2019
$3.5M
NINDS NIH HHS 1R01NS072171-01NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS072171
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Peripheral nerve injury causes sensory dysfunctions that are thought to be attributable to changes in neuronal activity occurring in somatosensory cortices both contralateral and ipsilateral to the injury. Recent studies suggest that distorted functional response observed in deprived primary somatosensory cortex (S1) may be the result of an increase in inhibitory interneuron activity and is mediated by the transcallosal pathway. The goal of this study was to develop a strategy to manipulate and control the transcallosal activity to facilitate appropriate plasticity by guiding the cortical reorganization in a rat model of sensory deprivation. Since transcallosal fibers originate mainly from excitatory pyramidal neurons somata situated in laminae III and V, the excitatory neurons in rat S1 were engineered to express halorhodopsin, a light-sensitive chloride pump that triggers neuronal hyperpolarization. Results from electrophysiology, optical imaging, and functional MRI measurements are concordant with that within the deprived S1, activity in response to intact forepaw electrical stimulation was significantly increased by concurrent illumination of halorhodopsin over the healthy S1. Optogenetic manipulations effectively decreased the adverse inhibition of deprived cortex and revealed the major contribution of the transcallosal projections, showing interhemispheric neuroplasticity and thus, setting a foundation to develop improved rehabilitation strategies to restore cortical functions.

Indexed as

Neuronal PlasticityPeripheral Nerve InjuriesAnimalsBrain MappingDiagnostic ImagingDisease Models, AnimalHalorhodopsinsInterneuronsProtein EngineeringRatsSensory DeprivationSomatosensory CortexTrauma, Nervous SystemHalorhodopsins

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PMID21555573
PMCPMC3102379
OpenAlexW2020997457

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