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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2013

Phosphodiesterase inhibition rescues chronic cognitive deficits induced by traumatic brain injury.

David J Titus, Atsushi Sakurai, Yuan Kang, Concepcion Furones, Stanislava Jergova, Rosmery Santos, Thomas J Sick, Coleen M Atkins

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

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52citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

52 citing papers in PubMed, 79 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

David J TitusMiami Project to Cure Paralysis, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
Atsushi Sakurai
Yuan Kang
Concepcion Furones
Stanislava Jergova
Rosmery Santos
Thomas J Sick
Coleen M Atkins
Instituto de Neurologia de Curitiba · BRNeurological Surgery · USUniversity of Miami · US

Funding

Cyclic Nucleotide Regulation in Traumatic Brain Injury and Alzheimer's DiseaseR01NS056072 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI ATKINS, COLEEN M., DIETRICH, W DALTON · 2007 to 2018
$4.1M
Rehabilitation Strategies for Memory Dysfunction After Traumatic Brain InjuryR01NS069721 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI ATKINS, COLEEN M. · 2010 to 2019
$3.7M
NINDS NIH HHS NS056072NINDS NIH HHS NS069721NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS056072NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS069721
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) modulates several cell signaling pathways in the hippocampus critical for memory formation. Previous studies have found that the cAMP-protein kinase A signaling pathway is downregulated after TBI and that treatment with a phosphodiesterase (PDE) 4 inhibitor rolipram rescues the decrease in cAMP. In the present study, we examined the effect of rolipram on TBI-induced cognitive impairments. At 2 weeks after moderate fluid-percussion brain injury or sham surgery, adult male Sprague Dawley rats received vehicle or rolipram (0.03 mg/kg) 30 min before water maze acquisition or cue and contextual fear conditioning. TBI animals treated with rolipram showed a significant improvement in water maze acquisition and retention of both cue and contextual fear conditioning compared with vehicle-treated TBI animals. Cue and contextual fear conditioning significantly increased phosphorylated CREB levels in the hippocampus of sham animals, but not in TBI animals. This deficit in CREB activation during learning was rescued in TBI animals treated with rolipram. Hippocampal long-term potentiation was reduced in TBI animals, and this was also rescued with rolipram treatment. These results indicate that the PDE4 inhibitor rolipram rescues cognitive impairments after TBI, and this may be mediated through increased CREB activation during learning.

Indexed as

AnimalsBrain InjuriesChronic DiseaseCognition DisordersConditioning, PsychologicalCyclic AMPCyclic AMP Response Element-Binding ProteinHippocampusLong-Term PotentiationMaleMaze LearningMemory DisordersMemory, Short-TermOrgan Culture TechniquesPhosphodiesterase 4 InhibitorsRatsCreb1 protein, mouseCyclic AMPCyclic AMP Response Element-Binding ProteinPhosphodiesterase 4 InhibitorsRolipram

Identifiers

PMID23516287
PMCPMC3655415
OpenAlexW2025840069

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