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ArticleJournal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism2017

Cortical spreading depolarization increases adult neurogenesis, and alters behavior and hippocampus-dependent memory in mice.

Anja Urbach, Eileen Baum, Falko Braun, Otto W Witte

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Article in Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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15 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Spreading depolarization: A wave that precedes and drives cerebral ischemic cell death-Target for neuroprotection.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2026
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  7. Frequency selective neuronal modulation triggers spreading depolarizations in the rat endothelin-1 model of stroke.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2021
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  8. Spreading depolarizations in the rat endothelin-1 model of focal cerebellar ischemia.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2020
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  13. Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury on Neurogenesis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Anja UrbachHans Berger Department of Neurology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany.
Eileen BaumHans Berger Department of Neurology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany.
Falko BraunHans Berger Department of Neurology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany.
Otto W WitteHans Berger Department of Neurology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany.
Jena University Hospital · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cortical spreading depolarizations are an epiphenomenon of human brain pathologies and associated with extensive but transient changes in ion homeostasis, metabolism, and blood flow. Previously, we have shown that cortical spreading depolarization have long-lasting consequences on the brains transcriptome and structure. In particular, we found that cortical spreading depolarization stimulate hippocampal cell proliferation resulting in a sustained increase in adult neurogenesis. Since the hippocampus is responsible for explicit memory and adult-born dentate granule neurons contribute to this function, cortical spreading depolarization might influence hippocampus-dependent cognition. To address this question, we induced cortical spreading depolarization in C57Bl/6 J mice by epidural application of 1.5 mol/L KCl and evaluated neurogenesis and behavior at two, four, or six weeks thereafter. Congruent with our previous findings in rats, we found that cortical spreading depolarization increases numbers of newborn dentate granule neurons. Moreover, exploratory behavior and object location memory were consistently enhanced. Reference memory in the water maze was virtually unaffected, whereas memory formation in the Barnes maze was impaired with a delay of two weeks and facilitated after four weeks. These data show that cortical spreading depolarization produces lasting changes in psychomotor behavior and complex, delay- and task-dependent changes in spatial memory, and suggest that cortical spreading depolarization-like events affect the emotional and cognitive outcomes of associated brain pathologies.

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AnimalsBehavior, AnimalCortical Spreading DepressionHippocampusMaleMaze LearningMice, Inbred C57BLNeurogenesisSpatial MemoryAdult neurogenesiscortical spreading depressionhippocampusspatial memory

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PMID27189903
PMCPMC5435280
OpenAlexW2321756858

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