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ArticleScientific reports2017

Inflammatory cytokine-induced changes in neural network activity measured by waveform analysis of high-content calcium imaging in murine cortical neurons.

Benjamin D S Clarkson, Robert J Kahoud, Christina B McCarthy, Charles L Howe

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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36citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Benjamin D S ClarksonDepartment of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA 55905, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2054-3486
Robert J KahoudDepartment of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA 55905, USA.
Christina B McCarthyDepartment of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA 55905, USA.
Charles L HoweDepartment of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA 55905, USA. howe@mayo.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-3889-8739
Mayo Clinic · US

Funding

Mechanisms of neuronal injury during virus infection of the CNSR01NS064571 · NINDS · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI HOWE, CHARLES LEE · 2009 to 2018
$3.0M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS064571
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During acute neuroinflammation, increased levels of cytokines within the brain may contribute to synaptic reorganization that results in long-term changes in network hyperexcitability. Indeed, inflammatory cytokines are implicated in synaptic dysfunction in epilepsy and in an array of degenerative and autoimmune diseases of the central nervous system. Current tools for studying the impact of inflammatory factors on neural networks are either insufficiently fast and sensitive or require complicated and costly experimental rigs. Calcium imaging offers a reasonable surrogate for direct measurement of neuronal network activity, but traditional imaging paradigms are confounded by cellular heterogeneity and cannot readily distinguish between glial and neuronal calcium transients. While the establishment of pure neuron cultures is possible, the removal of glial cells ignores physiologically relevant cell-cell interactions that may be critical for circuit level disruptions induced by inflammatory factors. To overcome these issues, we provide techniques and algorithms for image processing and waveform feature extraction using automated analysis of spontaneous and evoked calcium transients in primary murine cortical neuron cultures transduced with an adeno-associated viral vector driving the GCaMP6f reporter behind a synapsin promoter. Using this system, we provide evidence of network perturbations induced by the inflammatory cytokines TNFα, IL1β, and IFNγ.

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Molecular ImagingNeural PathwaysAnimalsBiomarkersCalciumCalcium SignalingCells, CulturedCerebral CortexCytokinesFluorescent Antibody TechniqueGene ExpressionInflammation MediatorsMiceNerve NetNeuronsReceptors, NeurotransmitterBiomarkersCalciumCytokinesInflammation MediatorsReceptors, Neurotransmitter

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PMID28831096
PMCPMC5567248
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