ReviewJournal of neurophysiology2020
Neural shutdown under stress: an evolutionary perspective on spreading depolarization.
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16 citing papers in PubMed.
- Whole brain fluorescence imaging iniScience · 2026Article
- 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 · 2026Review
- Is canonical SD a clinically relevant model of migraine? Argument pro.The journal of headache and pain · 2025Review
- Spreading depolarization as a therapeutic target in migraine.Nature reviews. Neurology · 2025Review
- Contribution of glial inwardly rectifying potassium (Kir) channels to potassium buffering in insect neural systems.iScience · 2025Article
- Pharmacological inhibition of all known major inward cationic currents does not block the induction of spreading depolarizations.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2025Article
- The freeze-avoiding mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) survives prolonged exposure to stressful cold by mitigating ionoregulatory collapse.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
- Low Glycolysis Is Neuroprotective during Anoxic Spreading Depolarization (SD) and Reoxygenation in Locusts.eNeuro · 2023Article
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- The Critical Role of Spreading Depolarizations in Early Brain Injury: Consensus and Contention.Neurocritical care · 2022Review
- Migraine Aura, Transient Ischemic Attacks, Stroke, and Dying of the Brain Share the Same Key Pathophysiological Process in Neurons Driven by Gibbs-Donnan Forces, Namely Spreading Depolarization.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2022Review
- Knockdown of a Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Ion Channel Impairs Locomotor Activity and Recovery From Hypoxia in AdultFrontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Hypoxia Tolerance Declines with Age in the Absence of Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase (MSR) inAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Insects Provide Unique Systems to Investigate How Early-Life Experience Alters the Brain and Behavior.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Review
- Pathophysiological Bases of Comorbidity in Migraine.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Review
- Hyperkalaemia, not apoptosis, accurately predicts insect chilling injury.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
Neural function depends on maintaining cellular membrane potentials as the basis for electrical signaling. Yet, in mammals and insects, neuronal and glial membrane potentials can reversibly depolarize to zero, shutting down neural function by the process of spreading depolarization (SD) that collapses the ion gradients across membranes. SD is not evident in all metazoan taxa with centralized nervous systems. We consider the occurrence and similarities of SD in different animals and suggest that it is an emergent property of nervous systems that have evolved to control complex behaviors requiring energetically expensive, rapid information processing in a tightly regulated extracellular environment. Whether SD is beneficial or not in mammals remains an open question. However, in insects, it is associated with the response to harsh environments and may provide an energetic advantage that improves the chances of survival. The remarkable similarity of SD in diverse taxa supports a model systems approach to understanding the mechanistic underpinning of human neuropathology associated with migraine, stroke, and traumatic brain injury.
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