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ArticleNeuroscience letters2021

Learning and synaptic plasticity in 3D bioengineered neural tissues.

Nicolas Rouleau, Dana M Cairns, William Rusk, Michael Levin, David L Kaplan

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Article in Neuroscience letters, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 57% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nicolas RouleauDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, United States; The Allen Discovery Center, Tufts University, United States; Initiative for Neural Science, Disease, and Engineering (INSciDE), Tufts University, United States. Electronic address: Nicolas.rouleau@tufts.edu.
Dana M CairnsDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, United States; The Allen Discovery Center, Tufts University, United States; Initiative for Neural Science, Disease, and Engineering (INSciDE), Tufts University, United States. Electronic address: Dana.cairns@tufts.edu.
William RuskDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, United States. Electronic address: William.rusk@tufts.edu.
Michael LevinDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, United States; The Allen Discovery Center, Tufts University, United States; Department of Biology, Tufts University, United States. Electronic address: Michael.levin@tufts.edu.
David L KaplanDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, United States; The Allen Discovery Center, Tufts University, United States; Initiative for Neural Science, Disease, and Engineering (INSciDE), Tufts University, United States. Electronic address: David.kaplan@tufts.edu.
Tufts University · US

Funding

Tissue Engineering Resource Center: TTDP41EB027062 · NIBIB · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic · 2019 to 2026
$12.6M
Functional three dimensional brain-like tissues to study mechanisms of traumatic brain injuryR01NS092847 · NINDS · TUFTS UNIVERSITY MEDFORD · PI KAPLAN, DAVID L. · 2015 to 2019
$1.8M
NIBIB NIH HHS P41 EB027062NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS092847
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Though neuroscientists have historically relied upon measurement of established nervous systems, contemporary advances in bioengineering have made it possible to design and build artificial neural tissues with which to investigate normative and diseased states [1-5] however, their potential to display features of learning and memory remains unexplored. Here, we demonstrate response patterns characteristic of habituation, a form of non-associative learning, in 3D bioengineered neural tissues exposed to repetitive injections of current to elicit evoked-potentials (EPs). A return of the evoked response following rest indicated learning was transient and partially reversible. Applying patterned current as massed or distributed pulse trains induced differential expression of immediate early genes (IEG) that are known to facilitate synaptic plasticity and participate in memory formation [6,7]. Our findings represent the first demonstration of a learning response in a bioengineered neural tissue in vitro.

Indexed as

Long-Term PotentiationAnimalsCells, CulturedCerebral CortexEvoked PotentialsGenes, Immediate-EarlyLearningNeuronsRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyTissue EngineeringBioengineeringEvoked-potentialsHabituationLearningSynaptic plasticity

Identifiers

PMID33675883
PMCPMC7994196
OpenAlexW3135461158

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