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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2021

Reorganization of Thalamic Inputs to Lesioned Cortex Following Experimental Traumatic Brain Injury.

Xavier Ekolle Ndode-Ekane, Maria Del Mar Puigferrat Pérez, Rossella Di Sapia, Niina Lapinlampi, Asla Pitkänen

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xavier Ekolle Ndode-EkaneA. I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, FI-70211 Kuopio, Finland.ORCID 0000-0001-5682-5632
Maria Del Mar Puigferrat PérezA. I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, FI-70211 Kuopio, Finland.
Rossella Di SapiaA. I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, FI-70211 Kuopio, Finland.ORCID 0000-0001-7481-5198
Niina LapinlampiA. I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, FI-70211 Kuopio, Finland.ORCID 0000-0003-3210-6312
Asla PitkänenA. I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, FI-70211 Kuopio, Finland.
University of Eastern Finland · FI

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Academy of Finland 2285733-9Academy of Finland 272249Academy of Finland 273909
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) disrupts thalamic and cortical integrity. The effect of post-injury reorganization and plasticity in thalamocortical pathways on the functional outcome remains unclear. We evaluated whether TBI causes structural changes in the thalamocortical axonal projection terminals in the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) that lead to hyperexcitability. TBI was induced in adult male Sprague Dawley rats with lateral fluid-percussion injury. A virus carrying the fluorescent-tagged opsin channel rhodopsin 2 transgene was injected into the ventroposterior thalamus. We then traced the thalamocortical pathways and analyzed the reorganization of their axonal terminals in S1. Next, we optogenetically stimulated the thalamocortical relays from the ventral posterior lateral and medial nuclei to assess the post-TBI functionality of the pathway. Immunohistochemical analysis revealed that TBI did not alter the spatial distribution or lamina-specific targeting of projection terminals in S1. TBI reduced the axon terminal density in the motor cortex by 44% and in S1 by 30%. A nematic tensor-based analysis revealed that in control rats, the axon terminals in layer V were orientated perpendicular to the pial surface (60.3°). In TBI rats their orientation was more parallel to the pial surface (5.43°, difference between the groups

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AnimalsAnisotropyBeta RhythmBrain Injuries, TraumaticCalcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 2MaleMotor CortexOptogeneticsPhotic StimulationRatsRats, Sprague-DawleySomatosensory CortexThalamusCalcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 2axonal injuryhyperexcitationlateral fluid-percussion injuryperilesional cortexthalamo-cortical projectiontraumatic brain injury

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PMID34199241
PMCPMC8231773
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