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ArticleCNS neuroscience & therapeutics2023

In vivo inhibition of epileptiform afterdischarges in rat hippocampus by light-activated chloride channel, stGtACR2.

Anirudh R Acharya, Lars Emil Larsen, Jean Delbeke, Wytse J Wadman, Kristl Vonck, Alfred Meurs, Paul Boon, Robrecht Raedt

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Article in CNS neuroscience & therapeutics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Anirudh R Acharya4BRAIN Team, Department of Head and Skin, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-7774-2473
Lars Emil Larsen4BRAIN Team, Department of Head and Skin, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Jean Delbeke4BRAIN Team, Department of Head and Skin, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Wytse J Wadman4BRAIN Team, Department of Head and Skin, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Kristl Vonck4BRAIN Team, Department of Head and Skin, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Alfred Meurs4BRAIN Team, Department of Head and Skin, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Paul Boon4BRAIN Team, Department of Head and Skin, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Robrecht Raedt4BRAIN Team, Department of Head and Skin, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
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Abstract

aimsThe blue light-sensitive chloride-conducting opsin, stGtACR2, provides potent optogenetic silencing of neurons. The present study investigated whether activation of stGtACR2 in granule cells of the dentate gyrus (DG) inhibits epileptic afterdischarges in a rat model.

methodsRats were bilaterally injected with 0.9 μl of AAV2/7-CaMKIIα-stGtACR2-fusionred in the DG. Three weeks later, afterdischarges were recorded from the DG by placing an optrode at the injection site and a stimulation electrode in the perforant path (PP). Afterdischarges were evoked every 10 min by unilateral electrical stimulation of the PP (20 Hz, 10 s). During every other afterdischarge, the DG was illuminated for 5 or 30 s, first ipsilaterally and then bilaterally to the PP stimulation. The line length metric of the afterdischarges was compared between illumination conditions.

resultsIpsilateral stGtACR2 activation during afterdischarges decreased the local field potential line length only during illumination and specifically at the illuminated site but did not reduce afterdischarge duration. Bilateral illumination did not terminate the afterdischarges.

conclusionOptogenetic inhibition of excitatory neurons using the blue-light sensitive chloride channel stGtACR2 reduced the amplitude of electrically induced afterdischarges in the DG at the site of illumination, but this local inhibitory effect was insufficient to reduce the duration of the afterdischarge.

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Chloride ChannelsEpilepsyAnimalsElectric StimulationHippocampusNeuronsRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyChloride ChannelsafterdischargeschlorideGtACR2hippocampusoptogeneticsseizures

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