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ArticleNature communications2025

Contralesional hippocampal spreading depolarization promotes functional recovery after stroke.

Andrew K J Boyce, Yannick Fouad, Renaud C Gom, Donovan M Ashby, Cristina Martins-Silva, Leonardo Molina, Tamas Füzesi, Carina Ens, Wilten Nicola, Alexander McGirr and 2 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. 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 · 2026
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  2. Hemodynamic and Electrophysiological Progression of the Rose Bengal Photothrombotic Stroke Model in Mice.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Andrew K J BoyceDepartment of Cell Biology & Anatomy, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. anboyce@salud.unm.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3708-9884
Yannick FouadDepartment of Cell Biology & Anatomy, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Renaud C GomDepartment of Cell Biology & Anatomy, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Donovan M AshbyHotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Cristina Martins-SilvaDepartment of the Physiological Sciences, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2656-8027
Leonardo MolinaDepartment of Cell Biology & Anatomy, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Tamas FüzesiDepartment of Cell Biology & Anatomy, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9261-9828
Carina EnsDepartment of Cell Biology & Anatomy, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Wilten NicolaDepartment of Cell Biology & Anatomy, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Alexander McGirrHotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8425-3958
G Campbell TeskeyDepartment of Cell Biology & Anatomy, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8462-355X
Roger J ThompsonDepartment of Cell Biology & Anatomy, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. thompsrj@ucalgary.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7019-7246

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ischemic stroke, brain tissue infarction following obstructed cerebral blood flow, leads to long-term neurological deficits and death. While neocortex is a commonly affected region with established preclinical models, less is known about deeper brain strokes, despite having unique neurological outcomes. We induced focal ischemic stroke while simultaneously monitoring neuronal activity in awake behaving Thy1-GCaMP6f mice by delivering and collecting light through bilateral fiberoptic implants. Unilateral hippocampal stroke resulted in atypical wandering behavior coincident with ipsilesional terminal spreading depolarization (sustained increase in GCaMP6f fluorescence). Ischemia induced seizures that propagated to the contralesional hippocampus triggering a transient spreading depolarization, predominantly in females. Hippocampal stroke impaired contextual fear conditioning acquired pre-stroke. Yet, 7 days post-stroke, contextual fear conditioning was only improved in mice with contralesional spreading depolarization. Blunting peri-stroke contralesional spreading depolarization prevented recovery of hippocampus-dependent learning. Together, we show that regionally isolated deleterious and beneficial spreading depolarizations can occur concurrently in the murine brain during acute stroke.

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Cortical Spreading DepressionHippocampusRecovery of FunctionStrokeAnimalsBrain IschemiaDisease Models, AnimalFearFemaleMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicSeizures

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PMID40210646
PMCPMC11986063

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