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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2025

Early Life Injury Alters Spinal Astrocyte Development.

Judy J Yoo, Elizabeth K Serafin, J Matthew Kofron, Mark L Baccei

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Judy J YooMedical Scientist Training Program and Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267.
Elizabeth K SerafinPain Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267.ORCID 0000-0002-7592-4617
J Matthew KofronCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Bio-Imaging and Analysis Facility, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229.
Mark L BacceiMedical Scientist Training Program and Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267 mark.baccei@uc.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-3337-7480

Funding

Synaptic Function within Mature Central Pain Networks after Neonatal InjuryR01NS080889 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI · PI Mark L Baccei · 2013 to 2026
$4.5M
Astrocytes mediate priming of spinal nociceptive circuitsF31NS135754 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI · PI YOO, JUDY JOONHI · 2024 to 2025
$64k
NINDS NIH HHS F31 NS135754NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS080889
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Abstract

Neonatal injury alters synaptic transmission in the spinal superficial dorsal horn (SDH), resulting in aberrant amplification of ascending nociceptive transmission. Astrocytes orchestrate synapse development and function across the CNS and play a critical role in the emergence and maintenance of persistent pain. However, little is currently known about the postnatal development of spinal astrocytes, nor about how the maturation of SDH astrocytes is impacted by early life injury. Here, we used a hindpaw incision model of postsurgical pain in postnatal day (P) 3 mice of both sexes to elucidate the effects of neonatal injury on the maturation of SDH astrocytes. Three-dimensional morphological analysis of individual astrocytes revealed that incision elicits age-dependent changes to astrocyte structure. At P4, spinal astrocytes in incised mice show increased size and complexity compared with naive controls. This is reversed at P10 and P24, as astrocytes from incised mice are smaller and less ramified compared with their naive counterparts. Transcriptomic analysis of spinal astrocytes revealed acute changes to gene expression after neonatal injury, as 76 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified at P4 (such as

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AstrocytesSpinal CordSpinal Cord Dorsal HornAnimalsAnimals, NewbornFemaleMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLastrocytedorsal hornincisionmicroglianeonatalspinal cord

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PMID40935666
PMCPMC12435912

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