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ArticleThe European journal of neuroscience2025

Real-Time In Vivo Monitoring of Cholinergic Neurotransmission in the Mouse Brain Using a Microelectrochemical Choline Biosensor.

Seán Doyle, Michelle M Doran, Colm Cunningham, John Patrick Lowry

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Article in The European journal of neuroscience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors.

Seán DoyleNeurochemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland.
Michelle M DoranNeurochemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland.
Colm CunninghamSchool of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute & Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
John Patrick LowryNeurochemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-8957-6799

Funding

Neuroinflammatory and cognitive consequences of losing cholinergic anti-inflammatory tone in the forebrainR01AG050626 · NIA · TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN · PI CUNNINGHAM, COLM · 2016 to 2020
$1.2M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG050626Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) 15/IA/3176
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The measurement of choline as a biomarker for in vivo cholinergic neurotransmission is a valuable tool in the study of a range of CNS pathologies. However, the continuous detection of cholinergic neurotransmission in selective brain regions in the mouse brain remains challenging and underexploited. Here, we have refined an established choline oxidase (ChOx) microelectrochemical biosensor and validated its use for long-term recording in the freely moving mouse. Using a 75-μm diameter polymer-ChOx composite disc electrode, we have successfully monitored stable and reproducible chronic real-time changes in choline-induced amperometric currents in vivo. Local infusions of choline and acetylcholine resulted in an increase in biosensor current in the hippocampus, while the inhibition of endogenous acetylcholinesterase (with neostigmine) significantly attenuated the response to exogenous acetylcholine. Systemic administration of donepezil produced a pronounced decrease in current in both the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus, with scopolamine and amphetamine resulting in signal increases that were not observed in animals with selective saporin lesioning (murine-p75) of the cholinergic basal forebrain. Furthermore, continuous biosensor recording in both regions displayed diurnal oscillations across repetitive light-dark phases. All are consistent with successful monitoring of endogenous changes in cholinergic neurotransmission.

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AcetylcholineBiosensing TechniquesBrainCholineSynaptic TransmissionAlcohol OxidoreductasesAnimalsCholinesterase InhibitorsDonepezilHippocampusIndansMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMicroelectrodesPiperidinesAcetylcholineAlcohol OxidoreductasesCholinecholine oxidaseCholinesterase InhibitorsDonepezilIndansPiperidinesacetylcholinecholinechronic recordingneurochemistry

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PMCPMC12583884

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