Neuron transplantation into mice hippocampus alters sensitivity to barbital narcosis |
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Authors: | Joseph Yanai Chaim G. Pick |
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Affiliation: | aThe Melvin A. and Eleanor Ross Laboratory for Studies in Neural Birth Defects, Department of Anatomy, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Box 1172, 91010 Jerusalem, Israel;bDepartment of Embryology, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Box 1172, 91010 Jerusalem, Israel |
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Abstract: | The role of several hippocampal innervations in the sensitivity to barbital-induced narcosis was studied in selected mice strains. The outbred and inbred mouse strains HS/Ibg, SABRA/HUC, C57BL, CBA/LAC, and BALB/c were tested for barbital-induced sleep (315 mg/kg). The relatively short sleeping HS/Ibg (HS) and the longest sleeping BALE/c (BALE) were chosen for further investigation. Cholinergic (ACh), serotonergic (5-HT), and noradrenergic (NE) innervations were studied in HS strain; whereas BALE, which possesses both an unusually high sensitivity to barbital and unique NE innervations in the cortex and hippocampus, was employed in a detailed study of the NE innervations. Transplantation of embryonic NE cells from the mouse embryo into the hippocampus of adult HS mice increased barbital narcosis by 65% (p < 0.05), whereas transplantation of 5-HT cells decreased barbital narcosis by 54% (p < 0.001). Transplantation of ACh cells had no significant effect on barbital-induced narcosis. BALB mice were subjected to NE cell transplantation into the hippocampus and cortex. Similarly to HS, BALB receiving NE transplants into their hippocampus slept 34% longer than control after barbital challenge (p < 0.025). Noradrenergic cell transplantation into frontal cortex had no effect on barbital sleep. The results suggest that (a) enhancement by neural grafting of the NE innervation to the hippocampus accentuates and enhancement of the 5-HT innervations attenuates the sensitivity to barbital narcosis, whereas ACh innervations have no effect on the sensitivity to barbital narcosis, and (b) the unusually high sensitivity of BALB mice to barbital may not be related to its unique NE innervations. |
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Keywords: | Barbital narcosis Cholinergic innervations Frontal cortex Hippocampus Mice strains Neuron transplantation Noradrenergic innervations Serotonergic innervations |
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