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Zayachkivsky A, Lehmkuhle MJ, Ekstrand JJ, Dudek FE. Background suppression of electrical activity is a potential biomarker of subsequent brain injury in a rat model of neonatal hypoxia-ischemia. J Neurophysiol 2022; 128:118-130. [PMID: 35675445 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00024.2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Electrographic seizures and abnormal background activity in the neonatal electroencephalogram (EEG) may differentiate between harmful versus benign brain insults. Using two animal models of neonatal seizures, electrical activity was recorded in freely behaving rats and examined quantitatively during successive time periods with field-potential recordings obtained shortly after the brain insult (i.e., 0-4 days). Single-channel, differential recordings with miniature wireless telemetry were used to analyze spontaneous electrographic seizures and background suppression of electrical activity after 1) hypoxia-ischemia (HI), which is a model of neonatal encephalopathy that causes acute seizures and a large brain lesion with possible development of epilepsy, 2) hypoxia alone (Ha), which causes severe acute seizures without an obvious lesion or subsequent epilepsy, and 3) sham control rats. Background EEG exhibited increases in power as a function of age in control animals. Although background electrical activity was depressed in all frequency bands immediately after HI, suppression in the β and γ bands was greatest and lasted longest. Spontaneous electrographic seizures were recorded, but only in a few HI-treated animals. Ha-treated rat pups were similar to sham controls, they had no subsequent spontaneous electrographic seizures after the treatment and background suppression was only briefly observed in one frequency band. Thus, the normal age-dependent maturation of electrical activity patterns in control animals was significantly disrupted after HI. Suppression of the background EEG observed here after HI-induced acute seizures and subsequent brain injury may be a noninvasive biomarker for detecting severe brain injuries and may help predict subsequent epilepsy.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Biomarkers of neonatal brain injury are needed. Hypoxia-ischemia (HI) in immature rat pups caused severe brain injury, which was associated with strongly suppressed background EEG. The suppression was most robust in the β and γ bands; it started immediately after the HI injury and persisted for days. Thus, background suppression may be a noninvasive biomarker for detecting severe brain injuries and may help predict subsequent epilepsy.
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- A Zayachkivsky
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Fulton RE, Pearson-Smith JN, Huynh CQ, Fabisiak T, Liang LP, Aivazidis S, High BA, Buscaglia G, Corrigan T, Valdez R, Shimizu T, Patel MN. Neuron-specific mitochondrial oxidative stress results in epilepsy, glucose dysregulation and a striking astrocyte response. Neurobiol Dis 2021; 158:105470. [PMID: 34371143 PMCID: PMC8939287 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2021.105470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2021] [Accepted: 08/02/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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Mitochondrial superoxide (O2-) production is implicated in aging, neurodegenerative disease, and most recently epilepsy. Yet the specific contribution of neuronal O2- to these phenomena is unclear. Here, we selectively deleted superoxide dismutase-2 (SOD2) in neuronal basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor (NEX)-expressing cells restricting deletion to a subset of excitatory principle neurons primarily in the forebrain (cortex and hippocampus). This resulted in nSOD2 KO mice that lived into adulthood (2-3 months) with epilepsy, selective loss of neurons, metabolic rewiring and a marked mitohormetic gene response. Surprisingly, expression of an astrocytic gene, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) was significantly increased relative to WT. Further studies in rat primary neuron-glial cultures showed that increased mitochondrial O2-, specifically in neurons, was sufficient to upregulate GFAP. These results suggest that neuron-specific mitochondrial O2- is sufficient to drive a complex and catastrophic epileptic phenotype and highlights the ability of SOD2 to act in a cell-nonautonomous manner to influence an astrocytic response.
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- Ruth E Fulton
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Neuroscience Program, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Neuroscience Program, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Aging Stress Response Research Project Team, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu, Aichi 474-8511, Japan
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
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Weakened Effective Connectivity Related to Electroacupuncture in Stroke Patients with Prolonged Flaccid Paralysis: An EEG Pilot Study. Neural Plast 2021; 2021:6641506. [PMID: 33777135 PMCID: PMC7969113 DOI: 10.1155/2021/6641506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2020] [Revised: 02/03/2021] [Accepted: 02/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Flaccid paralysis in the upper extremity is a severe motor impairment after stroke, which exists for weeks, months, or even years. Electroacupuncture treatment is one of the most widely used TCM therapeutic interventions for poststroke flaccid paralysis. However, the response to electroacupuncture in different durations of flaccid stage poststroke as well as in the topological configuration of the cortical network remains unclear. The objectives of this study are to explore the disruption of the cortical network in patients in different durations of flaccid stage and observe dynamic network reorganization during and after electroacupuncture. Resting-state networks were constructed from 18 subjects with flaccid upper extremity by partial directed coherence (PDC) analysis of multichannel EEG. They were allocated to three groups according to time after flaccid paralysis: the short-duration group (those with flaccidity for less than two months), the medium-duration group (those with flaccidity between two months and six months), and the long-duration group (those with flaccidity over six months). Compared with short-duration flaccid subjects, weakened effective connectivity was presented in medium-duration and long-duration groups before electroacupuncture. The long-duration group has no response in the cortical network during electroacupuncture. The global network measures of EEG data (sPDC, mPDC, and N) indicated that there was no significant difference among the three groups. These results suggested that the network connectivity reduced and weakly responded to electroacupuncture in patients with flaccid paralysis for over six months. These findings may help us to modulate the formulation of electroacupuncture treatment according to different durations of the flaccid upper extremity.
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Tian F, Liu T, Xu G, Ghazi T, Sajjad A, Farrehi P, Wang MM, Borjigin J. Surge of corticocardiac coupling in SHRSP rats exposed to forebrain cerebral ischemia. J Neurophysiol 2019; 121:842-852. [PMID: 30625009 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00533.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Sudden death is an important but underrecognized consequence of stroke. Acute stroke can disturb central control of autonomic function and result in cardiac dysfunction and sudden death. Previous study showed that bilateral common carotid artery ligation (BCCAL) in the spontaneously hypertensive stroke-prone rat strain (SHRSP) is a well-established model for forebrain ischemic sudden death. This study aims to investigate the temporal dynamic changes in electrical activities of the brain and heart and functional interactions between the two vital organs following forebrain ischemia. EEG and ECG signals were simultaneously collected from nine SHRSP and eight Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats. RR interval was analyzed to investigate the cardiac response to brain ischemia. EEG power and coherence (CCoh) analysis were conducted to study the cortical response. Corticocardiac coherence (CCCoh) and directional connectivity (CCCon) were analyzed to determine brain-heart connection. Heart rate variability (HRV) was analyzed to evaluate autonomic functionality. BCCAL resulted in 100% mortality in SHRSP within 14 h, whereas no mortality was observed in WKY rats. The functionality of both the brain and the heart were significantly altered in SHRSP compared with WKY rats after BCCAL. SHRSP, but not WKY rats, exhibited intermittent surge of CCCoh, which paralleled the elevated CCCon and reduced HRV, following the onset of ischemia until sudden death. Elevated brain-heart coupling invariably associated with the disruption of the autonomic nervous system and the risk of sudden death. This study may improve our understanding of the mechanism of forebrain ischemia-induced sudden death. NEW & NOTEWORTHY This study demonstrates a marked surge of corticocardiac coupling in rats dying from focal cerebral ischemia, consistent with our earlier data in rats exposed to fatal asphyxia. Since the bidirectional electrical signal coupling (corticocardiac coherence) and communication (corticocardiac connectivity) between the brain and the heart are only identified in dying animals, they could be used as potential biomarkers to predict the risk of sudden death.
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- Fangyun Tian
- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Cardiovascular Center, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan.,Department of Internal Medicine-Cardiology, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan.,Department of Neurology, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan.,Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan.,Cardiovascular Center, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan.,Veterans Administration Ann Arbor Healthcare System , Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan.,Department of Neurology, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan.,Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan.,Cardiovascular Center, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan.,Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Choi SW, Lee DY, Nam KW. Estimation of the variations in mechanical impedance between the actuator and the chest, and the power delivered to the chest during cardiopulmonary resuscitation using machine-embedded sensors. Biomed Eng Online 2018; 17:84. [PMID: 29921283 PMCID: PMC6011195 DOI: 10.1186/s12938-018-0521-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2017] [Accepted: 06/14/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Background To reduce the risk of patient damage and complications during the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) process in emergency situations, it is necessary to monitor the status of the patient and the quality of CPR while CPR processing without additional bio-signal measurement devices. In this study, an algorithm is proposed to estimate the mechanical impedance (MI) between an actuator of the CPR machine and the chest of the patient, and to estimate the power delivered to the chest of the patient during the CPR process. Methods Two sensors for force and depth measurement were embedded into a custom-made CPR machine and the algorithm for MI and power estimation was implemented. The performance of the algorithm was evaluated by comparing the results from the kinetic model, the conventional discrete Fourier transform (DFT), and the proposed method. Results The estimations of the proposed method showed similar increasing/decreasing trends with the calculations from the kinetic model. In addition, the proposed method showed statistically equivalent performance in the MI estimation, and at the same time, showed statistically superior performance in the power estimation compared with the calculations from the conventional DFT. Furthermore, the MI and power estimation could be performed almost in real-time during the CPR process without excessive hands-off periods, and the intensity of random noise contained in the input signals did not seriously affect the MI and power estimations of the proposed method. Conclusion We expect that the proposed algorithm can reduce various CPR-related complications and improve patient safety.
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- Seong Wook Choi
- Program of Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, South Korea
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- Program of Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, South Korea
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- Division of Biomedical Engineering, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital, Yangsan, South Korea. .,Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Pusan National University, Yangsan, South Korea.
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