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Carreira RJ, Shyti R, Balluff B, Abdelmoula WM, van Heiningen SH, van Zeijl RJ, Dijkstra J, Ferrari MD, Tolner EA, McDonnell LA, van den Maagdenberg AMJM. Large-scale mass spectrometry imaging investigation of consequences of cortical spreading depression in a transgenic mouse model of migraine. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 2015; 26:853-61. [PMID: 25877011 PMCID: PMC4422864 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-015-1136-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2014] [Revised: 03/10/2015] [Accepted: 03/10/2015] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
Abstract
Cortical spreading depression (CSD) is the electrophysiological correlate of migraine aura. Transgenic mice carrying the R192Q missense mutation in the Cacna1a gene, which in patients causes familial hemiplegic migraine type 1 (FHM1), exhibit increased propensity to CSD. Herein, mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) was applied for the first time to an animal cohort of transgenic and wild type mice to study the biomolecular changes following CSD in the brain. Ninety-six coronal brain sections from 32 mice were analyzed by MALDI-MSI. All MSI datasets were registered to the Allen Brain Atlas reference atlas of the mouse brain so that the molecular signatures of distinct brain regions could be compared. A number of metabolites and peptides showed substantial changes in the brain associated with CSD. Among those, different mass spectral features showed significant (t-test, P < 0.05) changes in the cortex, 146 and 377 Da, and in the thalamus, 1820 and 1834 Da, of the CSD-affected hemisphere of FHM1 R192Q mice. Our findings reveal CSD- and genotype-specific molecular changes in the brain of FHM1 transgenic mice that may further our understanding about the role of CSD in migraine pathophysiology. The results also demonstrate the utility of aligning MSI datasets to a common reference atlas for large-scale MSI investigations.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ricardo J. Carreira
- />Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics, Leiden University Medical Center, Einthovenweg 20, 2333 ZC Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Reinald Shyti
- />Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Benjamin Balluff
- />Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics, Leiden University Medical Center, Einthovenweg 20, 2333 ZC Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Walid M. Abdelmoula
- />Division of Image Processing, Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | | | - Rene J. van Zeijl
- />Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics, Leiden University Medical Center, Einthovenweg 20, 2333 ZC Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Jouke Dijkstra
- />Division of Image Processing, Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Michel D. Ferrari
- />Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Else A. Tolner
- />Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Liam A. McDonnell
- />Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics, Leiden University Medical Center, Einthovenweg 20, 2333 ZC Leiden, The Netherlands
- />Fondazione Pisana per la Scienza ONLUS, Pisa, Italy
| | - Arn M. J. M. van den Maagdenberg
- />Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- />Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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