2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The role of D-serine in epilepsy
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22700332
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Neuroscience in general
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| Research Institution | University of Toyama |
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Principal Investigator |
INOUE Ran 富山大学, 大学院・医学薬学研究部(医学), 助教 (70401817)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2011
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| Keywords | 分子 / 細胞神経科学 |
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| Research Abstract |
In this study, we examined the effect of D-serine deficiency on the seizures induced by a single injection of pentylenetetrazole(PTZ) using SR knockout(KO) mice. We found that, compared with wild-type(WT) mice, SR-KO mice showed the attenuation of seizure expression in terms of a significantly shortened duration of generalized seizures and resistance to generalized clonic-tonic seizures. Consistently, immunohistochemical analysis of c-Fos demonstrated that the level of c-Fos labeling induced by high-dose PTZ in the cerebral cortex, hippocampal CA1, hippocampal CA3, and the basolateral nucleus of the amygdala in WT mice was significantly higher than that in SR-KO mice. Moreover, PTZ induced an increase in extracellular glutamate level in the dentate gyrus of WT mice at two different time phases. However, such a PTZ-induced increase in glutamate level was completely inhibited in SR-KO mice. The present findings suggest that SR may be a target for the development of new therapeutic strategies for epileptic seizures.
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