Behavioral and neuroplastic effects of focal endothelin-1 induced sensorimotor cortex lesions

Neuroscience
DeAnna L AdkinsTheresa A Jones

Abstract

Previous studies have established the usefulness of endothelin-1 (ET-1) for the production of focal cerebral ischemia. The present study assessed the behavioral effects of focal ET-1-induced lesions of the sensorimotor cortex (SMC) in adult rats as well as cellular and structural changes in the contralateral homotopic motor cortex at early (2 days) and later (14 days) post-lesion time points. ET-1 lesions resulted in somatosensory and postural-motor impairments in the contralateral (to the lesion) forelimb as assessed on a battery of sensitive measures of sensorimotor function. The lesions also resulted in the development of a hyper-reliance on the ipsilateral forelimb for postural-support behaviors. In comparison to sham-operated rats, in layer V of the motor cortex opposite the lesions, there were time- and laminar-dependent increases in the surface density of dendritic processes immunoreactive for microtubule-associated protein 2, in the optical density of N-methyl-D-asparate receptor (NMDA) subunit 1 immunoreactivity, and in the numerical density of cells immunolabeled for Fos, the protein product of the immediate early gene c-fos. These findings corroborate and extend previous findings of the effects of electrolytic lesion...Continue Reading

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