Changes in GABA-immunoreactive cell density during motor focal epilepsy induced by cobalt in the rat

Experimental Brain Research
M Esclapez, S Trottier

Abstract

The distribution of GABA-immunoreactive cell bodies and terminals was studied using an anti-GABA serum during the development of chronic focal epilepsy induced by cobalt deposits onto the motor cortex of the rat. Cell counts of GABA-positive neurons were carried out in the epileptogenic area and correlated with the electrophysiological activity of the cobalt focus. In normal control rats, we identified GABA-immunoreactive somata and processes in the motor agranular cortex; they were multipolar or bipolar but never pyramidal and were present in all layers, especially in layer II. GABA-immunoreactive terminals were widely scattered in the neuropil and surrounded the unlabelled cell bodies. In the cobalt-treated animals, changes in the GABAergic innervation were observed during the development of the epileptic focus: decreases in the GABA-positive cell density and in the number of GABA-positive terminals were present before the onset of epileptic discharges and became more marked during the period of maximal spiking activity; a progressive return to normal values of GABA-positive cell density (except in the deep layers) as well as the reappearance of GABA positive terminals were associated with the extinction of the epileptic synd...Continue Reading

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