Glucose Can Epigenetically Alter the Gene Expression of Neurotrophic Factors in the Murine Brain Cells

Molecular Neurobiology
Md Shamim HossainToshihiko Katafuchi

Abstract

Glucose is believed to improve the memory in both human and mice, but the detailed insights were mostly elusive. In this study, we focused on two major neurotrophic factors, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and fibroblast growth factor 1 (FGF1), which are believed to be associated with the memory enhancement and assessed their expressional regulation among the murine neuronal and glial cells. Our findings showed that the glucose administration increased phosphorylated Akt, phosphorylated CREB, exon 1- and exon 4-specific BDNF transcripts, and FGF1 transcripts that are associated with the epigenetic changes expected to open the chromatin and a reduction in histone deacetylase 2 (HDAC2) in neurons and astrocytes of the murine hippocampus. The glucose administration enhanced the long-term potentiation and the number of dendritic spines in the CA1 and CA3 subfields of hippocampus. The intrahippocampal injection of short hairpin RNA against TrkB canceled the glucose-mediated memory enhancement. Like the glucose, we also report that the HDAC inhibitor can enhance the memory through the BDNF-TrkB pathway but it targeted different brain cell populations to enhance the BDNF and FGF1 transcripts. In addition, the soluble FGF1 tre...Continue Reading

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Oct 16, 2018·Frontiers in Physiology·Alessandra RenziniSergio Adamo
Mar 1, 2020·Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews·Md Shamim HossainKoichi Akashi

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BETA
acetylation
immunoprecipitation
histone acetylation
PCR
Fluorescence
transfection
ChIP

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