Early postnatal exposure to isoflurane causes cognitive deficits and disrupts development of newborn hippocampal neurons via activation of the mTOR pathway.
Early postnatal exposure to isoflurane causes cognitive deficits and disrupts development of newborn hippocampal neurons via activation of the mTOR pathway.
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10.1371/journal.pbio.2001246
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发表时间:
2017-07
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影响因子:
9.8
通讯作者:
Mintz CD
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Kang E;Jiang D;Ryu YK;Lim S;Kwak M;Gray CD;Xu M;Choi JH;Junn S;Kim J;Xu J;Schaefer M;Johns RA;Song H;Ming GL;Mintz CD
Clinical and preclinical studies indicate that early postnatal exposure to anesthetics can lead to lasting deficits in learning and other cognitive processes. The mechanism underlying this phenomenon has not been clarified and there is no treatment currently available. Recent evidence suggests that anesthetics might cause persistent deficits in cognitive function by disrupting key events in brain development. The hippocampus, a brain region that is critical for learning and memory, contains a large number of neurons that develop in the early postnatal period, which are thus vulnerable to perturbation by anesthetic exposure. Using an in vivo mouse model we demonstrate abnormal development of dendrite arbors and dendritic spines in newly generated dentate gyrus granule cell neurons of the hippocampus after a clinically relevant isoflurane anesthesia exposure conducted at an early postnatal age. Furthermore, we find that isoflurane causes a sustained increase in activity in the mechanistic target of rapamycin pathway, and that inhibition of this pathway with rapamycin not only reverses the observed changes in neuronal development, but also substantially improves performance on behavioral tasks of spatial learning and memory that are impaired by isoflurane exposure. We conclude that isoflurane disrupts the development of hippocampal neurons generated in the early postnatal period by activating a well-defined neurodevelopmental disease pathway and that this phenotype can be reversed by pharmacologic inhibition. The United States Food and Drug Administration has recently warned that exposure to anesthetic and sedative drugs during the third trimester of prenatal development and during the first 3 years of life may cause lasting impairments in cognitive function. The mechanisms by which this undesirable side effect occurs are unknown. In this manuscript, we present evidence in mice that early developmental exposure to isoflurane, a canonical general anesthetic, disrupts the appropriate development of neurons in the hippocampus, a brain region associated with learning and memory. Isoflurane also causes up-regulation of the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway, a signaling system that has been associated with other neurodevelopmental cognitive disorders. Treatment with an inhibitor of the mTOR pathway after isoflurane exposure normalizes neuronal development and also ameliorates the impairments in learning induced by isoflurane. We conclude that early exposure to isoflurane can cause learning deficits via actions on the mTOR pathway, and that this mechanism represents a potentially druggable target to minimize the side effects of anesthetics on the developing brain.
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DOI:
10.1016/s0140-6736(15)00608-x
发表时间:
2016-01-16
期刊:
Lancet (London, England)
影响因子:
--
作者:
Davidson AJ;Disma N;de Graaff JC;Withington DE;Dorris L;Bell G;Stargatt R;Bellinger DC;Schuster T;Arnup SJ;Hardy P;Hunt RW;Takagi MJ;Giribaldi G;Hartmann PL;Salvo I;Morton NS;von Ungern Sternberg BS;Locatelli BG;Wilton N;Lynn A;Thomas JJ;Polaner D;Bagshaw O;Szmuk P;Absalom AR;Frawley G;Berde C;Ormond GD;Marmor J;McCann ME;GAS consortium
通讯作者:
GAS consortium
影响因子:
16.6
作者:
Chen Q;Zhang H;Liu Y;Adams S;Eilken H;Stehling M;Corada M;Dejana E;Zhou B;Adams RH
通讯作者:
Adams RH
影响因子:
64.5
作者:
Duan, Xin;Chang, Jay H.;Song, Hongjun
通讯作者:
Song, Hongjun
影响因子:
8.8
作者:
Briner, Adrian;De Roo, Mathias;Vutskits, Laszlo
通讯作者:
Vutskits, Laszlo
影响因子:
3.7
作者:
DiMaggio C;Sun LS;Kakavouli A;Byrne MW;Li G
通讯作者:
Li G