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  • Title: Cholinergic sprouting in the rat fascia dentata after entorhinal lesion is not linked to early changes in neurotrophin messenger RNA expression.
    Author: Förster E, Naumann T, Deller T, Straube A, Nitsch R, Frotscher M.
    Journal: Neuroscience; 1997 Oct; 80(3):731-9. PubMed ID: 9276489.
    Abstract:
    After unilateral entorhinal cortex lesion cholinergic septohippocampal fibres sprout in the denervated fascia dentata. This process is dependent on neurotrophin changes following the lesion. Thus, there is an up-regulation of nerve growth factor and brain-derived neurotrophic factor messenger RNA expression in the denervated granule cells which is detectable 4 h postlesion and returns to control levels by 24 h. Here, using a competitive polymerase chain reaction and in situ hybridization, a transient neurotropin messenger RNA increase could be demonstrated bilaterally following unilateral electrolytic entorhinal cortex lesion. Treatment of the animals with the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist dizocilpine maleate blocked this messenger RNA increase, suggesting an involvement of this receptor type in the neurotrophin changes. However, in spite of this blockade, the typical cholinergic sprouting response as visualized with acetylcholinesterase histochemistry was present in animals four weeks after entorhinal cortex lesion. These data suggest that brief initial changes in neurotrophin messenger RNA expression in dentate granule cells are not responsible for the induction of the cholinergic sprouting. Changes in neurotrophin messenger RNA expression occurring immediately postlesion may be linked to glutamate release from entorhinal terminals resulting from the electrolytic lesion of the projection cells in the entorhinal cortex. We hypothesize that later changes in neurotrophin expression, for example in glial cells, are more likely to be related to the cholinergic sprouting process.
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