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Chronic inhibition of NOS does not prevent plasticity of rat somatosensory (S1) cortex following deafferentation.

Abstract：

:Nitric oxide (NO) has been proposed as an intercellular messenger mediating postsynaptic to presynaptic information transfer in the induction of long-term potentiation. A number of studies support the possible involvement of NO in synaptic plasticity. NO may have a role in synaptogenesis and synaptic plasticity in developing rat brain and may play a fundamental part in the process of regeneration, plasticity, and retargeting of axons following injury. We examined the possible role of NO on plasticity in the rat first somatosensory cortex with [14C]2-deoxyglucose (2-DG) autoradiography in rats treated daily with l-nitroarginine (l-NA) following neonatal unilateral vibrissae deafferentation. After 6 weeks of l-NA treatment, the local cerebral glucose utilization (LCGU) and the spatial extent of the metabolic activation following stimulation of the spared whisker was measured. NOS catalytic activity exhibited significant inhibition throughout the treatment period. Vibrissae deafferentation produced a small but not statistically significant increase of LCGU in the vibrissa activated C3 barrel, and l-NA treatment did not alter the activation of LCGU in the deafferented cortex following whisker stimulation. Additionally, l-NA treatment did not alter the area of metabolic activation on either the non-deafferented side or the deafferented side. Deafferentation produced a 298% increase in the metabolic representation of the spared C3 barrel following stimulation in the saline treated animals, a 257% increase in the chronically l-NA treated animals, and a 256% increase in the short-term treated animals, all with respect to the response in the non-deafferented cortex. Metabolic plasticity in the barrel cortex was not attenuated by l-NA treatment. These results show that nitric oxide does not play a major role on developmental cortical plasticity induced by vibrissae deafferentation in the rat.

journal_name

Brain Res

journal_title

Brain research

authors

Won Sohn N,Greenberg JH,Hand PJ

doi

10.1016/s0006-8993(98)01161-5

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1999-01-23 00:00:00

pages

396-404

issue

eissn

0006-8993

issn

1872-6240

pii

S0006-8993(98)01161-5

journal_volume

816

pub_type

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Chronic inhibition of NOS does not prevent plasticity of rat somatosensory (S1) cortex following deafferentation.