Detection of Hyperexcitability by fMRI After Experimental Traumatic Brain Injury
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Huttunen, JK. Airaksinen, AM. Barba, C. Colicchio, G. Niskanen, JP. Shatillo, A. Sierra Lopez, A. Ndode-Ekane, XE. Pitkanen, A. Gröhn, O. (2018). Detection of Hyperexcitability by fMRI After Experimental Traumatic Brain Injury. JOURNAL OF NEUROTRAUMA (NEW YORK NY), 35 (22) , 2708-2717. 10.1089/neu.2017.5308.Rights
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Diagnosis of ongoing epileptogenesis and associated hyperexcitability after brain injury is a major challenge. Given that increased neuronal activity in the brain triggers a blood oxygenation level–dependent (BOLD) response in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we hypothesized that fMRI could be used to identify the brain area(s) with hyperexcitability during post-injury epileptogenesis. We applied fMRI to detect onset and spread of BOLD activation after pentylenetetrazol (PTZ)-induced seizures (PTZ, 30 mg/kg, intraperitoneally) in 16 adult male rats at 2 months after lateral fluid percussion (FPI)-induced traumatic brain injury (TBI). In sham-operated controls, onset of the PTZ-induced BOLD response was bilateral and first appeared in the cortex. After TBI, 5 of 9 (56%) rats exhibited ipsilateral perilesional cortical BOLD activation, followed by activation of the contralateral cortex. In 4 of 9 (44%) rats, onset of BOLD response was bilateral. Interestingly, latency from the PTZ injection to onset of the BOLD response increased in the following order: sham-operated controls (ipsilateral 132 ± 57 sec, contralateral 132 ± 57 sec; p > 0.05) < TBI with bilateral BOLD onset (ipsilateral 176 ± 54 sec, contralateral 178 ± 52 sec; p > 0.05) < TBI with ipsilateral BOLD onset (ipsilateral 406 ± 178 sec, contralateral 509 ± 140 sec; p < 0.05). Cortical lesion area did not differ between rats with ipsilateral versus bilateral BOLD onset (p > 0.05). In the group of rats with ipsilateral onset of PTZ-induced BOLD activation, none of the rats showed a robust bilateral thalamic BOLD response, only 1 of 5 rats had robust ipsilateral thalamic calcifications, and 4 of 5 rats had perilesional astrocytosis. These findings suggest the evolution of the epileptogenic zone in the perilesional cortex after TBI, which is sensitive to PTZ-induced hyperexcitability. Further studies are warranted to explore the evolution of thalamo-cortical pathology as a driver of epileptogenesis after lateral FPI.
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