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Volume 17, Number 6, Issue of March 15, 1997 pp. 2168-2180
Copyright ©1997 Society for Neuroscience

Differential and Time-Dependent Changes in Gene Expression for Type II Calcium/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase, 67 kDa Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase, and Glutamate Receptor Subunits in Tetanus Toxin-Induced Focal Epilepsy

Received Oct. 21, 1996; accepted Dec. 20, 1996.

Fengyi Liang and Edward G. Jones

Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine, California 92697

To study potential molecular mechanisms of epileptogenesis in the neocortex, the motor cortex of rats was injected with tetanus toxin (TT), and gene expression for 67 kDa glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD-67), type II calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CaMKII), NMDA receptor subunit 1 (NR1), and AMPA receptor subunit 2 (GluR2) was investigated by in situ hybridization histochemistry. Injections of 20-35 ng TT induced recurrent seizures after a postoperative period ranging from 4 to 13 d. A majority of rats perfused 5-7 d after TT injection showed altered gene expression, but the changes varied in their areal extent, ranging from most neocortical areas on the injected side in some rats to mainly the frontoparietal cortex or the motor cortex in others. Epileptic rats perfused 14 d after TT injection showed a focus of increased GAD-67 and NR1, and of decreased -CaMKII and GluR2 mRNA levels at the injection site. A zone of cortex surrounding the focus showed changes in -CaMKII, GAD-67, and NR1 mRNA levels that were reciprocal to those in the focus. The results suggest that TT-induced seizure activity initially spread to a variable extent but was gradually restricted 2-3 d after seizure onset. The focus and the surround showing reciprocal changes in gene expression are thought to correspond to the electrophysiologically identified epileptic focus and inhibitory surround, respectively. The findings suggest that lateral inhibition between neighboring cortical regions will be affected and contribute to a neurochemical segregation of an epileptic focus from surrounding cortex.

Key words: epilepsy; motor cortex; rat; NMDA receptor; AMPA; -aminobutyric acid; protein kinase; inhibition

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