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The Journal of Neuroscience, November 15, 1999, 19(22):10053-10064

Assessment of Inhibition and Epileptiform Activity in the Septal Dentate Gyrus of Freely Behaving Rats During the First Week After Kainate Treatment

Jennifer L. Hellier, Peter R. Patrylo, Ping Dou, Michelle Nett, Gregory M. Rose, and F. Edward Dudek

Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523

Mossy fiber reorganization has been hypothesized to restore inhibition months after kainate-induced status epilepticus. The time course of recovery of inhibition after kainate treatment, however, is not well established. We tested the hypothesis that if inhibition is decreased after kainate treatment, it is restored within the first week when little or no mossy fiber reorganization has occurred. Chronic in vivo recordings of the septal dentate gyrus were performed in rats before and 1, 4, and 7-8 d after kainate (multiple injections of 5 mg/kg, i.p.; n = 17) or saline (n = 11) treatment. Single and paired-pulse stimuli were used to assess synaptic inhibition. The first day after kainate treatment, only a fraction of rats showed multiple population spikes (35%), prolonged field postsynaptic potentials (76%), and loss of paired-pulse inhibition (29%) to perforant path stimulation. Thus, inhibition was reduced in only some of the kainate-treated rats. By 7-8 d after treatment, nearly all kainate-treated rats showed partial or full recovery in these response characteristics. Histological analysis indicated that kainate-treated rats had a significant decrease in the number of hilar neurons compared to controls, but Timm staining showed little to no mossy fiber reorganization. These results suggest that a decrease in synaptic inhibition in the septal dentate gyrus is not a prerequisite for epileptogenesis and that most of the recovery of inhibition occurs before robust Timm staining in the inner molecular layer.

Key words: freely behaving; in vivo; epilepsy; seizure; kainic acid; hippocampus; mossy fiber reorganization; neuronal loss

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