Region-Specific Vulnerability of the Amygdala to Injury-Induced Spreading Depolarization

Overview

Journal Biomedicines

Specialty Biomedical Engineering

Date 2022 Sep 23

PMID 36140284

Authors

Mariia P Smirnova

Tatiana M Medvedeva

Irina V Pavlova

Lyudmila V Vinogradova

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Abstract

Spreading depolarization (SD), a self-propagated wave of transient depolarization, regularly occurs in the cortex after acute brain insults and is now referred as an important diagnostic and therapeutic target in patients with acute brain injury. Here, we show that the amygdala, the limbic structure responsible for post-injury neuropsychological symptoms, exhibits strong regional heterogeneity in vulnerability to SD with high susceptibility of its basolateral (BLA) region and resilience of its centromedial (CMA) region to triggering SD by acute focal damage. The BLA micro-injury elicited SD twice as often compared with identical injury of the CMA region (71% vs. 33%). Spatiotemporal features of SDs triggered in the amygdala indicated diverse patterns of the SD propagation to the cortex. Our results suggest that even relatively small cerebral structures can exhibit regional gradients in their susceptibility to SD and the heterogeneity may contribute to the generation of complex SD patterns in the injured brain.

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