A Causal Role for Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor in the Homeostatic Regulation of Sleep

Faraguna, Ugo; Vyazovskiy, Vladyslav V.; Nelson, Aaron; Tononi, Giulio; Cirelli, Chiara

doi:10.1523/jneurosci.5510-07.2008

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“…We have posited that activity within cortical column neuronal circuits increases production of cytokines and neurotrophic growth factors and these factors in turn initiate localized state changes . Recently Faraguna et al (2008) demonstrated that a unilateral microinjection of BDNF into the cortex increases slow wave activity locally, which supports this hypothesis.…”

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Cytokine mRNA induction by interleukin-1β or tumor necrosis factor α in vitro and in vivo

Taishi

Churchill

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Brain Research

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Hypothalamic and cortical mRNA levels for cytokines such as interleukin-1α (IL1α), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα), nerve growth factor (NGF) and brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) are impacted by systemic treatments of IL1β and TNFα To investigate the time course of the effects of IL1β and TNFα on hypothalamic and cortical cytokine gene expression, we measured mRNA levels for IL1β, TNFα, interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-10 (IL-10), IL1 receptor 1, BDNF, NGF, and glutamate decarboxylase-67 in vitro using hypothalamic and cortical primary cultures. IL1β and TNFα mRNA levels increased significantly in a dose-dependent fashion after exposure to either IL1β or TNFα. IL1β increased IL1β mRNA in both the hypothalamic and cortical cultures after 2-6 h while TNFα mRNA increased significantly within 30 min and continued to rise up to 2-6 h. Most of the other mRNAs showed significant changes independent of dose in vitro. In vivo, intracerebroventricular (icv) injection of IL1β or TNFα also significantly increased IL1β, TNFα and IL6 mRNA levels in the hypothalamus and cortex. IL1β icv, but not TNFα increased NGF mRNA levels in both these areas. Results support the hypothesis that centrally active doses of IL1β and TNFα enhance their own mRNA levels as well as affect mRNA levels for other neuronal growth factors.

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Cytokine mRNA induction by interleukin-1β or tumor necrosis factor α in vitro and in vivo

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Churchill

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Brain Research

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“…It may, thus, contain a major gene contributing to sleep-wake regulation. TrkB is the high-affinity receptor for brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) (Luikart and Parada, 2006), and recent findings in rats suggest that BDNF secretion is causally related to sleep homeostasis (Faraguna et al, 2008;Huber et al, 2007).…”

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Genetic determination of sleep EEG profiles in healthy humans

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2011

Progress in Brain Research

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The contribution of slow brain oscillations including delta, theta, alpha, and sigma frequencies to the sleep electroencephalography (EEG) is finely regulated by circadian and homeostatic influences, and reflects functional aspects of wakefulness and sleep. Accumulating evidence demonstrates that individual sleep EEG patterns in non-rapid-eye-movement (NREM) sleep and rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep are heritable traits. More specifically, multiple recordings in the same individuals, as well as studies in monozygotic and dizygotic twins suggest that a very high percentage of the robust interindividual variation and the high intraindividual stability of sleep EEG profiles can be explained by genetic factors (> 90% in distinct frequency bands). Still little is known about which genes contribute to different sleep EEG phenotypes in healthy humans. The genetic variations that have been identified to date include functional polymorphisms of the clock gene PER3 and of genes contributing to signal transduction pathways involving adenosine (ADA, ADORA2A), brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), dopamine (COMT), and prion protein (PRNP). Some of these polymorphisms profoundly modulate sleep EEG profiles; their effects are reviewed here. It is concluded that the search for genetic contributions to slow sleep EEG oscillations constitutes a promising avenue to identify molecular mechanisms underlying sleep-wake regulation in humans.

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“…5,6 Moreover, in rats and humans, procedures presumably leading to synaptic potentiation or depression result in SWA increases and decreases, respectively. [7][8][9][10][11][12] More specifically, a study in humans using highdensity EEG found that performing a visuomotor learning task produced a local increase in SWA during subsequent sleep. 7 The increase was restricted to the right parietal cortical areas presumably modified by learning.…”

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Effects of Skilled Training on Sleep Slow Wave Activity and Cortical Gene Expression in the Rat

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Faraguna

Vyazovskiy

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SO FAR. IN MAMMALS, THE BEST CHARACTERIZED marker of sleep homeostasis is slow wave activity (SWA), the power density in the electroencephalogram (EEG) between 0.5 and 4 Hz during NREM sleep. SWA is high at sleep onset and declines during sleep, suggesting that it may reflect the accumulation of sleep pressure as a function of duration and/or intensity of prior waking. 1,2 Why and how SWA should reflect sleep homeostasis, however, is still unclear.We hypothesized that SWA is high at sleep onset because it reflects the occurrence, during waking, of widespread synaptic potentiation in cortical and subcortical areas. 3,4 This increase would be detrimental in the long term, because stronger synapses need more energy, space, and cellular supplies, and may lead to saturation of the ability to learn. Sleep would thus be crucial to renormalize synaptic strength to an energetically sustainable level. Molecular and electrophysiological markers of synaptic potentiation increase after waking in rat cortex and hippocampus, while markers of synaptic depression do so after sleep. 5,6 Moreover, in rats and humans, procedures presumably leading to synaptic potentiation or depression result in SWA increases and decreases, respectively. 7-12 More specifically, a study in humans using highdensity EEG found that performing a visuomotor learning task produced a local increase in SWA during subsequent sleep. 7 The increase was restricted to the right parietal cortical areas presumably modified by learning. 13 Moreover, it was specific for NREM sleep, reversible within the first 90 minutes of sleep, and correlated with the improvement in performance after sleep. 7 However, there is no direct evidence that the motor adaptation task used in that study activates neurons in parietal cortex, nor that it causes synaptic potentiation specifically in that region.Previous studies have suggested that activity-dependent genes activated during a specific waking experience may be reactivated during sleep, perhaps to potentiate the same synapses previously engaged during waking. 14 Ribeiro and colleagues found that the exposure to a new environment for 3 hours 15 results in the immediate cortical and hippocampal induction, during waking, of plasticity-related gene zif-268, 16 followed by its downregulation during NREM sleep, and then again by its increased expression during REM sleep (relative to NREM sleep). Intriguingly ~ 3 min of NREM sleep were enough to downregulate waking-induced zif-268 expression, and ~ 2 min of REM sleep were sufficient to detect its selective reinduction, even if both NREM and REM rats were awake during the last 30 min before sacrifice. Another study 17 recently found, using fluorescent in situ hybridization, that the number of hippocampal CA1 neurons showing induction of Arc and/or Homer1a was similar during "rest" periods before and after the exploration of a new environment. However, more cells were active during both exploration and post-task rest than during exploration and pre-task rest. Based on these findings, it h...

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A Causal Role for Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor in the Homeostatic Regulation of Sleep

Cited by 253 publications

References 50 publications

Cytokine mRNA induction by interleukin-1β or tumor necrosis factor α in vitro and in vivo

Cytokine mRNA induction by interleukin-1β or tumor necrosis factor α in vitro and in vivo

Genetic determination of sleep EEG profiles in healthy humans

Effects of Skilled Training on Sleep Slow Wave Activity and Cortical Gene Expression in the Rat

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