Kang Kyung-Ku, Kim Young-In, Seo Min-Soo, Sung Soo-Eun, Choi Joo-Hee, Lee Sijoon, Jung Young-Suk, Cho Joon Young, Hwang Dae Youn, Park Sang-Joon, Kim Kil Soo
Laboratory Animal Center, Daegu-Gyeongbuk Medical Innovation Foundation, Daegu, Republic of Korea.
KPC Corporation, Gwangju, 12773 Korea.
Lab Anim Res. 2020 Oct 28;36:39. doi: 10.1186/s42826-020-00072-y. eCollection 2020.
The kainic acid-induced seizure mouse model is widely used in epilepsy research. In this study, we applied kainic acid to the subcutaneous injections of three different sources of DBA/2 mice to compare and evaluate the seizure response. The three mouse sources consisted of DBA/2Kor1 (Korea FDA source), DBA/2A (USA source), and DBA/2 (Japan source), and were purchased from different vendors. To compare the responses of DBA/2 mice to kainic acid injections, we examined the survival rate, seizure phenotype scoring, and behavioral changes. We also evaluated brain lesions using histopathological analysis. Following the administration of kainic acid, almost half of the cohort survived, and the seizure phenotype displayed a moderate level of sensitivity (2 ~ 4 out of 6). In the histopathologic analysis, there was no change in morphological features, and levels of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and ionized calcium binding adaptor molecule 1 (Iba-1) increased in the kainic acid-treated groups. However, there was no difference in the neuronal nuclei (NeuN) expression level. All the data showed that the responses in the kainic acid-treated group were similar across the three strains. In conclusion, our results suggest that the three sources of DBA/2 mice (DBA/2Kor1, DBA/2A, and DBA/2B) have similar pathological responses to kainic acid-induced seizures.
海藻酸诱导的癫痫小鼠模型广泛应用于癫痫研究。在本研究中,我们将海藻酸皮下注射到三种不同来源的DBA/2小鼠体内,以比较和评估癫痫反应。这三种小鼠来源分别为DBA/2Kor1(韩国食品药品监督管理局来源)、DBA/2A(美国来源)和DBA/2(日本来源),购自不同供应商。为了比较DBA/2小鼠对海藻酸注射的反应,我们检测了存活率、癫痫表型评分和行为变化。我们还使用组织病理学分析评估了脑损伤。注射海藻酸后,几乎一半的小鼠存活下来,癫痫表型显示出中等程度的敏感性(6分制中为2至4分)。在组织病理学分析中,形态学特征没有变化,海藻酸处理组中胶质纤维酸性蛋白(GFAP)和离子钙结合衔接分子1(Iba-1)的水平升高。然而,神经元细胞核(NeuN)表达水平没有差异。所有数据表明,海藻酸处理组中三种品系的反应相似。总之,我们的结果表明,三种来源的DBA/2小鼠(DBA/2Kor1、DBA/2A和DBA/2B)对海藻酸诱导的癫痫具有相似的病理反应。