发育中老鼠大脑皮层的功能连接
Functional Connectivity of the Developing Mouse Cortex.
机构信息
Department of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
出版信息
Cereb Cortex. 2022 Apr 5;32(8):1755-1768. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhab312.
Cross-sectional studies have established a variety of structural, synaptic, and cell physiological changes corresponding to critical periods in cortical development. However, the emergence of functional connectivity (FC) in development has not been fully characterized, and hemodynamic-based measures are vulnerable to any neurovascular coupling changes occurring in parallel. We therefore used optical fluorescence imaging to trace longitudinal calcium FC in the awake, resting-state mouse cortex at 5 developmental timepoints beginning at postnatal day 15 (P15) and ending in early adulthood at P60. Calcium FC displayed coherent functional maps as early as P15, and FC significantly varied in connections between many regions across development, with the developmental trajectory's shape specific to the functional region. Evaluating 325 seed-seed connections, we found that there was a significant increase in FC between P15 and P22 over the majority of the cortex as well as bilateral connectivity and node degree differences in frontal, motor, and retrosplenial cortices after P22. A rebalancing of inter- and intrahemispheric FC and local-distal FC dominance was also observed during development. This longitudinal developmental calcium FC study therefore provides a resource dataset to the field and identifies periods of dynamic change which cross-sectional studies may target for examination of disease states.
横断面研究已经确定了与皮质发育关键期相对应的多种结构、突触和细胞生理变化。然而,功能连接(FC)在发育中的出现尚未得到充分描述,基于血液动力学的测量方法容易受到同时发生的任何神经血管耦合变化的影响。因此,我们使用光学荧光成像技术,在清醒、静息状态下的小鼠皮层中,在 5 个发育时间点(从出生后第 15 天(P15)开始,到成年早期 P60 结束)进行了纵向钙 FC 的追踪。早在 P15 时,钙 FC 就显示出了连贯的功能图谱,并且在整个发育过程中,许多区域之间的 FC 变化显著,其发育轨迹的形状与功能区域特定。评估了 325 个种子-种子连接,我们发现,在 P15 和 P22 之间,大部分皮层的 FC 有显著增加,P22 之后,额叶、运动和后扣带回皮层的双侧连接和节点度差异也有所增加。在发育过程中,还观察到了半球间和半球内 FC 以及局部-远端 FC 优势的再平衡。因此,这项纵向发育钙 FC 研究为该领域提供了一个资源数据集,并确定了可能成为横断面研究检查疾病状态的动态变化时期。