Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, 6500 HB Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud University Medical Center, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, 6500 HB Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Stem Cell Reports. 2023 Nov 14;18(11):2222-2239. doi: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2023.09.011. Epub 2023 Oct 19.
Mechanisms that underlie homeostatic plasticity have been extensively investigated at single-cell levels in animal models, but are less well understood at the network level. Here, we used microelectrode arrays to characterize neuronal networks following induction of homeostatic plasticity in human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-derived glutamatergic neurons co-cultured with rat astrocytes. Chronic suppression of neuronal activity through tetrodotoxin (TTX) elicited a time-dependent network re-arrangement. Increased expression of AMPA receptors and the elongation of axon initial segments were associated with increased network excitability following TTX treatment. Transcriptomic profiling of TTX-treated neurons revealed up-regulated genes related to extracellular matrix organization, while down-regulated genes related to cell communication; also astrocytic gene expression was found altered. Overall, our study shows that hiPSC-derived neuronal networks provide a reliable in vitro platform to measure and characterize homeostatic plasticity at network and single-cell levels; this platform can be extended to investigate altered homeostatic plasticity in brain disorders.
在动物模型中,已经在单细胞水平上广泛研究了维持内稳态的可塑性的机制,但在网络水平上的理解还较少。在这里,我们使用微电极阵列来描述人诱导多能干细胞 (hiPSC) 衍生的谷氨酸能神经元与大鼠星形胶质细胞共培养后,诱导内稳态可塑性后的神经元网络。通过使用河豚毒素 (TTX) 慢性抑制神经元活动会引发时间依赖性的网络重新排列。TTX 处理后,AMPA 受体表达增加和轴突起始段延长与网络兴奋性增加有关。TTX 处理神经元的转录组谱分析显示,与细胞外基质组织相关的上调基因,而与细胞通讯相关的下调基因;同时发现星形胶质细胞的基因表达也发生了改变。总的来说,我们的研究表明,hiPSC 衍生的神经元网络为在网络和单细胞水平上测量和描述内稳态可塑性提供了一个可靠的体外平台;该平台可以扩展到研究脑疾病中改变的内稳态可塑性。
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