Ong Rebecca C S, Tang Alexander D
Experimental and Regenerative Neurosciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Sciences, Perth, Australia.
Sci Adv. 2025 Jan 10;11(2):eado6705. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.ado6705. Epub 2025 Jan 8.
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is commonly used to study the brain or as a treatment for neurological disorders, but the neural circuits and molecular mechanisms it affects remain unclear. To determine the molecular mechanisms of rTMS and the brain regions they occur in, we used spatial transcriptomics to map changes to gene expression across the mouse brain in response to two commonly used rTMS protocols. Our results revealed that rTMS alters the expression of genes related to several cellular processes and neural plasticity mechanisms across the brain, which was both brain region- and rTMS protocol-dependent. In the cortex, the effect of rTMS was dependent not only on the cortical region but also on each cortical layer. These findings uncover the diverse molecular mechanisms induced by rTMS, which will be useful in interpreting its effects on cortical and subcortical circuits.
重复经颅磁刺激(rTMS)通常用于研究大脑或作为治疗神经疾病的手段,但其影响的神经回路和分子机制仍不清楚。为了确定rTMS的分子机制及其发生的脑区,我们使用空间转录组学来绘制小鼠大脑中基因表达的变化,以响应两种常用的rTMS方案。我们的结果表明,rTMS会改变与大脑中几种细胞过程和神经可塑性机制相关的基因表达,这取决于脑区和rTMS方案。在皮质中,rTMS的作用不仅取决于皮质区域,还取决于每个皮质层。这些发现揭示了rTMS诱导的多种分子机制,这将有助于解释其对皮质和皮质下回路的影响。
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