Cortical activity emerges in region-specific patterns during early brain development.

Autor:	Suárez R; The University of Queensland, Queensland Brain Institute; Brisbane, Australia.; The University of Queensland, School of Biomedical Sciences; Brisbane, Australia., Bluett T; The University of Queensland, Queensland Brain Institute; Brisbane, Australia., McCullough MH; The University of Queensland, Queensland Brain Institute; Brisbane, Australia., Avitan L; The University of Queensland, Queensland Brain Institute; Brisbane, Australia., Black DA; The University of Queensland, Queensland Brain Institute; Brisbane, Australia.; The University of Queensland, School of Biomedical Sciences; Brisbane, Australia., Paolino A; The University of Queensland, Queensland Brain Institute; Brisbane, Australia.; The University of Queensland, School of Biomedical Sciences; Brisbane, Australia., Fenlon LR; The University of Queensland, Queensland Brain Institute; Brisbane, Australia.; The University of Queensland, School of Biomedical Sciences; Brisbane, Australia., Goodhill GJ; The University of Queensland, Queensland Brain Institute; Brisbane, Australia.; The University of Queensland, School of Mathematics and Physics; Brisbane, Australia., Richards LJ; The University of Queensland, Queensland Brain Institute; Brisbane, Australia.; The University of Queensland, School of Biomedical Sciences; Brisbane, Australia.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	BioRxiv : the preprint server for biology [bioRxiv] 2023 Apr 08. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Apr 08.
DOI:	10.1101/2023.02.18.529078
Abstrakt:	The development of precise neural circuits in the brain requires spontaneous patterns of neural activity prior to functional maturation. In the rodent cerebral cortex patchwork and wave patterns of activity develop in somatosensory and visual regions, respectively, and are present at birth. However, whether such activity patterns occur in non-eutherian mammals, as well as when and how they arise during development remain open questions relevant to understand brain formation in health and disease. Since the onset of patterned cortical activity is challenging to study prenatally in eutherians, here we offer a new approach in a minimally invasive manner using marsupial dunnarts, whose cortex forms postnatally. We discovered similar patchwork and travelling waves in the dunnart somatosensory and visual cortices at stage 27 (equivalent to newborn mice), and examined progressively earlier stages of development to determine their onset and how they first emerge. We observed that these patterns of activity emerge in a region-specific and sequential manner, becoming evident as early as stage 24 in somatosensory and stage 25 in visual cortices (equivalent to embryonic day 16 and 17, respectively, in mice), as cortical layers establish and thalamic axons innervate the cortex. In addition to sculpting synaptic connections of existing circuits, evolutionarily conserved patterns of neural activity could therefore help regulate early events in cortical development. Significance Statement: Region-specific patterns of neural activity are present at birth in rodents and are thought to refine synaptic connections during critical periods of cerebral cortex development. Marsupials are born much more immature than rodents, allowing the investigation of how these patterns arise in vivo. We discovered that cortical activity patterns are remarkably similar in marsupial dunnarts and rodents, and that they emerge very early, before cortical neurogenesis is complete. Moreover, they arise from the outset in different patterns specific to somatosensory and visual areas (i.e., patchworks and waves) indicating they may also play evolutionarily conserved roles in cortical regionalization during development.
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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