Disruption of electroencephalogram coherence between cortex/striatum and midbrain dopaminergic regions in the knock-out mice with combined loss of alpha, beta, and gamma synucleins

Vorobyov, Vasily, Deev, Alexander, Chaprov, Kirill and Ninkina, Natalia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8570-5648 2024. Disruption of electroencephalogram coherence between cortex/striatum and midbrain dopaminergic regions in the knock-out mice with combined loss of alpha, beta, and gamma synucleins. Biomedicines 12 (4) , 881. 10.3390/biomedicines12040881

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Abstract

The malfunctioning of the brain synucleins is associated with pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease. Synucleins’ ability to modulate various pre-synaptic processes suggests their modifying effects on the electroencephalogram (EEG) recorded from different brain structures. Disturbances in interrelations between them are critical for the onset and evolution of neurodegenerative diseases. Recently, we have shown that, in mice lacking several synucleins, differences between the frequency spectra of EEG from different brain structures are correlated with specificity of synucleins’ combinations. Given that EEG spectra are indirect characteristics of inter-structural relations, in this study, we analyzed a coherence of instantaneous values for EEGs recorded from different structures as a direct measure of “functional connectivity” between them. Methods: EEG data from seven groups of knock-out (KO) mice with combined deletions of alpha, beta, and gamma synucleins versus a group of wild-type (WT) mice were compared. EEG coherence was estimated between the cortex (MC), putamen (Pt), ventral tegmental area (VTA), and substantia nigra (SN) in all combinations. Results: EEG coherence suppression, predominantly in the beta frequency band, was observed in KO mice versus WT littermates. The suppression was minimal in MC-Pt and VTA-SN interrelations in all KO groups and in all inter-structural relations in mice lacking either all synucleins or only beta synuclein. In other combinations of deleted synucleins, significant EEG coherence suppression in KO mice was dominant in relations with VTA and SN. Conclusion: Deletions of the synucleins produced significant attenuation of intra-cerebral EEG coherence depending on the imbalance of different types of synucleins.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences
Publisher:	MDPI
ISSN:	2227-9059
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	7 May 2024
Date of Acceptance:	10 April 2024
Last Modified:	08 May 2024 10:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/168739

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