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Acute rapamycin rescues the hyperexcitable phenotype of accumbal medium spiny neurons in the valproic acid rat model of autism spectrum disorder


ABSTRACT: The aim of the study was to investigate the involvement of the mTOR pathway in the autism spectrum disorder. Adolescent male rats, prenatally exposed to valproic acid (500 mg/kg ip on gestational day 12.5), were treated with the mTOR inhibitor rapamycin (10 mg/kg, ip, two consecutive days starting at postnatal day 35). Transcriptomic analysis was performed on the ventral portion of coronal sections, containing the striatum. Behavioral experiments, the electrophysiology on striatal slices, a morphological analysis by confocal microscopy and the determination synaptic proteins expression in the nucleus accumbens were also performed.

ORGANISM(S): Rattus norvegicus

SUBMITTER: Luceri Cristina 

PROVIDER: E-MTAB-12056 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Acute rapamycin rescues the hyperexcitable phenotype of accumbal medium spiny neurons in the valproic acid rat model of autism spectrum disorder.

Iezzi D D   Curti L L   Ranieri G G   Gerace E E   Costa A A   Ilari A A   La Rocca A A   Luceri C C   D'Ambrosio M M   Silvestri L L   Scardigli M M   Mannaioni G G   Masi A A  

Pharmacological research 20220817


We previously demonstrated that prenatal exposure to valproic acid (VPA), an environmental model of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), leads to a hyperexcitable phenotype associated with downregulation of inward-rectifying potassium currents in nucleus accumbens (NAc) medium spiny neurons (MSNs) of adolescent rats. Aberrant mTOR pathway function has been associated with autistic-like phenotypes in multiple animal models, including gestational exposure to VPA. The purpose of this work was to probe t  ...[more]

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