PMID- 23911794 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20140620 LR - 20171225 IS - 1095-9327 (Electronic) IS - 1044-7431 (Linking) VI - 56 DP - 2013 Sep TI - Regular treadmill exercise prevents sleep deprivation-induced disruption of synaptic plasticity and associated signaling cascade in the dentate gyrus. PG - 375-83 LID - S1044-7431(13)00077-8 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.mcn.2013.07.011 [doi] AB - STUDY OBJECTIVES: Evidence suggests that regular exercise can protect against learning and memory impairment in the presence of insults such as sleep deprivation. The dentate gyrus (DG) area of the hippocampus is a key staging area for learning and memory processes and is particularly sensitive to sleep deprivation. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of regular exercise on early-phase long-term potentiation (E-LTP) and its signaling cascade in the presence of sleep deprivation. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: Rats were exposed to 4 weeks of regular treadmill exercise then subsequently sleep-deprived for 24h using the modified multiple platform model before experimentation. We tested the effects of exercise and/or sleep deprivation using electrophysiological recording in the DG to measure synaptic plasticity; and Western blot analysis to quantify the levels of key signaling proteins related to E-LTP. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS: Regular exercise prevented the sleep deprivation-induced impairment of E-LTP in the DG area as well as the sleep deprivation-associated decrease in basal protein levels of phosphorylated and total alpha calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (P/total-CaMKII) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). High frequency stimulation (HFS) to the DG area was used to model learning stimuli and increased the P-CaMKII and BDNF levels in normal animals: yet failed to change these levels in sleep-deprived rats. However, HFS in control and sleep-deprived rats increased the levels of the phosphatase calcineurin. In contrast, exercise increased BDNF and P-CaMKII levels in exercised/sleep-deprived rats. CONCLUSIONS: Regular exercise appears to exert a protective effect against sleep deprivation-induced spatial memory impairment by inducing hippocampal signaling cascades that positively modulate basal and stimulated levels of key effectors such as P-CaMKII and BDNF, while attenuating increases in the protein phosphatase calcineurin. CI - (c) 2013. FAU - Zagaar, Munder AU - Zagaar M AD - Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Houston, TX, USA. FAU - Dao, An AU - Dao A FAU - Alhaider, Ibrahim AU - Alhaider I FAU - Alkadhi, Karim AU - Alkadhi K LA - eng GR - R15 103327/PHS HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20130730 PL - United States TA - Mol Cell Neurosci JT - Molecular and cellular neurosciences JID - 9100095 RN - 0 (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor) RN - EC 2.7.11.17 (Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 2) SB - IM EIN - Mol Cell Neurosci. 2017 Dec 22;:. PMID: 29276073 MH - Animals MH - Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor/genetics/metabolism MH - Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 2/genetics/metabolism MH - Dentate Gyrus/metabolism/*physiopathology MH - *Long-Term Potentiation MH - Male MH - *Physical Exertion MH - Rats MH - Rats, Wistar MH - Signal Transduction MH - Sleep Deprivation/metabolism/*physiopathology OTO - NOTNLM OT - BDNF OT - CaMKII OT - Calcineurin OT - Forced exercise OT - LTP OT - Sleep deprivation EDAT- 2013/08/06 06:00 MHDA- 2014/06/21 06:00 CRDT- 2013/08/06 06:00 PHST- 2013/04/23 00:00 [received] PHST- 2013/07/05 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2013/07/24 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2013/08/06 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/08/06 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/06/21 06:00 [medline] AID - S1044-7431(13)00077-8 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.mcn.2013.07.011 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Mol Cell Neurosci. 2013 Sep;56:375-83. doi: 10.1016/j.mcn.2013.07.011. Epub 2013 Jul 30.