PMID- 28890399 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180611 LR - 20200930 IS - 1872-7972 (Electronic) IS - 0304-3940 (Linking) VI - 660 DP - 2017 Nov 1 TI - Activated brain-derived neurotrophic factor/TrkB signaling in rat dorsal and ventral hippocampi following 10-day electroconvulsive seizure treatment. PG - 45-50 LID - S0304-3940(17)30745-0 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.neulet.2017.09.011 [doi] AB - Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is still the most effective strategy to treat severe and drug-resistant depressive disorders. Electroconvulsive seizure (ECS), which induces neuroplastic structural alterations and resilient behavioral changes in experimental animals, is the model of the ECT for human depression. ECT is typically administered three times per week for up to 4 weeks, while ECS treatments are administered daily for 10days. The increased expression of hippocampal brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) induced by antidepressive ECS treatment in experimental animals has been well documented. BDNF executes various neuroplastic functions by phosphorylating its high-affinity receptor, full-length TrkB, which has an intrinsic tyrosine kinase domain. However, the exact activation of BDNF/TrkB signaling following multiple ECS treatments has not been well elucidated. In epileptogenesis, conflicting effects of BDNF have been reported; while acute BDNF administration enhanced neuronal hyperexcitability and induced epileptiform activities, continuous BDNF infusion inhibited epileptogenesis. These conflicting results have been attributed to agonist-induced adaptive response of expressional down-regulation of the BDNF receptor. In the present study, using western blotting, we demonstrated increased phosphorylation as well as decreased expression of the full-length TrkB receptor (145kD) in both dorsal and ventral hippocampal regions of rats after a 10-day ECS treatment. The expression of mature BDNF (14kD) was up-regulated while that of proBDNF (32kD) remained unaltered in both hippocampal regions after the ECS treatment. Our results indicate that the hippocampal BDNF/TrkB signaling pathway is activated by multiple ECS treatments despite the ligand-induced down-regulation of the full-length TrkB receptor. CI - Copyright (c) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Enomoto, Shingo AU - Enomoto S AD - Department of Psychiatry, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan. FAU - Shimizu, Kunio AU - Shimizu K AD - Division of Behavioral Sciences, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan. FAU - Nibuya, Masashi AU - Nibuya M AD - Department of Psychiatry, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. Electronic address: nibrin@hosp.tohoku-mpu.ac.jp. FAU - Suzuki, Eiji AU - Suzuki E AD - Department of Psychiatry, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. FAU - Nagata, Kiyoshi AU - Nagata K AD - Department of Environmental and Health Science, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. FAU - Kondo, Takashi AU - Kondo T AD - Department of Chest Surgery, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20170907 PL - Ireland TA - Neurosci Lett JT - Neuroscience letters JID - 7600130 RN - 0 (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor) RN - EC 2.7.10.1 (Ntrk2 protein, rat) RN - EC 2.7.10.1 (Receptor, trkB) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor/*metabolism MH - Electroconvulsive Therapy MH - *Electroshock MH - Hippocampus/*metabolism MH - Male MH - Rats, Sprague-Dawley MH - Receptor, trkB/*metabolism MH - *Seizures MH - Signal Transduction OTO - NOTNLM OT - Agonist-induced receptor down-regulation OT - Brain-derived neurotrophic factor OT - Electroconvulsive seizure OT - Electroconvulsive therapy OT - Phosphorylational activation OT - TrkB EDAT- 2017/09/12 06:00 MHDA- 2018/06/12 06:00 CRDT- 2017/09/12 06:00 PHST- 2017/07/11 00:00 [received] PHST- 2017/08/31 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2017/09/06 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2017/09/12 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/06/12 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2017/09/12 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0304-3940(17)30745-0 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.neulet.2017.09.011 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Neurosci Lett. 2017 Nov 1;660:45-50. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2017.09.011. Epub 2017 Sep 7.