PMID- 34520598 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220224 LR - 20220224 IS - 1098-1063 (Electronic) IS - 1050-9631 (Linking) VI - 31 IP - 11 DP - 2021 Nov TI - Aberrant slow waves in the hippocampus during activation in mice with low cholinergic tone. PG - 1233-1253 LID - 10.1002/hipo.23387 [doi] AB - The effects of acetylcholine on cortical activation were studied in wild-type (WT) mice, compared to knockout (KO) mice depleted of the vesicular acetylcholine transporter (VAChT) gene in the basal forebrain, and knockdown (KD) mice with heterogeneous depletion of VAChT gene in the brain. Cortical activation was assessed by comparing power spectra of local field potentials (LFPs) during activated states of rapid-eye-movement sleep (REM) or walk (WLK), with those during non-activated states of slow-wave sleep (SWS) or awake-immobility (IMM). Activation-induced suppression of delta (1-4 Hz) and beta (13-30 Hz) power in the hippocampus, and delta power in frontal cortex, were reduced in KO and KD mice compared to WT mice. Mean theta frequency was higher in KD than KO mice during WLK and REM, but not different between WT and KO mice. Peak theta (4-12 Hz) and integrated gamma (30-150 Hz) power were not significantly different among mouse groups. However, theta-peak-frequency selected gamma2 (62-100 Hz) power was lower in KO than WT or KD mice during WLK, and theta-peak-frequency selected theta power during REM decreased faster with high theta frequency in KO than WT/ KD mice. Theta power increase during REM compared to WLK was lower in KO and KD mice compared to WT mice. Theta-gamma cross-frequency coherence, a measure of synchronization of gamma with theta phase, was not different among mouse groups. However, during REM, SWS, and IMM, delta-gamma coherence was significantly higher and proximal-distal delta coherence in CA1 was lower in KO than WT/KD mice. We conclude that a deficiency in basal forebrain acetylcholine release not only enhances slow waves and suppresses theta-associated gamma waves during activation, but also increases delta-gamma cross-frequency coherence during nonactivated states, with a possible effect of disrupting cognitive processing during any brain state. CI - (c) 2021 Wiley Periodicals LLC. FAU - Leung, L Stan AU - Leung LS AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8887-4869 AD - Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. AD - Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. FAU - Chu, Liangwei AU - Chu L AD - Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. LA - eng GR - MOP 136930/CIHR/Canada GR - MOP 15685/CIHR/Canada GR - MOP 89919/CIHR/Canada GR - PJT 159781/CIHR/Canada GR - PJT 162431/CIHR/Canada PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20210914 PL - United States TA - Hippocampus JT - Hippocampus JID - 9108167 RN - 0 (Cholinergic Agents) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Cholinergic Agents MH - Electroencephalography MH - Hippocampus/physiology MH - Mice MH - Mice, Knockout MH - *Sleep, REM/physiology MH - Theta Rhythm/physiology MH - *Wakefulness/physiology OTO - NOTNLM OT - delta waves OT - delta-gamma coupling OT - rapid-eye-movement sleep OT - slow-wave sleep OT - theta rhythm OT - theta-gamma coupling OT - vesicular acetylcholine transporter EDAT- 2021/09/15 06:00 MHDA- 2022/02/25 06:00 CRDT- 2021/09/14 17:32 PHST- 2021/08/19 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2021/06/10 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/08/28 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/09/15 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/02/25 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/09/14 17:32 [entrez] AID - 10.1002/hipo.23387 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Hippocampus. 2021 Nov;31(11):1233-1253. doi: 10.1002/hipo.23387. Epub 2021 Sep 14.