Reduced Axon Calibre in the Associative Striatum of the Sapap3 Knockout Mouse - Sorbonne Université
Journal Articles Brain Sciences Year : 2021

Reduced Axon Calibre in the Associative Striatum of the Sapap3 Knockout Mouse

Abstract

Pathological repetitive behaviours are a common feature of various neuropsychiatric disorders, including compulsions in obsessive–compulsive disorder or tics in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome. Clinical research suggests that compulsive-like symptoms are related to associative cortico-striatal dysfunctions, and tic-like symptoms to sensorimotor cortico-striatal dysfunctions. The Sapap3 knockout mouse (Sapap3-KO), the current reference model to study such repetitive behaviours, presents both associative as well as sensorimotor cortico-striatal dysfunctions. Previous findings point to deficits in both macro-, as well as micro-circuitry, both of which can be affected by neuronal structural changes. However, to date, structural connectivity has not been analysed. Hence, in the present study, we conducted a comprehensive structural characterisation of both associative and sensorimotor striatum as well as major cortical areas connecting onto these regions. Besides a thorough immunofluorescence study on oligodendrocytes, we applied AxonDeepSeg, an open source software, to automatically segment and characterise myelin thickness and axon area. We found that axon calibre, the main contributor to changes in conduction speed, is specifically reduced in the associative striatum of the Sapap3-KO mouse; myelination per se seems unaffected in associative and sensorimotor cortico-striatal circuits.
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hal-03405394 , version 1 (27-10-2021)

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Eliana Lousada, Mathieu Boudreau, Julien Cohen-Adad, Brahim Nait Oumesmar, Eric Burguière, et al.. Reduced Axon Calibre in the Associative Striatum of the Sapap3 Knockout Mouse. Brain Sciences, 2021, 11 (10), pp.1353. ⟨10.3390/brainsci11101353⟩. ⟨hal-03405394⟩
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