2020
Impaired motor skill learning and altered seizure susceptibility in mice with loss or gain of function of the Kcnt1 gene encoding Slack (KNa1.1) Na+-activated K+ channels
Quraishi IH, Mercier MR, McClure H, Couture RL, Schwartz ML, Lukowski R, Ruth P, Kaczmarek LK. Impaired motor skill learning and altered seizure susceptibility in mice with loss or gain of function of the Kcnt1 gene encoding Slack (KNa1.1) Na+-activated K+ channels. Scientific Reports 2020, 10: 3213. PMID: 32081855, PMCID: PMC7035262, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-60028-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMaximum electroshock-induced seizuresEpilepsy of infancyPentylenetetrazole-induced seizuresVideo-EEG monitoringElectroshock-induced seizuresForms of epilepsyWild-type miceSlack channelsImpaired motor skillsProcedural motor learningMotor skillsWild-type animalsSevere intellectual disabilityOpen-field behaviorCortical seizuresKCNT1 geneSpontaneous seizuresFocal seizuresSeizure susceptibilitySeizure activityType miceMouse modelAnimal modelsInterictal spikesSeizures
2012
Environmental Enrichment Increases the GFAP+ Stem Cell Pool and Reverses Hypoxia-Induced Cognitive Deficits in Juvenile Mice
Salmaso N, Silbereis J, Komitova M, Mitchell P, Chapman K, Ment LR, Schwartz ML, Vaccarino FM. Environmental Enrichment Increases the GFAP+ Stem Cell Pool and Reverses Hypoxia-Induced Cognitive Deficits in Juvenile Mice. Journal Of Neuroscience 2012, 32: 8930-8939. PMID: 22745493, PMCID: PMC3399175, DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1398-12.2012.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAnalysis of VarianceAnimalsAnimals, NewbornBromodeoxyuridineCell CountCell DifferentiationCognition DisordersDeoxyuridineDisease Models, AnimalEnvironmentEstrogen AntagonistsFemaleGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGlial Fibrillary Acidic ProteinGreen Fluorescent ProteinsHumansHypoxiaIdoxuridineKi-67 AntigenMaleMaze LearningMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicNerve Tissue ProteinsNeurogenesisNeurogliaReceptors, EstrogenStem CellsTamoxifenConceptsHypoxic injuryBrain injuryAstroglial cellsChronic hypoxic injuryDevelopmental brain injuryLow birth weightCell poolEnvironmental enrichmentAdult brain injuryAbnormal lung developmentStem cell poolPerinatal hypoxic injuryFate-mapping modelsSocio-demographic factorsNeurobiological recoveryHippocampal neurogenesisVLBW cohortPremature childrenBirth weightCardiovascular abnormalitiesJuvenile miceAnimal modelsLung developmentInjuryCognitive deficits
1998
Association of chronic sublethal hypoxia with ventriculomegaly in the developing rat brain
Ment L, Schwartz M, Makuch R, Stewart W. Association of chronic sublethal hypoxia with ventriculomegaly in the developing rat brain. Brain Research 1998, 111: 197-203. PMID: 9838111, DOI: 10.1016/s0165-3806(98)00139-4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsChronic sublethal hypoxiaSublethal hypoxiaBronchopulmonary dysplasiaAnimal modelsExperimental rat pupsSystemic blood pressureSubcortical white matterCorpus callosum sizePostnatal day 3Third groupNeurodevelopmental handicapPreterm infantsProlonged hypoxemiaBlood pressureCerebral ventriculomegalyExperimental time pointsChronic hypoxiaControl ratsCortical volumeRat pupsCallosum sizeNewborn ratsRat brainBody weightDay 3
1997
Chronic postnatal hypoxia increases the numbers of cortical neurons
Stewart W, Ment L, Schwartz M. Chronic postnatal hypoxia increases the numbers of cortical neurons. Brain Research 1997, 760: 17-21. PMID: 9237513, DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(97)00271-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCortical neuronsHypoxic ratsSublethal hypoxiaChronic postnatal hypoxiaChronic sublethal hypoxiaDays of hypoxiaCell deathPostnatal hypoxiaPremature infantsNeuronal densityBrain weightChronic hypoxiaCortical volumeClinical problemAnimal modelsCortical cell deathRatsThird dayHypoxiaLower bodyNeurodevelopmental disordersNeuronsConsiderable evidenceProlonged periodDeath