RGD Reference Report - Expression of c-Fos, ICER, Krox-24 and JunB in the whisker-to-barrel pathway of rats: time course of induction upon whisker stimulation by tactile exploration of an enriched environment. - Rat Genome Database

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Expression of c-Fos, ICER, Krox-24 and JunB in the whisker-to-barrel pathway of rats: time course of induction upon whisker stimulation by tactile exploration of an enriched environment.

Authors: Bisler, S  Schleicher, A  Gass, P  Stehle, JH  Zilles, K  Staiger, JF 
Citation: Bisler S, etal., J Chem Neuroanat 2002 Mar;23(3):187-98.
RGD ID: 729308
Pubmed: PMID:11861125   (View Abstract at PubMed)

Modified tactile information has been shown to induce adaptive plasticity in the somatosensory cortex of rat. The cellular mechanisms resulting in plastic neuronal responses, however, are largely unknown. Inducible transcription factors have been proposed as one major link in the cascade from modified input to altered neuronal structure and function. We investigated the spatial and temporal patterns of transcription factor induction in the rat whisker-to-barrel pathway by placing the animals in a novel, enriched environment while having clipped sets of whiskers on one side of the face. Such stimulation resulted not only in a specific c-Fos induction in brainstem barrelettes and thalamic barreloids, but also in the barrel-related cortical columns, each with different time courses. In the barrel cortex, c-Fos and Krox-24 immunostaining showed a rapid induction with peak levels at 1 h and a return to basal levels after 14 h. JunB was induced after 1 h of exploration, declined at 6 h and returned to basal levels after this time point. The inducible cyclic AMP early repressor (ICER), a transcription factor of the cAMP signaling pathway, showed a maximum after 6 h, decreased slowly, but elevated levels were still detectable after 5 days. Our data demonstrate that upon whisker stimulation by exploration of a novel, enriched environment, (i) subcortical relay stations in the whisker-to-barrel pathway are able to express elevated levels of c-Fos and (ii) in the barrel cortex c-Fos, JunB, Krox-24 and ICER are differentially regulated in the temporal domain.

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Gene Crem cAMP responsive element modulator Rattus norvegicus
Gene Egr1 early growth response 1 Rattus norvegicus
Gene Fos Fos proto-oncogene, AP-1 transcription factor subunit Rattus norvegicus
Gene Junb JunB proto-oncogene, AP-1 transcription factor subunit Rattus norvegicus

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