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Research ArticleBehavioral Pharmacology

Selective and sustained AMPA receptor activation in cerebellum induces dystonia in mice

Xueliang Fan, Keryn E Hughes, H A Jinnah and Ellen J Hess
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics December 14, 2011, jpet.111.190082; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/jpet.111.190082
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Abstract

Dystonia is a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary muscle contractions that cause twisting movements and abnormal pastures. Functional imaging consistently reveals cerebellar overactivity in dystonic patients regardless of the type or etiology of the disorder. To explore mechanisms that might explain the basis for the cerebellar overactivity in dystonia, normal mice were challenged with intracerebellar application of a variety of agents that induce hyperexcitability. A nonspecific increase in cerebellar excitability, such as that produced by picrotoxin, was not associated with dystonia. Instead, glutamate receptor activation, specifically AMPA receptor activation, was necessary to evoke dystonia. AMPA receptor agonists induced dystonia and AMPA receptor antagonists reduced the dystonia induced by glutamate receptor agonists. AMPA receptor antagonists also ameliorated the dystonia exhibited by the dystonic mouse mutant tottering suggesting that AMPA receptors may play a role in some other genetic models of dystonia. Further, AMPA receptor desensitization mediated the expression of dystonia. Preventing AMPA receptor desensitization with cyclothiazide or the non-desensitizing agonist kainic acid exacerbated the dystonic response. These results suggests the novel hypothesis that the cerebellar overactivity observed in neuroimaging studies of patients with dystonia may be an indirect reflection of abnormal glutamate signaling, and imply that reducing AMPA receptor activation by blocking AMPA receptors, promoting AMPA receptor desensitization or negative allosteric modulators may prove beneficial for the treatment of dystonia.

  • AMPA receptors
  • behavioral pharmacology
  • drug discovery
  • movement disorders
  • Received November 18, 2011.
  • Revision received December 12, 2011.
  • Accepted December 13, 2011.
  • The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
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Selective and sustained AMPA receptor activation in cerebellum induces dystonia in mice

Xueliang Fan, Keryn E Hughes, H A Jinnah and Ellen J Hess
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics December 14, 2011, jpet.111.190082; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/jpet.111.190082

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Selective and sustained AMPA receptor activation in cerebellum induces dystonia in mice

Xueliang Fan, Keryn E Hughes, H A Jinnah and Ellen J Hess
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics December 14, 2011, jpet.111.190082; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/jpet.111.190082
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