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¹ Research Service, V.A. Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, North Hills, CA 91343, USA
² Department of Psychology
³ Department of Physiological Science
⁴ Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
⁵ Division of Neurosurgery, UCLA Brain Injury Research Center, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
⁶ A. B. Kogan Research Institute for Neurocybernetics, Rostov State University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Previous work shows that sleep deprivation impairs hippocampal-dependent learning and long-term potentiation (LTP). Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), cAMP response-element-binding (CREB) and calcium–calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CAMKII) are critical modulators of hippocampal-dependent learning and LTP. In the present study we compared the effects of short- (8 h) and intermediate-term (48 h) sleep deprivation (SD) on the expression of BDNF and its downstream targets, Synapsin I, CREB and CAMKII in the neocortex and the hippocampus. Rats were sleep deprived using an intermittent treadmill system which equated total movement in the SD and control treadmill animals (CT), but permitted sustained periods of rest in CT animals. Animals were divided into SD (treadmill schedule: 3 s on/12 s off) and two treadmill control groups, CT1 (15 min on/60 min off) and CT2 (30 min on/120 min off – permitting more sustained sleep). Real-time Taqman RT-PCR was used to measure changes in mRNA; BDNF protein levels were determined using ELISA. In the hippocampus, 8 h treatments reduced BDNF, Synapsin I, CREB and CAMKII gene expression in both SD and control groups. Following 48 h of experimental procedures, the expression of all these four molecular markers of plasticity was reduced in SD and CT1 groups compared to the CT2 and cage control groups. In the hippocampus, BDNF protein levels after 8 h and 48 h treatments paralleled the changes in mRNA. In neocortex, neither 8 h nor 48 h SD or control treatments had significant effects on BDNF, Synapsin I and CAMKII mRNA levels. Stepwise regression analysis suggested that loss of REM sleep underlies the effects of SD on hippocampal BDNF, Synapsin I and CREB mRNA levels, whereas loss of NREM sleep underlies the effects on CAMKII mRNA.

(Received 12 June 2006; accepted after revision 5 July 2006; first published online 6 July 2006)
Corresponding author D. McGinty: Research Service (151A3), V. A. Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, 16111 Plummer Street, North Hills CA 91343, USA. Email: dmcginty{at}ucla.edu

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