Journal: Nature Communications
Article Title: Cerebellar stimulation prevents Levodopa-induced dyskinesia in mice and normalizes activity in a motor network
doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-30844-0
Figure Lengend Snippet: a Experimental timeline. Dyskinetic mice (LID, magenta): 6 weeks of levodopa treatment. Preventive mice (LID_PREV, blue): 6 weeks of levodopa treatment + 4 weeks of cerebellar stimulation. Corrective mice (LID_CORR, green): 6 weeks of levodopa treatment + 2 weeks of cerebellar stimulation. AIMs corresponds to the evaluation of Abnormal Involuntary Movements (LID). b Sagittal schematic of a mouse brain showing cerebello-thalamo-cortical and -striatal pathways, ChR2-YFP in Purkinje cells (PC + ChR2, green), and injection site of 6-OHDA or saline. M1: Primary motor cortex, ST: striatum, VAL: Ventroanterior-ventrolateral complex of the thalamus, PF: Parafascicular nucleus of the thalamus, SNc: Substantia nigra pars compacta , CN: cerebellar nuclei, CrusII: Crus2 of the ansiform lobule. c Upper panel : Coronal section from a mouse unilaterally-lesioned with 6-OHDA stained with anti-tyrosine hydroxylase (TH). Scale bar: 0.5 mm. Bottom panel : Boxplot showing the average loss of striatal TH-positive fibers (%) between the lesioned and the intact striatum in SHAM (gray, N = 17), LID (magenta, N = 13), LID_CORR (green, N = 10), and LID_PREV (blue, N = 17). d Examples of orolingual (top), axial (middle), and limb (bottom) levodopa-induced dyskinesia in dyskinetic mice. e Boxplot showing the sum of oral LID scores across the 6 weeks of levodopa treatment (6 mg/kg) (light gray bar) for SHAM ( N = 18), LID ( N = 19); LID_CORR ( N = 17); LID_PREV ( N = 24). f Boxplot showing the sum of axial LID across the 6 weeks of levodopa treatment (6 mg/kg) (light gray bar) for SHAM ( N = 12), LID ( N = 8), LID_CORR ( N = 14), LID_PREV ( N = 6). g Boxplot showing the sum of limb LID scores across the 6 weeks of levodopa treatment (6 mg/kg) (light gray bar) for SHAM (N = 14), LID ( N = 9), LID_CORR ( N = 15), LID_PREV ( N = 9). Boxplots represents the lower and the upper quartiles as well as the median of LID score. Each boxplot corresponds to 1 week. Vertical lines represent the median ± the standard deviation. Isolated points represent outliers of the distribution. Stripped blue lines: weeks of theta-burst PC stimulation. Kruskal-Wallis test with pairwise two-sided Wilcoxon test and Benjamini & Hochberg correction. *** p < 0.001; ** p < 0.01; * p < 0.05; * compared to SHAM; # to LID. Source data are provided as a Source Data file. See also Table .
Article Snippet: Unless otherwise stated, data are presented as boxplots (from boxplot function in R Studio software 4.1.2).
Techniques: Injection, Saline, Staining, Standard Deviation, Isolation