Animals
Healthy male C57BL / 6 mice (weight 20-28g, age 8-10W) were used in this experiment. All mice were purchased from Changsha tianqin Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (license: scxk (Xiang) 2018-0014) and randomly divided into Four groups: normal control group, epilepsy group, solvent control group and 3-mA group. All animal experiment procedures strictly followed the relevant requirements of animal ethics and obtained the approval of the experimental animal ethics committee. constant temperature (22–26 ℃), independent pure drinking water and standard feed are raised in separate cages (5 / cage).
Behavioural experiments
PTZ kindled mouse chronic model is similar to human seizures. It is a classic model of epilepsy pathogenesis and drug efficacy[26]. C57BL/6 mice were intraperitoneally injected with a subthreshold dose of PTZ (35mg/kg). After each PTZ injection, mice with seizures of grade 4 and above were regarded as chronic kindling model for three consecutive times according to Racine[27] scoring standard. If the attack is not terminated within 5min, diazepam (5mg / kg) shall be injected intraperitoneally to terminate the attack. Normal group: given the same volume of normal saline instead of PTZ intraperitoneal injection, and the feeding conditions were the same as those of epilepsy model group.The mice in the model group and the normal control group were deeply anesthetized. Cut off the neck with surgical scissors, quickly peel off the skull with hemostatic forceps, and separate the hippocampus and cortex on ice for immunoblotting.
The mice were randomly divided into 3-MA group (3mg / kg), epilepsy group and solvent group. After 30 minutes, PTZ was injected intraperitoneally according to the subthreshold dose of 35mg/kg body weight for 15 days. The latency of complete kindling and the highest level of seizure were recorded on a daily basis.
C57BL / 6 mice were deeply anesthetized and a 0.5uL microinjector was used to extract kainic acid (KA, 1 nmol) into hippocampus. Use a micro electric drill to drill the skull with the anterior fontanelle as 0 point, backward (AP) 1.6mm, mediolateral (ML) 1.5mm and depth (DV) 1.5mm[28]. After setting the parameters, install a micro syringe for injection for 1min and keep the needle for 5min. After the same procedure as above, Tf-A488 (5ul) was injected into unilateral mouse hippocampus at the speed of 1ul / min under the stereotactic instrument to establish pentylenetetrazol mouse model, which was injected intraperitoneally for 1 week.After anesthesia, 0.9% normal saline (about 30ml) and 4% paraformaldehyde (about 40ml) were injected into the mice for fixation, and the brain was taken out.Place it in 4% paraformaldehyde solution for 24 hours, PBS configuration concentration is 20% sucrose, and carry out gradient dehydration for 24 hours.Add sucrose to make the solution concentration 30%, continue to dehydrate for 24 hours, take out the tissue, put it into a self-made box made of tin foil, add OCT embedding temperature compound, and put it into liquid nitrogen for quick freezing Fix the tissue on the base with OCT embedding agent and put it into the slicer for slicing (16um) For laser confocal microscopy.
Field potential recording
KA epileptic mice were randomly divided into 3-MA group and control group. At the same time, they were given 3-MA and equal volume of normal saline every day for 10 days, and then the local field potential was recorded. The electrodes were connected to the field potential for multi-channel EEG recording. With the baseline stabilized, spontaneous events were recorded continuously for 30 minutes, and epileptic discharges (EDS) with frequency higher than 5Hz, twice higher than the baseline and duration longer than 5S were defined in electrophysiology. Also, each electrophysiological change is accompanied by corresponding behavioral changes, so that the frequency and duration of epileptic discharge could be detected [29].
Primary neuron culture
The day before culture, the surgical instruments were autoclaved and dried, and the glass plates were washed. Take out the 1cm round glass slide from ethanol, put it into a 24 well plate, open the cover and irradiate it with UV for 1h, and then add polylysine solution, at least 400ul per well. Prepare inoculation solution (DMEM of 20% FBS) and culture medium (Neurobasal + B27 + L-Glu + double antibody). Place the prepared inoculum and culture medium in the cell incubator 4H in advance on the day of culture, and loosen the cover. Take SD rats within 24 hours of birth, take out the cerebral cortex and put it into 0.25% trypsin. After being cut into pieces, they were placed in a cell incubator (37 ℃, 5% CO2) for digestion for 10 minutes. Add 3ml inoculum to neutralize trypsin for 5min, blow-mix with pipette, and suck the cell suspension through a 200 mesh filter screen. Add the filtered cell suspension into the inoculation solution and blow it with a pipette. After 72h, cytarabine (10umol/L) was added to the culture medium. Half of the solution was changed with Neurobasal medium every two days in a 10 day’s procedure.
Establishment of magnesium free model of cultured neurons
After removing the whole solution of maintenance medium, it was placed in magnesium free extracellular solution (NaCl 145, KCl 2.5, CaCl2 2, HEPES 10, glucose 10, glycine 0.002mmol/L). MgCl2 (1mmol/L) is added to the above extracellular fluid. The neurons were treated with the above extracellular solution and placed in the (37℃ 5% CO2) incubator for 3h.
Fluorescence quantification
MitoTracker (30nM) and LysoTracke (50nM) to the culture medium of the control group and epilepsy group respectively for treatment for 30min (37℃ incubator, away from light), suck and discard the above incubation medium for cell fixation and immunofluorescence staining.
Transferrin-Alexa488(Tf-A488) was used to detect CME endocytosis in neurons.
PBS slowly washed the cell climbing sheet for 3 times. Inhibitor group: 3-MA (100mm), treated for 30min. Add Tf-A488 prepared with culture medium in each group, with the final concentration of 50ug/ml, put it back into the (37℃, 5% CO2, dark) cell incubator, incubate for 20 minutes, suck and discard the culture medium, and carry out cell fixation and immunofluorescence staining.
Immunofluorescence staining
Immunofluorescence staining was performed with neuron specific marker Microtubule-associated protein-2 (MAP2).Take out the climbing tablets, wash the cells with PBS twice, add 4% paraformaldehyde and fix in the 37 ℃ incubator for 15min, and wash away the residual fixing solution with PBS for 3 time, 5 minutes each time.Add 0.3% Triton X-100, place it at room temperature for 15 minutes, and wash off the residual liquid with PBS for 3 times for 5 minutes each time.The primary antibody working solution prepared with PBS (4% goat serum + 1:200MAP2) was added dropwise and incubated overnight at 4℃.Take out the climbing tablets and wash them in PBS buffer for 3 times for 10 minutes each time.The fresh secondary antibody Goat anti guinea pig dylight 633 (1:300) was added and incubated at room temperature for 1 hour. PBS was washed three times for 10 minutes each time. Drip the anti fluorescence attenuation sealing agent containing DAPI to seal the film.
Western Blot
RIPA buffer and protease inhibitors were used to homogenize all samples. The protein concentration of the supernatant was measured with a BCA kit according to the manufacturer's instructions. a total of 50 µg protein from each sample was separated via SdS-PAGE (5% separating, 10% stacking gel), and then proteins were transferred to PVdF membranes (250 mA for 90 min). After blocking for 1 h at room temperature in skimmed milk (8%), PVDF membranes were incubated with primary antibodies Parkin(1:1,500) and anti-GAPDH (1:1500) overnight at 4˚C. The blots were washed with PBS with 1% Tween-20 (PBST) three times and then incubated with horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-conjugated secondary antibody (1:4,000) for 1h at room temperature.After exposure to light, the Super ECL Plus luminescent agent was fully contacted with the PVDF film. The Fusion FX5 gel imager was used for exposure, and the OD value of the strip was analyzed by Fusion software.
Statistical analysis
Use SPSS18.0 for data statistical analysis, and Graphpad Prism 6.0 software for drawing, so the data drawing is expressed as mean ± standard deviation (mean ± SD). The results of Western blot and neuron immunofluorescence experiment were used to count the differences between the two groups by Student's t test, and the results of Western blot and fluorescent dye stereo injection were used to evaluate the differences between multiple groups by one-way ANOVA. Behavioral science uses repeated ANOVA to compare the data obtained from multiple measurements of the same observation index at different time points among multiple groups. P < 0.05 indicates that the difference was statistically significant.