Enhanced excitatory transmission at cortical synapses as the basis for facilitated spreading depression in CaV2. 1 knockin migraine mice

A Tottene, R Conti, A Fabbro, D Vecchia… - Neuron, 2009 - cell.com
… glutamate release at cortical pyramidal cell synapses, we … cortical neurons from neonatal
WT and R192Q KI mice. Single cortical neurons grown on glial microislands form synaptic

Genetic mouse models of migraine

D Pietrobon, KC Brennan - The Journal of Headache and Pain, 2019 - Springer
… to experimentally induced cortical spreading depression (CSD) is a key migraine-relevant …
review the synaptic alterations in the cerebral cortex of the genetic models of migraine and …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanism underlying unaltered cortical inhibitory synaptic transmission in contrast with enhanced excitatory transmission in CaV2. 1 knockin migraine mice

D Vecchia, A Tottene… - Neurobiology of …, 2014 - Elsevier
… Familial hemiplegic migraine type 1 (FHM1), a monogenic subtype of migraine with aura, is
… In FHM1 knockin mice, excitatory neurotransmission at cortical pyramidal cell synapses is …

Quantitative cortical synapse proteomics of a transgenic migraine mouse model with mutated CaV2.1 calcium channels

OI Klychnikov, KW Li, IA Sidorov, M Loos, S Spijker… - …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
cortical glutamate neurotransmitter release 8, 9. In this study, we compared the molecular …
of cortical synapse proteomes of Cacna1a R192Q KI and wild-type (WT) mice to investigate …

… cortical synaptic transmission in CaV2.1 knockin mice with the S218L missense mutation which causes a severe familial hemiplegic migraine syndrome in humans

D Vecchia, A Tottene… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
… and heterozygous S218L KI mice, suggesting compensatory changes in the homozygous
mice. Furthermore, we reveal a unique feature of S218L KI cortical synapses which is the …

[HTML][HTML] Calcium channels and migraine

D Pietrobon - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Biomembranes, 2013 - Elsevier
mouse models supports the view of migraine as a disorder of brain excitability characterized
by deficient regulation of the cortical … FS synapses was not altered in R192Q knockin mice, …

A Cacna1a knockin migraine mouse model with increased susceptibility to cortical spreading depression

AMJM van den Maagdenberg, D Pietrobon… - Neuron, 2004 - cell.com
… This predicts that at such synapses Ca v 2.1 channels that open more readily and at lower
… (NMJ), a single synapse that shares with many central synapses the location of Ca V 2.1 …

Migraine: a disorder of brain excitatory–inhibitory balance?

D Vecchia, D Pietrobon - Trends in neurosciences, 2012 - cell.com
migraine onset and susceptibility to cortical spreading depression, the neurophysiological
correlate of migraine … the functional analysis of familial hemiplegic migraine mouse models. …

Abnormal synaptic Ca2+ homeostasis and morphology in cortical neurons of familial hemiplegic migraine type 1 mutant mice

K Eikermann‐Haerter, M Arbel‐Ornath… - Annals of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… for enhanced CSD susceptibility in hemiplegic migraine. Abnormal synaptic Ca 2+ homeostasis
and … Migraine is the most common neurological condition, with a prevalence of ∼15%.1 …

Increased susceptibility to cortical spreading depression in the mouse model of familial hemiplegic migraine type 2

L Leo, L Gherardini, V Barone, M De Fusco… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
… from the synaptic cleft, we hypothesize that CSD facilitation in the FHM2 mouse model is
sustained by inefficient glutamate clearance by astrocytes and consequent increased cortical