title: Status epilepticus alters hippocampal PKAbeta and PKAgamma expression in mice.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the localization and progressive changes of cyclic-AMP dependent protein kinase (cPKA) in the mouse hippocampus at acute stages during and after pilocarpine induced status epilepticus.
  
  
  METHODS
  Pilocarpine induced status epilepticus mice were sacrificed 30 min, 2 h or 1 day after the start of a approximately 7 h lasting status as assessed by video-electroencephalography. Brains were processed for quantitative immunohistochemistry of hippocampal cPKAbeta and cPKAgamma, and immunohistochemical co-localization of cPKAbeta and cPKAgamma with calbindin (CB), calretinin (CR), and parvalbumin (PV).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Based on anatomical and morphological assessment, cPKAbeta was primarily expressed by principal cells and cPKAgamma by interneurons. In CA1, cPKAbeta co-localized with 76% of CB, 41% of CR, and 95% of PV-immunopositive cells, while cPKAgamma co-localized with 50% of CB, 29% of CR, and 80% of PV-immunopositive cells. Upon induction of status epilepticus, cPKAbeta expression was transiently reduced in CA1, whereas cPKAgamma expression was sustainably reduced.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  cPKA may play an important role in neuronal hyperexcitability, death and epileptogenesis during and after pilocarpine induced status epilepticus.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Neurobiology, School of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, PR China.
authors.forename: Jian Xin
authors.initials: JX
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Yong Cheng
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Feng Ru
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: Tang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003292:Convulsants / Q000494:pharmacology; D054751:Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinase Catalytic Subunits / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000201:enzymology*; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D051379:Mice; D010862:Pilocarpine / Q000494:pharmacology; D013226:Status Epilepticus / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000201:enzymology*
chemical_list: D003292:Convulsants; D010862:Pilocarpine; D054751:Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinase Catalytic Subunits; C463959:protein kinase A Calpha; C463939:protein kinase A Cgamma