One-chip sensing device (biomedical photonic LSI) enabled to assess hippocampal steep and gradual up-regulated proteolytic activities

J Neurosci Methods. 2008 Aug 15;173(1):114-20. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.06.002. Epub 2008 Jun 14.

Abstract

We developed an implantable one-chip biofluoroimaging device (termed biomedical photonic LSI; BpLSI) which enabled real-time molecular imaging with conventional electrophysiology in vivo in deep brain areas. The multimodal LSI enabled long-term sequential imaging of the fluorescence emitted by proteolysis-linked fluorogenic substrate. Using the BpLSI, we observed a process of stimulation-dependent modulation at synapse with multi-site (16 x 19 pixel) in widespread area and a high-speed video rate, and found that the gradual up-regulated proteolytic activity in a wide range of hippocampal CA1 area and the steep activity in local area, indicating that the proteolysis system is a basis for the fixation of long-term potentiation in post-excited synapses in the hippocampus. Mathematical data analysis confirmed the direct involvement of functional proteolysis for neural plasticity.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Analysis of Variance
  • Animals
  • Biomedical Technology / instrumentation*
  • Coumarins / pharmacology
  • Electrophysiology / instrumentation*
  • Electrophysiology / methods*
  • Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials / drug effects
  • Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials / physiology
  • Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials / radiation effects
  • Hippocampus / drug effects
  • Hippocampus / physiology*
  • Kallikreins / metabolism
  • Long-Term Potentiation / drug effects
  • Long-Term Potentiation / physiology
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Models, Biological
  • Oligopeptides / pharmacology
  • Serine Endopeptidases / metabolism*
  • Time Factors

Substances

  • Coumarins
  • Oligopeptides
  • tertiary-butyloxycarbonyl-valyl-prolyl-arginyl-7-amino-4-methylcoumarin
  • Kallikreins
  • Serine Endopeptidases