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Liu H, Wei JY, Li Y, Ban M, Sun Q, Wang HJ, Zhao D, Tong PG, Wang L, Wang KJ, Yue JL, Zhang HY, Fang WG, Liu DX, Shang DS, Li B, Jin YP, Cao L, Zhao WD, Chen YH. Endothelial depletion of Atg7 triggers astrocyte-microvascular disassociation at blood-brain barrier. J Cell Biol 2023; 222:e202103098. [PMID: 36995368 PMCID: PMC10067974 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202103098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2021] [Revised: 11/05/2022] [Accepted: 02/08/2023] [Indexed: 03/31/2023] Open
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Microvascular basement membrane (BM) plays a pivotal role in the interactions of astrocyte with endothelium to maintain the blood-brain barrier (BBB) homeostasis; however, the significance and precise regulation of the endothelial cell-derived BM component in the BBB remain incompletely understood. Here, we report that conditional knockout of Atg7 in endothelial cells (Atg7-ECKO) leads to astrocyte-microvascular disassociation in the brain. Our results reveal astrocytic endfeet detachment from microvessels and BBB leakage in Atg7-ECKO mice. Furthermore, we find that the absence of endothelial Atg7 downregulates the expression of fibronectin, a major BM component of the BBB, causing significantly reduced coverage of astrocytes along cerebral microvessels. We reveal Atg7 triggers the expression of endothelial fibronectin via regulating PKA activity to affect the phosphorylation of cAMP-responsive element-binding protein. These results suggest that Atg7-regulated endothelial fibronectin production is required for astrocytes adhesion to microvascular wall for maintaining the BBB homeostasis. Thus, endothelial Atg7 plays an essential role in astrocyte-endothelium interactions to maintain the BBB integrity.
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- Hui Liu
- Department of Developmental Cell Biology, Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, Ministry of Public Health, and Key Laboratory of Medical Cell Biology, Ministry of Education, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Developmental Cell Biology, Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, Ministry of Public Health, and Key Laboratory of Medical Cell Biology, Ministry of Education, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Developmental Cell Biology, Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, Ministry of Public Health, and Key Laboratory of Medical Cell Biology, Ministry of Education, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Developmental Cell Biology, Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, Ministry of Public Health, and Key Laboratory of Medical Cell Biology, Ministry of Education, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Developmental Cell Biology, Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, Ministry of Public Health, and Key Laboratory of Medical Cell Biology, Ministry of Education, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Developmental Cell Biology, Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, Ministry of Public Health, and Key Laboratory of Medical Cell Biology, Ministry of Education, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Developmental Cell Biology, Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, Ministry of Public Health, and Key Laboratory of Medical Cell Biology, Ministry of Education, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Developmental Cell Biology, Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, Ministry of Public Health, and Key Laboratory of Medical Cell Biology, Ministry of Education, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Developmental Cell Biology, Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, Ministry of Public Health, and Key Laboratory of Medical Cell Biology, Ministry of Education, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Developmental Cell Biology, Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, Ministry of Public Health, and Key Laboratory of Medical Cell Biology, Ministry of Education, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Developmental Cell Biology, Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, Ministry of Public Health, and Key Laboratory of Medical Cell Biology, Ministry of Education, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Developmental Cell Biology, Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, Ministry of Public Health, and Key Laboratory of Medical Cell Biology, Ministry of Education, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Developmental Cell Biology, Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, Ministry of Public Health, and Key Laboratory of Medical Cell Biology, Ministry of Education, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Developmental Cell Biology, Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, Ministry of Public Health, and Key Laboratory of Medical Cell Biology, Ministry of Education, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Developmental Cell Biology, Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, Ministry of Public Health, and Key Laboratory of Medical Cell Biology, Ministry of Education, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Developmental Cell Biology, Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, Ministry of Public Health, and Key Laboratory of Medical Cell Biology, Ministry of Education, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Developmental Cell Biology, Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, Ministry of Public Health, and Key Laboratory of Medical Cell Biology, Ministry of Education, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
- Institute of Translational Medicine, Liaoning Province Collaborative Innovation Center of Aging Related Disease Diagnosis and Treatment and Prevention, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Developmental Cell Biology, Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, Ministry of Public Health, and Key Laboratory of Medical Cell Biology, Ministry of Education, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Developmental Cell Biology, Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, Ministry of Public Health, and Key Laboratory of Medical Cell Biology, Ministry of Education, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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Ko E, Poon MLS, Park E, Cho Y, Shin JH. Engineering 3D Cortical Spheroids for an In Vitro Ischemic Stroke Model. ACS Biomater Sci Eng 2021; 7:3845-3860. [PMID: 34275269 DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.1c00406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Three-dimensional (3D) spheroids composed of brain cells have shown great potential to mimic the pathophysiology of the brain. However, a 3D spheroidal brain-disease model for cerebral ischemia has not been reported. This study investigated an ultralow attachment (ULA) surface-mediated formation of 3D cortical spheroids using primary rat cortical cells to recapitulate the cerebral ischemic responses in stroke by oxygen-glucose deprivation-reoxygenation (OGD-R) treatment. Comparison between two-dimensional (2D) and 3D cell culture models confirmed the better performance of the 3D cortical spheroids as normal brain models. The cortical cells cultured in 3D maintained their healthy physiological morphology of a less activated state and suppressed mRNA expressions of pathological stroke markers, S100B, IL-1β, and MBP, selected based on in vivo stroke model. Interestingly, the spheroids formed on the ULA surface exhibited striking aggregation dynamics involving active cell-substrate interactions, whereas those formed on the agarose surface aggregated passively by the convective flow of the media. Accordingly, ULA spheroids manifested a layered arrangement of neurons and astrocytes with higher expressions of integrin β1, integrin α5, N-cadherin, and fibronectin than the agarose spheroids. OGD-R-induced stroke model of the ULA spheroids successfully mimicked the ischemic response as evidenced by the upregulated mRNA expressions of the key markers for stroke, S100B, IL-1β, and MBP. Our study suggested that structurally and functionally distinct cortical spheroids could be generated by simply tuning the cell-substrate binding activities during dynamic spheroidal formation, which should be an essential factor to consider in establishing a brain-disease model.
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- Eunmin Ko
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 291, Daehak-ro, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 291, Daehak-ro, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 291, Daehak-ro, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 291, Daehak-ro, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 291, Daehak-ro, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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Nanogroove-Enhanced Hydrogel Scaffolds for 3D Neuronal Cell Culture: An Easy Access Brain-on-Chip Model. MICROMACHINES 2019; 10:mi10100638. [PMID: 31548503 PMCID: PMC6843116 DOI: 10.3390/mi10100638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2019] [Revised: 09/17/2019] [Accepted: 09/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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In order to better understand the brain and brain diseases, in vitro human brain models need to include not only a chemically and physically relevant microenvironment, but also structural network complexity. This complexity reflects the hierarchical architecture in brain tissue. Here, a method has been developed that adds complexity to a 3D cell culture by means of nanogrooved substrates. SH-SY5Y cells were grown on these nanogrooved substrates and covered with Matrigel, a hydrogel. To quantitatively analyze network behavior in 2D neuronal cell cultures, we previously developed an automated image-based screening method. We first investigated if this method was applicable to 3D primary rat brain cortical (CTX) cell cultures. Since the method was successfully applied to these pilot data, a proof of principle in a reductionist human brain cell model was attempted, using the SH-SY5Y cell line. The results showed that these cells also create an aligned network in the 3D microenvironment by maintaining a certain degree of guidance by the nanogrooved topography in the z-direction. These results indicate that nanogrooves enhance the structural complexity of 3D neuronal cell cultures for both CTX and human SH-SY5Y cultures, providing a basis for further development of an easy access brain-on-chip model.
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Ma NX, Yin JC, Chen G. Transcriptome Analysis of Small Molecule-Mediated Astrocyte-to-Neuron Reprogramming. Front Cell Dev Biol 2019; 7:82. [PMID: 31231645 PMCID: PMC6558402 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2019.00082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2019] [Accepted: 05/01/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Chemical reprogramming of astrocytes into neurons represents a promising approach to regenerate new neurons for brain repair, but the underlying mechanisms driving this trans-differentiation process are not well understood. We have recently identified four small molecules – CHIR99021, DAPT, LDN193189, and SB431542 – that can efficiently reprogram cultured human fetal astrocytes into functional neurons. Here we employ the next generation of RNA-sequencing technology to investigate the transcriptome changes during the astrocyte-to-neuron (AtN) conversion process. We found that the four small molecules can rapidly activate the hedgehog signaling pathway while downregulating many glial genes such as FN1 and MYL9 within 24 h of treatment. Chemical reprogramming is mediated by several waves of differential gene expression, including upregulation of hedgehog, Wnt/β-catenin, and Notch signaling pathways, together with downregulation of TGF-β and JAK/STAT signaling pathways. Our gene network analyses reveal many well-connected hub genes such as repulsive guidance molecule A (RGMA), neuronatin (NNAT), neurogenin 2 (NEUROG2), NPTX2, MOXD1, JAG1, and GAP43, which may coordinate the chemical reprogramming process. Together, these findings provide critical insights into the molecular cascades triggered by a combination of small molecules that eventually leads to chemical conversion of astrocytes into neurons.
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- Ning-Xin Ma
- Department of Biology, Huck Institutes of Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
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- Department of Biology, Huck Institutes of Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
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- Department of Biology, Huck Institutes of Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
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Espitia Pinzón N, Brevé JJP, Bol JGJM, Drukarch B, Baron W, van Dam AM. Tissue transglutaminase in astrocytes is enhanced by inflammatory mediators and is involved in the formation of fibronectin fibril-like structures. J Neuroinflammation 2017; 14:260. [PMID: 29282083 PMCID: PMC5745633 DOI: 10.1186/s12974-017-1031-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2017] [Accepted: 12/11/2017] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Background During multiple sclerosis (MS) lesion formation, inflammatory mediators are produced by microglial cells and invading leukocytes. Subsequently, hypertrophic astrocytes fill the lesion and produce extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins that together form the astroglial scar. This is beneficial because it seals off the site of central nervous system (CNS) damage. However, astroglial scarring also forms an obstacle that inhibits remyelination of brain lesions. This is possibly an important cause for incomplete remyelination of the CNS in early stage MS patients and for failure of remyelination when the disease progresses. Tissue transglutaminase (TG2), a Ca2+-dependent enzyme that can cross-link proteins, appears in astrocytes in inflammatory MS lesions and may contribute to the rearrangement of ECM protein deposition and aggregation. Methods The effect of different inflammatory mediators on TG2 and fibronectin, an ECM protein, protein levels was examined in primary rat microglia and astrocytes by western blotting. Also, TG2 activity was analyzed in primary rat astrocytes by a TG activity assay. To determine the role of TG2 in the deposition and cross-linking of fibronectin, a TG2 inhibitor and TG2 knockdown astrocytes were used. Results Our data show that under inflammatory conditions in vitro, TG2 production is enhanced in astrocytes and microglia. We observed that in particular, astrocytes produce fibronectin that can be cross-linked and aggregated by exogenous TG2. Moreover, inflammatory stimulus-induced endogenously produced TG2 is involved in the appearance of morphological fibril-like fibronectin deposits but does not lead to cross-linked fibronectin aggregates. Conclusions Our in vitro observations suggest that during MS lesion formation, when inflammatory mediators are produced, astrocyte-derived TG2 may contribute to ECM rearrangement, and subsequent astroglial scarring. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12974-017-1031-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Nathaly Espitia Pinzón
- Department Anatomy and Neurosciences, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam Neuroscience, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081, HZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department Anatomy and Neurosciences, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam Neuroscience, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081, HZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department Anatomy and Neurosciences, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam Neuroscience, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081, HZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department Anatomy and Neurosciences, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam Neuroscience, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081, HZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cell Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department Anatomy and Neurosciences, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam Neuroscience, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081, HZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Thompson RE, Lake A, Kenny P, Saunders MN, Sakers K, Iyer NR, Dougherty JD, Sakiyama-Elbert SE. Different Mixed Astrocyte Populations Derived from Embryonic Stem Cells Have Variable Neuronal Growth Support Capacities. Stem Cells Dev 2017; 26:1597-1611. [PMID: 28851266 DOI: 10.1089/scd.2017.0121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Central nervous system injury often leads to functional impairment due, in part, to the formation of an inhibitory glial scar following injury that contributes to poor regeneration. Astrocytes are the major cellular components of the glial scar, which has led to the belief that they are primarily inhibitory following injury. Recent work has challenged this by demonstrating that some astrocytes are required for spinal cord regeneration and astrocytic roles in recovery depend on their phenotype. In this work, two mixed populations containing primarily either fibrous or protoplasmic astrocytes were derived from mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs). Motoneuron and V2a interneuron growth on live cultures, freeze-lysed cultures, or decellularized extracellular matrix (ECM) from astrocytes were assessed. Both neuronal populations were found to extend significantly longer neurites on protoplasmic-derived substrates than fibrous-derived substrates. Interestingly, neurons extended longer neurites on protoplasmic-derived ECM than fibrous-derived ECM. ECM proteins were compared with in vivo astrocyte expression profiles, and it was found that the ESC-derived ECMs were enriched for astrocyte-specific proteins. Further characterization revealed that protoplasmic ECM had significantly higher levels of axon growth promoting proteins, while fibrous ECM had significantly higher levels of proteins that inhibit axon growth. Supporting this observation, knockdown of spondin-1 improved neurite growth on fibrous ECM, while laminin α5 and γ1 knockdown decreased neurite growth on protoplasmic ECM. These methods allow for scalable production of specific astrocyte subtype-containing populations with different neuronal growth support capacities, and can be used for further studies of the functional importance of astrocyte heterogeneity.
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- Russell E Thompson
- 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis , St. Louis, Missouri.,2 Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin , Austin, Texas
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- 3 Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine , St. Louis, Missouri.,4 Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine , St. Louis, Missouri
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- 2 Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin , Austin, Texas
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- 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis , St. Louis, Missouri.,2 Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin , Austin, Texas
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- 3 Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine , St. Louis, Missouri.,4 Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine , St. Louis, Missouri
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- 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis , St. Louis, Missouri
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- 3 Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine , St. Louis, Missouri.,4 Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine , St. Louis, Missouri
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- 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis , St. Louis, Missouri.,2 Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin , Austin, Texas
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Integrin α5β1 expression on dopaminergic neurons is involved in dopaminergic neurite outgrowth on striatal neurons. Sci Rep 2017; 7:42111. [PMID: 28176845 PMCID: PMC5296761 DOI: 10.1038/srep42111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2016] [Accepted: 01/06/2017] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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During development, dopaminergic neurons born in the substantia nigra extend their axons toward the striatum. However, the mechanisms by which the dopaminergic axons extend the striatum to innervate their targets remain unclear. We previously showed that paired-cultivation of mesencephalic cells containing dopaminergic neurons with striatal cells leads to the extension of dopaminergic neurites from the mesencephalic cell region to the striatal cell region. The present study shows that dopaminergic neurites extended along striatal neurons in the paired-cultures of mesencephalic cells with striatal cells. The extension of dopaminergic neurites was suppressed by the pharmacological inhibition of integrin α5β1. Using lentiviral vectors, short hairpin RNA (shRNA)-mediated knockdown of integrin α5 in dopaminergic neurons suppressed the neurite outgrowth to the striatal cell region. In contrast, the knockdown of integrin α5 in non-dopaminergic mesencephalic and striatal cells had no effect. Furthermore, overexpression of integrin α5 in dopaminergic neurons differentiated from embryonic stem cells enhanced their neurite outgrowth on striatal cells. These results indicate that integrin α5β1 expression on dopaminergic neurons plays an important role in the dopaminergic neurite outgrowth on striatal neurons.
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Hopkins AM, DeSimone E, Chwalek K, Kaplan DL. 3D in vitro modeling of the central nervous system. Prog Neurobiol 2015; 125:1-25. [PMID: 25461688 PMCID: PMC4324093 DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2014.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2014] [Revised: 10/12/2014] [Accepted: 11/15/2014] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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There are currently more than 600 diseases characterized as affecting the central nervous system (CNS) which inflict neural damage. Unfortunately, few of these conditions have effective treatments available. Although significant efforts have been put into developing new therapeutics, drugs which were promising in the developmental phase have high attrition rates in late stage clinical trials. These failures could be circumvented if current 2D in vitro and in vivo models were improved. 3D, tissue-engineered in vitro systems can address this need and enhance clinical translation through two approaches: (1) bottom-up, and (2) top-down (developmental/regenerative) strategies to reproduce the structure and function of human tissues. Critical challenges remain including biomaterials capable of matching the mechanical properties and extracellular matrix (ECM) composition of neural tissues, compartmentalized scaffolds that support heterogeneous tissue architectures reflective of brain organization and structure, and robust functional assays for in vitro tissue validation. The unique design parameters defined by the complex physiology of the CNS for construction and validation of 3D in vitro neural systems are reviewed here.
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- Amy M Hopkins
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Science & Technology Center, 4 Colby Street, Medford, MA 02155, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Science & Technology Center, 4 Colby Street, Medford, MA 02155, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Science & Technology Center, 4 Colby Street, Medford, MA 02155, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Science & Technology Center, 4 Colby Street, Medford, MA 02155, USA.
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Stoffels JMJ, de Jonge JC, Stancic M, Nomden A, van Strien ME, Ma D, Sisková Z, Maier O, Ffrench-Constant C, Franklin RJM, Hoekstra D, Zhao C, Baron W. Fibronectin aggregation in multiple sclerosis lesions impairs remyelination. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013; 136:116-31. [PMID: 23365094 DOI: 10.1093/brain/aws313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Remyelination following central nervous system demyelination is essential to prevent axon degeneration. However, remyelination ultimately fails in demyelinating diseases such as multiple sclerosis. This failure of remyelination is likely mediated by many factors, including changes in the extracellular signalling environment. Here, we examined the expression of the extracellular matrix molecule fibronectin on demyelinating injury and how this affects remyelination by oligodendrocytes progenitors. In toxin-induced lesions undergoing efficient remyelination, fibronectin expression was transiently increased within demyelinated areas and declined as remyelination proceeded. Fibronectin levels increased both by leakage from the blood circulation and by production from central nervous system resident cells. In chronically demyelinated multiple sclerosis lesions, fibronectin expression persisted in the form of aggregates, which may render fibronectin resistant to degradation. Aggregation of fibronectin was similarly observed at the relapse phase of chronic experimental autoimmune encephalitis, but not on toxin-induced demyelination, suggesting that fibronectin aggregation is mediated by inflammation-induced demyelination. Indeed, the inflammatory mediator lipopolysaccharide induced fibronectin aggregation by astrocytes. Most intriguingly, injection of astrocyte-derived fibronectin aggregates in toxin-induced demyelinated lesions inhibited oligodendrocyte differentiation and remyelination, and fibronectin aggregates are barely expressed in remyelinated multiple sclerosis lesions. Therefore, these findings suggest that fibronectin aggregates within multiple sclerosis lesions contribute to remyelination failure. Hence, the inhibitory signals induced by fibronectin aggregates or factors that affect fibronectin aggregation could be potential therapeutic targets for promoting remyelination.
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- Josephine M J Stoffels
- Department of Cell Biology, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, A. Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
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Stenzel D, Lundkvist A, Sauvaget D, Busse M, Graupera M, van der Flier A, Wijelath ES, Murray J, Sobel M, Costell M, Takahashi S, Fässler R, Yamaguchi Y, Gutmann DH, Hynes RO, Gerhardt H. Integrin-dependent and -independent functions of astrocytic fibronectin in retinal angiogenesis. Development 2011; 138:4451-63. [PMID: 21880786 DOI: 10.1242/dev.071381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Fibronectin (FN) is a major component of the extracellular matrix and functions in cell adhesion, cell spreading and cell migration. In the retina, FN is transiently expressed and assembled on astrocytes (ACs), which guide sprouting tip cells and deposit a provisional matrix for sprouting angiogenesis. The precise function of FN in retinal angiogenesis is largely unknown. Using genetic tools, we show that astrocytes are the major source of cellular FN during angiogenesis in the mouse retina. Deletion of astrocytic FN reduces radial endothelial migration during vascular plexus formation in a gene dose-dependent manner. This effect correlates with reduced VEGF receptor 2 and PI3K/AKT signalling, and can be mimicked by selectively inhibiting VEGF-A binding to FN through intraocular injection of blocking peptides. By contrast, AC-specific replacement of the integrin-binding RGD sequence with FN-RGE or endothelial deletion of itga5 shows little effect on migration and PI3K/AKT signalling, but impairs filopodial alignment along AC processes, suggesting that FN-integrin α5β1 interaction is involved in filopodial adhesion to the astrocytic matrix. AC FN shares its VEGF-binding function and cell-surface distribution with heparan-sulfate (HS), and genetic deletion of both FN and HS together greatly enhances the migration defect, indicating a synergistic function of FN and HS in VEGF binding. We propose that in vivo the VEGF-binding properties of FN and HS promote directional tip cell migration, whereas FN integrin-binding functions to support filopodia adhesion to the astrocytic migration template.
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- Denise Stenzel
- Vascular Biology Laboratory, London Research Institute - Cancer Research UK, London WC2A 3PX, UK
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Giordano G, Guizzetti M, Dao K, Mattison HA, Costa LG. Ethanol impairs muscarinic receptor-induced neuritogenesis in rat hippocampal slices: Role of astrocytes and extracellular matrix proteins. Biochem Pharmacol 2011; 82:1792-9. [PMID: 21884684 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2011.08.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2011] [Revised: 08/12/2011] [Accepted: 08/15/2011] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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In an in vitro co-culture system of astrocytes and neurons, stimulation of cholinergic muscarinic receptors in astrocytes had been shown to cause neuritogenesis in hippocampal neurons, and this effect was inhibited by ethanol. The present study sought to confirm these earlier findings in a more complex system, in vitro rat hippocampal slices in culture. Exposure of hippocampal slices to the cholinergic agonist carbachol (1mM for 24h) induced neurite outgrowth in hippocampal pyramidal neurons, which was mediated by activation of muscarinic M3 receptors. Specifically, carbachol induced a >4-fold increase in the length of the longest neurite, and a 4-fold increase in the length of minor neurites and in the number of branches. Co-incubation of carbachol with ethanol (50mM) resulted in significant inhibition of the effects induced by carbachol on all parameters measured. Neurite outgrowth in CNS neurons is dependent on various permissive factors that are produced and released by glial cells. In hippocampal slices carbachol increased the levels of two extracellular matrix protein, fibronectin and laminin-1, by 1.6-fold, as measured by Western blot. Co-incubation of carbachol with ethanol significantly inhibited these increases. Carbachol-induced increases in levels of extracellular matrix proteins were antagonized by a M3 muscarinic receptor antagonist. Furthermore, function-blocking fibronectin or laminin-1 antibodies antagonized the effect of carbachol on neurite outgrowth. These results indicate that in hippocampal slices stimulation of muscarinic M3 receptors induces neurite outgrowth, which is mediated by fibronectin and laminin-1, two extracellular matrix proteins released by astrocytes. By decreasing fibronectin and laminin levels ethanol prevents carbachol-induced neuritogenesis. These findings highlight the importance of glial-neuronal interactions as important targets in the developmental neurotoxicity of alcohol.
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- Gennaro Giordano
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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Mechanisms of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis. Stroke 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-1-4160-5478-8.10003-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Klausmeyer A, Conrad R, Faissner A, Wiese S. Influence of glial-derived matrix molecules, especially chondroitin sulfates, on neurite growth and survival of cultured mouse embryonic motoneurons. J Neurosci Res 2010; 89:127-41. [PMID: 21162121 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.22531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2010] [Revised: 09/02/2010] [Accepted: 09/08/2010] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Mechanisms controlling neuronal survival and regeneration play an important role during development, after birth, and under lesion conditions. Isolated embryonic mouse motoneurons have been a useful tool for studying such basic mechanisms. These cultured motoneurons depend on extracellular matrix (ECM) molecules, which are potent mediators of survival and axonal growth and guidance in the CNS and in vitro, exhibiting either attractive or repellent guidance cues. Additionally, ECM proteoglycans and glycoproteins are components of the glial scar acting as a growth barrier for regenerating axons. Compared with CNS axon outgrowth, less is known about the cues that guide motoneurons toward their peripheral targets. Because we are interested in the effects of glial-derived chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans (CSPGs), we have worked out a model system for investigating the influences of glial-derived matrix molecules on motoneuron outgrowth and survival. We used cultured embryonic mouse motoneurons to investigate axon growth effects of matrix molecules produced by the glial-derived cell lines A7, Neu7, and Oli-neu primary astrocytes as well as the immortalized Schwann cell line IMS32. The results indicate that molecules of the ECM, especially chondroitin sulfates, play an important role as axon growth-promoting cues. We could demonstrate a modifying effect of the matrix components on motoneuron survival and caspase3-induced apoptosis.
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- Alice Klausmeyer
- Department of Cellmorphology and Molecular Neurobiology, Laboratory of Molecular Cellbiology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Ruhr-University-Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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Heffron DS, Landreth GE, Samuels IS, Mandell JW. Brain-specific deletion of extracellular signal-regulated kinase 2 mitogen-activated protein kinase leads to aberrant cortical collagen deposition. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 2009; 175:2586-99. [PMID: 19893051 DOI: 10.2353/ajpath.2009.090130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The mitogen-activated protein kinases extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK)1 and 2 are essential intracellular mediators of numerous transmembrane signals. To investigate neural-specific functions of ERK2 in the brain, we used a Cre/lox strategy using Nestin:Cre to drive recombination in neural precursor cells. Nestin:Cre;ERK2(fl/fl) conditional knockout (cKO) mice have architecturally normal brains and no gross behavioral deficits. However, all cKO mice developed early-onset (postnatal day 35 to 40) frontal cortical astrogliosis, without evidence of neuronal degeneration. Frontoparietal cortical gray matter, but not underlying white matter, was found to contain abundant pericapillary and parenchymal reticulin fibrils, which were shown by immunohistochemistry to contain fibrillar collagens, including type I collagen. ERK1 general KO mice showed neither fibrils nor astrogliosis, indicating a specific role for ERK2 in the regulation of brain collagen. Collagen fibrils were also observed to a lesser extent in GFAP:Cre;ERK2(fl/fl) mice but not in CamKII-Cre;ERK2(fl/fl) mice (pyramidal neuron specific), consistent with a possible astroglial origin. Primary astroglial cultures from cKO mice expressed elevated fibrillar collagen levels, providing further evidence that the phenotype may be cell autonomous for astroglia. Unlike most other tissues, brain and spinal cord parenchyma do not normally contain fibrillar collagens, except in disease states. Determining mechanisms of ERK2-mediated collagen regulation may enable targeted suppression of glial scar formation in diverse neurological disorders.
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- Daniel S Heffron
- Department of Pathology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
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A population of human brain cells expressing phenotypic markers of more than one lineage can be induced in vitro to differentiate into mesenchymal cells. Exp Cell Res 2009; 315:462-73. [DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2008.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2008] [Revised: 11/03/2008] [Accepted: 11/09/2008] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Guizzetti M, Moore NH, Giordano G, Costa LG. Modulation of neuritogenesis by astrocyte muscarinic receptors. J Biol Chem 2008; 283:31884-97. [PMID: 18755690 PMCID: PMC2581542 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m801316200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2008] [Revised: 07/22/2008] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Astrocytes have been shown to release factors that have promoting or inhibiting effects on neuronal development. However, mechanisms controlling the release of such factors from astrocytes are not well established. Astrocytes express muscarinic receptors whose activation stimulates a robust intracellular signaling, although the role of these receptors in glial cells is not well understood. Acetylcholine and acetylcholine receptors are present in the brain before synaptogenesis occurs and are believed to be involved in neuronal maturation. The present study was undertaken to investigate whether stimulation of muscarinic receptors in astrocytes would modulate neurite outgrowth in hippocampal neurons. Rat hippocampal neurons, co-cultured with rat cortical astrocytes previously exposed to the cholinergic agonist carbachol, displayed longer neurites. The effect of carbachol in astrocytes was due to the activation of M3 muscarinic receptors. Exposure of astrocytes to carbachol increased the expression of the extracellular matrix proteins fibronectin and laminin-1 in these cells. This effect was mediated in part by an increase in laminin-1 and fibronectin mRNA levels and in part by the up-regulation of the production and release of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1, an inhibitor of the proteolytic degradation of the extracellular matrix. The inhibition of fibronectin activity strongly reduced the effect of carbachol on the elongation of all the neurites, whereas inhibition of laminin-1 activity reduced the elongation of minor neurites only. Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 also induced neurite elongation through a direct effect on neurons. Taken together, these results demonstrate that cholinergic muscarinic stimulation of astrocytes induces the release of permissive factors that accelerate neuronal development.
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- Marina Guizzetti
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105, USA.
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Mendes-de-Aguiar CBN, Alchini R, Decker H, Alvarez-Silva M, Tasca CI, Trentin AG. Thyroid hormone increases astrocytic glutamate uptake and protects astrocytes and neurons against glutamate toxicity. J Neurosci Res 2008; 86:3117-25. [DOI: 10.1002/jnr.21755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Neurons have long held the spotlight as the central players of the nervous system, but we must remember that we have equal numbers of astrocytes and neurons in the brain. Are these cells only filling up the space and passively nurturing the neurons, or do they also contribute to information transfer and processing? After several years of intense research since the pioneer discovery of astrocytic calcium waves and glutamate release onto neurons in vitro, the neuronal-glial studies have answered many questions thanks to technological advances. However, the definitive in vivo role of astrocytes remains to be addressed. In addition, it is becoming clear that diverse populations of astrocytes coexist with different molecular identities and specialized functions adjusted to their microenvironment, but do they all belong to the umbrella family of astrocytes? One population of astrocytes takes on a new function by displaying both support cell and stem cell characteristics in the neurogenic niches. Here, we define characteristics that classify a cell as an astrocyte under physiological conditions. We will also discuss the well-established and emerging functions of astrocytes with an emphasis on their roles on neuronal activity and as neural stem cells in adult neurogenic zones.
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Monfils MH, Driscoll I, Vavrek R, Kolb B, Fouad K. FGF-2-induced functional improvement from neonatal motor cortex injury via corticospinal projections. Exp Brain Res 2007; 185:453-60. [PMID: 17962927 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-1172-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2007] [Accepted: 10/05/2007] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The administration of basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2) to rats with postnatal 10 (P10) motor cortex (MCx) lesions results in functional improvements accompanied with filling of the previously lesioned area with tissue. In the present experiment, we tested the prediction that FGF-2 induces functional recovery by promoting meaningful reconnection of neurons from the filled region to the periphery. Rats received bilateral MCx lesions on P10 and subcutaneous injections of either vehicle or FGF-2 for 7 days beginning on P11. In adulthood, we evaluated the physiology and anatomy of corticospinal projections using intracortical microstimulation together with recordings of evoked electromyographic (EMG) activity in wrist extensors, and anterogradely tracing projecting axons using biotin dextran amine. We found that activity could be induced in the wrist extensors following stimulation of the filled region with onset delays comparable to undamaged corticospinal tract fibers in 5 out of 7 lesioned, FGF-2 treated rats. Furthermore, in the rats in which EMG activity could be elicited, long descending axons were labeled with projections into the spinal cord comparable to corticospinal tracts from undamaged motor cortex. Our results demonstrate that FGF-2 treatment restores the connectivity of the filled region in neonatal rats. This provides a possible mechanism for FGF-2-induced functional recovery.
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- Marie H Monfils
- Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada.
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Subpopulation of nestin positive glial precursor cells occur in primary adult human brain cultures. Biologia (Bratisl) 2007. [DOI: 10.2478/s11756-007-0123-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Gottschling S, Eckstein V, Saffrich R, Jonás A, Uhrig M, Krause U, Seckinger A, Miesala K, Horsch K, Straub BK, Ho AD. Primitive and committed human hematopoietic progenitor cells interact with primary murine neural cells and are induced to undergo self-renewing cell divisions. Exp Hematol 2007; 35:1858-71. [PMID: 17697743 DOI: 10.1016/j.exphem.2007.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2007] [Revised: 06/04/2007] [Accepted: 06/18/2007] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Studies in animal models have indicated that hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPC) migrate and home to the central nervous system and might acquire neural features under specific circumstances. The interaction between HPC and the neural environment and the functional effect on hematopoiesis have not yet been defined. METHODS CD34(+)133(+) cells from mobilized peripheral blood were cocultured with primary murine neurons or astrocytes. Chemotaxis and adhesive interactions were studied by applying beta(1)- and beta(2)-integrin function-blocking anibodies. The impact of neural feeder layers on integrin expression of HPC and the presence of appropriate adhesion ligands on neural cells were determined by immunostaining and flow cytometry. The hematopoietic long-term fate was monitored by time-lapse microscopy of individual cell-division history followed by long-term culture-initiating cell (LTC-IC) and colony-forming cell (CFC) assays. Neural differentiation was assessed by immunostaining against specific neuronal and glial antigens. RESULTS The 23.0% +/- 4.9% of HPC showed stromal cell-derived factor-1-induced migration toward neural cells, and 20.2% +/- 1.6% displayed firm beta(1)-integrin-mediated adhesion to astrocytes. The latter expressed appropriate adhesion ligands, stabilized beta(1)-integrin expression, and increased beta(2)-integrin expression of HPC. Neural differentiation of HPC could not be identified but astrocytes were able to induce limited self-renewing cell divisions of HPC and thus maintain 25.8% +/- 3.4% of the initial LTC-IC and 80.7% +/- 1.9% of the initial CFC. CONCLUSION Human HPC are able to interact with neural cells and interaction maintains, albeit to a limited extent, the self-renewal capability of HPC.
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- Sandra Gottschling
- Department of Medicine V, Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany
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Chan CCM, Wong AK, Liu J, Steeves JD, Tetzlaff W. ROCK inhibition with Y27632 activates astrocytes and increases their expression of neurite growth-inhibitory chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans. Glia 2007; 55:369-84. [PMID: 17136770 DOI: 10.1002/glia.20466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Inhibition of Rho-kinase (ROCK) with Y27632 stimulates sprouting by injured corticospinal tract and dorsal column tract axons, and accelerates functional recovery. However, regeneration of these axons across the glial scar was not observed. Here we examined the effects of Y27632 treatment on chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan (CSPG) expression by astrocytes, which are a key component of the reactive gliosis inhibiting axonal regeneration. In vivo, rats underwent a dorsal column transection and were treated with Y27632 via intrathecal pump infusion. Compared with controls, Y27632-treated injury sites displayed exaggerated upregulation of glial fibrillary acid protein and neurocan immunoreactivity along the lesion edge. In vitro, astrocytes assumed a reactive morphology (stellate shape) and increased their expression of CSPGs after Y27632 treatment. Neurite growth by dissociated cortical neurons decreased when cultured on the extracellular matrix (ECM) derived from Y27632-treated astrocytes. This decrease in neurite growth was reversed with chondroitinase-ABC (ChABC) digestion, indicating that the inhibition was due to CSPG depositions within the ECM. Interestingly, conditioned medium (CM) from untreated astrocytes was inhibitory to neurite growth, which was overcome by ChABC digestion. Such inhibitory activity was not found in the CM of Y27632-treated astrocytes. Taken together, these data support a model where ROCK inhibition by Y27632 modifies astrocytic processing of CSPGs, and increases the presence of CSPGs within the ECM while reduces CSPGs in the CM (cerebrospinal fluid in vivo). This increased expression of inhibitory CSPGs in the ECM of the glial scar may counteract the growth promoting effects of ROCK inhibition on axonal growth cones.
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- Carmen C M Chan
- International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Gudz TI, Komuro H, Macklin WB. Glutamate stimulates oligodendrocyte progenitor migration mediated via an alphav integrin/myelin proteolipid protein complex. J Neurosci 2006; 26:2458-66. [PMID: 16510724 PMCID: PMC6793653 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.4054-05.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 160] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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In the mammalian CNS, oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) express most neurotransmitter receptors, but their function remains unclear. The current studies suggest a physiological role for glutamate (AMPA and/or kainate) receptors in OPC migration. AMPA stimulated alphav integrin-mediated OPC migration by increasing both the rate of cell movement and the frequency of Ca2+ transients. A protein complex containing the myelin proteolipid protein (PLP) and alphav integrin modulated the AMPA-stimulated migration, and stimulation of OPC AMPA receptors resulted in increased association of the AMPA receptor subunits themselves with the alphav integrin/PLP complex. Thus, after AMPA receptor stimulation, an alphav integrin/PLP/neurotransmitter receptor protein complex forms that reduces binding to the extracellular matrix and enhances OPC migration. To assess the extent to which PLP was involved in the AMPA-stimulated migration, OPCs from the myelin-deficient (MD) rat, which has a PLP gene mutation, were analyzed. OPCs from the MD rat had a normal basal migration rate, but AMPA did not stimulate the migration of these cells, suggesting that the PLP/alphav integrin complex was important for the AMPA-mediated induction. AMPA-induced modulation of OPC migration was abolished by pertussis toxin, although baseline migration was normal. Thus, G-protein-dependent signaling is crucial for AMPA-stimulated migration of OPCs but not for basal OPC migration. Other signaling pathways involved in this AMPA-stimulated OPC migration were also determined. These studies highlight novel signaling determinants of OPC migration and suggest that glutamate could play a pivotal role in regulating integrin-mediated OPC migration.
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Tom VJ, Doller CM, Malouf AT, Silver J. Astrocyte-associated fibronectin is critical for axonal regeneration in adult white matter. J Neurosci 2005; 24:9282-90. [PMID: 15496664 PMCID: PMC6730112 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2120-04.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 149] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Although it has been suggested that astroglia guide pioneering axons during development, the cellular and molecular substrates that direct axon regeneration in adult white matter have not been elucidated. We show that although adult cortical neurons were only able to elaborate very short, highly branched, dendritic-like processes when seeded onto organotypic slice cultures of postnatal day 35 (P35) rat brain containing the corpus callosum, adult dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons were able to regenerate lengthy axons within the reactive glial environment of this degenerating white matter tract. The callosum in both P35 slices and adult rat brain was rich in fibronectin, but not laminin. Furthermore, the fibronectin was intimately associated with the intratract astrocytes. Blockade of fibronectin function in situ with an anti-fibronectin antibody dramatically decreased outgrowth of DRG neurites, suggesting that fibronectin plays an important role in axon regeneration in mature white matter. The critical interaction between regrowing axons and astroglial-associated fibronectin in white matter may be an additional factor to consider when trying to understand regeneration failure and devising strategies to promote regeneration.
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- Veronica J Tom
- Department of Neurosciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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Growth stimulation and chemotropic attraction of rat retinal ganglion cell axonsin vitroby co-cultured optic nerves, astrocytes and astrocyte conditioned medium. Int J Dev Neurosci 2005. [DOI: 10.1016/0736-5748(96)00031-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Zhang Z, Yoo R, Wells M, Beebe TP, Biran R, Tresco P. Neurite outgrowth on well-characterized surfaces: preparation and characterization of chemically and spatially controlled fibronectin and RGD substrates with good bioactivity. Biomaterials 2005; 26:47-61. [PMID: 15193880 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2004.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2003] [Accepted: 01/29/2004] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Study of axonal growth and ligand-receptor interactions requires specificity and careful characterization of the biomaterial substrates to which the neurons bind. It would be impossible to predict the effects of important variables such as composition, surface density, spatial distribution, and conformation of the ligands on axonal growth of a neuron without highly specific surface characterization. Here, we compare two methods of surface modification (hereafter referred to as "Heterobifunctional Crosslinker" and "Pluronics" methods) used for immobilization of fibronectin (FN) and FN-derived, RGD-containing peptides to the substrates. We also characterized their performance in neurite outgrowth experiments. Various surface analytical techniques such as contact angle measurement, XPS, and time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) were used for the analysis of the substrates at each step of the two different chemistries involved. FN-patterned surfaces were created by micro-contact printing methods and confirmed by imaging TOF-SIMS, and AFM techniques. After immobilization of FN and/or FN-derived RGD-containing peptide, including the formation of micron-scale patterns of FN, the modified surfaces were plated with neurons from postnatal rat dorsal root ganglia (DRG) and incubated in serum-free medium. Both the peptide- and/or protein-modified substrates supported significantly greater neurite outgrowth than controls, and outgrowth on both substrate chemistries was inhibited by the addition of soluble RGD peptide. Patterned FN surfaces were successful in spatially controlling the neuron attachment and outgrowth.
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- Zhanping Zhang
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, 175 Brown Lab, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
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del Zoppo GJ, Kalafut M. Mechanisms of Thrombosis and thrombolysis. Stroke 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/b0-44-306600-0/50046-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Giménez y Ribotta M, Gaviria M, Menet V, Privat A. Strategies for regeneration and repair in spinal cord traumatic injury. PROGRESS IN BRAIN RESEARCH 2002; 137:191-212. [PMID: 12440369 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6123(02)37017-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/19/2023]
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Spinal cord injury is frequently followed by the loss of supraspinal control of sensory, autonomic and motor functions at the sublesional level. In order to enhance recovery in spinal cord-injured patients, we have developed three fundamental strategies in experimental models. These strategies define in turn three chronological levels of postlesional intervention in the spinal cord. Neuroprotection soon after injury using pharmacological tools to reduce the progressive secondary injury processes that follow during the first week after the initial lesion. This strategy was conducted up to clinical trials, showing that a pharmacological therapy can reduce the permanent neurological deficit that usually follows an acute injury of the central nervous system (CNS). A second strategy, which is initiated not long after the lesion, aims at promoting axonal regeneration by acting on the main barrier to regeneration of lesioned axons: the glial scar. Finally a mid-term substitutive strategy is the management of the sublesional spinal cord by sensorimotor stimulation and/or supply of missing key afferents, such as monoaminergic systems. These three strategies are reviewed. Only a combination of these different approaches will be able to provide an optimal basis for potential therapeutic interventions directed to functional recovery after spinal cord injury.
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1. In addition to its role in cellular metabolic activity, thyroid hormone (TH) is critically involved in growth, development, and function of the central nervous system. In the brain, as in other structures, TH is described to exert its major action by the binding of L-3,5,3'-triiodothyronine (T3), considered as the bioactive form of the hormone, to nuclear thyroid hormone receptors (TR) that function as ligand-dependent transcription factors. 2. The transcription of numerous brain genes was indeed shown to be positively or negatively regulated by TH, turning these TR-mediated effects one explanation for the physiological effects of TH. In this context, the knowledge from TR-knockout studies provides some surprising results, since neonatal hypothyroidism is associated to more significant abnormalities than is TR deficiency. Some (nonexclusive) hypotheses include a permissive effect of TH, allowing derepression of unliganded-TR effects and non-TR-mediated effects of the hormone, further emphasizing the importance of a controlled accessibility of neural cells to TH. 3. On the other hand, T3 was demonstrated to directly act not only on neuronal but also on glial cells proliferation and differentiation, contributing to the harmonious development of the brain. Interestingly, in addition to these direct actions on neuronal and glial cells, several lines of evidence, notably developped in our laboratory, point out the role of thyroid hormone in neuronal-glial interactions.
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- Sandra König
- Departamento de Anatomia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21949-590, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Fröjdö EM, Westerlund J, Isomaa B. Culturing and characterization of astrocytes isolated from juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2002; 133:17-28. [PMID: 12160869 DOI: 10.1016/s1095-6433(02)00110-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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An access to brain cell cultures from fish would enable screening of possible neurotoxic chemicals contaminating the aquatic environment. In the present study, a protocol for a successful routine isolation and culturing of brain cells from juvenile rainbow trout was worked out. The coating material was shown to be of importance for cell proliferation. Cells grow better on a surface coated with laminin than on those coated with poly-L-lysine (PLL), poly-D-lysin (PDL) or poly-L-ornithine (PLO). The best cell growth was obtained on double-coated surfaces (PLL, PDL or PLO plus laminin). On such a culture substrate and with a seeding density of 1 x 10(7) cells/cm(2) confluence was obtained within 3-4 weeks at an incubation temperature of 18 degrees C. Approximately 95% of the cells were identified as astrocytes on the basis of a positive staining with antibodies against the astrocyte specific glial protein (GFAP). No oligodendrocytes or fibroblasts were identified in the cultures, and despite several efforts, neurons did not grow under the culture conditions used. When challenged with ligands known to awake a calcium transient in mammalian astrocytes, 44% of the cells responded to ATP with an increase in [Ca 2+](i), 38% to norepinephrine, 27% to 5-hydroxytryptamine, 7% to histamine and 6% to glutamate. Kainate, quisqualate and gamma-aminobutyric acid did not awake a calcium transient in the cells. Using a proper protocol, it is thus quite easy to get an almost pure culture of astrocyte, whereas neurones proved to very difficult to culture.
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- E-M Fröjdö
- Department of Biology, Abo Akademi University, BioCity, Artillerigatan 6, FIN-20520, Turku/Abo, Finland
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Cytokines regulate microglial adhesion to laminin and astrocyte extracellular matrix via protein kinase C-dependent activation of the alpha6beta1 integrin. J Neurosci 2002. [PMID: 11880486 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-05-01562.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Microglia are highly plastic cells that participate in inflammatory and injury responses within the CNS and that can migrate extensively after activation. Because astrocytes and their extracellular matrix (ECM) form a large part of the CNS parenchyma, we undertook to study the adhesive interactions between microglia and these substrates in vitro. In contrast to oligodendrocyte precursor cells, microglia formed only weak interactions with astrocytes and their ECM. On specific ECM substrates the microglia adhered strongly to fibronectin, vitronectin, and plastic but only weakly to laminin. Microglial adhesion to laminin was increased significantly by the proinflammatory cytokines TNF, IFN-alpha, and IFN-gamma but was decreased by TGF-beta1, with the TGF-beta1 effect being dominant over the other cytokines. Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) analysis and immunoprecipitation showed that microglia constitutively express the alpha6beta1 integrin, a well characterized laminin receptor, and that alpha6beta1 expression levels did not change after cytokine treatment. Function-blocking studies showed that microglial adhesion to laminin is mediated entirely by the alpha6beta1 integrin, strongly suggesting that the cytokine regulation of adhesion to laminin is mediated by changes in the activation state of alpha6beta1. Analysis of signaling pathways revealed that activation of alpha6beta1 is mediated by a PKC-dependent mechanism. In light of the evidence that laminin expression is upregulated after CNS injury, the findings suggest that cytokine regulation of microglial adhesion to laminin may play a fundamental role in determining the extent of microglial infiltration into and retention at the site of injury.
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Liesi P, Kauppila T. Induction of type IV collagen and other basement-membrane-associated proteins after spinal cord injury of the adult rat may participate in formation of the glial scar. Exp Neurol 2002; 173:31-45. [PMID: 11771937 DOI: 10.1006/exnr.2001.7800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We investigated the spatial and temporal expression of basement-membrane-forming and neurite-outgrowth-supporting matrix proteins after a unilateral dorsal root injury combined with a collagen I/laminin-1 graft and a stab wound lesion to the dorsal horn of the adult rat spinal cord. Ten days after injury, the gamma1 laminin was induced in the reactive glia. At this early stage, the glial cells failed to express type IV collagen and the alpha1 laminin. One month after injury, reactive astrocytes in the dorsal horn of the lesioned side expressed gamma1 laminin, type IV collagen, and the alpha1 laminin whereas astrocytes of the normal spinal cord or the uninjured contralateral dorsal horn were negative. Both astrocytes and neurons of the ipsilateral ventral horn were induced to express laminin-1 and gamma1 laminin. Astrocytes of the ipsilateral ventral horn also expressed type IV collagen. Simultaneously with the changes in expression of the extracellular matrix proteins, the expression pattern of basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2) was markedly altered after spinal cord injury. In normal and contralateral spinal cord, FGF-2 was expressed in nerve fibers, but its expression changed from neuronal into glial in the ipsilateral spinal cord within 1 month after injury. Four months after injury, expression of both type IV collagen and the alpha1 laminin had declined, but the astrocytes at the injury site continued expressing the gamma1 laminin. Cultured astrocytes were negative for type IV collagen, but several cytokines, including IL-1beta and TGFbeta1, induced expression of type IV collagen in the astrocytes. These factors also increased deposition of type IV collagen matrix in the glial cultures. These results indicate that type IV collagen and the alpha1 laminin are induced in reactive astrocytes after spinal cord injury in vivo. Induction of type IV collagen in astrocytes in vitro by cytokines indicates that blood-borne or local factors at the injury site may induce the spinal cord glial expression of type IV collagen in vivo. Simultaneous expression of laminin-1 and alpha1 laminin with type IV collagen is known to lead to production of basement membranes. This may hamper the neurite-outgrowth-promoting potential of the gamma1 laminin by initiating formation of the glial scar.
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- Päivi Liesi
- The Brain Laboratory, Biomedicum Helsinki, Institute of Biomedicine (Anatomy), University of Helsinki, Haartmaninkatu 8, 00014 Helsinki, Finland.
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Gomes FC, Lima FR, Trentin AG, Moura Neto V. Thyroid hormone role in nervous system morphogenesis. PROGRESS IN BRAIN RESEARCH 2001; 132:41-50. [PMID: 11545007 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6123(01)32064-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/21/2023]
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- F C Gomes
- Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Departamento de Anatomia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 21949-590 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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Inactivation of the glial fibrillary acidic protein gene, but not that of vimentin, improves neuronal survival and neurite growth by modifying adhesion molecule expression. J Neurosci 2001. [PMID: 11487638 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.21-16-06147.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Intermediate filaments (IFs) are a major component of the cytoskeleton in astrocytes. Their role is far from being completely understood. Immature astrocytes play a major role in neuronal migration and neuritogenesis, and their IFs are mainly composed of vimentin. In mature differentiated astrocytes, vimentin is replaced by the IF protein glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP). In response to injury of the CNS in the adult, astrocytes become reactive, upregulate the expression of GFAP, and reexpress vimentin. These modifications contribute to the formation of a glial scar that is obstructive to axonal regeneration. Nevertheless, astrocytes in vitro are considered to be the ideal substratum for the growth of embryonic CNS axons. In the present study, we have examined the potential role of these two major IF proteins in both neuronal survival and neurite growth. For this purpose, we cocultured wild-type neurons on astrocytes from three types of knock-out (KO) mice for GFAP or/and vimentin in a neuron-astrocyte coculture model. We show that the double KO astrocytes present many features of immaturity and greatly improve survival and neurite growth of cocultured neurons by increasing cell-cell contact and secreting diffusible factors. Moreover, our data suggest that the absence of vimentin is not a key element in the permissivity of the mutant astrocytes. Finally, we show that only the absence of GFAP is associated with an increased expression of some extracellular matrix and adhesion molecules. To conclude, our results suggest that GFAP expression is able to modulate key biochemical properties of astrocytes that are implicated in their permissivity.
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Napp MI, Colombo JA. Heterochronous maturation of regional brain astroglia: neuronal modulation of striatal glial cells differentiation ex vivo. Int J Dev Neurosci 2000; 18:531-44. [PMID: 10884598 DOI: 10.1016/s0736-5748(00)00021-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022] Open
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Subcultured astroglial cells from striatum, cerebral cortex and ventral mesencephalon obtained from primary cultures of fetal (E14, E17 and E21) or postnatal (days 5-6) rats showed different regional, age-dependent morphological response (stellation) to cyclic AMP. While most of the cerebral cortex and ventral mesencephalic astroglial cell population was responsive at all ages tested, striatal cells at E14 and E17 were not. At age E21 striatal astroglia showed a significant shift toward a mature-like type of response to cyclic AMP. Postnatal striatal astroglia responded to cyclic AMP as the cortical and ventral mesencephalic astroglia did, with generalized stellation. Prenatal striatal astroglia was characterized immunocytochemically as A2B5+, fibronectin+, vimentin+, S-100+ and GFAP-. Failure of early prenatal (E14, E17) striatal astroglia to differentiate in response to cyclic AMP, was overcome by previous (5-7 days) co-culture with primary cell dissociates from postnatal-, but not from prenatal donors, from all brain regions tested including a non-target region for striatal cells, such as septum. This effect was duplicated when striatal astroglia was co-cultured with cell populations enriched in neurons through Percoll gradients. Only cell-to-cell contact co-cultures were able to induce a change in the studied response. Dead neuron-enriched populations obtained following various types of physical treatments were also able to change significantly striatal cell response toward cyclic AMP. Enriched astroglial populations from postnatal donors did not change striatal astroglial response toward cyclic AMP, except for ventral mesencephalic astroglia which induced a comparatively reduced but significant increase in striatal cell responsiveness. It is concluded that astroglial maturation and potential for phenotype expression during brain development proceeds with regional heterochrony. Also, that maturation of prenatal striatal astroglia responsiveness toward cyclic AMP is inducible by non-diffusible factors, probably of neuronal origin, expressed in live or dead primary cultures from various, homotopic and heterotopic, postnatal brain regions. It is further suggested that striatal afferents and/or mature local striatal neurons express membrane associated molecules that regulate responsiveness for phenotype expression of striatal glial cells, thus reinforcing the concept of a highly interactive, continuous neuron-glial developmental process that takes place during brain organization.
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- M I Napp
- Programa Unidad de Neurobiología Aplicada (PRUNA)(CEMIC-CONICET), Av Galván 4102, 1431, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Hirsch S, Bähr M. Growth promoting and inhibitory effects of glial cells in the mammalian nervous system. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2000; 468:199-205. [PMID: 10635030 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-4685-6_16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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In the central nervous system (CNS) of mammals axonal regeneration is limited by two main factors: first, the low intrinsic regenerative potential of adult CNS neurons and second, inhibitory influences of the glial and extracellular environment. Myelin-associated inhibitors of neurite growth as well as some properties of so called "reactive astrocytes" contribute to the non-permissive of CNS tissue for axonal growth. In contrast, the peripheral nervous system (PNS) environment is supportive of regeneration because Schwann cells provide suitable substrates for regrowing axons. Purified PNS myelin, however, inhibits growth of PNS and CNS axons to a similar extent as does CNS myelin. The molecular basis of glial substrate properties has been studied intensively in the recent years and a large number of molecules have been recognized which might play a role in the regulation of axonal growth. Although the exact mechanisms are still not fully understood, accumulating data shed light on the complex interactions between neurons and glia that are required to establish, maintain, and regenerate axonal connections in the nervous system. In the following chapter we review the role of glial cells in the CNS and PNS during processes of de- and regeneration with respect to our own work.
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- S Hirsch
- Department of Neurology, University of Tübingen, Germany
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Biran R, Noble MD, Tresco PA. Characterization of cortical astrocytes on materials of differing surface chemistry. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH 1999; 46:150-9. [PMID: 10379992 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4636(199908)46:2<150::aid-jbm3>3.0.co;2-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The behavior of cortical astrocytes was evaluated on a number of medically relevant materials of differing physicochemical properties. This study describes cell attachment, DNA synthesis, production of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins, and neuronal interactions of perinatal rat astrocytes in vitro. The number of attached astrocytes initially differed among the materials, decreasing with increasing material hydrophobicity. In contrast, the rate of DNA synthesis increased with increasing material hydrophobicity. With the exception of only one material, astrocytes reached confluence by 12 days in culture on all the materials tested. Furthermore, the expression of characteristic ECM proteins and the fundamental ability of astrocytes to support neuronal attachment and growth was qualitatively identical between populations of astrocytes on different materials. The ability of astrocytes to colonize different surfaces initially was mediated via adsorbed serum proteins, as reducing the capacity of a model surface to adsorb proteins inhibited astrocyte colonization for up to 2 weeks in culture. We propose that astrocytes are relatively insensitive to differences in surface chemistries so long as the proteins necessary for cellular attachment are capable of adsorbing to the material to some extent. It seems likely that the ability of astrocytes to produce and remodel a matrix creates a surface environment that eventually becomes similar regardless of the surface chemistry of the underlying material.
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- R Biran
- Department of Oncological Sciences, W.M. Keck Center for Tissue Engineering, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112, USA
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Regeneration in the adult central nervous system (CNS) is thought to be hampered by the lesion-induced activation of astrocytes and meningeal cells and the consecutive formation of a glial scar. The substrate properties of reactive astrocytes differ significantly from their neonatal counterparts, which promote axon growth, but in spite of intensive studies the underlying molecular changes are still not fully understood. We have used two cell culture systems to compare the expression of certain surface molecules on neonatal astrocytes, reactive astrocytes and meningeal cells in vitro. Both, neonatal and reactive adult astrocytes exhibited a very similar expression of growth promoting molecules (NCAM, L1, laminin, fibronectin, DSD-1 proteoglycan) and potential inhibitors (tenascinC, chondroitin sulfate, and NG2-proteoglycan), whereas we could not detect the inhibitory keratan sulfate on either astrocyte population. In contrast, meningeal cells expressed considerable levels of keratan sulfate, but only minimal amounts of NCAM. In addition, the much higher expression of extracellular fibronectin around meningeal cells implies an excess formation of extracellular matrix (ECM). In coculture experiments, embryonic retinal ganglion cell (RGC) axons clearly avoided meningeal cells and instead preferred even reactive adult astrocytes. Our results suggest that the expression of inhibitory keratan sulfate proteoglycans together with a lack of NCAM and an excess production of ECM may be responsible for the non-permissiveness of meningeal cells. Compared to reactive astrocytes, meningeal cells are even worse a substrate for growing axons. None of the molecules investigated, however, seems to account for the different substrate properties of neonatal and reactive adult astrocytes.
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- S Hirsch
- Department of Neurology, University of Tübingen, Germany
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Julliard AK, Hartmann DJ. Spatiotemporal patterns of expression of extracellular matrix molecules in the developing and adult rat olfactory system. Neuroscience 1998; 84:1135-50. [PMID: 9578401 DOI: 10.1016/s0306-4522(97)00544-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Using immunocytochemical methods, we have examined extensively the spatial and temporal patterns of expression of three extracellular matrix molecules-laminin, fibronectin, and type IV collagen-in the embryonic, postnatal (days 2 and 11) and adult rat olfactory system. The study started at embryonic day 14 when olfactory fibres and their associated migrating cells course through the nasal mesenchyme. From embryonic day 14 to the adult, a sheet-like pattern of labelling for laminin, fibronectin and type IV collagen was observed along the basal surface of the olfactory epithelium and around the telencephalon. This type of labelling was continuous around the telencephalic vesicle, whereas it appeared disrupted in the basal lamina of the olfactory epithelium to permit exit of the olfactory axons and their associated migrating cells into the mesenchyme. From embryonic day 14 to day 20, punctate labelling for the three molecules studied was observed along the mesenchymal olfactory pathway, the ventral part of the olfactory bulb, the olfactory nerve layer and the presumptive glomerular layer, respectively. By embryonic day 17, the punctate labelling initially detected in the mesenchymal olfactory pathway was replaced by a sheet-like pattern related to the mature basal lamina surrounding the olfactory axon fascicles. Punctate labelling for laminin and type IV collagen persisted in the olfactory nerve layer and around the glomeruli through adult life whereas that of fibronectin declined and disappeared by postnatal day 2. The spatiotemporal distribution of the punctate pattern for laminin, fibronectin and type IV collagen observed in the embryonic olfactory system suggests a role in delineating the pathway for olfactory axon elongation. The continuous expression of laminin and type IV collagen in the adult olfactory bulb may be related to the regenerative activity and high plasticity of the olfactory system.
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- A K Julliard
- Laboratoire de Physiologie Neurosensorielle, Université Claude Bernard/Lyon I, Villeurbanne, France
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Mahler M, Ben-Ari Y, Represa A. Differential expression of fibronectin, tenascin-C and NCAMs in cultured hippocampal astrocytes activated by kainate, bacterial lipopolysaccharide or basic fibroblast growth factor. Brain Res 1997; 775:63-73. [PMID: 9439829 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(97)00901-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Different reports demonstrated that reactive glial cells express increased amounts of adhesion and matrix molecules. Despite a wealth of information on the expression of these molecules during development and after lesion, very little is known of how this expression is regulated. In the present report we used Western blots and immunocytochemistry to investigate the expression of neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM), fibronectin and tenascin-C in cultured astrocytes from rat hippocampus. The effects of three different extracellular signals were analyzed: the glutamatergic receptor agonist kainic acid, the basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and the bacterial lipopolysaccharide. Each treatment had a specific pattern of glial activation and differentially modified the expression of these proteins. Treatment of astrocytes with kainic acid resulted in an increase of tenascin-C, a decrease of fibronectin and a shift of NCAMs isoforms: NCAM 140 and PSA-NCAM (polysialic acid-rich NCAMs) were increased while NCAM 120 was decreased, bFGF increased fibronectin, tenascin-C and NCAM 120, while decreasing PSA-NCAM. Finally, the treatment of astrocytes with lipopolysaccharide induced a significant increase of fibronectin, tenascin-C and NCAM 120 but did not modify the expression of NCAM 140 and PSA-NCAM. These data suggest different mechanisms for modulation of cell surface interactions. They suggest that glial activation by bFGF and lipopolysaccharide are associated with an increase of the adhesive properties, while kainate action is rather associated with a decrease of the adhesiveness of astrocytes.
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- M Mahler
- Université René Descartes, Paris V, France
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Gressens P, Muaku SM, Besse L, Nsegbe E, Gallego J, Delpech B, Gaultier C, Evrard P, Ketelslegers JM, Maiter D. Maternal protein restriction early in rat pregnancy alters brain development in the progeny. BRAIN RESEARCH. DEVELOPMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH 1997; 103:21-35. [PMID: 9370057 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-3806(97)00109-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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We assessed the effects of a dietary protein restriction (5% vs. 20% casein in diet) initiated at conception and imposed during the first 2 weeks of rat gestation on postnatal brain development. At the end of the malnutrition period, protein-restricted animals exhibited significantly smaller fetal body weight and brain cortical thickness than controls. At birth and thereafter, body weight was normalized in the progeny. Similarly, brain weight and cytoarchitecture were normal in postnatal animals. In contrast, we observed, during the first 2 postnatal weeks, several abnormalities of brain development which affected all the studied areas for most of the studied parameters: (i) delayed astrocytogenesis as shown by a reduced GFAP staining; (ii) delayed production of hyaluronan in the extracellular matrix studied with binding of biotinylated hyaluronectin; (iii) abnormal neuronal differentiation as shown by reduced expression of MAP-5 and increased expression of MAP-1; (iv) abnormal synaptogenesis as shown by the increased expression of synaptophysin in the basal ganglia; (v) decreased programmed cell death. In adult prenatally protein-restricted animals, all the above parameters were normalized excepted MAP-1 labeling which remained high. In addition, we observed slight alterations of the ventilatory response to hypoxia in adult animals. The present study demonstrates that early protein malnutrition during embryonic development induces multiple, transient alterations of brain development. However, the almost complete normalization in adults of brain architecture and differentiation as well as our physiological data strongly suggest a remarkable plasticity of the developing brain following an early aggression.
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- P Gressens
- Laboratoire de Neurobiologie et de Physiologie du Développement, INSERM CRI 96-03, Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France.
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Guillemin G, Boussin FD, Croitoru J, Franck-Duchenne M, Le Grand R, Lazarini F, Dormont D. Obtention and characterization of primary astrocyte and microglial cultures from adult monkey brains. J Neurosci Res 1997; 49:576-91. [PMID: 9302079 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4547(19970901)49:5<576::aid-jnr8>3.0.co;2-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Simple methods for obtention of primary cultures of isolated astrocytes and microglia from adult simian brain have been developed. Characterization of these two glial cell populations were performed by morphological observations and by immunocytochemistry. The astroglial cultures were obtained by an indirect method. After L-leucine methyl-ester treatment and trypsinizations, more than 99% of cells expressed glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), whereas no macrophages or microglia could be detected. Likely, the 1% remaining cells were immature astrocytes or cells that lost their GFAP expression. Cultured simian astrocytes expressed vimentin, laminin, and fibronectin. We also found a constitutively low expression of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II by cultured astrocytes which was significantly enhanced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS), interferon gamma (IFN-gamma), or tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) treatments. Microglial cultures were obtained by a direct method of isolation using Percoll gradient separations and compared to simian monocyte-derived macrophages or alveolar macrophages. Microglial cells differed from macrophages by their proliferation upon granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) treatment and by their typical morphology when observed by scanning electron microscopy. As macrophages, they expressed in vitro CD68, CD64, CD14, CD11b, MHC class II, and fibronectin. However, contrary to macrophages, simian cultured microglia expressed laminin. This observation suggests that microglia represent a new potential source of this extracellular matrix protein in the brain.
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- G Guillemin
- Service de Neurovirologie, CEA, DSV/DRM/SSA/IPSC, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
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Gillian AM, McFarlane I, Lucy FM, Overly C, McConlogue L, Breen KC. Individual isoforms of the amyloid beta precursor protein demonstrate differential adhesive potentials to constituents of the extracellular matrix. J Neurosci Res 1997; 49:154-60. [PMID: 9272638 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4547(19970715)49:2<154::aid-jnr4>3.0.co;2-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The amyloid beta precursor protein (AbetaPP) can exist as a membrane-bound glycoprotein which modulates neural cell adhesion. The adhesion of clones of the AtT20 mouse pituitary cell line, transfected with cDNA coding for the 695 (AbetaPP695) and 751 (AbetaPP751) amino acid forms of the protein, to individual components of the extracellular matrix was determined using a centrifugal shear assay. On laminin, poly-L-lysine, fibronectin, and uncoated glass substrata, the cells transfected with AbetaPP695 (6A1 cells) demonstrated a 50% increase in adhesivity over nontransfected cells, while those transfected with AbetaPP751 (7A1 cells) showed a significant decrease in adhesion. There was, however, a significant increase in the adhesive strength of the 7A1 cells to collagen type IV with no change in the adhesivity of the 6A1 cells when compared with control. These changes in adhesivity could be attributed to changes in the levels of the membrane-bound protein and were not due to the interaction of soluble AbetaPP with elements of the extracellular matrix. These studies provide evidence for differential adhesivities of the constituent AbetaPP isoforms and the possible role of the Kunitz protease inhibitor (KPI) domain in influencing the adhesive properties of the protein backbone.
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- A M Gillian
- Neurosciences Institute, Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Medical School, Scotland
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Mahler M, Ferhat L, Ben-Ari Y, Represa A. Effects of tenascin-C in cultured hippocampal astrocytes: NCAM and fibronectin immunoreactivity changes. Glia 1997; 20:231-42. [PMID: 9215732 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-1136(199707)20:3<231::aid-glia7>3.0.co;2-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Tenascin-C is an extracellular matrix glycoprotein with trophic and repulsive properties on neuronal cells, involved in migratory processes of immature neurons. Previous reports demonstrated that this molecule is produced and secreted by astrocytes, in vitro after activation by bFGF or in vivo after CNS lesion. In injured brain the expression of tenascin-C has been correlated with the glial reaction since it was observed in regions suffering a dramatic glial proliferation and hypertrophy. In this report we show that the treatment of cultured hippocampal astrocytes with tenascin-C results in an increased fibronectin and NCAM immunoreactivities. In addition, treated astrocytes form longer extensions than control ones. The number of cells as well as the levels of GFAP mRNA and protein immunoreactivity are not modified after tenascin-C treatment. The present changes may, therefore, be related to the modification of the adhesive properties of astrocytes to the substrate. These observations are compatible with the hypothesis that tenascin-C may contribute to the glial scarring process.
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- M Mahler
- Universite René Descartes (Paris V), France
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Lucius R, Sievers J. Postnatal retinal ganglion cells in vitro: protection against reactive oxygen species (ROS)-induced axonal degeneration by cocultured astrocytes. Brain Res 1996; 743:56-62. [PMID: 9017230 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(96)01029-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are supposed to be involved in neurodegenerative processes like Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease. Beside this there are an increasing number of studies indicating an involvement of ROS in traumatic brain injury. We therefore studied the potential role of astrocytes against neurotoxic effects of ROS in cocultures of rat cortical astrocytes with regenerating postnatal retinal ganglion cells (RGC). The sydnonimine SIN-1, which spontaneously decomposes to yield nitric oxide (NO) and superoxide anion radicals, led to axonal degeneration at concentrations between 1 microM and 10 microM. Comparable effects were seen after addition of iron salts (Fe2+/Fe3+), which catalyze the generation of hydroxyl radicals. In contrast, in cocultures of RGC with astrocytes or after addition of free radical scavengers there was no neurotoxic/neurodegenerative effect of ROS as compared with control cultures. Vitamin E (1-10 microM) and vitamin C (10-100 microM) abolished the neurotoxic effect of both SIN-1 or iron ions. Beside this, there was an additional effect concerning the number and the length of neurites growing out from the retinal explant: in cocultures both parameters were greatly enhanced. These results suggest that (i) astrocytes are able to protect retinal ganglion cells against ROS-induced oxidative stress, (ii) astrocytes release soluble neurotrophic factors supporting RGC axonal regeneration, and (iii) free radical production after tissue injury may partly contribute to the failure of axonal regeneration in the adult mammalian central nervous system.
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- R Lucius
- Anatomisches Institut, Universität Kiel, Germany
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Chintala SK, Gokaslan ZL, Go Y, Sawaya R, Nicolson GL, Rao JS. Role of extracellular matrix proteins in regulation of human glioma cell invasion in vitro. Clin Exp Metastasis 1996; 14:358-66. [PMID: 8878410 DOI: 10.1007/bf00123395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Primary brain tumors lack the metastatic behavior that is in part believed to be promoted by the extracellular matrix (ECM) components of the basement membrane. This study was intended to examine the influence of the ECM components present in the basement membrane that may act as natural barriers to tumor cell invasion. We examined the effect of type I and type IV collagens, fibronectin, laminin, and hyaluronic acid on the migration and invasion of four established glioblastoma cell lines, SNB19, U251, UWR1, and UWR2. Lower concentrations of all the ECM components induced the migration and invasion of all the cell lines. However, in the case of SNB19, laminin inhibited both migration and invasion in a concentration-dependent manner. We have also examined the influence of individual ECM components on the migration of cells from a spheroid to a monolayer on ECM component-coated coverslips. Consistent with the invasion studies using the modified Boyden chamber assays, lower concentrations of ECM components induced the migration of cells from spheroids to monolayer. Again, laminin inhibited the migration of cells from SNB19 spheroids. These results indicate that ECM components induce the invasion of glioma cells, apart from components like laminin, which may act as natural inhibitors.
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- S K Chintala
- Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 77030, USA
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Guillemin G, Boussin FD, Le Grand R, Croitoru J, Coffigny H, Dormont D. Granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor stimulates in vitro proliferation of astrocytes derived from simian mature brains. Glia 1996; 16:71-80. [PMID: 8787775 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-1136(199601)16:1<71::aid-glia8>3.0.co;2-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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In the brain, granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) may be released by infiltrated cells of the immune system including T and B lymphocytes and mononuclear phagocytes, but also by nervous system resident cells such as microglia and astrocytes. Astrocyte-secreted GM-CSF may play an important role in enhancing the local inflammatory response to central nervous system (CNS) injury and in recruting microglia and activated macrophages. In this study, we demonstrated that GM-CSF, as TNF alpha and IL 6, stimulates in vitro proliferation of simian astrocytes in primary cultures. Results were confirmed by blocking experiments performed with a specific neutralizing mAb directed against GM-CSF. Furthermore, we demonstrated that GM-CSF mediates its effect on these cells through the alpha subunit of the GM-CSF receptor which is constitutively expressed at the membrane of the cultured simian astrocytes as assessed by immunofluorescence. GM-CSF effects on astrocytes could be involved in astrocytosis, a hallmark of various neurological injuries and in inflammatory processes in an autocrine manner.
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- G Guillemin
- Service de Neurovirologie, CEA, DSV/DRM/SSA/IPSC, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
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Struckhoff G. Cocultures of meningeal and astrocytic cells--a model for the formation of the glial-limiting membrane. Int J Dev Neurosci 1995; 13:595-606. [PMID: 8553894 DOI: 10.1016/0736-5748(95)00040-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The glial-limiting membrane at the border of the central nervous system (CNS) consists of glial endfeet covered by a basal lamina. The formation of the glia limitans seems to be controlled by adjacent meninges but only little is known about this interaction. In the present study astrocytes and meningeal cells were investigated in vitro to see if cocultures of these cells can serve as a suitable model for the differentiation of the glial-limiting membrane and can be used to define the conditions under which the glial-limiting membrane develops. The following observations were made in cocultures of meningeal and astrocytic cells of two-day-old rats: (i) epithelioid astrocytes were transformed into stellate cells; (ii) single colonies of proliferating epithelioid astrocytes were generated; (iii) the area around these colonies becomes devoid of meningeal cells, which seem to form a circular border around the astroglial islands; (iv) from the glial colonies long thin glial processes grow towards the surrounding meningeal cells, terminating at the site of contact; (v) in the contact zone between meningeal cells and astrocytes irregular shaped deposits of electron dense material resembling a basal lamina were seen. These observations indicate that indeed a structure resembling a glial-limiting membrane develops in cocultures of meningeal and astrocytic cells. Its formation depends on the balance of growth promoting effects of meningeal cells on astrocytes and growth inhibiting effects of astrocytes on meningeal cells. Both activities can be enriched from conditioned media of pure astrocytic or meningeal cell culture. The proposed model of meningo-astrocytic cocultures may be a helpful instrument for further investigations on the formation of the glia limitans.
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- G Struckhoff
- Anatomisches Institut, Universität Kiel, Germany
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Berens ME, Rief MD, Loo MA, Giese A. The role of extracellular matrix in human astrocytoma migration and proliferation studied in a microliter scale assay. Clin Exp Metastasis 1994; 12:405-15. [PMID: 7923993 DOI: 10.1007/bf01755884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Ligands in the extracellular matrix (ECM) are known to mediate migration of normal as well as tumor cells via adhesion molecules such as the integrin receptor family. We develop a microliter scale (15-20 microliters total volume) monolayer migration assay to investigate the ability of astrocytoma cells to disperse on surfaces coated with purified human ECM protein ligands. In this system the rate of radial migration of the cell population was constant over time. For human astrocytoma cell lines U-251 and SF-767, laminin and collagen type IV supported a migratory phenotype; fibronectin and vitronectin only minimally supported migration. The different ECM proteins also influenced growth rate: cells on laminin and collagen had a protracted lag phase. Furthermore, migrating cells seeded on laminin or collagen showed a lower labeling index than did stationary cells in the central, crowded region on the same substrate. This micro-scale migration assay should enable detailed molecular and biochemical studies of the determinants of migration.
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- M E Berens
- Neuro-Oncology Laboratory, Barrow Neurological Institute, Saint Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ 85013-4496
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