Rapid disruption of axon-glial integrity in response to mild cerebral hypoperfusion

Reimer, M. M., McQueen, J., Searcy, L., Scullion, G., Zonta, B., Desmazieres, A., Holland, P. R., Smith, J., Gliddon, Catherine, Wood, E. R., Herzyk, P., Brophy, P. J., McCulloch, J. and Horsburgh, K. 2007. Rapid disruption of axon-glial integrity in response to mild cerebral hypoperfusion. Journal of Neuroscience 31 (49) , pp. 18185-18194. 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4936-11.2011

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Abstract

Myelinated axons have a distinct protein architecture essential for action potential propagation, neuronal communication, and maintaining cognitive function. Damage to myelinated axons, associated with cerebral hypoperfusion, contributes to age-related cognitive decline. We sought to determine early alterations in the protein architecture of myelinated axons and potential mechanisms after hypoperfusion. Using a mouse model of hypoperfusion, we assessed changes in proteins critical to the maintenance of paranodes, nodes of Ranvier, axon–glial integrity, axons, and myelin by confocal laser scanning microscopy. As early as 3 d after hypoperfusion, the paranodal septate-like junctions were damaged. This was marked by a progressive reduction of paranodal Neurofascin signal and a loss of septate-like junctions. Concurrent with paranodal disruption, there was a significant increase in nodal length, identified by Nav1.6 staining, with hypoperfusion. Disruption of axon–glial integrity was also determined after hypoperfusion by changes in the spatial distribution of myelin-associated glycoprotein staining. These nodal/paranodal changes were more pronounced after 1 month of hypoperfusion. In contrast, the nodal anchoring proteins AnkyrinG and Neurofascin 186 were unchanged and there were no overt changes in axonal and myelin integrity with hypoperfusion. A microarray analysis of white matter samples indicated that there were significant alterations in 129 genes. Subsequent analysis indicated alterations in biological pathways, including inflammatory responses, cytokine-cytokine receptor interactions, blood vessel development, and cell proliferation processes. Our results demonstrate that hypoperfusion leads to a rapid disruption of key proteins critical to the stability of the axon–glial connection that is mediated by a diversity of molecular events.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Publisher:	Society for Neuroscience
ISSN:	1529-2401
Last Modified:	22 Jun 2018 15:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/111965

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