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Object-based analysis of astroglial reaction and astrocyte subtype morphology after ischemic brain injury
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Wagner, Daniel-Christoph, Scheibe, Johanna, Glocke, Isabelle, Weise, Gesa, Deten, Alexander, Boltze, Johannes and Kranz, Alexander (2013) Object-based analysis of astroglial reaction and astrocyte subtype morphology after ischemic brain injury. Acta neurobiologiae experimentalis, 73 (1). pp. 79-87. ISSN 1689-0035.
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Abstract
The astrocytic response to ischemic brain injury is characterized by specific alterations of glial cell morphology and function. Various studies described both beneficial and detrimental aspects of activated astrocytes, suggesting the existence of different subtypes. We investigated this issue using a novel object-based approach to study characteristics of astrogliosis after stroke. Spontaneously hypertensive rats received permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion. After 96 h, brain specimens were removed, fixed and stained for GFAP, glutamine synthetase (GS), S100Beta and Musashi1 (Msh1). Three regions of interest were defined (contralateral hemisphere, ipsilateral remote zone and infarct border zone), and confocal stacks were acquired (n=5 biological with each n=4 technical replicates). The stacks were background-corrected and colocalization between the selected markers and GFAP was determined using an automated thresholding algorithm. The fluorescence and colocalization channels were then converted into 3D-objects using both intensity and volume as filters to ultimately determine the final volumes of marker expression and colocalization, as well as the morphological changes of astrocyte process arborisation. We found that both S100Beta and Msh1 determined the same GFAP-positive astroglial cell population albeit the cellular compartments differed. GFAP stained most of the astrocyte processes and is hence suitable for the analysis of qualitative characteristics of astrogliosis. Due to its peri-nuclear localization, Msh1 is appropriate to estimate the total number of astrocytes even in regions with severe reactive astrogliosis. GS expression in GFAP-positive astrocytes was high in the remote zone and low at the infarct border, indicating the existence of astrocyte subclasses.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Acta neurobiologiae experimentalis | ||||
Publisher: | Warsaw; Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology | ||||
ISSN: | 1689-0035 | ||||
Official Date: | 2013 | ||||
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Volume: | 73 | ||||
Number: | 1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 79-87 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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