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HISTOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 136, Issue 5, Pages 501-513Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-011-0865-4
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FABP7; Astrocyte; Oligodendrocyte progenitor cell; Reactive gliosis; Brain injury
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan [21590215]
- Yamaguchi University
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23249060, 23500956, 21590215] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Reactive gliosis, in which astrocytes as well as other types of glial cells undergo massive proliferation, is a common hallmark of all brain pathologies. Brain-type fatty acid-binding protein (FABP7) is abundantly expressed in neural stem cells and astrocytes of developing brain, suggesting its role in differentiation and/or proliferation of glial cells through regulation of lipid metabolism and/or signaling. However, the role of FABP7 in proliferation of glial cells during reactive gliosis is unknown. In this study, we examined the expression of FABP7 in mouse cortical stab injury model and also the phenotype of FABP7-KO mice in glial cell proliferation. Western blotting showed that FABP7 expression was increased significantly in the injured cortex compared with the contralateral side. By immunohistochemistry, FABP7 was localized to GFAP(+) astrocytes (21% of FABP7(+) cells) and NG2(+) oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (62%) in the normal cortex. In the injured cortex there was no change in the population of FABP7(+)/NG2(+) cells, while there was a significant increase in FABP7(+)/GFAP(+) cells. In the stab-injured cortex of FABP7-KO mice there was decrease in the total number of reactive astrocytes and in the number of BrdU(+) astrocytes compared with wild-type mice. Primary cultured astrocytes from FABP7-KO mice also showed a significant decrease in proliferation and omega-3 fatty acid incorporation compared with wild-type astrocytes. Overall, these data suggest that FABP7 is involved in the proliferation of astrocytes by controlling cellular fatty acid homeostasis.
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