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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages 185-196Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2008.10.006
Keywords
Brain vessels; Micro-vascularization; Postnatal development; Cortical maturation; Primate; Synchrotron micro-tomography; Image segmentation; Skeletonization
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- Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse France [ASUPS AO3, AO5]
- ESRF
- French Ministry of Research
- ANR [BLAN06-1_142915]
- French Foundation for Medical Research
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This paper describes the use of a new 3D high-resolution imaging technique dedicated to functional vessels for a systematic quantitative study of angiogenesis in the primate cortex. We present a new method which permits, using synchrotron X-ray micro-tomography imaging, the identification of microvascular components as well as their automatic numerical digitalization and extraction from very large 3D image analysis and post-treatments. This method is used to analyze various levels of micro-vascular organization and their postnatal modifications. Comparing newborn- and adult marmosets, we found an increase in vascular volume (270%), exchange surface (260%) and vessel length (290%) associated to a decrease in distances between vessel and tissue (32%). The increase in relative vascular volumes between the two ages, examined through the whole cortical depth, has been found to be mainly sustained by events occurring at the capillary level, and only marginally at the perforating vessel level. This work shows that the postnatal cortical maturation classically described in terms of synaptogenesis, gliogenesis and connectivity plasticity is accompanied by an intensive remodeling of micro-vascular patterns. (C) 2008 ISDN. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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