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NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH
Volume 61, Issue 1, Pages 27-37Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2008.01.008
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BrdU; confocal laser scanning microscopy; global cerebral ischemia; hippocampal CA1 region; neurogenesis
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We studied hippocampal cellular proliferation and neurogenesis processes in a model of transient global cerebral ischemia in gerbils by labelling dividing cells with 5-Bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdU). Surrounding the region of selective neuronal death (CA1 pyramidal layer of the hippocampus), an important increase in reactive astrocytes and BrdU-Iabelled cells was detected 5 days after ischemia. A similar result was found in the dentate gyrus (DG) 12 days after ischemia. The differentiation of the BrdU+ cells was investigated 28 days after BrdU administration by analyzing the morphology, anatomic localization and cell phenotype by triple fluorescent labelling (BrdU, adult neural marker NeuN and DNA marker TOPRO-3) using confocal laser-scanning microscopy. This analysis showed increased neurogenesis in the DG in case of ischemia and triple positive labelling in some newborn cells in CA1. Seven brain hemispheres from gerbils subjected to ischemia did not develop CA1 neuronal death; hippocarnpus from these hemispheres did not show any of the above mentioned findings. Our results indicate that ischemia triggers proliferation in CA1 and neurogenesis in the DG in response to CAI pyramidal neuronal death, independently of the reduced cerebral blood flow or the cell migration from subventricular zone (SVZ). (c) 2008 Elsevier Ireland Ltd and the Japan Neuroscience Society. All rights reserved.
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