Journal
CELL DEATH & DISEASE
Volume 4, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/cddis.2013.423
Keywords
Sex; cranial radiotherapy; CD31; S100; active caspase-3; Iba-1
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- Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation (Barncancerfonden)
- Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsradet)
- Swedish Cancer Foundation (Cancerfonden)
- Agreement concerning research and education of doctors (ALF)
- Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg
- Sten A Olsson's Foundation
- Frimurare Barnhus Foundation
- Wilhelm and Martina Lundgren Foundation
- Gothenburg Medical Society
- Aina Wallstrom's and Mary-Ann Sjoblom's Foundation
- Ulla Amlov Foundation
- Rune Amlov Foundation
- AFA Insurance
- Swedish Society of Medicine
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Modern therapy cures 80% of all children with brains tumors, but may also cause long-lasting side effects, so called late effects. Radiotherapy is particularly prone to cause severe late effects, such as intellectual impairment. The extent and nature of the resulting cognitive deficits may be influenced by age, treatment and gender, where girls suffer more severe late effects than boys. The reason for this difference between boys and girls is unknown, but very few experimental studies have addressed this issue. Our aim was to investigate the effects of ionizing radiation on the corpus callosum (CC) in both male and female mice. We found that a single dose of 8 Gray (Gy) to the brains of postnatal day 14 mice induced apoptosis in the CC and reduced the number of proliferating cells by one third, as judged by the number of phospho-histone H3 positive cells 6 h after irradiation (IR). BrdU incorporation was reduced (62% and 42% lower in females and males, respectively) and the number of oligodendrocytes (Olig2(+) cells) was lower (43% and 21% fewer in females and males, respectively) 4 months after IR, so the lack of developing and differentiated cells was more pronounced in females. The number of microglia was unchanged in females but increased in males at this late time point. The density of microvessel profiles was unchanged by IR. This single, moderate dose of 8 Gy impaired the brain growth to some extent (8.1% and 0.4% lower brain/body weight ratio in females and males, respectively) but the CC growth was even more impaired (31% and 19% smaller in females and males, respectively) 4 months after IR compared with non-irradiated mice. In conclusion, this is the first study to our knowledge demonstrating that IR to the young rodent brain affects white matter development more in females than in males.
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