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Characterization of Glial Populations in the Aging and Remyelinating Mouse Corpus Callosum

Journal

NEUROCHEMICAL RESEARCH
Volume 47, Issue 9, Pages 2826-2838

Publisher

SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s11064-022-03676-z

Keywords

Corpus callosum; Oligodendrocyte; Microglia; Astrocyte; Remyelination

Funding

  1. JSPS KAKENHI [JP19K06928, JP19K07827, JP19K16480, JP21K06758]
  2. Osaka Medical Research Foundation for Intractable Diseases
  3. Takeda Science Foundation
  4. Nakatomi Foundation
  5. Naito Foundation
  6. Ichiro Kanehara Foundation

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Cells in the white matter of the adult brain form linear arrays called linear arrays (LAs), which are parallel to the axon axis. The presence of microglia is important for the characteristic cell localization pattern of LAs. Astrocytes are involved in maintaining the functions of remyelinated white matter.
Cells in the white matter of the adult brain have a characteristic distribution pattern in which several cells are contiguously connected to each other, making a linear array (LA) resembling pearls-on-a-string parallel to the axon axis. We have been interested in how this pattern of cell distribution changes during aging and remyelination after demyelination. In the present study, with a multiplex staining method, semi-quantitative analysis of the localization of oligodendrocyte lineage cells (oligodendrocyte progenitors, premyelinating oligodendrocytes, and mature oligodendrocytes), astrocytes, and microglia in 8-week-old (young adult) and 32-week-old (aged) corpus callosum showed that young adult cells still include immature oligodendrocytes and that LAs contain a higher proportion of microglia than isolated cells. In aged mice, premyelinating oligodendrocytes were decreased, but microglia continued to be present in the LAs. These results suggest that the presence of microglia is important for the characteristic cell localization pattern of LAs. In a cuprizone-induced demyelination model, we observed re-formation of LAs after completion of cuprizone treatment, concurrent with remyelination. These re-formed LAs again contained more microglia than the isolated cells. This finding supports the hypothesis that microglia contribute to the formation and maintenance of LAs. In addition, regardless of the distribution of cells (LAs or isolated cells), astrocytes were found to be more abundant than in the normal corpus callosum at 24 weeks after cuprizone treatment when remyelination is completed. This suggests that astrocytes are involved in maintaining the functions of remyelinated white matter.

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