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JOURNAL OF NEUROPATHOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY
Volume 63, Issue 8, Pages 856-871Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/jnen/63.8.856
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astrocyte; calcium; cerebral palsy; injury; ischemia; myelination; white matter
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- NINDS NIH HHS [NS 44875] Funding Source: Medline
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Cerebral palsy is a common birth disorder that frequently involves ischemic-type injury to developing white matter (WM). Dead glial cells are a common feature of this injury and here we describe a novel form of acute ischemic cell death in developing WM astrocytes. Ischemia, modeled by the withdrawal of oxygen and glucose, evoked [Ca2+](i) increases and cell death in astrocytes in post-natal day 10 (P10) rat optic nerve (RON). Removing extracellular Call prevented increases in [Cd2+](i) but increased the amount of cell death. Astrocytes showed rapid [Na+](i) increases during ischemia and cell death was reduced to control levels by substitution of extracellular Na+ or Cl- or by perfusion with bumetanide, a selective Na-K-Cl cotransport (NKCC) blocker. Astrocytes showed marked swelling during ischemia in the absence of extracellular Call, which was blocked by bumetanide. Raising the extracellular osmolarity to limit water uptake reduced ischemic astrocyte death to control levels. Ultrastructural examination showed that post-ischemic astrocytes had lost their processes and frequently were necrotic, effects partially prevented by bumetanide. At this point in development, therefore, NKCC activation in astrocytes during ischemia produces an osmo-regulatory challenge. Astrocytes can subsequently regulate their cell volume in a Ca2+-dependent fashion but this will require ATP hydrolysis and does not protect the cells against acute cell death.
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