Severe blood-brain barrier disruption and surrounding tissue injury.
Severe blood-brain barrier disruption and surrounding tissue injury.
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DOI:
10.1161/strokeaha.109.551341
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发表时间:
2009-12
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影响因子:
8.3
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Lyden PD
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作者:
Chen B;Friedman B;Cheng Q;Tsai P;Schim E;Kleinfeld D;Lyden PD
Blood brain barrier opening during ischemia follows a biphasic time course, may be partially reversible, and allows plasma constituents to enter brain and possibly damage cells. In contrast, severe vascular disruption after ischemia is unlikely to be reversible and allows even further extravasation of potentially harmful plasma constituents. We sought to use simple fluorescent tracers to allow wide-scale visualization of severely damaged vessels and determine whether such vascular disruption co-localized with regions of severe parenchymal injury. Severe vascular disruption and ischemic injury was produced in adult Sprague Dawley rats by transient occlusion of the middle cerebral artery (tMCAo) for 1, 2, 4, or 8 hours, followed by 30min reperfusion. Fluorescein isothiocyanate-dextran (2 MDa) was injected intravenously prior to occlusion. After perfusion-fixation, brain sections were processed for ultra-structure or fluorescence imaging. We identified early evidence of tissue damage with Fluoro-Jade staining of dying cells. With increasing ischemia duration, greater quantities of high molecular weight dextran-FITC invaded and marked ischemic regions in a characteristic pattern, appearing first in the medial striatum, spreading to the lateral striatum, and finally involving cortex; maximal injury was seen in the mid-parietal areas, consistent with the known ischemic zone in this model. The regional distribution of the severe vascular disruption correlated with the distribution of 24-hour TTC pallor (r=0.75, p<0.05) and the cell death marker Fluoro-Jade (r = 0.86, p<0.05). Ultrastructural examination showed significantly increased areas of swollen astrocytic foot process and swollen mitochondria in regions of high compared to low leakage, and compared to contralateral homologous regions (ANOVA p<0.01). Dextran extravasation into the basement membrane and surrounding tissue increased significantly from 2 to 8 hours of occlusion duration (Independent samples t-test, p<0.05). Severe vascular disruption, as labeled with high molecular weight dextran-FITC leakage, is associated with severe tissue injury. This marker of severe vascular disruption may be useful in further studies of the patho-anatomic mechanisms of vascular-disruption mediated tissue injury.