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Götz, S.* ; Bribian, A.* ; López-Mascaraque, L.* ; Götz, M. ; Grothe, B.* ; Kunz, L.*

Heterogeneity of astrocytes: Electrophysiological properties of juxtavascular astrocytes before and after brain injury.

Glia 69, 346-361 (2020)
Verlagsversion DOI PMC
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Astrocyte heterogeneity is increasingly recognized, but still little is known about juxtavascular astrocytes with their somata directly adjacent to blood vessels, despite their importance after brain injury. As juxtavascular astrocytes originate from common progenitor cells, that is, have a clonal origin, they may intrinsically differ from other, non-juxtavascular astrocytes. To explore this, we examined the electrophysiological properties of these groups of astrocytes and the underlying ion channels. Using brain slices of BAC Aldh1l1-eGFP transgenic mice with astrocytes labeled by GFP expression, we compared juxtavascular and non-juxtavascular astrocytes in the somatosensory cortex by means of whole-cell patch-clamp recordings and immunohistochemical staining. Prior to injury, juxta- and non-juxtavascular astrocytes exhibit comparable electrophysiological properties with characteristic mostly passive conductance and a typical negative resting membrane potential. Immunohistochemical analysis of K(+)channels showed that all astrocytes were K(ir)4.1(+), but revealed an intriguing difference for K(v)4.3. The expression of K(v)4.3 in sibling astrocytes (non-juxtavascular, juxtavascular and pial) was dependent on their ontogenetic origin with lowest levels in juxtavascular astrocytes located in upper cortical layers. After traumatic brain injury (TBI), we found profound changes in the electrophysiological type of astrocytes with a predominance of non-passive properties and this pattern was significantly enriched in juxtavascular astrocytes. This was accompanied by pronounced down-regulation of K(ir)4.1 in proliferating astrocytes, which was significantly more in juxtavascular compared to non-juxtavascular astrocytes. Taken together, TBI induces profound differences in electrophysiological properties between juxtavascular and non-juxtavascular astrocytes that might be related to the preponderance of juxtavascular astrocyte proliferation.
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Publikationstyp Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
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Schlagwörter Astrocyte Heterogeneity ; Astrocyte Proliferation ; Clones ; K(+)channels ; K(ir)4 ; 1 ; K(v)4 ; 3 ; Reactive Astrocytes; K+ Channel Expression; Reactive Astrocytes; Hippocampal Astrocytes; Glial-cells; Glucose-uptake; Ion Channels; Whole-cell; Kir4.1; Proliferation; Cortex
ISSN (print) / ISBN 0894-1491
e-ISSN 1098-1136
Zeitschrift Glia
Quellenangaben Band: 69, Heft: 2, Seiten: 346-361 Artikelnummer: , Supplement: ,
Verlag Wiley
Verlagsort 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, Nj Usa
Nichtpatentliteratur Publikationen
Begutachtungsstatus Peer reviewed
Institut(e) Institute of Stem Cell Research (ISF)
Förderungen Projekt DEAL