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Dunton AD, Göpel T, Ho DH, Burggren W. Form and Function of the Vertebrate and Invertebrate Blood-Brain Barriers. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms222212111. [PMID: 34829989 PMCID: PMC8618301 DOI: 10.3390/ijms222212111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2021] [Revised: 10/23/2021] [Accepted: 10/28/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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The need to protect neural tissue from toxins or other substances is as old as neural tissue itself. Early recognition of this need has led to more than a century of investigation of the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Many aspects of this important neuroprotective barrier have now been well established, including its cellular architecture and barrier and transport functions. Unsurprisingly, most research has had a human orientation, using mammalian and other animal models to develop translational research findings. However, cell layers forming a barrier between vascular spaces and neural tissues are found broadly throughout the invertebrates as well as in all vertebrates. Unfortunately, previous scenarios for the evolution of the BBB typically adopt a classic, now discredited 'scala naturae' approach, which inaccurately describes a putative evolutionary progression of the mammalian BBB from simple invertebrates to mammals. In fact, BBB-like structures have evolved independently numerous times, complicating simplistic views of the evolution of the BBB as a linear process. Here, we review BBBs in their various forms in both invertebrates and vertebrates, with an emphasis on the function, evolution, and conditional relevance of popular animal models such as the fruit fly and the zebrafish to mammalian BBB research.
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- Alicia D. Dunton
- Developmental Integrative Biology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203, USA; (T.G.); (W.B.)
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- Developmental Integrative Biology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203, USA; (T.G.); (W.B.)
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- Department of Clinical Investigation, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI 96859, USA;
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- Developmental Integrative Biology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203, USA; (T.G.); (W.B.)
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Nwafor DC, Brichacek AL, Ali A, Brown CM. Tissue-Nonspecific Alkaline Phosphatase in Central Nervous System Health and Disease: A Focus on Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:5257. [PMID: 34067629 PMCID: PMC8156423 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22105257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2021] [Revised: 05/11/2021] [Accepted: 05/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Tissue-nonspecific alkaline phosphatase (TNAP) is an ectoenzyme bound to the plasma membranes of numerous cells via a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) moiety. TNAP's function is well-recognized from earlier studies establishing its important role in bone mineralization. TNAP is also highly expressed in cerebral microvessels; however, its function in brain cerebral microvessels is poorly understood. In recent years, few studies have begun to delineate a role for TNAP in brain microvascular endothelial cells (BMECs)-a key component of cerebral microvessels. This review summarizes important information on the role of BMEC TNAP, and its implication in health and disease. Furthermore, we discuss current models and tools that may assist researchers in elucidating the function of TNAP in BMECs.
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- Divine C. Nwafor
- Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, West Virginia University Health Science Center, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA; (D.C.N.); (A.A.)
- Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cell Biology, School of Medicine, West Virginia University Health Science Center, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA;
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- Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, West Virginia University Health Science Center, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA; (D.C.N.); (A.A.)
- Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, West Virginia University Health Science Center, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA; (D.C.N.); (A.A.)
- Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cell Biology, School of Medicine, West Virginia University Health Science Center, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA;
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Biology of the human blood-nerve barrier in health and disease. Exp Neurol 2020; 328:113272. [PMID: 32142802 DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2020.113272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2020] [Revised: 02/29/2020] [Accepted: 03/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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A highly regulated endoneurial microenvironment is required for normal axonal function in peripheral nerves and nerve roots, which structurally consist of an outer collagenous epineurium, inner perineurium consisting of multiple concentric layers of specialized epithelioid myofibroblasts that surround the innermost endoneurium, which consists of myelinated and unmyelinated axons embedded in a looser mesh of collagen fibers. Endoneurial homeostasis is achieved by tight junction-forming endoneurial microvessels that control ion, solute, water, nutrient, macromolecule and leukocyte influx and efflux between the bloodstream and endoneurium, and the innermost layers of the perineurium that control interstitial fluid component flux between the freely permeable epineurium and endoneurium. Strictly speaking, endoneurial microvascular endothelium should be considered the blood-nerve barrier (BNB) due to direct communication with circulating blood. The mammalian BNB is considered the second most restrictive vascular system after the blood-brain barrier (BBB) based on classic in situ permeability studies. Structural alterations in endoneurial microvessels or interactions with hematogenous leukocytes have been described in several human peripheral neuropathies; however major advances in BNB biology in health and disease have been limited over the past 50 years. Guided by transcriptome and proteome studies of normal and pathologic human peripheral nerves, purified primary and immortalized human endoneurial endothelial cells that form the BNB and leukocytes from patients with well-characterized peripheral neuropathies, validated by in situ or ex vivo protein expression studies, data are emerging on the molecular and functional characteristics of the human BNB in health and in specific peripheral neuropathies, as well as chronic neuropathic pain. These early advancements have the potential to not only increase our understanding of how the BNB works and adapts or fails to adapt to varying insult, but provide insights relevant to pathogenic leukocyte trafficking, with translational potential and specific therapeutic application for chronic peripheral neuropathies and neuropathic pain.
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Palladino SP, Helton ES, Jain P, Dong C, Crowley MR, Crossman DK, Ubogu EE. The Human Blood-Nerve Barrier Transcriptome. Sci Rep 2017; 7:17477. [PMID: 29234067 PMCID: PMC5727190 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-17475-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2017] [Accepted: 11/24/2017] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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The blood-nerve barrier (BNB), formed by tight junction-forming microvessels within peripheral nerve endoneurium, exists to regulate its internal microenvironment essential for effective axonal signal transduction. Relatively little is known about the unique human BNB molecular composition. Such knowledge is crucial to comprehend the relationships between the systemic circulation and peripheral nerves in health, adaptations to intrinsic or extrinsic perturbations and alterations that may result in disease. We performed RNA-sequencing on cultured early- and late-passage adult primary human endoneurial endothelial cells and laser-capture microdissected endoneurial microvessels from four cryopreserved normal adult human sural nerves referenced to the Genome Reference Consortium Human Reference 37 genome browser, using predefined criteria guided by known transcript or protein expression in vitro and in situ. We identified 12881 common transcripts associated by 125 independent biological networks, defined as the normal adult BNB transcriptome, including a comprehensive array of transporters and specialized intercellular junctional complex components. These identified transcripts and their interacting networks provide insights into peripheral nerve microvascular morphogenesis, restrictive barrier formation, influx and efflux transporters with relevance to understanding peripheral nerve homeostasis and pharmacology, including targeted drug delivery and the mediators of leukocyte trafficking in peripheral nerves during normal immunosurveillance.
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- Steven P Palladino
- Neuromuscular Immunopathology Research Laboratory, Division of Neuromuscular Disease, Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 35294-0017, United States of America
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- Neuromuscular Immunopathology Research Laboratory, Division of Neuromuscular Disease, Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 35294-0017, United States of America
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- Heflin Center for Genomic Science, Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 35294-0024, United States of America
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- Neuromuscular Immunopathology Research Laboratory, Division of Neuromuscular Disease, Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 35294-0017, United States of America
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- Heflin Center for Genomic Science, Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 35294-0024, United States of America
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- Heflin Center for Genomic Science, Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 35294-0024, United States of America
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- Neuromuscular Immunopathology Research Laboratory, Division of Neuromuscular Disease, Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 35294-0017, United States of America.
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Deracinois B, Lenfant AM, Dehouck MP, Flahaut C. Tissue Non-specific Alkaline Phosphatase (TNAP) in Vessels of the Brain. Subcell Biochem 2016. [PMID: 26219710 DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-7197-9_7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The microvessels of the brain represent around 3-4 % of the brain compartment but constitute the most important length (400 miles) and surface of exchange (20 m(2)) between the blood and the parenchyma of brain. Under influence of surrounding tissues, the brain microvessel endothelium expresses a specific phenotype that regulates and restricts the entry of compounds and cells from blood to brain, and defined the so-called blood-brain barrier (BBB). Evidences that alkaline phosphatase (AP) is a characteristic feature of the BBB phenotype that allows differentiating capillary endothelial cells from brain to those of the periphery have rapidly emerge. Thenceforth, AP has been rapidly used as a biomarker of the blood-brain barrier phenotype. In fact, brain capillary endothelial cells (BCECs) express exclusively tissue non-specific alkaline phosphatase (TNAP). There are several lines of evidence in favour of an important role for TNAP in brain function. TNAP is thought to be responsible for the control of transport of some compounds across the plasma membrane of the BCECs. Here, we report that levamisole-mediated inhibition of TNAP provokes an increase of the permeability to Lucifer Yellow of the endothelial monolayer. Moreover, we illustrate the disruption of the cytoskeleton organization. Interestingly, all observed effects were reversible 24 h after levamisole removal and correlated with the return of a full activity of the TNAP. This reversible effect remains to be studied in details to evaluate the potentiality of a levamisole treatment to enhance the entry of drugs in the brain parenchyma.
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Ubogu EE. The molecular and biophysical characterization of the human blood-nerve barrier: current concepts. J Vasc Res 2013; 50:289-303. [PMID: 23839247 DOI: 10.1159/000353293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2012] [Accepted: 04/23/2013] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The internal microenvironment in peripheral nerves is highly regulated in order to maintain normal axonal impulse transmission to or from the central nervous system. In humans, this regulation is facilitated by specialized tight junction (TJ)-forming endoneurial microvascular endothelial cells and perineurial myofibroblasts that form multiple concentric layers around nerve fascicles. The endoneurial endothelial cells come in direct contact with circulating blood and, thus, can be considered the blood-nerve barrier (BNB). Studies on the molecular and biophysical properties of the human BNB in vivo or in situ are limited. Owing to the recent isolation of primary human endoneurial endothelial cells and the development of simian virus 40 large T-antigen immortalized cell lines, data are emerging on the structural and functional characteristics of these cells. These data aim to increase our understanding of how solutes, macromolecules, nutrients and hematogenous leukocytes gain access into or are restricted from the endoneurium of peripheral nerves. These concepts have clinical relevance in understanding normal peripheral nerve homeostasis, the response of peripheral nerves to external insult and stresses such as drugs and toxins and the pathogenesis of peripheral neuropathies. This review discusses current knowledge in this nascent and exciting field of microvascular biology.
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- Eroboghene E Ubogu
- Neuromuscular Immunopathology Research Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030-3411, USA.
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VEGF-A165 potently induces human blood-nerve barrier endothelial cell proliferation, angiogenesis, and wound healing in vitro. Cell Mol Neurobiol 2013; 33:789-801. [PMID: 23712256 DOI: 10.1007/s10571-013-9946-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2013] [Accepted: 05/18/2013] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Several mitogens such as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) have been implicated in mammalian vascular proliferation and repair. However, the molecular mediators of human blood-nerve barrier (BNB) development and specialization are unknown. Primary human endoneurial endothelial cells (pHEndECs) were expanded in vitro and specific mitogen receptors detected by western blot. pHEndECs were cultured with basal medium containing different mitogen concentrations with or without heparin. Non-radioactive cell proliferation, Matrigel(™)-induced angiogenesis and sterile micropipette injury wound healing assays were performed. Proliferation rates, number and total length of induced microvessels, and rate of endothelial cell monolayer wound healing were determined and compared to basal conditions. VEGF-A165 in the presence of heparin, was the most potent inducer of pHEndEC proliferation, angiogenesis, and wound healing in vitro. 1.31 nM VEGF-A165 induced ~110 % increase in cell proliferation relative to basal conditions (∼51 % without heparin). 2.62 pM VEGF-A165 induced a three-fold increase in mean number of microvessels and 3.9-fold increase in total capillary length/field relative to basal conditions. In addition, 0.26 nM VEGF-A165 induced ∼1.3-fold increased average rate of endothelial wound healing 4-18 h after endothelial monolayer injury, mediated by increased cell migration. VEGF-A165 was the only mitogen capable of complete wound closure, occurring within 30 h following injury via increased cell proliferation. This study demonstrates that VEGF-A165, in the presence of heparin, is a potent inducer of pHEndEC proliferation, angiogenesis, and wound healing in vitro. VEGF-A165 may be an important mitogen necessary for human BNB development and recovery in response to peripheral nerve injury.
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Yosef N, Ubogu EE. An immortalized human blood-nerve barrier endothelial cell line for in vitro permeability studies. Cell Mol Neurobiol 2012; 33:175-86. [PMID: 23104242 DOI: 10.1007/s10571-012-9882-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2012] [Accepted: 10/18/2012] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Solute and macromolecular transport studies may elucidate nutritional requirements and drug effects in healthy and diseased peripheral nerves. Endoneurial endothelial cells are specialized microvascular cells that form the restrictive blood-nerve barrier (BNB). Primary human endoneurial endothelial cells (pHEndECs) are difficult to isolate, limiting their widespread availability for biomedical research. We developed a simian virus-40 large T-antigen (SV40-LTA) immortalized human BNB cell line via stable transfection of low passage pHEndECs and observed continuous growth in culture for >45 population doublings. As observed with pHEndECs, the immortalized BNB endothelial cells were Ulex Europaeus agglutinin-1-positive and endocytosed low density lipoprotein, but lost von Willebrand factor expression. Glucose transporter-1, P-glycoprotein (P-gp), γ-glutamyl transpeptidase (γ-GT), large neutral amino acid transporter-1 (LAT-1), creatine transporter (CRT), and monocarboxylate transporter-1 (MCT-1) mRNA expression were retained at all passages with loss of alkaline phosphatase (AP) expression after passages 16-20. Compared with an SV40-LTA immortalized human blood-brain barrier endothelial cell line, there was increased γ-GT protein expression, equivalent expression of organic anion transporting polypeptide-C (OATP-C), organic anion transporter 3 (OAT-3), MCT-1, and LAT-1, and reduced expression of AP, CRT, and P-gp by the BNB cell line at passage 20. Further studies demonstrated lower transendothelial electrical resistance (~181 vs. 191 Ω cm(2)), equivalent permeability to fluoresceinated sodium (4.84 vs. 4.39 %), and lower permeability to fluoresceinated high molecular weight (70 kDa) dextran (0.39 vs. 0.52 %) by the BNB cell line. This cell line retained essential molecular and biophysical properties suitable for in vitro peripheral nerve permeability studies.
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- Nejla Yosef
- Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030-3411, USA
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Development and characterization of a novel human in vitro blood-nerve barrier model using primary endoneurial endothelial cells. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 2010; 69:82-97. [PMID: 20010300 DOI: 10.1097/nen.0b013e3181c84a9a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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There are phenotypic and functional differences between vascular endothelium from different tissues and between microvascular and macrovascular endothelial cells (ECs) from the same tissue. Relatively little is known about the human blood-nerve barrier (BNB). We report the development of an in vitro BNB model using primary human endoneurial ECs freshly isolated and purified from decedent sciatic nerves via endoneurial stripping, connective tissue enzymatic digestion, and density centrifugation. Primary human endoneurial ECs are spindle shaped and contact inhibited. They rapidly differentiate to form capillary-like networks and microvessels, bind Ulex Europaeus Agglutinin 1 lectin, express von Willebrand factor, and endocytose acetylated low-density lipoprotein. They also express specific transport and cellular adhesion molecules and tight junction proteins, consistent with cells that form a highly restrictive endothelial barrier similar to the blood-brain barrier. When cultured on collagen-coated transwell inserts, the primary human endoneurial ECs develop an in vitro BNB with high transendothelial electrical resistances (160 Omega x cm(2); maximal 12 days after seeding) and low solute permeability coefficient to fluoresceinated high-molecular weight (70 kDa) dextran (2.75 x 10(-3) cm/minute). This in vitro BNB model retains essential known or expected characteristics of the human BNB and has many potential applications for studies of solute, macromolecule, microbial, virus, and leukocyte interactions with this highly specialized endothelial barrier.
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Razani B, Park DS, Miyanaga Y, Ghatpande A, Cohen J, Wang XB, Scherer PE, Evans T, Lisanti MP. Molecular cloning and developmental expression of the caveolin gene family in the amphibian Xenopus laevis. Biochemistry 2002; 41:7914-24. [PMID: 12069580 DOI: 10.1021/bi020043n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Caveolae are approximately 50-100 nm invaginations of the plasma membrane thought to form as a result of a local accumulation of cholesterol, sphingolipids, and a unique family of three proteins known as the caveolins: Cav-1, -2, and -3. Here, we report the identification, sequence, and developmental expression of the three caveolin genes in the amphibian Xenopus laevis. Sequence comparisons show that Xenopus Cav-1, -2, and -3 are approximately 80, 64, and 45% identical, respectively, to their counterparts in humans. Furthermore, Northern blotting experiments demonstrate that the Xenopus caveolins have tissue-specific expression profiles consistent with those previously reported in adult mammals. In the adult frog, Xenopus Cav-1 and Cav-2 are most abundantly expressed in the fat body and the lungs, while Xenopus Cav-3 is primarily expressed in muscle tissue types (heart and skeletal muscle). However, our temporal and spatial analyses of these expression patterns during embryogenesis reveal several novel features, with possible relevance to developmental signaling. Transcripts encoding Xenopus Cav-1 and -2 first appear in the notochord of neurula stage embryos, which represents a key signaling tissue. In contrast, Xenopus Cav-3 shows a highly specific punctate expression pattern in the embryonic epidermis, similar to previous patterns implicated in Notch signaling. These findings are in striking contrast to their steady-state expression patterns in the adult frog. Taken together, our results show that the Xenopus caveolin gene family is present and differentially expressed in both embryonic and adult tissues. This report is the first detailed study of caveolin gene expression in a developing embryo.
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- Babak Razani
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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Allt G, Lawrenson JG. The blood-nerve barrier: enzymes, transporters and receptors--a comparison with the blood-brain barrier. Brain Res Bull 2000; 52:1-12. [PMID: 10779695 DOI: 10.1016/s0361-9230(00)00230-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The blood-brain barrier (BBB) has been much more extensively investigated than the blood-nerve barrier (BNB). Nevertheless it is clear that there are both similarities and differences in the molecular and morphophysiological characteristics of the two barrier systems. A number of enzymes, transporters and receptors have been investigated at both the BNB and BBB, as well as in the perineurium of peripheral nerves, which is also a metabolically active diffusion barrier. While there have been few systematic comparisons of the distribution of these molecules in both the BNB and BBB, it is apparent from the data available, reviewed in this article, that their distribution also supports the concept of the BNB and BBB having some features in common but also showing distinct identities. These similarities and differences cannot simply be accounted for by the presence of the inductive influences of astrocytes at the BBB and absence at the BNB. Whether the Schwann cell also has the capacity to induce some BNB properties remains to be determined.
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- G Allt
- Weston Institute of Neurological Studies, University College Medical School, London, United Kingdom
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Kenworthy AK, Petranova N, Edidin M. High-resolution FRET microscopy of cholera toxin B-subunit and GPI-anchored proteins in cell plasma membranes. Mol Biol Cell 2000; 11:1645-55. [PMID: 10793141 PMCID: PMC14873 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.11.5.1645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 357] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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"Lipid rafts" enriched in glycosphingolipids (GSL), GPI-anchored proteins, and cholesterol have been proposed as functional microdomains in cell membranes. However, evidence supporting their existence has been indirect and controversial. In the past year, two studies used fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) microscopy to probe for the presence of lipid rafts; rafts here would be defined as membrane domains containing clustered GPI-anchored proteins at the cell surface. The results of these studies, each based on a single protein, gave conflicting views of rafts. To address the source of this discrepancy, we have now used FRET to study three different GPI-anchored proteins and a GSL endogenous to several different cell types. FRET was detected between molecules of the GSL GM1 labeled with cholera toxin B-subunit and between antibody-labeled GPI-anchored proteins, showing these raft markers are in submicrometer proximity in the plasma membrane. However, in most cases FRET correlated with the surface density of the lipid raft marker, a result inconsistent with significant clustering in microdomains. We conclude that in the plasma membrane, lipid rafts either exist only as transiently stabilized structures or, if stable, comprise at most a minor fraction of the cell surface.
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- A K Kenworthy
- Department of Biology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
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The cell biology of caveolae is a rapidly growing area of biomedical research. Caveolae are known primarily for their ability to transport molecules across endothelial cells, but modern cellular techniques have dramatically extended our view of caveolae. They form a unique endocytic and exocytic compartment at the surface of most cells and are capable of importing molecules and delivering them to specific locations within the cell, exporting molecules to extracellular space, and compartmentalizing a variety of signaling activities. They are not simply an endocytic device with a peculiar membrane shape but constitute an entire membrane system with multiple functions essential for the cell. Specific diseases attack this system: Pathogens have been identified that use it as a means of gaining entrance to the cell. Trying to understand the full range of functions of caveolae challenges our basic instincts about the cell.
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The cutaneous sensory nerve formations belong to the structures which are studied intensely by the enzyme activity histochemistry since the early history of this technique. The histochemical localization of the activities of nonspecific cholinesterase, alkaline phosphatases, acid phosphatase, adenosine tri- and diphosphatases, adenylate cyclase, and dipeptidylpeptidase-IV in the cutaneous sensory nerve formations, mainly sensory corpuscles, is reviewed. The histochemical approach has brought new knowledge of both morphological building of these unique structures and their biochemical constituents. Taken together, the present results of enzyme histochemistry provide insight into the function of enzymes, and disclose new relationships between the sensory terminals and auxiliary structures in the cutaneous sensory nerve formations.
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- P Dubový
- Department of Anatomy, Medical Faculty, Brno, Czech Republic
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Wadhwani KC, Rapoport SI. Transport properties of vertebrate blood-nerve barrier: comparison with blood-brain barrier. Prog Neurobiol 1994; 43:235-79. [PMID: 7816928 DOI: 10.1016/0301-0082(94)90002-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- K C Wadhwani
- Laboratory of Neurosciences, NIA, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Stewart PA, Hayakawa K. Early ultrastructural changes in blood-brain barrier vessels of the rat embryo. BRAIN RESEARCH. DEVELOPMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH 1994; 78:25-34. [PMID: 8004771 DOI: 10.1016/0165-3806(94)90005-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The blood-brain barrier (BBB) in fetal rat brain has been shown by others to be more permeable to a variety of blood-borne solutes than the BBB in adults. We used ultrastructural morphometric methods to measured the density of putative vascular pores between the ages of embryonic day (E) 11 and birth to determine the structural basis for this relatively high permeability. We found that fenestrations, that are frequent at E11, declined rapidly and were last seen at E13 in intraparenchymal vessels and at E17 in pial vessels. Interendothelial junctions in fetal brain contained expanded clefts suggestive of paracellular channels at all ages examined, although they disappear after birth. Both of these features likely contribute to high fetal BBB permeability, but endothelial vesicles probably do not. The central nervous system is vascularized by ingrowth of capillary sprouts from the perineurial vascular plexus. Invading capillaries express BBB features in response to inductive signals from the surrounding neural tissue. We compared early ultrastructural changes in perineurial vessels, which are separated from neural tissue by a sizeable perivascular space, with those in intraneural vessels, which are totally enveloped by neural tissue, to determine whether the inductive interaction requires close cellular contact. For the most part, the perineurial and intraneural vessels matured in parallel. Furthermore, cerebellar vessels developed in parallel with cerebral vessels, even though they did not invade neural tissue until a comparatively late stage. These results suggest that intimate contact between neural tissue and vessel walls is not a requirement for BBB expression.
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- P A Stewart
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Toronto, Ont., Canada
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Holash JA, Stewart PA. Chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) vessels do not respond to blood-brain barrier (BBB) induction. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1993; 331:223-8. [PMID: 8333337 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-2920-0_35] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- J A Holash
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Powell HC, Garrett RS, Kador PF, Mizisin AP. Fine-structural localization of aldose reductase and ouabain-sensitive, K(+)-dependent p-nitro-phenylphosphatase in rat peripheral nerve. Acta Neuropathol 1991; 81:529-39. [PMID: 1650113 DOI: 10.1007/bf00310134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Aldose reductase was visualized by light and electron microscopy using a goat anti-rat antibody with immunoperoxidase and immunogold, respectively. Ouabain-sensitive, K(+)-dependent, p-nitro-phenylphosphatase, a component of (Na+, K+)-ATPase, was localized at the electron microscopic level by enzyme histochemistry using p-nitro-phenylphosphate as substrate. In peripheral nerve, spinal ganglia and roots, the Schwann cell of myelinated fibers was the principal site of aldose reductase localization. Immunostaining was intense in the paranodal region and the Schmidt-Lanterman clefts as well as in cytoplasm of the terminal expansions of paranodal myelin lamellae and the nodal microvilli. Schwann cell cytoplasm of unmyelinated fibers were faintly labelled. Endoneurial vessel endothelia, pericytes and perineurium failed to bind appreciable amounts of aldose reductase antibody. However, mast cell granules bound antibody strongly. In contrast, p-nitro-phenylphosphatase reaction product was detected in the nodal axolemma, terminal loops of Schwann cell cytoplasm and the innermost layer of perineurial cells. In endothelial cells, reaction product was localized on either the luminal or abluminal, or on both luminal and abluminal plasmalemma. Endothelial vesicular profiles were often loaded with reaction product. Occasional staining of myelin and axonal organelles was noted. Mast cells lacked reaction product.
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- H C Powell
- Department of Pathology (Neuropathology), University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093
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Wadhwani KC, Murphy VA, Rapoport SI. Transfer of 45Ca and 36Cl at the blood-nerve barrier of the sciatic nerve in rats fed low or high calcium diets. J Neurosci Res 1991; 28:563-6. [PMID: 1908025 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.490280413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Unidirectional fluxes of 45Ca, 36Cl, and of [3H]mannitol from blood into the sciatic nerve and cerebral cortex were determined from 5- and 15-min uptakes of these tracers after an intravenous (i.v.) bolus injection in awake rats. Rats were fed diets for 8 wk, that had either a low (0.01% wt/wt), normal (0.67%), or high (3%) Ca content. Plasma [Ca] was 32% less and 11% more in rats fed low (LOCA) and high Ca diets (HICA), respectively, than in rats fed a normal Ca diet (CONT). The mean permeability-surface area product (PA) of 45Ca at the blood-nerve barrier was about eightfold higher than at the blood-brain barrier in the same animals and did not differ significantly between groups (greater than 0.05). Mean PA ratios of 45Ca/36Cl for the blood-nerve and blood-brain barriers in CONT rats, 0.52 +/- 0.04 and 0.40 +/- 0.02, respectively, were not significantly different from corresponding ratios in LOCA and HICA groups, and corresponded to the aqueous limiting diffusion ratio (0.45). Our results show no evidence for concentration-dependent transport of Ca over a plasma [Ca] range of 0.8-1.4 mmol/liter at the blood-nerve barrier of the rat peripheral nerve, and suggest that Ca and Cl exchange slowly between nerve and blood via paracellular pathways.
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- K C Wadhwani
- Laboratory of Neurosciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Haninec P, Grim M. Localization of dipeptidylpeptidase IV and alkaline phosphatase in developing spinal cord meninges and peripheral nerve coverings of the rat. Int J Dev Neurosci 1990; 8:175-85. [PMID: 1970218 DOI: 10.1016/0736-5748(90)90008-p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Localization of dipeptidylpeptidase IV was studied in the spinal cord meninges and peripheral nerve coverings of fetal and postnatal rats. In the same sections, the localization of alkaline phosphatase was monitored. In the prenatal period, dipeptidylpeptidase (DPP) IV activity in the differentiating meninges appeared at the time of cerebrospinal fluid spaces formation (on day 16 in the cervical region and on day 18 in the lumbar region). In adult animals DPP IV was found in cells of those meningeal lamellae which delineated the cerebrospinal fluid spaces (the outer, intermediate and inner lamellae), in the perineurium, in Schwann cells and in some fibroblasts of the bulk of dura mater. It is suggested that DPP IV plays a role in the metabolism of neuropeptides by their interaction with cerebrospinal fluid. Alkaline phosphatase activity was detectable earlier than DPP IV activity. Positivity was first observed in some cells of the meninx primitiva and, later on, in the ectomeninx and also in the differentiating endomeninx where it disappeared postnatally. The developing ectomeninx exhibited activities of both enzymes. Alkaline phosphatase occupied its external layers, while DPP IV was localized in its inner layers. This enzymatic heterogeneity of the ectomeningeal layers suggests that the ectomeninx gives rise not only to dura mater (which in adult animals exhibits alkaline phosphatase activity) but also to the outer arachnoid layer (positive for DPP IV in adult rats).
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- P Haninec
- Department of Anatomy, Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia
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Lakke EA, Marani E. A zonal pattern of neuroglial cells during the development of the intermediate lobe of the rat pituitary. Neurosci Lett 1988; 93:146-51. [PMID: 2907371 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(88)90072-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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In this paper the development of the intermediate lobe (IL) of the pituitary of the rat is described using alkaline phosphatase (AP) (EC 3.1.3.1.) enzyme histochemistry and stage-specific embryonic antigen 1 (SSEA-1) immunocytochemistry. SSEA-1 and AP are co-localized during late development and reveal the existence of two cytochemically different cell types within the IL, i.e. SSEA-1/AP-positive and SSEA-1/AP-negative cells. The SSEA-1/AP-positive cells are initially arranged along the hypophyseal lumen, in a number of longitudinally oriented zones. alpha-Melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) immunoreactivity is expressed in the SSEA-1/AP-negative cells from E20 onwards. Eventually the SSEA-1/AP-positive cells develop into a layer of cells covering the luminal surface of the IL lobules. These cells represent the glio-epithelial or neuroglial cells of the IL.
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- E A Lakke
- Laboratory of Anatomy and Embryology, University of Leyden, The Netherlands
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