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Studies on Molecular Plasticity of Bergmann Glia following Purkinje Cell Degeneration  

Yoon, Chul-Jong (Department of Life Sciences, Catholic University of Korea)
Cho, Sa-Sun (Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Seoul National University)
Lee, Ha-Kyu (Department of Life Sciences, Catholic University of Korea)
Park, Min-Chul (Department of Life Sciences, Catholic University of Korea)
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Applied Microscopy / v.35, no.3, 2005 , pp. 165-176 More about this Journal
Abstract
Studies on molecular plasticity of Bermann glia (BG) after harmaline-induced Purkinje cell (PC) degeneration in the rat cerebellum. The intimate structural relationship between BG and PC, evidenced by the sheathing of the PC dendrites by veil-like process from the BG has been suggestive of the close functional relationship between these two cell types. However, little is known about metabolic couplings between these cells. This study designed to investigate molecular plasticity of BG in the rat cerebellum in which PCs were chemically ablated by harmaline treatment. Immunohistochemical examination reveals that harmaline induced PC degeneration causes a marked glial reaction in the cerebellum with activated BG and microglia aligned in parasagittal stripes within the vermis. In these strips, activated BG were associated with upregulaion of metallotheionein, while GLAST and was down regulated, as compared with nearby intact area where both BG are in contact with PCs. The data from this study demonstrate that BG can change their phenotypic expression when BG loose their contact with PCs. It is conceivable that activated BG may upregulate structural proteins, metallothionein expression to use for their proliferation and hypertrophy; metallothionein expression to cope with oxidative stress induced by PC degeneration and microglial activation. On the contrary, BG may down regulated expression of GLAST because sustained loss of contact with PCs would eliminate the necessity for the cellular machinery involved glutamate metabolism. In conclusion, BG might respond man to death of PCs by undergoing a change in metabolic state. It seems possible that signaling molecules released from PCs regulates the phenotype expression of BG. Also ultrastructures in the organelles of normal PC and BG are distinguished by mitochondrial appearance, and distributed vesicles at the synaptic area in the cytoplasm.
Keywords
Bergman glia (BG); Harmaline; Immunochemistry; Purkinje cell (PC); Ultrastructure;
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