Quantitative Immunocytochemical Study of Blood-Brain Barrier Glucose Transporter (GLUT-1) in Four Regions of Mouse Brain
| Autor: | D. H. Dobrogowska, Andrzej W. Vorbrodt |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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0301 basic medicine
Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Histology Monosaccharide Transport Proteins Endothelium Biology Blood–brain barrier Hippocampus Fixatives Mice 03 medical and health sciences Immunolabeling 0302 clinical medicine Cerebellum Internal medicine medicine Animals Circumventricular organs Cerebral Cortex Glucose Transporter Type 1 Mice Inbred BALB C Microcirculation Glucose transporter Brain Immunogold labelling Immunohistochemistry Olfactory Bulb 030104 developmental biology medicine.anatomical_structure Endocrinology Choroid plexus Endothelium Vascular Anatomy 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry. 47:1021-1030 |
| ISSN: | 1551-5044 0022-1554 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/002215549904700806 |
| Popis: | Application of immunogold cytochemistry revealed polar (asymmetric) distribution of GLUT-1 in mouse brain microvascular endothelia, representing the anatomic site of the blood-brain barrier (BBB). This polarity was manifested by an approximately threefold higher immunolabeling density of the abluminal than the luminal plasma membrane of the endothelial cells. The immunoreaction for GLUT-1 in nonbarrier continuous (skeletal muscle) or fenestrated (brain circumventricular organs) microvascular endothelial cells was absent. In the choroid plexus, the basolateral plasmalemma of the epithelial cells was labeled more intensely than the vascular fenestrated endothelium. Addition of morphometry to the applied immunogold technique makes it possible for even subtle differences to be revealed in the density of immunolabeling for GLUT-1 in blood microvessels located in four brain regions. We found that the density of immunosignals in the microvessels supplying the cerebral cortex, hippocampus, and cerebellum was essentially similar, whereas in the olfactory bulb it was significantly lower. Asymmetric distribution of GLUT-1 in the endothelial plasma membranes presumably leads to a reduced concentration of glucose molecules in the endothelial cells compared to blood plasma and also secures their more rapid transport across the abluminal plasmalemma to the brain parenchyma. (J Histochem Cytochem 47:1021–1029, 1999) |
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