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Method Article
This article describes a detailed protocol to produce a forebrain stab injury in adult mice. The stab injury induces severe reactive gliosis and glial scar formation which can be subsequently examined by standard immunohistochemistry methods.
Following injury to the CNS, astrocytes undergo a broad range of biochemical, morphological, and molecular changes collectively referred to as reactive astrogliosis. Reactive astrocytes exert both inflammatory and protective effects that inhibit and promote, respectively, neural repair. The mechanisms underlying the diverse functional properties of reactive astrogliosis are not well understood. Achieving a greater understanding of these mechanisms is critical to developing therapeutic strategies to treat the injured CNS. Here we demonstrate a method to trigger reactive astrogliosis in the adult mouse forebrain using a forebrain stab lesion. This lesion model is simple, reliable, and requires only a stereotaxic device and a scalpel blade to produce the injury. The use of stab lesions as an injury model in the forebrain is well established and amenable to studies addressing a broad range of neuropathological outcomes, such as neuronal degeneration, neuroinflammation, and disruptions in the blood brain barrier (BBB). Thus, the forebrain stab injury model serves as a powerful tool that can be applied for a broad range of studies on the CNS response to trauma.
A major challenge for developing successful therapies to treat the injured CNS is an incomplete understanding of the complex multicellular events that are triggered by the trauma. Reactive astrocytes are gaining increasing recognition as a promising target for novel therapies1. Though historically regarded as hostile to neural repair, reactive astrocytes are now recognized as critical components of a complex, multicellular neuroprotective response that includes attenuation of inflammatory processes and limiting secondary damage and neurodegeneration2-6. Although the neuropathological characteristics of reactive gliosis have long been well defined, the cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating reactive gliosis, and the diverse array of downstream consequences remain poorly understood. Understanding the mechanisms that drive reactive gliosis, as well as the subsequent cellular and molecular events, is an important step towards developing strategies aimed at promoting the neuroprotective properties of reactive gliosis, while attenuating the detrimental effects.
Here we demonstrate a method to induce severe reactive astrogliosis in the forebrain of adult mice using a stab injury. In contrast to other traumatic brain injury (TBI) models, such as controlled cortical impact (CCI) or fluid percussion injury (FPI), which require specialized equipment to produce an injury, the forebrain stab requires only a stereotaxic device to stabilize the head and a No. 11 scalpel blade. Thus the forebrain stab lesion model is more broadly accessible to a wide range of laboratories that do not have access to the specialized devices necessary for creating an FPI or CCI injury. The method described here enables investigators to reliably and reproducibly trigger a robust gliosis response to investigate subsequent cellular and molecular events. Once recovered from surgery, animals that have received a forebrain stab injury can survive for prolonged periods without the need for specialized care and can be returned to the colony for acute, intermediate, or chronic studies. Though less clinically translatable than FPI or CCI models of TBI, a forebrain lesion produced by a stab injury serves as a simple yet useful experimental model to investigate basic biological mechanisms underlying reactive gliosis and other neuropathological events following trauma to the CNS.
Karışık C57BL / 6 arka plan üzerine Yetişkin (3-4 aylık) erkek fareler bu protokol kullanıldı. Hayvanlar, 12 saat aydınlık / karanlık döngüsünde tutuldu ve gıda ve suya serbest olarak ulaşmalarına izin verilmiştir. Bu protokolde yapılan tüm işlemler Drexel Üniversitesi Kurumsal Hayvan Bakım ve Kullanım Kurulu tarafından onaylanan protokollere göre gerçekleştirilmiştir.
1. Cerrahi Alan hazırlanması
Cerrahi 2. hazırlıyor Fare
3. Cerrahi Prosedür
4. Post-cerrahi Bakımı
Bu prosedürü geçiren hayvanlar gerekmez, çünkü post-operatif bakım uzman, kısa veya uzun süreli zaman sağ kalım süreleri kolayca yaralanma sonrası akut veya kronik patolojiyi araştırmak için ihtiyaca göre, çalışmaya dahil edilmiştir. Böyle GFAP ve soma hipertrofisi artışı gibi reaktif gliozis temel özellikleri, gibi erken yaralanma sonrası 2-3 gün olarak görülebilir. Reaktif astrositlere için çoğalması zirve faz yaralanma 10 şu günlerde 3-5 sırasında. Aşağıda gösteril...
Bu kafatası ya da altta yatan dura delme sırasında hasar görmemesi çok önemlidir. Patlak değil kafatası sağlamak için sondaj yaparken hafif baskı uygulayın. Dura sağlamak için kafatası parçasını kaldırma kemik ile kaldırdı değilken ek olarak, dikkatli olunmalıdır.
ön beyin bıçak yaralanması modelleri burada MSS bir delici yaralanma nitelendirdi. Böyle FPI veya CCİ olarak TBI modellere göre daha az klinik çevrilebilir olsa da, ön beyin bıçak lezyon modeli ay...
The authors have nothing to disclose.
We thank Katherine Clark for technical assistance. A.D.R.G. is funded in part by 5K01MH097957-03
Name | Company | Catalog Number | Comments |
Stereotax | Harvard Apparatus | 726049 | |
High speed micro drill | Harvard Apparatus | 724950 | |
stainless steel scalpel blade, #11 | MedVet | JOR581S | |
5/45 angled forceps | Fine Science Tools | 11251-35 | |
Gelfoam sponge 12 cm x 7 mm | Fisher | NC9841478 | |
Rb anti-GFAP | DAKO | Z033429-2 | Dilution - 1:20,000 (bright-field); 1:1,000 (fluorescence) |
Shp anti-BrdU | Abcam | ab1893 | Dilution - 1:20,000 (bright-field); 1:500 (fluorescence) |
Biotinylated goat anti-rabbit | Vector Laboratories | BA-1000 | Dilution - 1:400 (bright-field) |
Biotinylated rabbit anti-sheep | Vector Laboratories | BA-6000 | Dilution - 1:400 (bright-field) |
Alexafluor 488 goat anti-rabbit | Life Technologies | A-11008 | Dilution - 1:400 (bright-field) |
Alexafluor 568 donkey anti-sheep | Life Technologies | A-21099 | Dilution - 1:1,000 (fluorescence) |
DAPI Nucleic Acid Stain | Life Technologies | D3571 | Dilution - 1:1,000 (fluorescence) |
Cresyl Violet Acetate | Sigma Aldrich | C5042-10G | Dilution - 1% (bright-field) |
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