Expression of neuronal nitric oxide synthase corresponds to regions of selective vulnerability to hypoxia-ischaemia in the developing rat brain

Neurobiology of Disease
Stephen M BlackS J Soifer

Abstract

Nitric oxide (NO) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of brain injury from hypoxia-ischaemia. In the brain, the enzyme responsible for NO synthesis is neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS). Using in situ hybridization, immunohistochemistry and NADPH diaphorase histochemistry, we examined the spatial and temporal expression of nNOS during development of the rat brain to determine whether the expression of nNOS delineates the areas of the brain that are selectively vulnerable to hypoxic-ischaemia injury. The expression of nNOS was localized to discrete areas of the brain. nNOS could be detected in the developing forebrain in the 10-day-old embryo (E10). From E14 to E18, the highest level of expression was in the cortical plate, where the majority of neurons were positive. However, this expression diminished with time; in the adult there were only a few nNOS-positive neurones in the deep layers of the cortex. Expression of nNOS was not detected prenatally in the basal ganglia. There was transient high-level expression during the first postnatal week. Thereafter, the basal ganglia exhibited the adult pattern of expression. Expression of nNOS could be detected in the hippocampus at E16. This expression remained constant with reg...Continue Reading

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