Kainic acid and 3-Nitropropionic acid induced expression of laminin in vascular elements of the rat brain

Brain Research
Sumit Sarkar, L C Schmued

Abstract

Laminin is a glycoprotein component of the basement membrane and has been reported to be found in different areas of the nervous system including brain endothelial cells, Schwann cells and peripheral nerves. Although the in-vitro studies suggest that laminin plays an important role in growth and neurite extension of cultured neurons, localization of laminin in the brain has been controversial and inconsistent results have been reported. Recently, laminin immunoreactivity has been used as a marker for vascular elements in the brain. In this study, we have investigated the effect of two mechanistically different neurotoxins, kainic acid (KA), an NMDA agonist and 3-Nitropropionic acid (3-NPA), an inhibitor of mitochondrial respiration, on brain vascular elements revealed by laminin immunolabeling. We also explored whether administration of these two neurotoxic drugs correlate with the neuronal degeneration observed after neurotoxic insult by staining with Fluoro-Jade C dye. We have employed single immunolabeling to localize laminin in the brains. In KA treated rats, most of the laminin immunoreactivity is present in the piriform cortex, corpus callosum (myelinated tracts) amygdala, hippocampus, ventral thalamus and tenia tacta. In...Continue Reading

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