Abstract
Maternal intrauterine infection, and the accompanying inflammation in the fetal brain, represent a significant risk to the developing fetus. Dopamine (DA) neurons have been shown to be particularly vulnerable to inflammation induced by injection of the bacterial endotoxin lipopolysaccharide (LPS). In order to further examine the nature of this vulnerability, we used a combination of in vivo prenatal LPS exposure, and in vitro analysis of nigrostriatal development in organotypic cultures prepared from LPS-exposed rat fetuses. Control co-cultures prepared from unexposed E14 substantia nigra (SN/VTA) and E21 striatum exhibited numerous DA neurons in the nigral piece and robust ingrowth into the striatal piece. When E14 SN/VTA was obtained from fetuses exposed to LPS (0.1 mg/kg) on E10, initial DA cell numbers and striatal innervation in co-cultures were normal, but at longer durations in vitro, a reduction in DA neurons was observed. When striatal tissue from fetuses exposed to LPS on E14 or E18 was used in combination with non-exposed SN/VTA, DA neurons initially exhibited a normal pattern of ingrowth into LPS-exposed striatum. However, with longer durations in vitro, DA neurons were lost more rapidly when co-cultured with LPS-ex...Continue Reading
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