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Astroglial Permissivity for Neuritic Outgrowth in Neuron-astrocyte Cocultures Depends on Regulation of Laminin Bioavailability

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Specialty Neurology
Date 2001 Dec 26
PMID 11754209
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Abstract

The molecular determinants underlying the failure of axons to regenerate in the CNS after injury were studied in an in vitro model of astrogliosis and neuronal coculture. Mechanically lesioned neuron-astrocyte mouse cortical cocultures were treated with antisense glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP)-mRNA in order to inhibit the formation of gliofilaments that occurs in response to injury. This inhibition relieves the blockage of neuron migration and neuritic outgrowth observed after lesion, and migrating neurons reappeared, supported by a laminin-labeled extracellular network (permissive conditions). We then questioned the relationship between this permissivity and laminin production. Follow-up studies on the concentration of laminin indicated that, after antisense treatment, the laminin level was increased in the cocultures and was under the control of astrocyte-neuron interactions. The addition of exogenous laminin favored neuronal migration and neurite outgrowth, whereas neutralizing laminin bioavailability with antibodies recognizing the astroglial laminin resulted in an inhibition of both neuronal access to the lesion site and neurite outgrowth, suggesting an active role for laminin in the permissive process. This permissive process could be associated with modulation of extracellular matrix (ECM) molecule degradation by proteinases. Among the latter, matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are involved in the breakdown of the ECM component. Our investigation showed a net decrease of the matrix metalloproteinase MMP-2 expression and activity and an increase of its endogenous inhibitor TIMP-2 expression. Both proteins associated with permissivity should be involved in the laminin stabilization and cell-matrix interactions. High levels of laminin and laminin bioavailability, consequent to a reduction in astrogliosis, may be important permissive elements for neuronal migration and neurite outgrowth postlesion.

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