Age-related and Cuprizone-induced Changes in Myelin and Transcription Factor Gene Expression and in Oligodendrocyte Cell Densities in the Rostral Corpus Callosum of Mice

Overview

Journal Cell Mol Neurobiol

Publisher Springer

Specialties Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Neurology

Date 2010 Jan 12

PMID 20063055

Citations 29

Authors

J Ronald Doucette

Rubin Jiao

Adil J Nazarali

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Abstract

During aging, there is a decrease both in the stability of central nervous system (CNS) myelin once formed and in the efficiency of its repair by oligodendrocytes (OLs). To study CNS remyelination during aging, we used the cuprizone (a copper chelator) mouse model. Inclusion of cuprizone in the diet kills mature OLs and demyelinates axons in the rostral corpus callosum (CC) of mice, which enabled us to characterize age-related changes (i.e., 2-16 months of age) in glial cell response during the recruitment (i.e., demyelination) and differentiation (i.e., remyelination) phases of myelin repair. We have found that the time between 12 and 16 months of age is a critical period during which there is an age-related decrease in the number of OL lineage cells (Olig2(Nuc)+ve/GFAP-ve cells) in the rostral CC of both control mice and mice recovering from cuprizone-induced demyelination. Our results also show there was an age-related impaired recruitment of progenitor cells to replace lost OLs in spite of there being no major age-related decrease in the size of the progenitor cell pool (PDGFalphaR+ve/GFAP-ve, and Olig2(Nuc) +ve/PDGFalphaR+ve cells). However, there were cuprizone-induced increased numbers of astrocyte progenitor cells (Olig2(Cyto)+ve/PDGFalphaR+ve) in these same mice; thus PDGFalphaR+ve progenitor cells in mice as old as 16 months of age retain the ability to differentiate into astrocytes, with this fate choice occurring following cytoplasmic translocation of Olig2. These data reveal for the first time age-related differences in the differentiation of PDGFalphaR+ve progenitor cells into OLs and astrocytes and lead us to suggest that during aging there must be a transcriptional switch mechanism in the progenitor cell fate choice in favor of astrocytes. This may at least partially explain the age-related decrease in efficiency of OL myelination and remyelination.

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