An analysis of astrocytic cell lines with different abilities to promote axon growth |
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Authors: | Juin Fok-Seang Linda C. Smith-Thomas Sally Meiners Elizabeth Muir Jian-Sheng Du Elizabeth Housden Alan R. Johnson Andreas Faissner Herbert M. Geller Roger J. Keynes John H. Rogers James W. Fawcett |
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Affiliation: | aPhysiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EG, UK;bMRC Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, Cambridge, UK;cDepartment of Anatomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK;dNeurobiology Department, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany;eDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ 07103, USA |
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Abstract: | The adult mammalian central nervous system (CNS) lacks the capacity to support axonal regeneration. There is increasing evidence to suggest that astrocytes, the major glial population in the CNS, may possess both axon-growth promoting and axon-growth inhibitory properties and the latter may contribute to the poor regenerative capacity of the CNS. In order to examine the molecular differences between axon-growth permissive and axon-growth inhibitory astrocytes, a panel of astrocyte cell lines exhibiting a range of axon-growth promoting properties was generated and analysed. No clear correlation was found between the axon-growth promoting properties of these astrocyte cell lines with: (i) the expression of known neurite-outgrowth promoting molecules such as laminin, fibronectin andN-cadherin; (ii) the expression of known inhibitory molecules such tenascin and chondroitin sulphate proteoglycan; (iii) plasminogen activator and plasminogen activator inhibitor activity; and (iv) growth cone collapsing activity. EM studies on aggregates formed from astrocyte cell lines, however, revealed the presence of an abundance of extracellular matrix material associated with the more inhibitory astrocyte cell lines. When matrix deposited by astrocyte cell lines was assessed for axon-growth promoting activity, matrix from permissive lines was found to be a good substrate, whereas matrix from the inhibitory astrocyte lines was a poor substrate for neuritic growth. Our findings, taken together, suggest that the functional differences between the permissive and the inhibitory astrocyte cell lines reside largely with the ECM. |
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Keywords: | Astrocyte Axon regeneration Extracellular matrix Protease Adhesion molecule |
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