Differential regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor-C and its receptor in the rat hippocampus following transient forebrain ischemia |
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Authors: | Yoo-Jin Shin Jeong-Sun Choi Ji-Yeon Lee Jae-Youn Choi Jung-Ho Cha Myung-Hoon Chun Mun-Yong Lee |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 505 Banpo-dong, Socho-gu, Seoul, 137-701, South Korea |
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Abstract: | We investigated the changes in the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor-C (VEGF-C) and its receptor, VEGFR-3,
in the rat hippocampus following transient forebrain ischemia. The expression profiles of VEGF-C and VEGFR-3 were very similar
in the control hippocampi, where both genes were constitutively expressed in neurons in the pyramidal cell and granule cell
layers. The spatiotemporal expression pattern of VEGF-C was similar to that of VEGFR-3 in the ischemic hippocampus, and in
the CA1 and dentate hilar regions both VEGF-C and VEGFR-3 were strongly expressed in activated glial cells rather than in
neurons. Most of the activated glial cells expressing both genes were reactive astrocytes, although some were a subpopulation
of brain macrophages. In the dentate gyrus, however, VEGFR-3 expression was transiently increased in the innermost layer of
granule cells on days 7–10 after reperfusion, coinciding with an increase in polysialylated neural cell adhesion molecule
staining—a marker for immature neurons. These data suggest that VEGF-C may be involved in glial reaction via paracrine or
autocrine mechanisms in the ischemic brain and may carry out specific roles in adult hippocampal neurogenesis during ischemic
insults. |
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Keywords: | Glia Hippocampus Neurogenesis Stroke VEGF-C VEGFR-3 |
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