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The Journal of Neuroscience, September 15, 2001, 21(18):7182-7193

Astrocytes from Cerebral Cortex or Striatum Attract Adult Host Serotoninergic Axons into Intrastriatal Ventral Mesencephalic Co-Grafts

Audrey Petit, Philippe Pierret, Annie Vallée, and Guy Doucet

Département de Pathologie et Biologie Cellulaire and Centre de Recherche en Sciences Neurologiques, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3J7

The identification of axon growth inhibitory molecules offers new hopes for repair of the injured CNS. However, the navigational ability of adult CNS axons and the guidance cues they can recognize are still essentially unknown. Astrocytes may express guidance molecules and are known to have different regional phenotypes. To evaluate their influence on the affinity of adult serotoninergic (5-HT) axons for a projection target, we co-implanted astrocytes from the neonatal striatum, cortex, or ventral mesencephalon together with fetal ventral mesencephalic tissue into the striatum of adult rats. Two months after surgery, quantification after in vitro 5-[1,2-3H]serotonin ([3H]5-HT) uptake and autoradiography showed that ventral mesencephalic grafts with co-grafted cortical or striatal astrocytes were four times and three times, respectively, more densely innervated by host 5-HT axons than control ventral mesencephalic grafts with or without co-grafted ventral mesencephalic astrocytes. Immunohistochemistry for glial fibrillary acidic protein, vimentin, or chondroitin-sulfate proteoglycans revealed no qualitative or quantitative differences in host astroglial scar or production of inhibitory molecules that could explain these differences in 5-HT innervation. These results demonstrate that astrocytes grown in culture from different brain regions have the potential to influence the growth and maintenance of adult 5-HT axons in a graft of neural tissue from another brain region. It should now be feasible to identify the molecules expressed by cultured cortical or striatal, but not by ventral mesencephalic, astrocytes that have these tropic actions on 5-HT axons of the neostriatum.

Key words: axon guidance; regeneration; astrocyte; neural transplantation; cell culture; serotonin neurons; neostriatum; substantia nigra

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