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The Journal of Neuroscience, December 15, 1998, 18(24):10541-10552

A Role for Transforming Growth Factor alpha  as an Inducer of Astrogliosis

Alexander G. Rabchevsky, Juno M. Weinitz, Muriel Coulpier, Christiane Fages, Marina Tinel, and Marie-Pierre Junier

Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 421, Faculté de Médecine, U421 Créteil, France

TGFalpha is a member of the epidermal growth factor (EGF) family with which it shares the same receptor, the EGF receptor (EGFR). Synthesis of TGFalpha and EGFR in reactive astrocytes developing after CNS insults is associated with the differentiative and mitogenic effects of TGFalpha on cultured astrocytes. This suggests a role for TGFalpha in the development of astrogliosis. We evaluated this hypothesis using transgenic mice bearing the human TGFalpha cDNA under the control of the zinc-inducible metallothionein promoter. Expression levels of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and vimentin and morphological features of astrocytes were used as indices of astroglial reactivity in adult transgenic versus wild-type mice provided with ZnCl2 in their water for 3 weeks. In the striatum, the hippocampus, and the cervical spinal cord, the three CNS areas monitored, transgenic mice displayed enhanced GFAP mRNA and protein levels and elevated vimentin protein levels. GFAP-immunoreactive astrocytes exhibited numerous thick processes and hypertrophied somata, which are characteristic aspects of reactive astrocytes. Their number increased additionally in the striatum and the spinal cord, but no astrocytic proliferation was observed using bromodeoxyuridine immunohistochemistry. Neither the morphology nor the number of microglial cells appeared modified. A twofold increase in phosphorylated EGFR was detected in the striatum and was associated with the immunohistochemical detection of numerous GFAP-positive astrocytes bearing the EGFR, suggesting a direct action of TGFalpha on astrocytes. Altogether, these results demonstrate that enhanced TGFalpha synthesis is sufficient to trigger astrogliosis throughout the CNS, whereas microglial metabolism is unaffected.

Key words: transgene; astrocytes; EGF receptor; gliosis; microglia; astrocytic reactivity

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