Neuronal Damage Using Fluoro-Jade B Histofluorescence and Gliosis in the Gerbil Septum Submitted to Various Durations of Cerebral Ischemia

Author： Park Chan Lee Jae-Chul Ahn Ji Lee Dae Cho Geum-Sil Yan Bing Park Joon Kim In Lee Hui Won Moo-Ho Cho Jun

Publisher： Springer Publishing Company

ISSN： 0272-4340

Source： Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, Vol.33, Iss.7, 2013-10, pp. : 991-1001

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Abstract

The extent of neuronal damage/death in some brain regions is highly correlated to duration time of transient ischemia. In the present study, we carried out neuronal degeneration/death and glial changes in the septum 4 days after 5, 10, 15, and 20 min of transient cerebral ischemia using gerbils. To examine neuronal damage, Fluoro-Jade B (F-J B, a marker for neuronal degeneration) histofluorescence staining was used. F-J B positive (⁺) cells were detected in the septo-hippocampal nucleus (SHN) of the septum only in the 20 min ischemia-group; the mean number of F-J B⁺ neurons was 14.9 ± 2.5/400 μm² in a section. Gliosis of astrocytes and microglia was examined using anti-glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and anti-ionized calcium-binding adapter molecule 1 (Iba-1), respectively. In all the ischemia-groups, GFAP- and Iba-1-immunoreactive astrocytes and microglia, respectively, were increased in number, and apparently tended to be increased in their immunoreactivity. Especially, in the 20 min ischemia-group, the number and immunoreactivity of Iba-immunoreactive microglia was highest and strongest in the ischemic SHN 4 days after ischemia–reperfusion. In brief, our findings showed that neuronal damage/death in the SHN occurred and gliosis was apparently increased in the 20 min ischemia-group at 4 days after ischemia–reperfusion.