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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-1-10
pubmed:abstractText
In the premature infant, hypoxic-ischemic damage to the cerebral white matter [periventricular leukomalacia (PVL)] is a common and leading cause of brain injury that often results in chronic neurologic disability from cerebral palsy. The cellular basis for the propensity of white matter injury to occur in the developing brain and the greater resistance of the adult white matter to similar injury remains unknown. By using a neonatal rat model of hypoxic-ischemic injury, we found that the mechanism of perinatal white matter injury involved maturation-dependent vulnerability in the oligodendroctye (OL) lineage. The timing of appearance of late OL progenitors was the major developmental factor that accounted for the susceptibility of the neonatal white matter to injury. Late OL progenitors were the major OL lineage stage killed by apoptosis, whereas early OL progenitors and more mature OLs were highly resistant. The density of pyknotic late OL progenitors was significantly increased in the ischemic hemisphere (67 +/- 31 cells/mm2) versus the control hemisphere (2.2 +/- 0.4 cells/mm2; mean +/- SEM; p = 0.05), which resulted in the death of 72 +/- 6% of this OL stage. Surviving late OL progenitors displayed a reactive response in which an increase in cell density was accompanied by accelerated maturation to a P27/kip1-positive oligodendrocyte. Because we showed recently that late OL progenitors populate human cerebral white matter during the high risk period for PVL (Back et al., 2001), maturation-dependent vulnerability of OL progenitors to hypoxia-ischemia may underlie the selective vulnerability to PVL of the white matter in the premature infant.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
1529-2401
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
22
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
455-63
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Selective vulnerability of late oligodendrocyte progenitors to hypoxia-ischemia.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pediatrics, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon 97201, USA. backs@ohsu.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't