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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-6-24
pubmed:abstractText
Penumbra tissue becomes highly angiogenic after ischaemic stroke in man, and the re-establishment of a functional vasculature might be beneficial to patients. Unilateral ischaemia was induced in male Sprague-Dawley rats by permanent occlusion of the distal left middle cerebral artery (MCAO). Animals with stroke were kept alive for 1, 7, 14, 21 or 28 days after which time they were terminally anaesthetized. Vascular casts of infarcted areas, analyzed by scanning electron microscopy demonstrated that radially arranged neocortical arterioles and venules lost their regular patterns within one day of occlusion, and soon afterwards started to form a very dense network of anastomosing microvessels. At 1 week, vascular budding was visible at many sites. The smallest microvessels (4-10 microm) formed connections with the surrounding proliferating vessels similar to those in the normal brain. Survival of microvascular endothelial cells (ECs) was studied by double labeling of tissue sections using immunohistochemistry and antibodies to caspase-3, and TUNEL staining for apoptotic cells. ECs demonstrated intensive staining for caspase-3 and also staining by TUNEL, particularly near the infarct border, 14 days post-MCAO. These data support the hypothesis that growing blood vessels in ischaemic tissue form new connections, the pattern of which is similar to that in normal rat brain, but different to those formed in growing tumours. This normal growth pattern might be essential in future therapies involving induction of vascularization and neuroprotection to enhance long-term survival of the penumbra.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0959-4965
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
11
pubmed:volume
14
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1171-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12821803-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:12821803-Apoptosis, pubmed-meshheading:12821803-Blood Vessels, pubmed-meshheading:12821803-Brain Ischemia, pubmed-meshheading:12821803-Caspase 3, pubmed-meshheading:12821803-Caspases, pubmed-meshheading:12821803-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:12821803-DNA Fragmentation, pubmed-meshheading:12821803-Endothelium, Vascular, pubmed-meshheading:12821803-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:12821803-In Situ Hybridization, pubmed-meshheading:12821803-In Situ Nick-End Labeling, pubmed-meshheading:12821803-Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery, pubmed-meshheading:12821803-Male, pubmed-meshheading:12821803-Microscopy, Atomic Force, pubmed-meshheading:12821803-Perfusion, pubmed-meshheading:12821803-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:12821803-Rats, Sprague-Dawley, pubmed-meshheading:12821803-Reperfusion Injury, pubmed-meshheading:12821803-Time Factors, pubmed-meshheading:12821803-von Willebrand Factor
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Three-dimensional structure and survival of newly formed blood vessels after focal cerebral ischemia.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurology, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain. krupinski@medicina.ub.es
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study