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Apoptotic DNA fragmentation in the rat cerebral cortex induced by permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion
M D Linnik et al. Brain Res Mol Brain Res. 1995 Aug.
Abstract
Recent investigations have demonstrated internucleosomal DNA fragmentation in ischemic neuronal tissue. This type of fragmentation is characteristic of programmed cell death or apoptosis and suggests that neuronal death in stroke may be more complex than simple necrotic death. The present experiments provide a detailed examination of the regional localization and time course for apoptotic DNA fragmentation in the cerebral cortex following focal cerebral ischemia. Spontaneously hypertensive rats were subjected to permanent right middle cerebral artery occlusion and the cerebral cortices were examined for evidence of DNA fragmentation using electrophoretic, flow cytometric, and histological approaches. An electrophoretic examination of cortical DNA at 24 h after the occlusion indicated that the majority of nucleosomal ladders were in the transition zone or penumbra and the core of the infarction, with no fragmentation apparent in the contralateral normal cortex. A flow cytometric analysis of DNA fragmentation in intact cells revealed a similar pattern, with increased fragmentation observed in ischemic cortex vs. the contralateral cortex. Saggital sections taken 1.5 mm lateral to midline were collected from animals at 1, 4, and 24 h after the infarction and DNA fragmentation was examined histologically by terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase mediated dUTP-biotin nick end labeling (TUNEL) staining. Quantitative analysis of these sections indicated that DNA fragmentation can be observed in the anterior and central area of the infarctions as soon as 1 h after the occlusion and that the extent and magnitude of the fragmentation increases at 4 and 24 h.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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