Project description:With increasing distribution of endovascular stroke therapies, transient middle cerebral artery occlusion in mice depicts a relevant patient population with recanalized M1 occlusion. This study provides a well-controlled transcriptome dataset of short and long-term transcriptomic changes at the neurovascular unit in cerebral ischemia/reperfusion injury.
Project description:In this study, we examined a Macaca fascicularis transient middle cerebral artery occlusion surgery-induced stroke model, consisting of two sample groups, determined by MRI-quantified infarct volumes as a measure of the stroke severity 28 days after the ischemic episode.
Project description:CARASIL (cerebral autosomal recessive arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy) is a hereditary cerebral small-vessel disease caused by loss of function mutations of HTRA1, which is a serine protease with a variety of targets, including extracellular matrix proteins. Htra1-KO mice accumulate matrisome proteins in cerebral blood vessels. We isolated pial arteries (the anterior cerebral artery and the middle cerebral artery) from candesartan-treated and nontreated Htra1-KO mice at 24 months of age.
Project description:Carotid artery disease is frequent and can result in chronic modest hypoperfusion of the brain causing cognitive impairments even if classified asymptomatic without a transient ischemic attack or stroke. Paracrine Interleukin 6 (IL 6) improves functional outcome after stroke. However, in carotid artery disease it might have adverse long-term effects. With this exploratory study, we investigated the effect of paracrine IL 6 on cerebral remodeling in early stages after asymptomatic carotid artery occlusion. Therewith we aimed to distinguish IL 6 dependent targets with beneficial effects for long-term outcome from factors causing the detrimental long-term effects of IL 6. To mimic a human asymptomatic carotid artery disease, we used a mouse model of unilateral common carotid artery (CCA) occlusion. We developed a mouse model for inducible paracrine cerebral IL 6 expression (Cx30-Cre-ERT2;FLEX IL6) and induced IL 6 two days after CCA occlusion. We studied the effects of paracrine IL 6 after CCA occlusion on neuronal connectivity using diffusion tensor imaging and on local proteome regulations of the hypo-perfused striatum and contralateral motor cortex using mass spectrometry of laser capture micro-dissected tissues. Paracrine IL-6 induced cerebral remodeling leading to increased inter-hemispheric connectivity and changes in motor system connectivity. We identified changes in local protein abundance which might have adverse effects on functional outcome such as upregulation of Synuclein gamma (Sncg) or downregulation of Proline Dehydrogenase 1 (Prodh). However, we also identified changes in local protein abundance having potentially beneficial effects such as upregulation of Caprin1 or downregulation of GABA transporter 1 (Gat1).
Project description:profiling gene transcription in a mouse model of permanent focal cerebral ischemia that was induced by middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO)
Project description:This data set shows dramatic changes in gene expression in microglia isolated from C57Bl6/J mice subjected to transient middle cerebral artery occlusion, as compared to those subjected to sham surgery. Mice deficient in Mincle (Clec4e-/-) showed significantly improved injury outcomes 3 and 7 days after transient middle cerebral artery occlusion. However, when comparing changes in gene expression in microglia 24 hours after blood reperfusion, there were no differences between wild-type and Clec4e-/- mice, indicating that Mincle does not participate in early microglial activation. Wild type and Mincle knock-out (Clec4e-/-) mice. After 1 h of transient middle cerebral artery occlusion (tMCAO) and 24 h of reperfusion, mice were perfused with PBS, their brains dissected, and 2 ipsilesional hemispheres (with cerebellum and brainstem removed) pooled for microglia isolation. For sham-operated animals, the whole forebrain was used and brains were not pooled. After myelin separation by Percoll gradient centrifugation, around 80,000 CD45intermediate, CD11b+ microglial cells were sorted from each sample. Sham samples n=3, tMCAO samples n=5.
Project description:This data set shows dramatic changes in gene expression in microglia isolated from C57Bl6/J mice subjected to transient middle cerebral artery occlusion, as compared to those subjected to sham surgery. Mice deficient in Mincle (Clec4e-/-) showed significantly improved injury outcomes 3 and 7 days after transient middle cerebral artery occlusion. However, when comparing changes in gene expression in microglia 24 hours after blood reperfusion, there were no differences between wild-type and Clec4e-/- mice, indicating that Mincle does not participate in early microglial activation.
Project description:We used 10XGenomics Single Cell 3' Droplet-based single cell approach to profile adult mouse cortical brain cells after middle cerebral artery occlusion.
Project description:CD45high infiltrating immune cells were sorted from ischemic mouse brains at 5 days (5d) and 14 days (14d) after transient (60 min) middle cerebral artery occlusion (tMCAO) and subjected to scRNAseq.