Oral corticosterone administration alone is sufficient to simulate the actions of chronic stress on glial cells but not on vasculature
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Paper/Presentation Title | Oral corticosterone administration alone is sufficient to simulate the actions of chronic stress on glial cells but not on vasculature |
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Presentation Type | Poster |
Authors | Zalewska, K., Ong, L. K., Pietrogrande, G., Johnson, S. J., Nilsson, M. and Walker, F. R. |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Glia |
Journal Citation | 65, pp. E337-E337 |
Number of Pages | 1 |
Year | Jun 2017 |
Place of Publication | United States |
ISSN | 0894-1491 |
1098-1136 | |
Conference/Event | 13th European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease (2017) |
Event Details | 13th European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease (2017) Delivery In person Event Date 08 to end of 11 Jul 2017 Event Location Scotland |
Abstract | It is almost inevitable that patients that have suffered from a severe brain injury, such as stroke will go on to experience severe and unremitting levels of chronic stress. Surprisingly, however, the effects of stress on the brain following stroke has not been well characterised. To this end our research team has been interested in exploring the influence of stress on glial cells during recovery from stroke. Here we have identified the ability of stress to alter glial activity, most notably in an inhibitory way. In extending these studies we became interested in what were the primary signals responsible for this inhibition. Here the most obvious candidate was the steroid hormone, corticosterone, known to be released at high levels during stressful events. While this hormone is recognised to affect several metabolic functions, our interest was focused on the well described ability of corticosterone to immunosuppress cells of haemopoietic origin. The aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which corticosteroid could simulate the effects of stress. After orally delivering corticosterone at stress like levels we observed that corticosterone potently suppressed markers of microgliosis (Iba-1) and astrogliosis (GFAP) but did not significantly influence vascular markers (Collagen IV or VEGF). These results are of significant interest as they confirm that corticosterone recapitulates stress like effects on glia but does not do the same for the vasculature. Accordingly, these results suggest that stress induced inhibition of glia that not the vasculature is attributable to stress induced corticosterone |
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Byline Affiliations | University of Newcastle |
Hunter Medical Research Institute, Australia | |
NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence Stroke Rehabilitation and Brain Recovery, Australia |
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