Impairment of pericyte-endothelium crosstalk leads to blood-brain barrier dysfunction following traumatic brain injury.

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) constitutes a neurovascular unit formed by microvascular endothelial cells, pericytes, and astrocytes. Brain pericytes are important regulators of BBB integrity, permeability, and blood flow. Pericyte loss has been implicated in injury; however, how the crosstalk among pericytes, endothelial cells, and astrocytes ultimately leads to BBB dysfunction in traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains elusive. In this study, we demonstrate the importance of pericyte-endothelium interaction in maintaining the BBB function. TBI causes the platelet-derived growth factor-B (PDGF-B)/PDGF receptor-β signaling impairment that results in loss of interaction with endothelium and leads to neurovascular dysfunction. Using in vivo mild (7 psi) and moderate (15 psi) fluid percussion injury (FPI) in mice, we demonstrate the expression of various pericyte markers including PDGFR-β, NG2 and CD13 that were significantly reduced with a subsequent reduction in the expression of various integrins; adherent junction protein, N-cadherin; gap junction protein, connexin-43; and tight junction proteins such as occludin, claudin-5, ZO-1, and JAM-a. Impairment of pericyte-endothelium interaction increases the BBB permeability to water that is marked by a significant increase in aquaporin4 expression in injured animals. Similarly, pericyte-endothelium integrity impairment in FPI animals greatly increases the permeability of small-molecular-weight sodium fluorescein and high-molecular-weight-tracer Evans blue across the BBB. In addition, the injury-inflicted animals show significantly higher levels of S100β and NSE in the blood samples compared with controls. In conclusion, our data provide an insight that brain trauma causes an early impairment of pericyte-endothelium integrity and results in BBB dysregulation that initiates pathological consequences associated with TBI.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Experimental Neurology

• Publication date

  2019-07-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/j.expneurol.2019.03.014PMID 30926390
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