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Pathological alterations of strial capillaries in dominant white spotting W/Wv mice.

Abstract：

:Dominant white spotting W/W(v) and W(v)/W(v) mice are well-known mutants that lack strial intermediate cells in their cochlea and manifest hereditary sensorineural hearing loss. We recently reported marked thickening of and IgG deposition on the basement membrane of strial capillaries in W/W(v) mutant mice, similar to observations made in aged animals and in animals with autoimmune sensorineural hearing loss. The present study aimed to clarify the age-dependent changes in these pathological findings of strial capillaries in the W/W(v) mice. Male WBB6F1 +/+ and dominant white spotting W/W(v) mutant mice were sacrificed by transcardiac perfusion with paraformaldehyde solution. The cochlear ducts were isolated and subjected to light- and electron-microscopy, immunohistochemistry, immunoelectron microscopy. Alternatively, lanthanum chloride tracer examination in the isolated cochlear ducts was performed in order to compare the permeability of the strial capillaries between +/+ and W/W(v) mice. In the W/W(v) mice, thickening of and IgG deposition on the basement membrane of strial capillaries were observed as early as 1 week after birth and became more noticeable with age. Deposited IgG was preferentially localized to the thickened basement membrane and was also observed in partially the intercellular space between adjacent of endothelial cells. In addition, pinocytotic vesicles both in the apical and basal lesions of such cells also showed IgG deposition. Lanthanum chloride was retained along apical plasma membrane of the endothelial cells in the +/+ mice but penetrated through the endothelial layer in the W/W(v) mice. These results indicate that active transport via pinocytotic vesicles as well as increased permeability of strial capillaries in the W/W(v) mice occur in the early stage after birth, resulting in the morphological alterations in the strial capillaries of these mice.

journal_name

Hear Res

journal_title

Hearing research

authors

Fujimura T,Suzuki H,Shimizu T,Tokui N,Kitamura T,Udaka T,Doi Y

doi

10.1016/j.heares.2005.05.013

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subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2005-11-01 00:00:00

pages

53-9

issue

1-2

eissn

0378-5955

issn

1878-5891

pii

S0378-5955(05)00194-2

journal_volume

209

pub_type

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Pathological alterations of strial capillaries in dominant white spotting W/Wv mice.