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The electrotonic architecture of the retinal microvasculature: diabetes-induced alteration.

Abstract：

:Although microvascular cell death is a well established hallmark of diabetic retinopathy, which is a major cause of vision loss, much remains to be learned about the functional changes that precede the onset of morphological damage to retinal blood vessels. Early alterations of function are of interest since they may contribute to the development of irreversible pathological events. Because one of the earliest retinal effects of diabetes is the dysregulation of blood flow, we asked whether diabetes alters the functional organization of the capillary/arteriolar complex, which is the operational unit that plays an important role in regulating local perfusion. In this study, the effect of diabetes on the electrotonic architecture of the retinal microvasculature was characterized. To do this, we quantified the efficacy by which voltages are transmitted between pairs perforated-patch pipettes sealed onto abluminal cells located at well defined locations in capillary/arteriolar complexes freshly isolated from the retinas of rats made diabetic by streptozotocin. Results of these dual recording experiments were compared with data from similar experiments performed on non-diabetic retinal microvessels. These experiments revealed that diabetes caused a ∼5-fold increase in the rate at which a voltage decays as it axially spreads through the retinal microvasculature. In contrast, the efficacy of radial abluminal cell/endothelial cell transmission was not significantly affected by diabetes. Based on the results of this study, which is the first to characterize how diabetes affects voltage transmission in capillary/arteriolar complexes of any tissue, we concluded that by selectively inhibiting axial transmission, diabetes alters the electrotonic architecture of the retinal microvasculature. This diabetes-induced alteration in the functional organization of the capillary/arteriolar unit is likely to impair its ability to efficiently and effectively regulate blood flow and thereby, may contribute to the progression of sight-threatening complications of diabetic retinopathy.

journal_name

Neurochem Int

journal_title

Neurochemistry international

authors

Nakaizumi A,Zhang T,Puro DG

doi

10.1016/j.neuint.2012.02.002

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2012-11-01 00:00:00

pages

948-53

issue

eissn

0197-0186

issn

1872-9754

pii

S0197-0186(12)00053-8

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The electrotonic architecture of the retinal microvasculature: diabetes-induced alteration.