Light damage in the rat retina: glial fibrillary acidic protein accumulates in Müller cells in correlation with photoreceptor damage.

Abstract:

:Low intensity diffuse white fluorescent light (1,000 lx for 2 h) exclusively induced photoreceptor damage in the inferior retina of albino rats; the temporal retina showed extensive damage, whereas the nasal retina revealed threshold lesions prior to recovery. To expand our morphological data, further experiments were undertaken to determine if glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) expression was associated with the regions of photoreceptor damage. To follow the time course of GFAP expression, immunoblot analysis was carried out on retinal homogenates of dark-adapted (control) rats and light-exposed rats returned to cyclic light for 0 h, 1, 2, 3 and 6 days. A significant twofold increase in GFAP immunoreactivity over controls was observed in the retinas of light-exposed rats returned to cyclic light for 6 days. Using an indirect immunohistochemical method, retinal sections of the control and light-exposed rats allowed to recover for 6 days were stained for GFAP. GFAP immunoreactivity was localised to the astrocytes and Müller cells. Moreover, GFAP staining in Müller cells in the retinas of control animals was uniformly restricted to rare end-feet. In contrast, a gradient of GFAP immunoreactivity was observed in experimental rats, rising from the superior retina to the inferior temporal quadrant; the GFAP staining in the inferior nasal quadrant was intermediate. Thus, GFAP immunoreactivity was proportional to photoreceptor damage. Interestingly, no GFAP induction could be demonstrated in the pineal glands of light-exposed rats.

journal_name

Ophthalmic Res

journal_title

Ophthalmic research

authors

de Raad S,Szczesny PJ,Munz K,Remé CE

doi

10.1159/000267881

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1996-01-01 00:00:00

pages

99-107

issue

2

eissn

0030-3747

issn

1423-0259

journal_volume

28

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