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Ultrastructural study of the clearance of intracerebrally infused native and modified albumin-gold complexes.

Abstract：

:The main objective of this ultrastructural study was to gain a better understanding of the involvement of brain vasculature in clearance of proteins from edematous fluid. For this purpose, both native and modified (cationized, glucosylated, and mannosylated) bovine serum albumin-gold complexes (BSA-G, catBSA-G, glucBSA-G and manBSA-G respectively) dissolved in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) were infused (10 microliters) into mouse cerebral cortex. Samples of brain were taken at 30 min, 1 h, and 24 h post-infusion for electron microscopical examination. All BSA-G complexes were rapidly taken up and deposited inside the cytoplasm of pericytes and of various glial cells (microglia and eventually astrocytes) located in the area adjacent to the infusion site. Only glucBSA-G particles also appeared inside the nuclei of some cells. In the applied experimental conditions and at the examined time intervals, neither BSA-G nor catBSA-G and glucBSA-G complexes were transported back to the bloodstream, although they entered vascular basement membrane and were eventually internalized in the endosomes or multivesicular bodies of the endothelial cells. Only a few gold particles representing the manBSA-G complex were found inside the vascular lumen, suggesting their reverse transport to a rather small degree. The mechanism of this transport, however, remains unclear. Complexes of catBSA-G were apparently trapped by the negatively charged vascular basement membrane and remained in this structure without any further significant uptake by the endothelial cells. These observations suggest that large size and multimeric nature of albumin-gold complexes are limiting factors making it difficult to interpret the results and hampering their relevance to the clearance in vivo of native albumin from brain edematous fluid.

journal_name

Histol Histopathol

journal_title

Histology and histopathology

authors

Dobrogowska DH,Lossinsky AS,Vorbrodt AW

doi

10.14670/HH-13.647

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1998-07-01 00:00:00

pages

647-56

issue

eissn

0213-3911

issn

1699-5848

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Ultrastructural study of the clearance of intracerebrally infused native and modified albumin-gold complexes.