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KMID : 0363720070400030163
Korean Journal of Anatomy
2007 Volume.40 No. 3 p.163 ~ p.170
Pre-synaptic Neuronal Changes of AII Amacrine Cells in the Streptozotocin-induced Diabetic Rat Retina
Park Hyo-Suk

Chun Myung-Hoon
Oh Su-Ja
Park Sung-Jin
Shin Ji-Man
Abstract
It has been previously reported that parvalbumin expression was downregulated in AII amacrine cells, while upregulated in a subset of cone bipolar cells electrically synapse with AII amacrine cell in the streptozotocin-induced diabetic rat retina. In the present study, we aimed to trace biochemical changes of pre-synaptic neurons to AII amacrine cells in rat retina following diabetic injury. Diabetic condition was induced by streptozotocin injection into Sprague-Dawley rats aged of 8 weeks. The experimental term of induced diabetes was set at 1, 4, 12 and 24 weeks. Changes of pre-synaptic neurons were evaluated by immunohistochemistry and Western blot analysis with anti-protein kinase C (PKC)-¥á and anti-tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) antibodies. Rod bipolar cells immunolocalized with PKC-¥á antibody extended their enlarged axon terminals into stratum 5 of the inner plexiform layer. In later diabetes, the axon was shorten and its terminals of rod bipolar cell are slightly enlarged. The protein levels of PKC-¥á were slightly increased along with the duration of diabetes. TH immunoreactive neurons are morphologically classified into two subtypes of amacrine cells in the inner nuclear layer: one (type 1) has large soma with long and primary dendrites, classified with dopaminergic, and the other (type 2) has small soma with dendritic arborization. In the outermost inner plexiform layer, ring-like structures being composed of type 1 cell processes were densely distributed. In diabetic retina, the intensity of TH immunoreactivity in type 1 neurons was reduced. In accordance with morphological changes, the protein levels of TH were reduced during diabetes. These results demonstrate that TH immunoreactive dopaminergic amacrine cells are more susceptible to diabetic injury than the rod bipolar cells in the rat retina and may suggest that downregulation of parvalbumin expression in AII amacrine cells of diabetic retina is mainly due to dysfunction of pre-synaptic dopaminergic amacrine cells.
KEYWORD
Parvalbumin, Rod bipolar cell, Dopaminergic amacrine cell, Immunohistochemistry, Dia
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