Journal: Nature neuroscience
Article Title: Degeneration and impaired regeneration of gray matter oligodendrocytes in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
doi: 10.1038/nn.3357
Figure Lengend Snippet: Enhanced oligodendrogenesis in the spinal cord gray matter of adult ALS mice. ( a ) Protocol used to trace the fate of NG2 + cells in PDGFαR-CreER;Z/EG ± SOD1 (G93A) mice. Cohorts of NG2 + cells were labeled with EGFP by 4HT injection at P30 or P60 then analyzed at different ages. ( b ) Fluorescence images showing EGFP + NG2 + cell progeny in the ventral horn of the spinal cord in control or SOD1 (G93A) mice 60 days after 4HT administration at P30 (P30+60). Scale bar: 100 μm. ( c – e ) Maps of the location of adult born oligodendrocytes generated from NG2 + cells in the spinal cord of control (blue circles) or SOD1 (G93A) mice (red circles), from P60 to P75 ( c ), from P60 to P90 ( d ), or from P60 to P120 (or end stage for ALS mice) ( e ). Oligodendrocytes (EGFP + CC1 + ) in four randomly sampled lumbar spinal cord sections from each group (from 3–4 mice) are shown. ( f – h ) Graphs showing the density of newly generated EGFP + CC1 + oligodendrocytes in different regions of the adult spinal cord from control (white bars) and SOD1 (G93A) mice (gray bars). Mean + s.e.m. ( n = 9 sections from 3 mice per group) * P < 0.05, ** P < 0.001, *** P < 0.0005, unpaired Student’s t test. i ) Graph showing the overall density of oligodendrocytes (Olig2 + CC1 + ) in different regions of the spinal cord of P120 and end stage SOD1 (G93A) mice. Mean + s.e.m. ( n = 12 sections per group from 4 mice per group) N.S., non-significant, one-way ANOVA with Tukey test.
Article Snippet: We used primary antibodies to APC (CC1) (mouse, Calbiochem, 1:50), BrdU (rat, Accurate, 1:500), Caspase-3 (rabbit, Cell Signaling, 1:500), ChAT (goat, Millipore, 1:300), EGFP (goat, Frontier Institute, 1:500), EGFP (rabbit, a gift from Dr. Richard Huganir, Johns Hopkins University, 1:500), GFAP (mouse, NeuroMab, 1:500), GFAP (rabbit, DAKO, 1:1,000), Iba1 (rabbit, Wako, 1:1,000), Ki67 (rabbit, Abcam, 1:500), NG2 (guinea pig, 1:3,600), Olig2 (guinea pig, a gift from Dr. Ben Novitch, UCLA, 1:20,000), Olig2 (rabbit, Millipore, 1:500), PDGFαR (rabbit, a gift from Dr. William Stallcup, Burnham Institute, 1:500), SMI32 (mouse, Covance, 1:1,000), and hSOD1 (rabbit, 1:70).
Techniques: Labeling, Injection, Fluorescence, Control, Generated