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Specific knockout of Sox2 in astrocytes reduces reactive astrocyte formation and promotes recovery after early postnatal traumatic brain injury in mouse cortex
- Source :
- Glia. 71:602-615
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2022.
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Abstract
- In response to central nervous system (CNS) injury, astrocytes go through a series of alterations, referred to as reactive astrogliosis, ranging from changes in gene expression and cell hypertrophy to permanent astrocyte borders around stromal cell scars in CNS lesions. The mechanisms underlying injury-induced reactive astrocytes in the adult CNS have been extensively studied. However, little is known about injury-induced reactive astrocytes during early postnatal development. Astrocytes in the mouse cortex are mainly produced through local proliferation during the first 2 weeks after birth. Here we show that Sox2, a transcription factor critical for stem cells and brain development, is expressed in the early postnatal astrocytes and its expression level was increased in reactive astrocytes after traumatic brain injury (TBI) at postnatal day (P) 7 in the cortex. Using a tamoxifen-induced hGFAP-CreERT2; Sox2
- Subjects :
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Neurology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 10981136 and 08941491
- Volume :
- 71
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Glia
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a810d47ac15220b261d151a5ba89ba79