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ArticlePloS one2015

Enriched Environment Protects the Optic Nerve from Early Diabetes-Induced Damage in Adult Rats.

Damián Dorfman, Marcos L Aranda, Ruth E Rosenstein

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Article in PloS one, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Damián DorfmanLaboratory of Retinal Neurochemistry and Experimental Ophthalmology, Department of Human Biochemistry, School of Medicine/CEFyBO, University of Buenos Aires/CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Marcos L ArandaLaboratory of Retinal Neurochemistry and Experimental Ophthalmology, Department of Human Biochemistry, School of Medicine/CEFyBO, University of Buenos Aires/CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Ruth E RosensteinLaboratory of Retinal Neurochemistry and Experimental Ophthalmology, Department of Human Biochemistry, School of Medicine/CEFyBO, University of Buenos Aires/CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas · ARUniversity of Buenos Aires · AR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of reduced visual acuity and acquired blindness. Axoglial alterations of the distal (close to the chiasm) optic nerve (ON) could be the first structural change of the visual pathway in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes in rats. We analyzed the effect of environmental enrichment on axoglial alterations of the ON provoked by experimental diabetes. For this purpose, three days after vehicle or STZ injection, animals were housed in enriched environment (EE) or remained in a standard environment (SE) for 6 weeks. Anterograde transport, retinal morphology, optic nerve axons (toluidine blue staining and phosphorylated neurofilament heavy immunoreactivity), microglia/macrophages (ionized calcium binding adaptor molecule 1 (Iba-1) immunoreactivity), astrocyte reactivity (glial fibrillary acid protein-immunostaining), myelin (myelin basic protein immunoreactivity), ultrastructure, and brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) levels were assessed in non-diabetic and diabetic animals housed in SE or EE. No differences in retinal morphology or retinal ganglion cell number were observed among groups. EE housing which did not affect the STZ-induced weight loss and hyperglycemia, prevented a decrease in the anterograde transport from the retina to the superior colliculus, ON axon number, and phosphorylated neurofilament heavy immunoreactivity. Moreover, EE housing prevented an increase in Iba-1 immunoreactivity, and astrocyte reactivity, as well as ultrastructural myelin alterations in the ON distal portion at early stages of diabetes. In addition, EE housing avoided a decrease in BDNF levels induced by experimental diabetes. These results suggest that EE induced neuroprotection in the diabetic visual pathway.

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EnvironmentAnimalsAstrocytesAxonsBrain-Derived Neurotrophic FactorCalcium-Binding ProteinsDiabetes Mellitus, ExperimentalDiabetic RetinopathyGlial Fibrillary Acidic ProteinMaleMicrofilament ProteinsMyelin Basic ProteinOptic NerveRatsRats, WistarRetinal Ganglion CellsAif1 protein, ratBrain-Derived Neurotrophic FactorCalcium-Binding ProteinsGlial Fibrillary Acidic ProteinMicrofilament ProteinsMyelin Basic Protein

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