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Effects of prolonged ethanol exposure on the glial fibrillary acidic protein-containing intermediate filaments of astrocytes in primary culture: a quantitative immunofluorescence and immunogold electron microscopic study

J Renau-Piqueras, R Zaragoza, P De Paz, R Baguena-Cervellera, L Megias and C Guerri

Instituto de Investigaciones Citologicas (Centro Asociado del CSIC), Valencia, Spain.

We investigated the effects of ethanol exposure on the shape of the cell and the morphology of intermediate filaments (IF) of cortical astrocytes in primary culture. The content and distribution of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), the major component of glial IF, was assessed using an anti-GFAP monoclonal antibody and fluorescence scanning densitometry together with quantitative pre- and post- embedding immunogold electron microscopy. The astrocytes were from 21- day-old fetuses obtained from both control and chronic alcoholic rats and were cultured for 28 days in the absence or presence of ethanol (25 mM). The main findings were: (a) ethanol-exposed astrocytes failed to develop processes or to acquire a filamentous IF distribution pattern; (b) these cells showed less GFAP than astrocytes without alcohol; (c) ethanol interfered with the reorganization of the anti-GFAP binding sites from clustered to random; and (d) astrocytes from alcohol-exposed fetuses cultured in the absence of ethanol also showed these alterations, suggesting initial damage to astrocyte precursor cells. Since the glial filaments play a crucial role in creating a scaffolding that guides neuronal migration, the effect of ethanol on astrocyte IF may possibly be correlated with the mechanisms underlying mental retardation and motor dysfunction which are characteristics of fetal alcohol syndrome.

Volume 37, Issue 2, pp. 229-240, 02/01/1989
Copyright © 1989 by The Histochemical Society


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