RGD Reference Report - Expression of fractalkine and its receptor, CX3CR1, in response to ischaemia-reperfusion brain injury in the rat. - Rat Genome Database

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Expression of fractalkine and its receptor, CX3CR1, in response to ischaemia-reperfusion brain injury in the rat.

Authors: Tarozzo, Glauco  Campanella, Marilena  Ghiani, Michela  Bulfone, Alessandro  Beltramo, Massimiliano 
Citation: Tarozzo G, etal., Eur J Neurosci. 2002 May;15(10):1663-8.
RGD ID: 13673875
Pubmed: PMID:12059974   (View Abstract at PubMed)

Fractalkine is a neuronally expressed chemokine that acts through its G-protein-coupled receptor CX3CR1, localized on microglial and immune cells. Fractalkine might be involved in neuroinflammatory processes secondary to neuronal damage, which normally occur in a time frame of days after ischaemia. We evaluated by in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry the expression of fractalkine and CX3CR1 in the rat brain, after a transient occlusion of the middle cerebral artery. We found that at 12 h after ischaemia neuronal fractalkine expression was transiently increased in scattered necrotic neurons of the cortex and lost from the ischaemic striatum. At 24 and 48 h after ischaemia, fractalkine immunoreactivity was strongly increased in morphologically intact cortical neurons of the ischaemic penumbra where also the stress-inducible HSP-72 was strongly up-regulated. The intensity of fractalkine immunoreactivity of neurons in the penumbra returned to basal levels at 7 days after ischaemia. Fractalkine synthesis was also induced in endothelial cells of the infarcted area, at 48 h and 7 days after ischaemia. CX3CR1 expression was detected in the activated microglial cells of the ischaemic tissue 24 and 48 h after ischaemia, and became strongly up-regulated in macrophages/phagocytic microglia inside the infarcted tissue 7 days after ischaemia. These data suggest that fractalkine may participate in the activation and chemoattraction of microglia into the infarcted tissue, and contribute to the control of leucocyte trafficking from blood vessels into the injured area.

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Biological Process
TermQualifierEvidenceWithReferenceNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
response to ischemia involved_inIGIUniProtKB:P3541113673875PMID:12059974ARUK-UCL 
response to ischemia involved_inIGIUniProtKB:O5514513673875PMID:12059974ARUK-UCL 

Cellular Component
TermQualifierEvidenceWithReferenceNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
neuronal cell body located_inIDA 13673875PMID:12059974ARUK-UCL 

Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Cx3cl1  (C-X3-C motif chemokine ligand 1)
Cx3cr1  (C-X3-C motif chemokine receptor 1)


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