Non-invasive MRI of brain clearance pathways using multiple echo time arterial spin labelling: an aquaporin-4 study.
Neuroimage
; 188: 515-523, 2019 03.
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| ID: mdl-30557661
ABSTRACT
There is currently a lack of non-invasive tools to assess water transport in healthy and pathological brain tissue. Aquaporin-4 (AQP4) water channels are central to many water transport mechanisms, and emerging evidence also suggests that AQP4 plays a key role in amyloid-ß (Aß) clearance, possibly via the glymphatic system. Here, we present the first non-invasive technique sensitive to AQP4 channels polarised at the blood-brain interface (BBI). We apply a multiple echo time (multi-TE) arterial spin labelling (ASL) MRI technique to the mouse brain to assess BBI water permeability via calculation of the exchange time (Texw), the time for magnetically labelled intravascular water to exchange across the BBI. We observed a 31% increase in exchange time in AQP4-deficient (Aqp4-/-) mice (452⯱â¯90â¯ms) compared to their wild-type counterparts (343⯱â¯91â¯ms) (pâ¯=â¯0.01), demonstrating the sensitivity of the technique to the lack of AQP4 water channels. More established, quantitative MRI parameters arterial transit time (δa), cerebral blood flow (CBF) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) detected no significant changes with the removal of AQP4. This clinically relevant tool may be crucial to better understand the role of AQP4 in water transport across the BBI, as well as clearance of proteins in neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease.
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Assunto principal:
Transporte Biológico
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Água Corporal
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Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética
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Barreira Hematoencefálica
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Aquaporina 4
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Neuroimagem
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Sistema Glinfático
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Animals
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Neuroimage
Assunto da revista:
DIAGNOSTICO POR IMAGEM
Ano de publicação:
2019
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Reino Unido