Effects of neonatal systemic inflammation on blood-brain barrier permeability and behaviour in juvenile and adult rats
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2011-05-05
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Cardiovascular Psychiatry and Neurology
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Stolp, H. B., Johansson, P. A., Habgood, M. D., Dziegielewska, K. M., Saunders, N. R. & Ek, C. J. (2011). Effects of neonatal systemic inflammation on blood-brain barrier permeability and behaviour in juvenile and adult rats. Cardiovascular Psychiatry and Neurology, 2011 (1), pp.469046-. https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/469046.
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Several neurological disorders have been linked to inflammatory insults suffered during development. We investigated the effects of neonatal systemic inflammation, induced by LPS injections, on blood-brain barrier permeability, endothelial tight junctions and behaviour of juvenile (P20) and adult rats. LPS-treatment resulted in altered cellular localisation of claudin-5 and changes in ultrastructural morphology of a few cerebral blood vessels. Barrier permeability to sucrose was significantly increased in LPS treated animals when adult but not at P20 or earlier. Behavioural tests showed that LPS treated animals at P20 exhibited altered behaviour using prepulse inhibition (PPI) analysis, whereas adults demonstrated altered behaviour in the dark/light test. These data indicate that an inflammatory insult during brain development can change blood-brain barrier permeability and behaviour in later life. It also suggests that the impact of inflammation can occur in several phases (short- and long-term) and that each phase might lead to different behavioural modifications.