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The neuronal oxygen-sensing pathway controls postnatal vascularization of the murine brain.

ABSTRACT: The contribution of neurons to growth and refinement of the microvasculature during postnatal brain development is only partially understood. Tissue hypoxia is the physiologic stimulus for angiogenesis by enhancing angiogenic mediators partly through activation of hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs). Hence, we investigated the HIF oxygen-sensing pathway in postmitotic neurons for physiologic angiogenesis in the murine forebrain during postnatal development by using mice lacking the HIF suppressing enzyme prolyl-4-hydroxylase domain (PHD)2 and/or HIF-1/2α in postmitotic neurons. Perinatal activation or inactivation of the HIF pathway in neurons inversely modulated brain vascularization, including endothelial cell number and proliferation, density of total and perfused microvessels, and vascular branching. Accordingly, several angiogenesis-related genes were up-regulated in vivo and in primary neurons derived from PHD2-deficient mice. Among them, only VEGF and adrenomedullin (Adm) promoted angiogenic sprouting of brain endothelial cells. VEGF and Adm additively enhanced endothelial sprouting through activation of multiple pathways. PHD2 deficiency in neurons caused HIF-α stabilization and increased VEGF mRNA levels not only in neurons but unexpectedly also in astrocytes, suggesting a new mechanism of neuron-to-astrocyte signaling. Collectively, our results identify the PHD-HIF pathway in neurons as an important determinant for vascularization of the brain during postnatal development.-Nasyrov, E., Nolan, K. A., Wenger, R. H., Marti, H. H., Kunze, R. The neuronal oxygen-sensing pathway controls postnatal vascularization of the murine brain.

SUBMITTER: Nasyrov E

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