PMID- 31425564 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20200402 LR - 20200402 IS - 1932-6203 (Electronic) IS - 1932-6203 (Linking) VI - 14 IP - 8 DP - 2019 TI - Effects of oxygen-glucose deprivation (OGD) on barrier properties and mRNA transcript levels of selected marker proteins in brain endothelial cells/astrocyte co-cultures. PG - e0221103 LID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0221103 [doi] LID - e0221103 AB - Ischemic stroke has been shown to induce breakdown of the blood-brain barrier, although these changes are not fully characterized. Oxygen-glucose deprivation (OGD) has been used to investigate the effects of ischemia in cultured brain capillary endothelial cells, however this involves a change of medium which in itself may affect the cells. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of OGD and simple medium exchange followed by 48 h of reperfusion on barrier properties of primary bovine endothelial cells co-cultured with rat astrocytes. Barrier properties were evaluated by transendothelial electrical resistance measurements, passive permeability of flux markers, RT-qPCR and immunocytochemistry. Both OGD and simple medium exchange caused an increase in endothelial monolayer permeability. This correlated with reduced transcript levels of a number of tight junction and tight junction-associated proteins (claudin-1, claudin-5, occludin, ZO-1, tricellulin, marveld3 and PECAM-1), as well as with altered transcript level of several transporters and receptors (GLUT-1, HB-EGF, InsR, TfR, two members of the low density lipoprotein receptor family, LDLR and LRP-1, and the efflux transporter BCRP). In contrast, effects induced specifically by OGD were transient de-localization of claudin-5 from the junction zone, increased InsR localization at the plasma membrane and transient downregulation of MRP-1 and P-gp transcript levels. In conclusion, OGD caused changes in claudin-5 and InsR localization, as well as in MRP-1 and P-gp transcript levels. Our results however also indicated that medium exchange alone caused changes in functional barrier properties and expression levels of wide range of proteins. FAU - Tornabene, Erica AU - Tornabene E AD - Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. FAU - Helms, Hans Christian Cederberg AU - Helms HCC AD - Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. FAU - Pedersen, Stine Falsig AU - Pedersen SF AD - Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. FAU - Brodin, Birger AU - Brodin B AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0823-1220 AD - Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20190819 PL - United States TA - PLoS One JT - PloS one JID - 101285081 RN - 0 (Biomarkers) RN - 0 (RNA, Messenger) RN - IY9XDZ35W2 (Glucose) RN - S88TT14065 (Oxygen) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Astrocytes MH - Biomarkers/metabolism MH - Blood-Brain Barrier/cytology/*metabolism/pathology MH - Brain Infarction/pathology MH - Capillaries/cytology MH - Cattle MH - Cell Hypoxia MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Coculture Techniques MH - Endothelial Cells MH - Endothelium, Vascular/cytology MH - Gene Expression Profiling MH - Glucose/*metabolism MH - Oxygen/*metabolism MH - Permeability MH - Primary Cell Culture/methods MH - RNA, Messenger/metabolism MH - Rats MH - Rats, Sprague-Dawley MH - Tight Junctions/pathology PMC - PMC6699694 COIS- The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. EDAT- 2019/08/20 06:00 MHDA- 2020/04/03 06:00 PMCR- 2019/08/19 CRDT- 2019/08/20 06:00 PHST- 2019/03/17 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/07/30 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/08/20 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/08/20 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/04/03 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2019/08/19 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - PONE-D-19-03842 [pii] AID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0221103 [doi] PST - epublish SO - PLoS One. 2019 Aug 19;14(8):e0221103. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0221103. eCollection 2019.