PMID- 36286494 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20221222 LR - 20230209 IS - 1098-1136 (Electronic) IS - 0894-1491 (Linking) VI - 71 IP - 2 DP - 2023 Feb TI - Gliovascular interface abnormality in mice with endothelial cell senescence. PG - 467-479 LID - 10.1002/glia.24287 [doi] AB - In the brain, neurons, glial cells, vascular endothelial cells (ECs), and mural cells form a functional structure referred to as the neurovascular unit (NVU). The functions of the NVU become impaired with aging. To gain insight into the mechanism underlying the aging-related changes in the NVU, we characterized in the present study the gliovascular interface in transgenic mice expressing a dominant-negative form of the telomeric repeat-binding factor 2 (TERF2) specifically in ECs using the Tie2 promoter. In these transgenic mice, senescence occurred in the cerebral ECs and was accompanied by upregulation of the mRNAs of proinflammatory cell adhesion molecules and cytokines. It is noteworthy that in the deep layers of the cerebral cortex, astrocytes exhibited an increase in the signals for S100beta as well as a decrease in the polarization of the water channel aquaporin-4 (AQP4) to the perivascular endfeet of the astrocytes. Mechanistically, the perivascular localization of dystroglycan and its ligand, laminin alpha2, was decreased, and their localization correlated well with the perivascular localization of AQP4, which supports the notion that their interaction regulates the perivascular localization of AQP4. The diminished perivascular localization of laminin alpha2 may be attributed to its proteolytic degradation by the matrix metalloproteinase-2 released by senescent ECs. Pericyte coverage was increased and negatively correlated with the decrease in the perivascular localization of AQP4. We propose that aging-related changes in ECs induce a mild morphological alteration of astrocytes and affect the localization of AQP4 at the gliovascular interface. CI - (c) 2022 Wiley Periodicals LLC. FAU - Kawauchi, Shoji AU - Kawauchi S AD - Comprehensive Education and Research Center, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Kobe, Japan. FAU - Mizoguchi, Taiji AU - Mizoguchi T AD - Laboratory of Medical Pharmaceutics, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Kobe, Japan. FAU - Horibe, Sayo AU - Horibe S AD - Laboratory of Medical Pharmaceutics, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Kobe, Japan. FAU - Tanaka, Toru AU - Tanaka T AD - Laboratory of Medical Pharmaceutics, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Kobe, Japan. FAU - Sasaki, Naoto AU - Sasaki N AD - Laboratory of Medical Pharmaceutics, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Kobe, Japan. FAU - Ikeda, Koji AU - Ikeda K AD - Laboratory of Clinical Pharmaceutical Science, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Kobe, Japan. FAU - Emoto, Noriaki AU - Emoto N AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6673-2616 AD - Laboratory of Clinical Pharmaceutical Science, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Kobe, Japan. FAU - Hirata, Ken-Ichi AU - Hirata KI AD - Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan. FAU - Rikitake, Yoshiyuki AU - Rikitake Y AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7207-4656 AD - Laboratory of Medical Pharmaceutics, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Kobe, Japan. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20221026 PL - United States TA - Glia JT - Glia JID - 8806785 RN - 0 (Aquaporin 4) RN - 0 (Laminin) RN - EC 3.4.24.24 (Matrix Metalloproteinase 2) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Mice MH - Aquaporin 4/genetics/metabolism MH - Astrocytes/metabolism MH - *Endothelial Cells/metabolism MH - *Laminin/metabolism MH - *Matrix Metalloproteinase 2/metabolism MH - Mice, Transgenic MH - *Cellular Senescence MH - *Neuroglia/metabolism OTO - NOTNLM OT - aquaporin-4 OT - astrocyte OT - endothelial cell senescence OT - laminin OT - pericyte EDAT- 2022/10/27 06:00 MHDA- 2022/12/20 06:00 CRDT- 2022/10/26 09:04 PHST- 2022/10/06 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/05/01 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/10/10 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/10/27 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/12/20 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/10/26 09:04 [entrez] AID - 10.1002/glia.24287 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Glia. 2023 Feb;71(2):467-479. doi: 10.1002/glia.24287. Epub 2022 Oct 26.