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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol (February 12, 2004). doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00831.2003
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Submitted on August 28, 2003
Accepted on February 9, 2004

Influence of the glia limitans on pial arteriolar relaxation in the rat

Hao-Liang Xu1, Heidi M. Koenig2, Shuhua Ye2, Douglas L. Feinstein2, and Dale A. Pelligrino2*

1 Neuroanesthesia Research Laboratory, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Pharmacology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
2 Neuroanesthesia Research Laboratory, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: dpell{at}uic.edu.

We examined whether damage to the glia limitans (GL), via exposure to the gliotoxin, L-{alpha}-aminoadipic acid (L-{alpha}AAA), alters hypercapnia-induced pial arteriolar dilation in vivo. Anesthetized female rats were prepared with closed cranial windows. Pial arteriolar diameters were measured using intravital microscopy. L-{alpha}AAA (2 mM) was injected into the space under the cranial windows 24h prior to study, and injury to the GL was confirmed by light microscopy. L-{alpha}AAA was associated with a reduction in pial arteriolar CO2 reactivity to 40-50% of the level seen in vehicle-treated controls, with no further reduction in the CO2 response following NOS inhibition via L-NNA. Subsequent blockade of prostanoid synthesis, via indomethacin (INDO), reduced CO2 reactivity to 10-15% of normal. In vehicle-treated controls, L-NNA, followed by INDO, reduced the response to ~50%, then to 15-20%, of the normocapnic value, respectively. On the other hand, L-{alpha}AAA had no effect on vascular responses to the endothelium-dependent vasodilator, acetylcholine, or the NO donor, SNAP; and did not alter cortical somatosensory evoked responses. This indicates an absence of any direct L-{alpha}AAA actions on pial arterioles or influence on neuronal transmission. Furthermore, L-{alpha}AAA did not alter the vasodilation elicited by topical application of an acidic aCSF solution, suggesting that the GL influences the pial arteriolar relaxation elicited by hypercapnic, but not local extracellular (EC), acidosis. That differences exist in the mechanisms mediating hypercapnia- vs EC acidosis-induced pial arteriolar dilations was further exemplified by the finding that topical application of a nNOS-selective blocker (ARR 17477) reduced the response to hypercapnia (by ~65%), but not the response to EC acidosis. Disruption of GL gap junctional communication, using an antisense oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN) connexin 43 knockdown approach, was accompanied by a 33% lower CO2 reactivity vs missense ODN-treated controls. These results suggest that the GL contribution to the hypercapnic vascular response appears to involve the NO-, rather than the prostanoid-, dependent component and may involve gap junctional communication. We speculate that the GL may act to facilitate the spread, to pial vessels, of hypercapnia-induced vasodilating signals arising in the comparatively few scattered nNOS neurons that lie well beneath the GL.




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