Aquaporin-4 dependent glymphatic solute transport in rodent brain
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Abstract
Abstract The glymphatic system is a brain-wide metabolite clearance pathway, impairment of which in post-traumatic and ischemic brain or healthy aging is proposed to contribute to intracerebral accumulation of amyloid-β and tau proteins. Glymphatic perivascular influx of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) depends upon the expression and perivascular localization of the astroglial water channel aquaporin-4 (AQP4). Prompted by a recent publication that failed to find an effect of Aqp4 knockout on perivascular CSF tracer influx and interstitial fluid (ISF) tracer dispersion, four independent research groups have herein re-examined the importance of Aqp4 in glymphatic fluid transport. We concur in finding that CSF tracer influx, as well as fluorescently-tagged amyloid-β efflux, are significantly faster in wild-type mice than in three different transgenic lines featuring disruption of the Aqp4 gene and one line in which AQP4 expression lacks the critical perivascular localization ( Snta1 knockout). These data validate the role of AQP4 in supporting fluid and solute transport and efflux in brain in accordance with the glymphatic system model.
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