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Health insurance typically covers blood work, but the extent of coverage can vary based on the type of test, the reason for the test, your specific insurance plan, and whether the lab is in-network or out-of-network.

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Astrocytes, a type of central nervous system glial cell, play important roles for maintaining brain homeostasis, such as uptake of glutamate and GABA, provision of nutrients from blood vessels to neurons and control of extracellular pH1,2. Further, astrocytes become reactive in response to brain injury and inflammation; reactive astrocytes have different gene expression patterns, roles and morphology from non-reactive astrocytes3. The roles of reactive astrocytes include scar formation and preventing the spread of inflammation.

Astrocytes interact with blood vessels with their endfeet. An electron microscopic study indicated that astrocytic endfeet cover almost entire surface of the blood vessels4. Astrocytic endfeet play roles in the regulation of dilation and constriction of microvessels to control blood flow5,6,7.

The astrocytic endfoot is also shown to maintain the BBB. It has been shown to induce the BBB properties of endothelial cells13. In studies using co-cultures of astrocytes and endothelial cells, tight junctions between endothelial cells were enhanced in length, width, and complexity14, expression of tight junction proteins in endothelial cells were increased, and sucrose permeability was decreased15. Our previous studies suggested that activation of astrocytes is essential for recovery of BBB integrity after brain injury16,17. In contrast, BBB was not disrupted in astrocyte removal experiments by genetic toxin expression in astrocytes18,19.

Laser ablation with two-photon laser-scanning microscopy (2PLSM) was adopted for the removal of functions of parts of cells24. Irradiation by using a high-energy laser on selected points causes focal damage with a high spatial precision, which can ablate individual dendritic spines of neurons without causing any visible damage to surrounding tissue25. This technique has been applied to neurons26, microglia27 and blood vessels28, but not to astrocytes. Furthermore, 2PLSM enables in vivo imaging penetrating deep in the tissue with confined photodynamic damage to the vicinity of the focal plane29, enabling continuous observation of the same cells over several days30.

In this study, we applied the laser ablation technique on astrocytic endfeet and performed in vivo imaging of astrocytes and blood vessels with 2PLSM to investigate the functional roles of astrocytic endfeet on the blood vessel. In particular, we focused on changes in the shape of astrocytes after ablating their endfeet and the relationship between astrocytic endfeet and BBB integrity. Transgenic mice expressing enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) in astrocytes driven by the glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) promoter and intraperitoneally (ip) injected Evans Blue (EB) enabled visualization of the shape of astrocytes and blood vessels, respectively. In a subset of experiments, sulforhodamine 101 (SR101) applied to brain surface and ip-injected dextran-conjugated fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC-dextran) were used for staining astrocytes and blood vessels, respectively. Laser ablation stripped astrocytic endfeet from blood vessels, and the stripped part was re-covered by astrocytic endfeet within a few days. Because there was no leakage of EB or FITC-dextran from the stripped surface of the blood vessels, the endfoot cover of the blood vessel was not considered to be an essential element for the physical barrier of the BBB. Further, this study is the first to demonstrate that the laser ablation technique is applicable to astrocytes.

All laser scanning and acquisition control and data analyses were performed with in-house software, TI Workbench, written by T.I. running on a Mac computer34. To reduce noise, all acquired images were smoothed with a two-dimensional Gaussian filter. For analysis of three-dimensional structure, image stacks were converted to two-dimensional images with maximum-intensity projection.

Schematic drawings of laser ablation of astrocytic endfeet showing patterns of astrocytic endfeet behavior after laser ablation. (A) Re-covering of stripped blood vessels irrespective of death (Aa) or life (Ab) of ablated astrocytes. (B) Stripped blood vessels were re-covered by the endfeet of ablated astrocytes (Ba) or those of other astrocytes (Bb). (C) Either endfeet (Ca) or stalks of endfeet (Cb) were laser ablated. Ablated astrocytes are colored in bright green, other astrocytes in dark green and blood vessels in red. Lightning symbols and dotted lines represent laser ablated loci, and arrowheads show removed astrocytic endfeet by laser ablation.

This study is the first to apply the laser ablation method to astrocytic endfeet in a mouse brain using 2PLSM. This method enabled us to reveal that astrocytes actively fill gaps in blood vessel covering created by laser ablation by using astrocytic endfeet, irrespective of whether the filling astrocyte was the target of ablation or not. In addition, the procedure revealed that the astrocytic endfoot is not an integral part of the direct physical barrier.

Previous studies demonstrated that astrocytes interact with blood vessels to regulate blood flow, to be involved in keeping BBB integrity and to supply nutrients from blood to neurons1,13,35. We observed re-covering of blood vessels by astrocytic endfeet after laser ablation of astrocytic endfeet covering the blood vessels irrespective of life or death of the ablated astrocytes (Figs 2 and 3) and irrelevant to astrocytic reactivity (Figs 2, 3 and 7), suggesting that an active mechanism that maintains covering of blood vessels by astrocytic endfeet in the brain exists and may be indispensable for the astrocyte-blood vessel interaction. The glymphatic system is a clearance mechanism of interstitial solutes to drain the brain parenchyma, in which the perivascular astrocytic endfeet serve as a sieve36. A clearance assay with a radio-tracer revealed that interstitial solute clearance was reduced by ~70% in AQP4-null mice37. Additionally, glymphatic dysfunction has been demonstrated in several neurodegenerative disease models38. Thus, the covering of blood vessels by astrocytic endfeet may play a fundamental role in sustaining CNS in the physiological condition. The molecular mechanisms for this active maintenance of blood vessels covered by astrocytic endfoot are intriguing: unknown factors released from endothelial cells or perivascular cells such as astrocytes or pericytes might induce extension of astrocytic endfeet on which receptors for the unknown factor are expressed, or microglia could be participating in sensing the rupture of endfoot covering and induction of endfoot extension.

Not all astrocytes express GFAP39; this was also affirmed in this study by the observation that GFAP-driven EGFP was expressed in a subpopulation of astrocytes (Fig. 1). Therefore, not all astrocytic endfeet covering blood vessels were labeled with EGFP in the GFAP-EGFP mice. Only 48% of stripped blood vessels were re-covered with astrocytic endfeet within a few days. The remaining 52% of them were not re-covered by fluorescent endfeet even within a longer observation period. Considering the low expression rate of EGFP among astrocytes, many if not all stripped blood vessels may have been re-covered by EGFP-negative astrocytic endfeet. 2351a5e196