title: Absence of correlations between glutamine-synthetase activity and dysmyelination-associated modifications of astroglia in the brain of murine mutants.
abstract: Glutamine Synthetase (GS) activity was investigated in cerebellum (ce), cerebral cortex (cc), olfactory bulb (ob), and medulla oblongata (mo) of murine dysmyelinating mutants for correlations with modifications of astroglia associated with genetic dysmyelination. One of these mutants, jimpy, develops a strong gliosis throughout the CNS. The other three mutants: shiverer, mld, and quaking, exhibit various astrocytic responses to dysmyelination, but reduced gliosis if any. Comparison between CNS areas in control animals showed a higher GS activity in the olfactory bulb than in the cerebral cortex, medulla, and cerebellum. The developmental patterns of GS activity were similar in mutants and in controls in all four areas investigated. Data on Jimpy suggest that GS activity is not associated with reactive astrocytes.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jacque
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rolland
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Caldani
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fages
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tardy
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001253:Astrocytes / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000502:physiology; D001921:Brain / Q000201:enzymology*; D003711:Demyelinating Diseases / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology; D005974:Glutamate-Ammonia Ligase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008818:Mice, Neurologic Mutants; D009186:Myelin Sheath / Q000473:pathology*; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D005974:Glutamate-Ammonia Ligase