title: Metabolic vulnerability disposes retinal ganglion cell axons to dysfunction in a model of glaucomatous degeneration.
abstract: We tested the hypothesis that glaucoma disrupts electrophysiological conduction properties and axon function in optic nerve as a function of intraocular pressure (IOP) levels and age in the DBA/2J mouse model of glaucoma. The amplitude and the integral of electrical signals evoked along the axons decreased considerably by 6 months of age as a function of increasing IOP levels. At young ages, raised IOP was directly associated with increased vulnerability to metabolic challenge. Changes in the physiological function of the optic nerves were accentuated with aging, leading to loss of compound action potential in an entire population of fibers: small, slow conducting axons. This loss was accompanied with loss of small fiber axon counts and declining metabolic reserve by demonstrating IOP-dependent ATP decrease in mouse optic nerves. These data shed light on a novel potential mechanism of glaucoma pathology whereby increased IOP and declining metabolic capacity lead to axon liability and eventually dysfunction and loss.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
authors.forename: Selva
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Baltan
authors.forename: Denise M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Inman
authors.forename: Camelia A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Danilov
authors.forename: Richard S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Morrison
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Calkins
authors.forename: Philip J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Horner
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D001369:Axons / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D007429:Intraocular Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008811:Mice, Inbred DBA; D012162:Retinal Degeneration / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D012165:Retinal Ganglion Cells / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology
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