title: Paranodal permeability in "myelin mutants".
abstract: Fluorescent dextran tracers of varying sizes have been used to assess paranodal permeability in myelinated sciatic nerve fibers from control and three "myelin mutant" mice, Caspr-null, cst-null, and shaking. We demonstrate that in all of these the paranode is permeable to small tracers (3 kDa and 10 kDa), which penetrate most fibers, and to larger tracers (40 kDa and 70 kDa), which penetrate far fewer fibers and move shorter distances over longer periods of time. Despite gross diminution in transverse bands (TBs) in the Caspr-null and cst-null mice, the permeability of their paranodal junctions is equivalent to that in controls. Thus, deficiency of TBs in these mutants does not increase the permeability of their paranodal junctions to the dextrans we used, moving from the perinodal space through the paranode to the internodal periaxonal space. In addition, we show that the shaking mice, which have thinner myelin and shorter paranodes, show increased permeability to the same tracers despite the presence of TBs. We conclude that the extent of penetration of these tracers does not depend on the presence or absence of TBs but does depend on the length of the paranode and, in turn, on the length of "pathway 3," the helical extracellular pathway that passes through the paranode parallel to the lateral edge of the myelin sheath.
authors: Department Physiology & Neuroscience, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
authors: Seema
authors: S
authors: Shroff
authors: Amanda
authors: A
authors: Mierzwa
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authors: SS
authors: Scherer
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authors: E
authors: Peles
authors: Juan C
authors: JC
authors: Arevalo
authors: Moses V
authors: MV
authors: Chao
authors: Jack
authors: J
authors: Rosenbluth
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