Exploring experimental autoimmune optic neuritis using multimodal imaging

视神经炎 多发性硬化 实验性自身免疫性脑脊髓炎 视神经 磁共振弥散成像 神经科学 神经退行性变 视网膜 视网膜神经节细胞 医学 光学相干层析成像 临床孤立综合征 病理 眼科 磁共振成像 心理学 疾病 放射科 免疫学
作者
Praveena Manogaran,Christine Walker-Egger,Marijana Samardzija,Conny Waschkies,Christian Grimm,Markus Rudin,Sven Schippling
出处
期刊:NeuroImage [Elsevier]
卷期号:175: 327-339 被引量:18
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.04.004
摘要

Neuro-axonal injury is a key contributor to non-reversible long-term disability in multiple sclerosis (MS). However, the underlying mechanisms are not yet fully understood. Visual impairment is common among MS patients, in which episodes of optic neuritis (ON) are often followed by structural retinal damage and sustained functional impairment. Alterations in the optic nerve and retina have also been described in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), a rodent model of MS. Thus, investigating structural anterior visual pathway damage may constitute a unique model for assessing mechanisms and temporal sequence of neurodegeneration in MS. We used a multimodal imaging approach utilizing optical coherence tomography (OCT) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to explore the mechanisms and temporal dynamics of visual pathway damage in the animal model of MS. 7 EAE-MOG35-55 and 5 healthy female C57BL/6J mice were used in this study. Ganglion cell complex (GCC) thickness was derived from an OCT volume scan centred over the optic nerve head, while the structure of the optic nerve and tracts was assessed from DTI and co-registered T2-weighted sequences performed on a 7T MRI scanner. Data was acquired at baseline, disease onset, peak of disease and recovery. Linear mixed effect models were used to account for intra-subject, inter-eye dependencies, group and time point. Correlation analyses assessed the relationship between GCC thickness and DTI parameters. Immunofluorescence staining of retina and optic nerve sections was used to assess distribution of marker proteins for microglia and neurodegeneration (nerve filaments). In EAE mice, a significant increase in GCC thickness was observed at disease onset (p < 0.001) followed by a decrease at recovery (p < 0.001) compared to controls. The EAE group had significant GCC thinning at recovery compared to all other time points (p < 0.001 for each). Signal increase on T2-weighted images around the optic nerves indicative of inflammation was seen in most of the EAE mice but in none of the controls. A significant decrease in axial diffusivity (AD) and increase in radial diffusivity (RD) values in EAE optic nerves (AD: p = 0.02, RD: p = 0.01) and tract (AD: p = 0.02, RD: p = 0.006) was observed compared to controls. GCC at recovery was positively correlated with AD (optic nerve: rho = 0.74, p = 0.04, optic tract: rho = 0.74, p = 0.04) and negatively correlated with RD (optic nerve: rho = −0.80, p = 0.02, optic tract: rho = −0.75, p = 0.04). Immunofluorescence analysis indicated the presence of activated microglia in the retina and optic nerves in addition to astrocytosis and axonal degeneration in the optic nerve of EAE mice. OCT detected GCC changes in EAE may resemble what is observed in MS-related acute ON: an initial phase of swelling (indicative of inflammatory edema) followed by a decrease in thickness over time (representative of neuro-axonal degeneration). In line with OCT findings, DTI of the visual pathway identifies EAE induced pathology (decreased AD, and increased RD). Immunofluorescence analysis provides support for inflammatory pathology and axonal degeneration. OCT together with DTI can detect retinal and optic nerve damage and elucidate to the temporal sequence of neurodegeneration in this rodent model of MS in vivo.

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