Reduced cerebrospinal fluid production and intracranial pressure in mice lacking choroid plexus water channel Aquaporin-1
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Reduced cerebrospinal fluid production and intracranial pressure in mice lacking choroid plexus water channel Aquaporin-1
Abstract
Aquaporin-1 (AQP1) is a water channel expressed strongly at the ventricular-facing surface of choroid plexus epithelium. We developed novel methods to compare water permeability in isolated choroid plexus of wild-type vs. AQP1 null mice, as well as intracranial pressure (ICP) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) production and absorption. Osmotically induced water transport was rapid in choroid plexus from wild-type mice and reduced by fivefold by AQP1 deletion. AQP1 deletion did not affect choroid plexus size or structure. By stereotaxic puncture of the lateral ventricle with a microneedle, ICP was 9.5 +/- 1.4 cm H2O in wild-type mice and 4.2 +/- 0.4 cm H2O in AQP1 null mice. CSF production, an isosmolar fluid secretion process, was measured by a dye dilution method involving fluid collections using a second microneedle introduced into the cisterna magna. CSF production in wild-type mice was (in microl min(-1)) 0.37 +/- 0.04 (control), 0.16 +/- 0.03 (acetazolamide-treated), and 1.14 +/- 0.15 (forskolin-treated), and reduced by approximately 25% in AQP1 null mice. Pressure-dependent CSF outflow, measured from steady-state ICP at different ventricular infusion rates, was not affected by AQP1 deletion. In a model of focal brain injury, AQP1 null mice had remarkably reduced ICP and improved survival compared with wild-type mice. The reduced ICP and CSF production in AQP1 null mice provides direct functional evidence for the involvement of AQP1 in CSF dynamics, suggesting AQP1 inhibition as a novel option for therapy of elevated ICP.
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