Figure 1

Activation of astrocytes in spinal cord white matter. A, Clinical scores (top) and body weight (bottom) of mice with chEAE. B, White matter (WM) and gray matter (GM) in spinal cord longitudinal section was stained with FMG (green) and nuclear dye (blue). Box 1 shows both GM and WM and box 2 shows only WM. Spinal cord sections, control (C) and EAE peak (D), were co-stained for GFAP (green, top), AQP4 (red), Hoechst (blue), and FMG (green, bottom). Co-staining of Kv1.4 (green, top), Vim (red), Hoechst (blue) and FMG (green, bottom) were also performed on control (E) and EAE (F) spinal cord sections. High magnification confocal image stacks were obtained from control (G) and EAE (H) Thy1-YFP transgenic mice. Images contain YFP (green), GFAP (blue) and AQP4 (red). The collapsed 2D image is on the left, and 3 cross sections are on the right. In (G), the crossbars are centered on a putative node of Ranvier. In (H), the crossbars are centered on the AQP4+/GFAP + lesion edge. Scale bars, 500 μm in C-F, 50 μm in G,H.