White matter changes after stroke in type 2 diabetic rats measured by diffusion magnetic resonance imaging

Authors

Guangliang Ding, Henry Ford HealthFollow
Jieli Chen, Henry Ford HealthFollow
Michael Chopp, Henry Ford HealthFollow
Lian Li, Henry Ford HealthFollow
Tao Yan, Henry Ford Health
Esmaeil Davoodi-Bojd, Henry Ford HealthFollow
Qingjiang Li, Henry Ford HealthFollow
Siamak P. Davarani, Henry Ford Health
Quan Jiang, Henry Ford HealthFollow

Recommended Citation

Ding G, Chen J, Chopp M, Li L, Yan T, Davoodi-Bojd E, Li Q, Davarani SP, and Jiang Q. White matter changes after stroke in type 2 diabetic rats measured by diffusion magnetic resonance imaging. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2017; 37(1):241-251.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2017

Publication Title

Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism

Abstract

Diffusion-related magnetic resonance imaging parametric maps may be employed to characterize white matter of brain. We hypothesize that entropy of diffusion anisotropy may be most effective for detecting therapeutic effects of bone marrow stromal cell treatment of ischemia in type 2 diabetes mellitus rats. Type 2 diabetes mellitus was induced in adult male Wistar rats. These rats were then subjected to 2 h of middle cerebral artery occlusion, and received bone marrow stromal cell (5 × 10⁶, n = 8) or an equal volume of saline (n = 8) via tail vein injection at three days after middle cerebral artery occlusion. Magnetic resonance imaging was performed on day one and then weekly for five weeks post middle cerebral artery occlusion. The diffusion metrics complementarily permitted characterization of axons and axonal myelination. All six magnetic resonance imaging diffusion metrics, confirmed by histological measures, demonstrated that bone marrow stromal cell treatment significantly (p < 0.05) improved magnetic resonance imaging diffusion indices of white matter in type 2 diabetes mellitus rats after middle cerebral artery occlusion compared with the saline-treated rats. Superior to the fractional anisotropy metric that provided measures related to organization of neuronal fiber bundles, the entropy metric can also identify microstructures and low-density axonal fibers of cerebral tissue after stroke in type 2 diabetes mellitus rats.

Medical Subject Headings

Animals; Axons; Bone Marrow Cells; Brain; Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2; Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Rats; Rats, Wistar; Stroke; Stromal Cells; White Matter

PubMed ID

26685128

Volume

37

Issue

1

First Page

241

Last Page

251