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. 1991 Aug;439:215–237. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1991.sp018664

Species-specific transfer of plasma albumin from blood into different cerebrospinal fluid compartments in the fetal sheep.

K M Dziegielewska 1, M D Habgood 1, K Møllgård 1, M Stagaard 1, N R Saunders 1
PMCID: PMC1180106  PMID: 1895237

Abstract

1. The blood-cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) transfer of endogenous sheep albumin and several exogenous species of albumin has been investigated in different CSF compartments of the immature fetal sheep brain, at an early stage of development (60 days gestation, term is 150 days) when the CSF concentration of total protein is high. 2. There were marked differences in the steady-state CSF/plasma ratios for all species of albumin (including endogenous sheep albumin) between different CSF compartments. Ratios measured in the cisterna magna were significantly higher than those in the dorsal subarachnoid space, which in turn were higher than those in the lateral ventricles. The ratios for endogenous sheep albumin were (%; mean +/- S.E.M.): lateral ventricle (LV), 4.0 +/- 0.03; dorsal subarachnoid (DSA), 6.1 +/- 1.0; cisterna magna (CM), 13.7 +/- 0.8. 3. Three hours after I.V. injection, the CSF/plasma ratios for bovine albumin (LV, 2.0 +/- 0.2; DSA, 2.4 +/- 0.1; CM, 7.2 +/- 0.7%) were significantly lower than the ratio for endogenous sheep albumin in all three compartments. The ratios for human albumin (LV, 0.7 +/- 0.2; DSA, 1.0 +/- 0.2; CM, 3.9 +/- 0.4%) were significantly lower than those for bovine albumin. 4. In all three CSF compartments, the endogenous sheep albumin ratios were higher than would be expected on the basis of transfer by passive mechanisms. Conversely, steady-state CSF/plasma ratios for [3H]sucrose and [14C]inulin were consistent with passive transfer, and there were no differences between the ratios for these markers measured in each of the three CSF regions. 5. Goat albumin and [35S]sheep albumin ratios were not significantly different, 5 h after injection, from the endogenous sheep albumin levels in each of the three CSF compartments. 6. It is concluded that in the 60-day-old fetal sheep, all of the endogenous albumin in CSF is derived from the plasma by a specific transfer mechanism that can distinguish between different species of the same protein. There is also some evidence of a small passive component of blood-CSF albumin transfer. 7. Immunocytochemical evidence suggests that the route of transfer from blood to CSF is transcellular, through the choroid plexus epithelial cells. 8. Regional variations in albumin ratios are probably due to differences in specific transfer into each CSF compartment. This is reflected in a differential immunocytochemical staining for albumin in choroid plexus epithelial cells from different regions of the brain. 9. The results are discussed in terms of differences in albumin amino acid sequences, structural homologies, and transfer by a specific transcellular mechanism.

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