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Stereological estimation of the total number of neurons in the murine hippocampus using the optical disector

✍ Scribed by Abusaad, Iman; Mackay, Daniel; Zhao, Jinghua; Stanford, Paul; Collier, David A.; Everall, Ian P.

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 187 KB
Volume: 408
Category: Article
ISSN: 0021-9967
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9861(19990614)408:4<560::aid-cne9>3.0.co;2-p

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✦ Synopsis

Using a stereological method, the optical disector, we examined three inbred strains of mice (NZB/BINJ, DBA/2, and C57BL/6J) for morphological differences in volume, neuronal number, and density of the pyramidal cell and dentate gyrus granule cell layers of the hippocampus. We found significant differences in volume and neuronal number for both regions between the three strains at 9 weeks of age, but only modest differences in neuronal density. The left dentate volume was 90% larger in the NZB strain and 70% greater in the DBA strain (P Ͻ 0.0001), and the left pyramidal cell layer was 144% larger in the NZB strain and 150% larger in the DBA strain, than in the B6 strain (P Ͻ 0.0001). Neuron number in the left dentate was 81% greater in NZB and 37% greater in DBA (P Ͻ 0.001), and in the left pyramidal cell layer 118% greater in the NZB and 92% greater in the DBA (P Ͻ 0.01). Differences in neuronal density of the left dentate were not significant (P ϭ 0.060, ns). For the left pyramidal cell layer, neuronal density was 14% greater in B6 and 34% greater in NZB than the DBA strain (P ϭ 0.016). No significant differences were found in left-right laterality, or according to sex. We found that strain accounted for 60% of the variance in hippocampal volume and 44% of neuron number. These differences thus mainly reflect genetic variation in hippocampal volume and may have important implications for brain evolution, behaviour, and human diseases where hippocampal degeneration is involved.

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