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34 Reversible and Size-Selective Opening of the Inner Blood-Retina Barrier

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Fig. 34.1 The tight junction is expressed at the apical periphery of both endothelial and epithelial cells of the blood retinal barrier (BRB). Occludin and claudins are the transmembrane proteins represented as a network of fibrils encircling the apical end of the lateral membrane in freezefracture images of the tight junction. The integral membrane proteins zonula occludens-1, -2, -3 (ZO-1, -2, and -3) allow for the scaffolding of the transmembrane proteins (Fanning and Anderson 1998) and have also been implicated in intracellular signaling pathways

of therapeutic agents to the retina in a range of degenerative retinal conditions that currently offer little or no prospect of effective treatment.

34.2 Materials and Methods

34.2.1 Animal Experiments and Experimental Groups

All experiments involving the use of C57/BL6 mice were assessed and approved by an internal ethics committee in Trinity College Dublin (TCD) prior to all

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experimentation. All studies carried out in the Ocular Genetics Unit in TCD adhere to the ARVO statement for the use of Animals in Ophthalmic and Vision Research. C57/BL6 mice were sourced from Jackson Laboratories and bred on-site at the Ocular Genetics Unit in TCD.

34.2.2 Web-Based siRNA Design Protocols Targeting Claudin-5

Initially, four siRNAs targeting Claudin-5 were tested and the most efficient used in further studies. Sequences of the claudin-5 siRNA used in this study were as follows. Sense sequence: CGUUGGAAAUUCUGGGUCUUU. Antisense sequence: AGACCCAGAAUUUCCAACGUU. Non-targeting control siRNA targeting human rhodopsin was used as a non-targeting control since rhodopsin is only expressed in photoreceptor cells in the retina and at low levels in the pineal gland of the brain. Sense sequence: CGCUCAAGCCGGAGGUCAAUU. Antisense sequence: UUGACCUCCGGCUUGAGCGUU.

34.2.3In Vivo Delivery of siRNA to Murine Retinal Capillary Endothelial Cells by Large Volume Hydrodynamic Injection

Rapid high pressure, high volume tail vein injections were carried out essentially as previously successfully used at this laboratory (Kiang et al. 2005; Campbell et al. 2008). Wild type C57/Bl6 mice of weight 20–30 g were individually restrained inside a 60-ml volume plastic tube. The protruding tail was warmed for 5 min prior to injection under a 60-W lamp and the tail vein clearly visualized by illumination from below. 20 micrograms of targeting siRNA, or non-targeting siRNA made up with PBS to a volume in mls of 10% of the body weight in grams was injected into the tail vein at a rate of 1 ml/s using a 26-guage (26G 3/8) needle.

34.2.4 Indirect Immunostaining of Retinal Flatmounts

Retinas were permeabilised and blocked with 5% Normal Goat Serum (NGS) in PBS with 0.5% Triton X-100 for 2 h at room temperature. Rabbit anti-Claudin-5 (Zymed, California) was incubated on sections overnight at 4oC. Following incubation, retinas were washed 6 times in PBS and subsequently blocked again with 5% NGS for 2 h at room temperature. Secondary rabbit IgG-Cy3, (Jackson-Immuno- research, Europe) was incubated with the sections at 37oC for 4 h followed by 10 washes with PBS.