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Qin Gu Lijing Zhai Xing Feng Jing Chen Zhigang Miao Liyan Ren Xuanchen Qian Jian Yu Yan Li Xingshun Xu Chun-Feng Liu 《Neurochemistry international》2013
Apelin is an endogenous ligand of G protein-coupled receptor-apelin and angiotensin-1-like receptor (APJ). The biological effects of apelin–APJ system are reported in multiple systems including cardiovascular, endocrinal, and gastrointestinal system. Previous studies had shown that apelin-13 is a potential protective agent on cardiac ischemia; however, the role of apelin in the central nervous system remained unknown. In this study, we investigated therapeutic effects of apelin-36, a long form of apelin, in ischemic brain injury models. We found that apelin-36 reduced cerebral infarct volume in the middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) model and the neonatal hypoxic/ischemic (H/I) injury model. Apelin-36 improved neurological deficits in the MCAO model and promoted long-term functional recovery after H/I brain injury. We further explored the protective mechanisms of apelin-36 on H/I brain injury. We clearly demonstrated that apelin-36 significantly reduced the levels of cleaved caspase-3 and Bax, two well-established apoptotic markers after H/I injury, indicating the anti-apoptotic activity of apelin-36 in ischemic injury. Since apelin-36 increased the level of phosphorylated Akt after H/I injury, we treated neonates with a specific PI3K inhibitor LY294002. We found that LY294002 decreased the phosphorylated Akt level and attenuated protective effects of apelin-36 on apoptosis. These suggested that the PI3K/Akt pathway was at least in part involved in the anti-apoptotic mechanisms of apelin-36. Our findings demonstrated that apelin-36 was a promising therapeutic agent on the treatment of ischemic brain injury. 相似文献
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Petra Bonova Jozef BurdaViera Danielisova Miroslava NemethovaMiroslav Gottlieb 《Neurochemistry international》2013
The period from stroke initiation to the cessation of penumbra damage spread represents a therapeutic window when expansion can be alleviated. In the present work, we studied some biochemical parameters helpful for the estimation of infarct progression and thus for the application of interventions. 相似文献
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Melanie Kaiser Anja Penk Heike Franke Ute Krügel Wolfgang Nörenberg Daniel Huster Michael Schaefer 《Purinergic signalling》2016,12(3):453-463
Effective therapeutic measures against the development of brain edema, a life-threatening complication of cerebral ischemia, are necessary to improve the functional outcome for the patient. Here, we identified a beneficial role of purinergic receptor P2X7 activation in acute ischemic stroke. Involvement of P2X7 in the development of neurological deficits, infarct size, brain edema, and glial responses after ischemic cerebral infarction has been analyzed. Neurologic evaluation, magnetic resonance imaging, and immunofluorescence assays were used to characterize the receptor’s effect on the disease progress during 72 h after transient middle cerebral artery occlusion (tMCAO). Sham-operated animals were included in all experiments for control purposes. We found P2X7-deficient mice to develop a more prominent brain edema with a trend towards more severe neurological deficits 24 h after tMCAO. Infarct sizes, T2 times, and apparent diffusion coefficients did not differ significantly between wild-type and P2X7?/? animals. Our results show a characteristic spatial distribution of reactive glia cells with strongly attenuated microglia activation in P2X7?/? mice 72 h after tMCAO. Our data indicate that P2X7 exerts a role in limiting the early edema formation, possibly by modulating glial responses, and supports later microglia activation. 相似文献
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目的:观察黑木耳多糖(APP)对急性脑缺血大鼠的保护作用并探讨其相关机制。方法:成年雄性SD大鼠给予不同浓度的AAP灌胃20d,每天1次,腹腔注射银杏叶提取物(ginkgo biloba extract,EGb671)作为阳性对照,20d后实施右侧大脑中动脉栓塞(MCAO)建立局灶性脑缺血模型。MCAO60min后复灌,复灌24h后进行Longa神经功能损伤评分,并用2,3,5-氯化三苯基四氮唑(TTC)染色法测定脑梗死面积。复灌48h后用TUNEL免疫组化检测神经元凋亡,测定脑组织线粒体内活性氧簇(ROS)的生成量判断氧化应激水平。结果:黑木耳多糖能降低神经功能损伤评分,减小脑梗死面积,减少神经元凋亡,并且能够使缺血复灌脑组织线粒体ROS生成显著减少。高剂量AAP组的凋亡神经元数量、ROS生成量和阳性对照组相比有显著性差异。结论:黑木耳多糖能够对抗大鼠的局灶性脑缺血损伤,其保护作用和减轻氧化应激水平有关,并优于银杏叶提取物。 相似文献
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Ma YH Su N Chao XD Zhang YQ Zhang L Han F Luo P Fei Z Qu Y 《Neurochemistry international》2012,60(5):475-483
Recent studies show that Thioredoxin (Trx) possesses a neuronal protective effect and that Trx inactivation is closely related to cerebral ischemia injury. Peroxynitrite (ONOO−) formation may trigger oxidative/nitrative stress and represent a major cytotoxic effect in cerebral ischemia. The present study was conducted to validate whether treatment with recombinant human Trx-1 (rhTrx-1) would attenuate ONOO− generation and oxidative/nitrative stress in focal transient cerebral ischemia. The results showed that intravenously administered rhTrx-1 (10 mg/kg) significantly improved neurological functions and reduced cerebral infarction and apoptotic cell death following cerebral ischemia. Neuronal ONOO− formation was significantly attenuated after rhTrx-1 treatment. Moreover, rhTrx-1 resulted in a significant decrease in antioxidant capacity and p38 mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) activity in ischemic brain tissue. Furthermore, the suppression on ONOO− formation by either rhTrx-1 or an ONOO− scavenger uric acid reduced cerebral infarct size in mice subjected to cerebral ischemia. Peroxynitrite donor SIN-1 not only blocked the neuronal protection of rhTrx-1 but also markedly attenuated rhTrx-1-induced antioxidative/antinitrative effect. We concluded that rhTrx-1 exerts an antioxidative/antinitrative effect against cerebral ischemia injury by blocking ONOO− and superoxide anion formation. These results provide the information that thioredoxin is much more likely to succeed as a therapeutic approach to diminish oxidative/nitrative stress-induced neuronal apoptotic cell death in the ischemic brain. 相似文献
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Shadia E. Nada Jatin Tulsulkar Aparna Raghavan Kenneth Hensley Zahoor A. Shah 《Neurochemistry international》2012
Lanthionines are novel neurotrophic and neuroprotective small molecules that show promise for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. In particular, a recently developed, cell permeable lanthionine derivative known as LKE (lanthionine ketimine 5-ethyl ester) promotes neurite growth at low nanomolar concentrations. LKE also has neuroprotective, anti-apoptotic, and anti-inflammatory properties. Its therapeutic potential in cerebral ischemia and its mechanisms of neurotrophic action remain to be fully elucidated. Here, we hypothesize that the neuroprotective actions of LKE could result from induction or modulation of CRMP2. We found that treating primary cultured mouse neurons with LKE provided significant protection against t-butyl hydroperoxide-induced neuronal death possibly through CRMP2 upregulation. Similarly, in vivo studies showed that LKE pre and/or post-treatment protects mice against permanent distal middle cerebral artery occlusion (p-MCAO) as evidenced by lower stroke lesions and improved functional outcomes in terms of rotarod, grip strength and neurologic deficit scores in treated groups. Protein expression levels of CRMP2 were higher in brain cortices of LKE pretreated mice, suggesting that LKE’s neuroprotective activity may be CRMP2 dependent. Lower activity of cleaved PARP-1 and higher activity of SIRT-1 was also observed in LKE treated group suggesting its anti-apoptotic properties. Our results suggest that LKE has potential as a therapeutic intervention in cerebral ischemia and that part of its protective mechanism may be attributed to CRMP2 mediated action and PARP-1/SIRT-1 modulation. 相似文献
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Cell therapy has enormous potential to restore neurological function after stroke. The present study investigated effects of conditionally immortalised neural stem cells (ciNSCs), the Maudsley hippocampal murine neural stem cell line clone 36 (MHP36), on sensorimotor and histological outcome in mice subjected to transient middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO).Adult male C57BL/6 mice underwent MCAO by intraluminal thread or sham surgery and MHP36 cells or vehicle were implanted into ipsilateral cortex and caudate 2 days later. Functional recovery was assessed for 28 days using cylinder and ladder rung tests and tissue analysed for plasticity, differentiation and infarct size.MHP36-implanted animals showed accelerated and augmented functional recovery and an increase in neurons (MAP-2), synaptic plasticity (synaptophysin) and axonal projections (GAP-43) but no difference in astrocytes (GFAP), oligodendrocytes (CNPase), microglia (IBA-1) or lesion volumes when compared to vehicle group.This is the first study showing a potential functional benefit of the ciNSCs, MHP36, after focal MCAO in mice, which is probably mediated by promoting neuronal differentiation, synaptic plasticity and axonal projections and opens up opportunities for future exploitation of genetically altered mice for dissection of mechanisms of stem cell based therapy. 相似文献
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Joel M. Brittain Rui Pan Haitao You Tatiana Brustovetsky Nickolay Brustovetsky Gerald W. Zamponi Wei-Hua Lee Rajesh Khanna 《Channels (Austin, Tex.)》2012,6(1):52-59
Collapsin response mediator protein 2 (CRMP-2), traditionally viewed as an axon/dendrite specification and axonal growth protein, has emerged as nidus in regulation of both pre- and post-synaptic Ca2+ channels. Building on our discovery of the interaction and regulation of Ca2+ channels by CRMP-2, we recently identified a short sequence in CRMP-2 which, when appended to the transduction domain of HIV TAT protein, suppressed acute, inflammatory and neuropathic pain in vivo by functionally uncoupling CRMP-2 from the Ca2+ channel. Remarkably, we also found that this region attenuated Ca2+ influx via N-methylD-Aspartate receptors (NMDARs) and reduced neuronal death in a moderate controlled cortical impact model of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Here, we sought to extend these findings by examining additional neuroprotective effects of this peptide (TAT-CBD3) and exploring the biochemical mechanisms by which TAT-CBD3 targets NMDARs. We observed that an intraperitoneal injection of TAT-CBD3 peptide significantly reduced infarct volume in an animal model of focal cerebral ischemia. Neuroprotection was observed when TAT-CBD3 peptide was given either prior to or after occlusion but just prior to reperfusion. Surprisingly, a direct biochemical complex was not resolvable between the NMDAR subunit NR2B and CRMP-2. Intracellular application of TAT-CBD3 failed to inhibit NMDAR current. NR2B interactions with the post synaptic density protein 95 (PSD-95) remained intact and were not disrupted by TAT-CBD3. Peptide tiling of intracellular regions of NR2B revealed two 15-mer sequences, in the carboxyl-terminus of NR2B, that may confer binding between NR2B and CRMP-2 which supports CRMP-2''s role in excitotoxicity and neuroprotection. 相似文献
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目的:研究局灶性脑缺血大鼠脑细胞超微结构及脑组织线粒体呼吸链功能的变化。方法:采用改良Zea Longa方法复制大鼠大脑中动脉缺血(MCAO)模型,透射电镜观察缺血后脑组织神经元超微结构的改变;检测呼吸链R3、R4、RCR、OPR等评价呼吸功能的指标。结果:局灶性脑缺血大鼠脑组织神经元细胞结构严重破坏;与对照组相比,脑缺血时大鼠脑线粒体ST3、RCR和OPR降低,ST4升高。结论:脑缺血急性期线粒体结构破坏,功能受损严重,随着时间延长均有所恢复;保护线粒体呼吸链可能对脑缺血损伤有保护作用。 相似文献
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Li Q Huang XJ He W Ding J Jia JT Fu G Wang HX Guo LJ 《Cellular and molecular neurobiology》2009,29(2):169-180
We previously reported that inhibition of Rho-kinase (ROCK) by hydroxyl fasudil improves cognitive deficit and neuronal damage
in rats with chronic cerebral ischemia (Huang et al., Cell Mol Neurobiol 28:757–768, 2008). In this study, fasudil mesylate
(FM) was investigated for its neuroprotective potential in rats with ischemia following middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO)
and reperfusion. The effect of fasudil mesylate was also studied in rat brain cortical and hippocampal slices treated with
oxygen-glucose deprivation (OGD) injury. Gross anatomy showed that cerebral infarct size, measured with 2,3,5-triphenyltetrazolium
chloride (TTC) staining, was significantly smaller in the FM-treated than in the non-FM-treated ischemic rats. In the brain
regions vulnerable to ischemia of ischemic rats, fasudil mesylate was also found to significantly restore the enzyme protein
expression level of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), which was decreased in ischemia. However, it remarkably reduced
the protein synthesis of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) that was induced by ischemia and reperfusion. In rat brain
slices treated with OGD injury, fasudil mesylate increased the neuronal cell viability by 40% for cortex and by 61% for hippocampus,
respectively. Finally, in the presence of OGD and fasudil mesylate, superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity was increased by 50%
for cortex and by 58% for hippocampus, compared to OGD only group. In conclusion, our in vivo study showed that fasudil mesylate
not only decreased neurological deficit but also reduced cerebral infarct size, possibly and at least partially by augmenting
eNOS protein expression and inhibiting iNOS protein expression after ischemia-reperfusion.
Xian-Ju Huang contributed equally to this article. 相似文献