Higher Circulating Trimethylamine N-oxide Sensitizes Sevoflurane-Induced Cognitive Dysfunction in Aged Rats Probably by Downregulating Hippocampal Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase A |
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Authors: | Zhao Liang Zhang Chuanyang Cao Guilin Dong Xueyi Li Dongliang Jiang Lei |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Anesthesiology, The 960th Hospital of the PLA in Zibo, Zibo, Shandong, China ;2.Department of Anesthesiology, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China ;3.Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, PKU Care Zibo Hospital, Zibo, Shandong, China ; |
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Abstract: | Gut microbiota-derived metabolite trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) has recently been shown to promote oxidative stress and inflammation in the peripheral tissues, contributing to the pathogenesis of many diseases. Here we examined whether pre-existing higher circulating TMAO would influence cognitive function in aged rats after anesthetic sevoflurane exposure. Aged rats received vehicle or TMAO treatment for 3 weeks. After 2 weeks of treatment, these animals were exposed to either control or 2.6% sevoflurane for 4 h. One week after exposure, freezing as measured by fear conditioning test, microglia activity, proinflammatory cytokine expression and NADPH oxidase-dependent reactive oxygen species (ROS) production in the hippocampus (a key brain structure involved in learning and memory) were comparable between vehicle-treated rats exposed to control and vehicle-treated rats exposed to sevoflurane. TMAO treatment, which increased plasma TMAO before and 1 week after control or sevoflurane exposure, significantly reduced freezing to contextual fear conditioning, which was associated with increases in microglia activity, proinflammatory cytokine expression and NADPH oxidase-dependent ROS production in the hippocampus in rats exposed to sevoflurane but not in rats exposed to control. Moreover, hippocampal expression of antioxidant enzyme methionine sulfoxide reductase A (MsrA) was reduced by TMAO treatment in both groups, and TMAO-induced reduction in MsrA expression was negatively correlated with increased proinflammatory cytokine expression in rats exposed to SEV. These findings suggest that pre-existing higher circulating TMAO downregulates antioxidant enzyme MsrA in the hippocampus, which may sensitize the hippocampus to oxidative stress, resulting in microglia-mediated neuroinflammation and cognitive impairment in aged rats after sevoflurane exposure. |
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