Apoptosis and white matter injury in preterm infants

Pediatric and Developmental Pathology : the Official Journal of the Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Paediatric Pathology Society
Sangkae ChamnanvanakijJeffrey M Perlman

Abstract

White matter injury in premature infants with or without intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) remains an important cause of neonatal mortality and neurologic morbidity. The contribution of apoptosis to the cellular death in white matter injury in the preterm infant is unclear. The objective of this study was to determine whether apoptosis contributes to the cellular death in premature infants with cranial ultrasound (US) evidence of IVH and asymmetric periventricular echogenicity (PVE). Brain tissue incorporating frontoparietal white matter was obtained from 21 infants: 6 infants with severe IVH and asymmetric PVE (grade 1V IVH) on US (group 1); 9 infants with minimal IVH or normal US who died within 21 days (group II); and 6 infants with minimal IVH or normal US who died later (group III). The presence of DNA fragmentation, typical of apoptosis, was determined using a terminal deoxytransferase-mediated dUTD nick-end labeling (TUNEL) assay. The TUNEL index for group I infants was significantly greater, i.e., 2.75 +/- 1.94% versus 0.84 +/- 0.70% for group II and 0.42 +/- 0.22 for group III infants (P = 0.004). Most cells showing reactivity had morphologic characteristics consistent with astrocytes and oligodendroglia. The number of...Continue Reading

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