Beta-estradiol protects hippocampal CA1 neurons against transient forebrain ischemia in gerbil

Neuroscience Research
S SudoM Sakanaka

Abstract

Beta-estradiol has been considered to be a neurotrophic agent, but its in vivo effect on gerbils with transient forebrain ischemia has not yet been demonstrated. In the first set of the present experiments, we infused beta-estradiol at a dose of 0.05 or 0.25 microg/day for 7 days into the lateral ventricles of normothermic gerbils starting 2 h before 3-min forebrain ischemia. Beta-estradiol infusion at a dose of 0.25 microg/day prevented significantly the ischemia-induced reduction of response latency time as revealed by a step-down passive avoidance task. Subsequent light and electron microscopic examinations showed that pyramidal neurons in the hippocampal CA1 region as well as synapses within the strata moleculare, radiatum and oriens of the region were significantly more numerous in gerbils infused with beta-estradiol than in those receiving saline infusion. Beta-estradiol at a dose of 1.25 microg/day was ineffective and occasionally increased the mortality of experimental animals. Since the total brain content of exogenous beta-estradiol at 12 h after forebrain ischemia was estimated to be less than 145 ng, the second set of experiments focused on the neurotrophic action of beta-estradiol at concentrations around 100 ng/ml...Continue Reading

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