Methylene blue offers neuroprotection after intracerebral hemorrhage in rats through the PI3K/Akt/GSK3β signaling pathway

Journal of Cellular Physiology
Chunli ChenZhiping Hu

Abstract

Inflammation and apoptosis are two key factors contributing to secondary brain injury after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). In the present study, we explored the neuroprotective role of methylene blue (MB) in ICH rats and studied the potential mechanisms involved. Rats were subjected to local injection of collagenase IV in the striatum or sham surgery. We observed that MB treatment could exert a neuroprotective effect on ICH by promoting neurological scores, decreasing the brain water content, alleviating brain-blood barrier disruption, and improving the histological damages in the perihematomal areas. Furthermore, we demonstrated that the various mechanisms underlying MB's neuroprotective effects linked to inhibited apoptosis and inhibited neuroinflammation. In addition, wortmannin, a selective inhibitor of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K), could reverse the antiapoptotic and anti-inflammatory effects of MB, which suggested that the PI3K-Akt pathway played an important role. In conclusion, these data suggested that MB could inhibit apoptosis and ameliorate neuroinflammation after ICH, and its neuroprotective effects might be exerted via the activation of the PI3K/Akt/GSK3β pathway.

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