Seizure Susceptibility Correlates with Brain Injury in Male Mice Treated with Hypothermia after Neonatal Hypoxia-Ischemia

Developmental Neuroscience
Melanie A McNallyCarl E Stafstrom

Abstract

Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy is a common neonatal brain injury associated with significant morbidity and mortality despite the administration of therapeutic hypothermia (TH). Neonatal seizures and subsequent chronic epilepsy are frequent in this patient population and current treatments are partially effective. We used a neonatal murine hypoxia-ischemia (HI) model to test whether the severity of hippocampal and cortical injury predicts seizure susceptibility 8 days after HI and whether TH mitigates this susceptibility. HI at postnatal day 10 (P10) caused hippocampal injury not mitigated by TH in male or female pups. TH did not confer protection against flurothyl seizure susceptibility at P18 in this model. Hippocampal (R2 = 0.33, p = 0.001) and cortical (R2 = 0.33, p = 0.003) injury directly correlated with seizure susceptibility in male but not female pups. Thus, there are sex-specific consequences of neonatal HI on flurothyl seizure susceptibility in a murine neonatal HI model. Further studies are necessary to elucidate the underlying mechanisms of sex dimorphism in seizure susceptibility after neonatal HI.

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