Sevoflurane postconditioning attenuates reactive astrogliosis and glial scar formation after ischemia-reperfusion brain injury

Neuroscience
Yong-Ming ZhuHui-Ling Zhang

Abstract

Cerebral ischemia leads to astrocyte's activation and glial scar formation. Glial scar can inhibit axonal regeneration during the recovery phase. It has demonstrated that sevoflurane has neuroprotective effects against ischemic stroke, but its effects on ischemia-induced formation of astrogliosis and glial scar are unknown. This study was designed to investigate the effect of sevoflurane postconditioning on astrogliosis and glial scar formation in ischemic stroke model both in vivo and in vitro. The results showed that 2.5% of sevoflurane postconditioning could significantly reduce infarction volume and improve neurologic deficits. And it could also decrease the expression of the glial scar marker glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), neurocan and phosphacan in the peri-infarct region and markedly reduce the thickness of glial scar after ischemia/reperfusion (I/R). Consistent with the in vivo data, in the oxygen and glucose deprivation/reoxygenation (OGD/Re) model, sevoflurane postconditioning could protect astrocyte against OGD/Re-induced injury, decrease the expression of GFAP, neurocan and phosphacan. Further studies demonstrated that sevoflurane postconditioning could down-regulate the expression of Lamp1 and active cathe...Continue Reading

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Oct 26, 2018·Stroke; a Journal of Cerebral Circulation·Kenichiro HiraNobutaka Hattori
Feb 25, 2020·Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity·Chunli ChenLiuwang Zeng
Mar 1, 2020·Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy = Biomédecine & Pharmacothérapie·Kai ZhongYi-Lu Ye
Apr 4, 2021·International Journal of Molecular Sciences·Gertrude J Nieuwenhuijs-MoekeHenri G D Leuvenink

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