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Evaluation of 3K3A-Activated Protein C to Treat Neonatal Hypoxic Ischemic Brain Injury in the Spiny Mouse.


ABSTRACT: Neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) resulting from intrapartum asphyxia is a global problem that causes severe disabilities and up to 1 million deaths annually. A variant form of activated protein C, 3K3A-APC, has cytoprotective properties that attenuate brain injury in models of adult stroke. In this study, we compared the ability of 3K3A-APC and APC (wild-type (wt)) to attenuate neonatal brain injury, using the spiny mouse (Acomys cahirinus) model of intrapartum asphyxia. Pups were delivered at 38 days of gestation (term?=?39 days), with an intrapartum hypoxic insult of 7.5 min (intrapartum asphyxia cohort), or immediate removal from the uterus (control cohort). After 1 h, pups received a subcutaneous injection of 3K3A-APC or wild-type APC (wtAPC) at 7 mg/kg, or vehicle (saline). At 24 h of age, pups were killed and brain tissue was collected for measurement of inflammation and cell death using RT-qPCR and histopathology. Intrapartum asphyxia increased weight loss, inflammation, and apoptosis/necrosis in the newborn brain. 3K3A-APC administration maintained body weight and ameliorated an asphyxia-induced increase of TGF?1 messenger RNA expression in the cerebral cortex, immune cell aggregation in the corpus callosum, and cell death in the deep gray matter and hippocampus. In the cortex, 3K3A-APC appeared to exacerbate the immune response to the hypoxic ischemic insult. While wtAPC reduced cell death in the corpus callosum and hippocampus following intrapartum asphyxia, it increased markers of neuro-inflammation and cell death in control pups. These findings suggest 3K3A-APC administration may be a useful therapy to reduce cell death and neonatal brain injury associated with HIE.

SUBMITTER: Ellery SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6361063 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Evaluation of 3K3A-Activated Protein C to Treat Neonatal Hypoxic Ischemic Brain Injury in the Spiny Mouse.

Ellery Stacey J SJ   Goss Madeleine G MG   Brew Nadine N   Dickinson Hayley H   Hale Nadia N   LaRosa Domenic A DA   Walker David W DW   Wong Flora Y FY  

Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 20190101 1


Neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) resulting from intrapartum asphyxia is a global problem that causes severe disabilities and up to 1 million deaths annually. A variant form of activated protein C, 3K3A-APC, has cytoprotective properties that attenuate brain injury in models of adult stroke. In this study, we compared the ability of 3K3A-APC and APC (wild-type (wt)) to attenuate neonatal brain injury, using the spiny mouse (Acomys cahirinus) model of intrapartum asphyxia. Pups were  ...[more]

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