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Phenotype Shifting in Astrocytes Account for Benefits of Intra-Arterial Selective Cooling Infusion in Hypertensive Rats of Ischemic Stroke.


ABSTRACT: The translational failure of neuroprotective therapies in stroke may be influenced by the mismatch of existing comorbidities between animal models and patients. Previous studies found that single-target neuroprotective agents reduced infarction in Sprague-Dawley but not in spontaneously hypertensive rats. It is of great interest to explore whether multi-target neuroprotectants and stroke models with comorbidities should be used in further translational researches. Ischemic stroke was induced in normotensive or hypertensive rats by 90- or 120-min middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) and reperfusion. Intra-Arterial Selective Cooling Infusion (IA-SCI) was started at the onset of reperfusion for 30 minutes. Acute neurological deficits, infarct volumes, gene expression and markers of A1-like and A2-like astrocytes were evaluated. In further analysis, TNFα and IL-1α were administrated intracerebroventricularly, phenotype shifting of astrocytes and infarct volumes were assessed. Normobaric oxygen treatment, as a negative control, was also assessed in hypertensive rats. IA-SCI led to similar benefits in normotensive rats with 120-min MCAO and hypertensive rats with both 90-min and 120-min MCAO, including mitigated functional deficit and reduced infarct volumes. IA-SCI shifted astrocyte phenotypes partly by downregulating A1-like astrocytes and upregulating A2-like astrocytes in both RNA and protein levels. Upregulated A1-type astrocyte markers levels, induced by intracerebroventricular injection of TNFα and IL-1α, were closely related to increased infarct volumes in hypertensive rats, despite receiving IA-SCI treatment. In addition, infarct volumes and A1/A2-like genes were not affected by normobaric oxygen treatment. IA-SCI reduced infarction in both normotensive and hypertensive rats. Our results demonstrated the neuroprotective effects of IA-SCI in hypertensive rats may be related with phenotype shifting of astrocytes.

SUBMITTER: Wang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9130426 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Phenotype Shifting in Astrocytes Account for Benefits of Intra-Arterial Selective Cooling Infusion in Hypertensive Rats of Ischemic Stroke.

Wang Luling L   Wu Longfei L   Duan Yunxia Y   Xu Shuaili S   Yang Yuyao Y   Yin Jidong J   Lang Ye Y   Gao Zongen Z   Wu Chuanjie C   Lv Zaigang Z   Shi Jingfei J   Wu Di D   Ji Xunming X  

Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 20220119 1


The translational failure of neuroprotective therapies in stroke may be influenced by the mismatch of existing comorbidities between animal models and patients. Previous studies found that single-target neuroprotective agents reduced infarction in Sprague-Dawley but not in spontaneously hypertensive rats. It is of great interest to explore whether multi-target neuroprotectants and stroke models with comorbidities should be used in further translational researches. Ischemic stroke was induced in  ...[more]

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