Project description:Propofol has been found to be toxic to developing neurons. The goal of the current study was to nominate novel genes predicted to underly the neurotoxicity, and use these candidates for future functional pathway assessment
Project description:Propofol is an intravenous anesthetic that has been widely used in the clinical setting. Besides its anesthetic effects, propofol has been reported to influence the regulation of autonomic system. Controversies exist with regards to whether propofol exposure is safe for pregnant women and young children. The recent emergence of human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) has provided a promising and theoretically inexhaustible source of neural progenitor cells (NPCs) for drug testing, which could be extended to in vitro experiments for anesthetics such as propofol. NPCs derived from three hiPSC lines, NES-GFP (a NESTIN-GFP reporter), USCK7 (iPSCs derived from urine derived cells), and ND2-0 (NIH), were treated with propofol at different concentrations (20, 50, 100 and 300 µM) for 6 h or 24 h. Early and late cell injury, cell proliferation and apoptosis were evaluated. Comparison of genome-wide gene expression profiles was performed for propofol-treated and untreated control iPSC-NPCs. Propofol treatment of NPCs for 6 h at the clinically relevant concentration (20 or 50 µM) did not affect cell viability, apoptosis, or proliferation, while propofol at higher concentration (100 or 300 µM) decreased NPC viability and induced apoptosis. Prolonged treatment of propofol for 24 h significantly decreased cell viability. In addition, 20 µM propofol treatment for 6 h did not alter global gene expression. Higher concentration of propofol exerted potential cytotoxicity via multiple cellular mechanisms. In summary, propofol treatment at commonly practiced clinical doses for 6 h did not have adverse effects on hiPSC-derived NPCs. In contrast, longer exposure and/or higher concentration of propofol treatment could decrease NPC viability and induce apoptosis.
Project description:Background: Propofol is a short-acting anesthetic, which is often used for induction and maintenance of general anesthesia, sedation for mechanically ventilated adults and procedural sedation. Several side effects of propofol are known and a substantial number of patients suffer from post-operative delirium after propofol application. In this study, we analyzed the effect of propofol on the function and protein expression profile on a proteome-wide scale. Methods: We cultured human brain microvascular endothelial cells in the absence and presence of propofol and analyzed the permeability of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) by fluorescein passage and protein expression on a proteome-wide scale by mass spectrometry. Results: Propofol interfered with the function of the blood-brain barrier. This was not due to de-creased adhesion of propofol-treated human brain microvascular endothelial cells. The proteomic analysis revealed that some key pathways in these cells were disturbed, such as oxygen metabolism, DNA damage recognition and response to stress. Conclusions: Propofol has strong effects on protein expression which could explain several side effects of propofol.
Project description:We report the differentiation of dorsal and ventral hippocampus in developing rats by performing and analyzing transcriptome profiling.
Project description:In this study we hypothesize that early life stress perturbs the normal function of microglial in the developing hippocampus and that this effect is responsible for the ability of early life tress to disrupt normal synaptic maturation, myelination, and axonal growth in the developing hippocampus. To test this hypothesis we used the mouse immune panel from NanoString in order to identify immune-related genes whose expression is modified by BDS, a mouse model of early life stress, in microglia isolated from the hippocampus of 28-day old male pups. This project is part of a manuscript that is currently under preparation (Delpech J.C. et al. Early life stress perturbs the maturation of microglia in the developing hippocampus, Brain, Behavior and Immunity, 2016)
Project description:In this study we hypothesize that early life stress perturbs the normal function of microglia in the developing hippocampus and that this effect is responsible for the ability of early life tress to disrupt normal synaptic maturation, myelination, and axonal growth in the developing hippocampus. To test this hypothesis we used the mouse immune panel from NanoString in order to identify immune-related genes whose expression is modified by BDS, a mouse model of early life stress, in microglia isolated from the hippocampus of 14-day old male pups. This project is part of a manuscript that is currently under preparation (Delpech J.C. et al. Early life stress perturbs the maturation of microglia in the developing hippocampus, Brain, Behavior and Immunity, 2016)
Project description:General anesthesia is thought to suppress the immune system and negatively affect postoperative infection and the long-term prognosis of cancer. However, the mechanism underlying immunosuppression induced by general anesthetics remains unclear. In this study, we focused on propofol, which is widely used for sedation under general anesthesia and intensive care and examined its effects on the T cell function and T cell-dependent immune responses. We found that propofol suppressed T cell glycolytic metabolism, differentiation into effector T cells, and cytokine production by effector T cells. CD8 + T cells activated and differentiated into effector cells in the presence of propofol in vitro showed reduced antitumor activity. Furthermore, propofol treatment suppressed the increase in the number of antigen-specific CD8 + T cells during Listeria infection. In contrast, the administration of propofol improved inflammatory conditions in mouse models of inflammatory diseases, such as OVA-induced allergic airway inflammation, hapten-induced contact dermatitis, and experimental allergic encephalomyelitis. These results suggest that propofol may reduce tumor and infectious immunity by suppressing the T cell function and T cell-dependent immune responses while improving the pathogenesis and prognosis of chronic inflammatory diseases by suppressing inflammation.
Project description:Human hippocampus enabled further processing of higher brain functions. However, very little is known about human hippocampus development, which is largely accomplished during fetal stage. Our current study elucidates the transcriptomic profiling of the developing human fetal hippocampus using single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq), allowing us to reconstruct the order of neurogenesis and their lineage relationships.
Project description:Human hippocampus enabled further processing of higher brain functions. However, very little is known about human hippocampus development, which is largely accomplished during fetal stage. Our current study elucidates the transcriptomic profiling of the developing human fetal hippocampus using single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) and bulk atac-seq, allowing us to reconstruct the order of neurogenesis and their lineage relationships.