Dynamic characterization of neuronal injury in cortex and hippocampus of mice after acute cerebral ischemia/reperfusion
- VernacularTitle:急性脑缺血/再灌注后小鼠皮层和海马部位神经细胞损伤的动态表征
- Author:
Tong LI
1
;
Jia-Ming BAI
;
Yi-Jun SHI
;
Cai-Ming WEN
;
Lin CUI
;
Jing-Xian YANG
;
Hong-He XIAO
Author Information
- Keywords: cerebral ischemia/reperfusion injury; dy-namic characterization; neurons; astrocytes; micro-glia; mitochondria
- From: Chinese Pharmacological Bulletin 2024;40(9):1708-1718
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
- Abstract: Aim To dynamically characterize neuronal damage in the cortex and hippocampus of mice follow-ing acute cerebral ischemia/reperfusion(I/R).Meth-ods Male C57BL/6J mice weighing 25-28 g under-went middle cerebral artery occlusion using the fila-ment method,followed by 1 hour of reperfusion to es-tablish the acute cerebral I/R injury mouse model.The experiment comprised a sham surgery group,I/R-6 h group,I/R-24 h group,and I/R-72 h group.Longa neurological function score was used to assess the neu-rological function.Triphenyltetrazolium chloride(TTC)staining was conducted to detect cerebral in-farct volume.Hematoxylin and eosin(HE)staining was utilized to observe brain tissue pathological dam-age.Nissl staining was performed to evaluate neuronal damage.Immunofluorescence histochemistry staining was employed to assess the activation of astrocytes and microglia,as well as neuronal loss.Transmission elec-tron microscopy was used to examine mitochondrial damage in hippocampal neurons.Western blot analysis was conducted to detect the expression levels of mito-chondrial fission-fusion-related proteins p-Drp1/Drp1,Mff,Fis1,and OPA1.Results With prolonged cere-bral I/R time,neurological functional impairment,cerebral infarct volume,neuronal damage in the cortex and hippocampus,glial cell activation,neuronal loss,and mitochondrial damage gradually worsened in mice.The expression of mitochondrial fission-related proteins increased gradually,while the expression of mitochon-drial fusion-related proteins decreased gradually.Con-clusions Neuronal pathological damage,such as glial cell activation,neuronal loss,and mitochondrial dam-age,is gradually aggravated with prolonged cerebral I/R time,which may be associated with mitochondrial dynamics imbalance.
