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A Thrombotic Stroke Model Based On Transient Cerebral Hypoxia-ischemia
Published on: August 18, 2015
Neuronal nitric oxide synthase inhibition reduces brain damage by promoting collateral recruitment in a cerebral
1Departments of Neurology, Departments of Endocrinology, Departments of Physical Examination, Personnel Section; People's Hospital of Zouping County of Shandong Province, China. wngggq@163.com.
Objective:
The collateral circulation development is considered as a compensatory inherent mechanism to restore damaged blood perfusion after ischemia. We aimed to detect the collateral flow and the mean blood-flow velocities (mBFVs) level in the basilar trunk during or after cerebral hypoxia-ischemia in the mice brain and explore the effect of neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) inhibition on the collateral flow.
Materials And Methods:
C57BL/6J mice and the nNOS knockout (KO) mice were randomly divided into a sham-operated group (control) and the hypoxia-ischemia (HI) groups that were treated with the phosphate buffered solution (PBS) control or 7-nitroindazole (7-NI). Cortexes were harvested after the HI treatment for analysis of nNOS expression using Western blot and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Ultrasound imaging experiments were performed to detect the collateral flow and the mBFVs level in the basilar trunk.
Results:
After cerebral HI, the cortical nNOS mRNA and protein levels increased markedly compared with the sham-operated control mice. Besides, 7-NI treatment had no effect on the blood flow in the sham-operated control mice. What's more, either the 7-NI pretreatment or the nNOS gene knockdown before the HI procedure could attenuate the brain injury by the increased collateral flow and the decreased mBFVs level in the basilar trunk.
Conclusions:
nNOS inhibition protected hypoxic-ischemic-induced mice brain damage by the increased collateral flow and the decreased mBFVs level in the basilar trunk. Therefore, the 7-NI administration may have potential utility for the treatment of HI injury in human beings.
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