PMID- 23806777 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20131023 LR - 20220408 IS - 1872-6240 (Electronic) IS - 0006-8993 (Linking) VI - 1526 DP - 2013 Aug 14 TI - Increased phosphorylation of mTOR is involved in remote ischemic preconditioning of hippocampus in mice. PG - 94-101 LID - S0006-8993(13)00869-X [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.brainres.2013.06.018 [doi] AB - Different signaling pathways are involved in tissue protection against ischemia reperfusion (IR) injury, among them mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) and related pathways have been examined in many recent studies. Present study evaluated the role of mTOR in remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) of hippocampus. Renal ischemia was induced (3 cycles of 5min occlusion and 5min reperfusion of unilateral renal artery) 24h before global brain ischemia (20min bilateral common carotid artery occlusion). Saline or rapamycin (mTOR inhibitor; 5mg/kg, i.p.) was injected 30min before RIPC. mTOR and phosphorylated mTOR (p-mTOR) expression, superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity and retention trial of passive avoidance test were determined 24h after global ischemia. Apoptosis and neuronal cell density were assessed 72h after hippocampal ischemia. RIPC decreased apoptosis (p<0.05 vs. IR), improved memory (p<0.05 vs. IR), and augmented p-mTOR expression and SOD activity after hippocampal ischemia (p<0.05 vs. IR). Rapamycin abolished all protective effects of RIPC (p<0.05 vs. RIPC+IR) suggesting a role for mTOR in RIPC induced hippocampal protection. CI - Copyright (c) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Zare Mehrjerdi, Fatemeh AU - Zare Mehrjerdi F AD - Physiology Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. FAU - Aboutaleb, Nahid AU - Aboutaleb N FAU - Habibey, Rouhollah AU - Habibey R FAU - Ajami, Marjan AU - Ajami M FAU - Soleimani, Mansoureh AU - Soleimani M FAU - Arabian, Maedeh AU - Arabian M FAU - Niknazar, Somayeh AU - Niknazar S FAU - Hossein Davoodi, Sayed AU - Hossein Davoodi S FAU - Pazoki-Toroudi, Hamidreza AU - Pazoki-Toroudi H LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20130624 PL - Netherlands TA - Brain Res JT - Brain research JID - 0045503 RN - EC 2.7.1.1 (mTOR protein, mouse) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Blotting, Western MH - Brain Ischemia/*metabolism MH - Disease Models, Animal MH - Hippocampus/*blood supply/*metabolism MH - In Situ Nick-End Labeling MH - *Ischemic Preconditioning MH - Male MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred BALB C MH - Phosphorylation MH - TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases/*metabolism OTO - NOTNLM OT - ATP sensitive potassium channels OT - Apoptosis OT - CCA OT - Common carotid artery OT - IR OT - Ischemia reperfusion OT - KATP OT - MAPK OT - Mammalian target of rapamycin OT - Memory OT - Mitochondrial ATP sensitive potassium channels OT - Mitogen activated protein kinases OT - PAT OT - Passive avoidance test OT - RIPC OT - ROS OT - Rapa OT - Rapamycin OT - Reactive Oxygen Species OT - Remote ischemia preconditioning OT - Remote ischemic preconditioning OT - SOD OT - Superoxide dismutase OT - mKATP OT - mTOR EDAT- 2013/06/29 06:00 MHDA- 2013/10/24 06:00 CRDT- 2013/06/29 06:00 PHST- 2013/03/04 00:00 [received] PHST- 2013/06/12 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2013/06/14 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2013/06/29 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/06/29 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2013/10/24 06:00 [medline] AID - S0006-8993(13)00869-X [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.brainres.2013.06.018 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Brain Res. 2013 Aug 14;1526:94-101. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2013.06.018. Epub 2013 Jun 24.