PMID- 26441515 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20151007 LR - 20200930 IS - 1662-5099 (Print) IS - 1662-5099 (Electronic) IS - 1662-5099 (Linking) VI - 8 DP - 2015 TI - Suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid, a histone deacetylase inhibitor, attenuates postoperative cognitive dysfunction in aging mice. PG - 52 LID - 10.3389/fnmol.2015.00052 [doi] LID - 52 AB - Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is a recognized clinical entity characterized with cognitive deficits after anesthesia and surgery, especially in aged patients. Previous studies have shown that histone acetylation plays a key role in hippocampal synaptic plasticity and memory formation. However, its role in POCD remains to be determined. Here, we show that suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA), a histone deacetylase inhibitor, attenuates POCD in aging Mice. After exposed to the laparotomy, a surgical procedure involving an incision into abdominal walls to examine the abdominal organs, 16- but not 3-month old male C57BL/6 mice developed obvious cognitive impairments in the test of long-term contextual fear conditioning. Intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) injection of SAHA at the dose of (20 mug/2 mul) 3 h before and daily after the laparotomy restored the laparotomy-induced reduction of hippocampal acetyl-H3 and acetyl-H4 levels and significantly attenuated the hippocampus-dependent long-term memory (LTM) impairments in 16-month old mice. SAHA also reduced the expression of cleaved caspase-3, inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor-calcium/calmodulin dependent kinase II (CaMKII) pathway, and increased the expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), synapsin 1, and postsynaptic density 95 (PSD95). Taken together, our data suggest that the decrease of histone acetylation contributes to POCD and may serve as a target to improve the neurological outcome of POCD. FAU - Jia, Min AU - Jia M AD - Department of Anesthesiology, Jinling Hospital, School of Medicine, Nanjing University Nanjing, China. FAU - Liu, Wen-Xue AU - Liu WX AD - Department of Anesthesiology, Jinling Hospital, School of Medicine, Nanjing University Nanjing, China. FAU - Sun, He-Liang AU - Sun HL AD - Department of Anesthesiology, Jinling Hospital, School of Medicine, Nanjing University Nanjing, China. FAU - Chang, Yan-Qing AU - Chang YQ AD - Institute of Aging Research, School of Medicine, Hangzhou Normal University Hangzhou, China. FAU - Yang, Jiao-Jiao AU - Yang JJ AD - Department of Anesthesiology, Jinling Hospital, School of Medicine, Nanjing University Nanjing, China ; Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Anesthesiology, Xuzhou Medical College Xuzhou, China ; Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Anesthesia and Analgesia Application Technology Xuzhou, China. FAU - Ji, Mu-Huo AU - Ji MH AD - Department of Anesthesiology, Jinling Hospital, School of Medicine, Nanjing University Nanjing, China. FAU - Yang, Jian-Jun AU - Yang JJ AD - Department of Anesthesiology, Jinling Hospital, School of Medicine, Nanjing University Nanjing, China ; Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Anesthesiology, Xuzhou Medical College Xuzhou, China ; Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Anesthesia and Analgesia Application Technology Xuzhou, China. FAU - Feng, Chen-Zhuo AU - Feng CZ AD - Institute of Aging Research, School of Medicine, Hangzhou Normal University Hangzhou, China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20150923 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Mol Neurosci JT - Frontiers in molecular neuroscience JID - 101477914 PMC - PMC4585136 OTO - NOTNLM OT - aging OT - histone acetylation OT - neuroapoptosis OT - postoperative cognitive dysfunction OT - synaptic plasticity EDAT- 2015/10/07 06:00 MHDA- 2015/10/07 06:01 PMCR- 2015/01/01 CRDT- 2015/10/07 06:00 PHST- 2015/06/25 00:00 [received] PHST- 2015/08/28 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/10/07 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/10/07 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/10/07 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2015/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fnmol.2015.00052 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Mol Neurosci. 2015 Sep 23;8:52. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2015.00052. eCollection 2015.