PMID- 27515290 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180118 LR - 20180816 IS - 1872-7549 (Electronic) IS - 0166-4328 (Linking) VI - 314 DP - 2016 Nov 1 TI - Helium preconditioning protects the brain against hypoxia/ischemia injury via improving the neurovascular niche in a neonatal rat model. PG - 165-72 LID - S0166-4328(16)30507-1 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.bbr.2016.08.015 [doi] AB - This study aimed to investigate whether helium preconditioning (He-PC) is able to exert neuroprotective effects via improving focal neurovascular niche in a neonatal rat hypoxia/ischemia (HI) brain injury model. Seven day old rat pups were divided into control group, HI group and He-PC group. HI was induced by exposure to 8% oxygen for 90min one day after preconditioning with 70% helium-30% oxygen for three 5-min periods. At 3 and 7 days, the brain was collected for the detection of inflammation related factors (tumor necrosis factor alpha [TNF-alpha], interleukin-1beta [IL-1beta], IL-10) and growth/neurotrophic factors (brain-derived neurotrophic factor [BDNF], basic fibroblast growth factor [bFGF] and nerve growth factor [NGF]); at 7 days, neurobehaviors were evaluated, and the brain was collected for the detection of mRNA expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and angiopoietin-1 (Ang-1) by PCR, protein expression of angiogenesis related molecules (VEGF, Ang-1, Tie-2 and Flt-1) by Western blotting and microvessel density (MCD) by immunohistochemistry for vWF. Results showed He-PC was able to reduce TNF-alpha and IL-1beta, further increase IL-10, BDNF, bFGF and NGF, elevate the mRNA expression of VEGF and Ang-1, increase the protein expression of VEGF, Ang-1, Tie-2 and Flt-1, promote angiogenesis and improve neurobehaviors as compared to HI group. These findings suggest that He-PC may improve the post-stroke neurovascular niche to exert neuroprotective effects on neonatal HI brain injury. CI - Copyright (c) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Li, Yi AU - Li Y AD - Department of Neurosurgery, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, No 1665 Kongjiang Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai 200092, China. FAU - Zhang, Peixi AU - Zhang P AD - Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The First Hospital of Jining City, No 6, Jiankang Road, Jining City, Shandong 272011, China. FAU - Liu, Ying AU - Liu Y AD - Department of Pathology, Yantaishan Hospital, No 91, Jiefang Road, Zhifu District, Yantai City, Shandong 264001, China. FAU - Liu, Wenwu AU - Liu W AD - Department of Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine, The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China. Electronic address: liuwenwu1980@hotmail.com. FAU - Yin, Na AU - Yin N AD - Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Xin Hua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200092, China. Electronic address: anne_yin2016@163.com. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20160808 PL - Netherlands TA - Behav Brain Res JT - Behavioural brain research JID - 8004872 RN - 0 (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor) RN - 0 (Neuroprotective Agents) RN - 206GF3GB41 (Helium) RN - 7171WSG8A2 (BDNF protein, human) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Animals, Newborn MH - Brain/metabolism/*pathology MH - Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor/metabolism MH - Helium/*pharmacology MH - Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain/*pathology MH - Ischemic Preconditioning/methods MH - Neuroprotective Agents/pharmacology MH - Rats OTO - NOTNLM OT - Angiogenesis OT - Growth factor OT - Helium preconditioning OT - Inflammation OT - Neurobehaviors EDAT- 2016/08/16 06:00 MHDA- 2018/01/19 06:00 CRDT- 2016/08/13 06:00 PHST- 2016/07/26 00:00 [received] PHST- 2016/08/03 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2016/08/07 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2016/08/13 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2016/08/16 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/01/19 06:00 [medline] AID - S0166-4328(16)30507-1 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.bbr.2016.08.015 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Behav Brain Res. 2016 Nov 1;314:165-72. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2016.08.015. Epub 2016 Aug 8.