PMID- 31244764 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20201001 IS - 1664-2295 (Print) IS - 1664-2295 (Electronic) IS - 1664-2295 (Linking) VI - 10 DP - 2019 TI - Comprehensive Profile of Acute Mitochondrial Dysfunction in a Preclinical Model of Severe Penetrating TBI. PG - 605 LID - 10.3389/fneur.2019.00605 [doi] LID - 605 AB - Mitochondria constitute a central role in brain energy metabolism, and play a pivotal role in the development of secondary pathophysiology and subsequent neuronal cell death following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Under normal circumstances, the brain consumes glucose as the preferred energy source for adenosine triphosphate (ATP) production over ketones. To understand the comprehensive picture of substrate-specific mitochondrial bioenergetics responses following TBI, adult male rats were subjected to either 10% unilateral penetrating ballistic-like brain injury (PBBI) or sham craniectomy (n = 5 animals per group). At 24 h post-injury, mitochondria were isolated from pooled brain regions (frontal cortex and striatum) of the ipsilateral hemisphere. Mitochondrial bioenergetics parameters were measured ex vivo in the presence of four sets of metabolic substrates: pyruvate+malate (PM), glutamate+malate (GM), succinate (Succ), and beta-hydroxybutyrate+malate (BHBM). Additionally, mitochondrial matrix dehydrogenase activities [i.e., pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDHC), alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase complex (alpha-KGDHC), and glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH)] and mitochondrial membrane-bound dehydrogenase activities [i.e., electron transport chain (ETC) Complex I, II, and IV] were compared between PBBI and sham groups. Furthermore, mitochondrial coenzyme contents, including NAD((t)) and FAD((t)), were quantitatively measured in both groups. Collectively, PBBI led to an overall significant decline in the ATP synthesis rates (43-50%; (*) p < 0.05 vs. sham) when measured using each of the four sets of substrates. The PDHC and GDH activities were significantly reduced in the PBBI group (42-53%; (*) p < 0.05 vs. sham), whereas no significant differences were noted in alpha-KGDHC activity between groups. Both Complex I and Complex IV activities were significantly reduced following PBBI (47-81%; (*) p < 0.05 vs. sham), whereas, Complex II activity was comparable between groups. The NAD((t)) and FAD((t)) contents were significantly decreased in the PBBI group (27-35%; (*) p < 0.05 vs. sham). The decreased ATP synthesis rates may be due to the significant reductions in brain mitochondrial dehydrogenase activities and coenzyme contents observed acutely following PBBI. These results provide a basis for the use of "alternative biofuels" for achieving higher ATP production following severe penetrating brain trauma. FAU - Pandya, Jignesh D AU - Pandya JD AD - Brain Trauma Neuroprotection Branch, Center for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States. FAU - Leung, Lai Yee AU - Leung LY AD - Brain Trauma Neuroprotection Branch, Center for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States. AD - Department of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States. FAU - Yang, Xiaofang AU - Yang X AD - Brain Trauma Neuroprotection Branch, Center for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States. FAU - Flerlage, William J AU - Flerlage WJ AD - Brain Trauma Neuroprotection Branch, Center for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States. FAU - Gilsdorf, Janice S AU - Gilsdorf JS AD - Brain Trauma Neuroprotection Branch, Center for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States. FAU - Deng-Bryant, Ying AU - Deng-Bryant Y AD - Brain Trauma Neuroprotection Branch, Center for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States. FAU - Shear, Deborah A AU - Shear DA AD - Brain Trauma Neuroprotection Branch, Center for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20190611 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Neurol JT - Frontiers in neurology JID - 101546899 PMC - PMC6579873 OTO - NOTNLM OT - alternative biofuels OT - brain energy metabolism OT - dehydrogenase activities OT - energy crisis OT - mitochondria preferred substrates OT - penetrating ballistic-like brain injury (PBBI) OT - therapeutics OT - traumatic brain injury (TBI) EDAT- 2019/06/28 06:00 MHDA- 2019/06/28 06:01 PMCR- 2019/06/11 CRDT- 2019/06/28 06:00 PHST- 2018/07/26 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/05/22 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/06/28 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/06/28 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/06/28 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2019/06/11 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fneur.2019.00605 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Neurol. 2019 Jun 11;10:605. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2019.00605. eCollection 2019.