PMID- 9270493 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19970918 LR - 20161124 IS - 0271-678X (Print) IS - 0271-678X (Linking) VI - 17 IP - 7 DP - 1997 Jul TI - Hypoxic-ischemic injury induces monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 expression in neonatal rat brain. PG - 759-70 AB - Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) regulates monocyte accumulation in several macrophage-dependent experimental disease models. In the neonatal brain, activated microglia accumulate rapidly after hypoxic-ischemic injury. These cells produce potentially neurotoxic factors that may contribute to the progression of injury. To determine whether MCP-1 could be one of the molecular signals that influences the microglial response to hypoxic-ischemic injury in the neonatal brain, we examined the impact of acute hypoxic-ischemic injury on MCP-1 mRNA and protein expression. Seven-day-old rats underwent right carotid artery ligation, followed by 3 hours of 8% oxygen exposure, to elicit ipsilateral forebrain hypoxic-ischemic injury. To detect MCP-1 mRNA in situ hybridization assays were performed using 35S-labeled antisense riboprobes generated from rat MCP-1 cDNA. Animals were evaluated 0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 48, and 120 hours after hypoxic exposure (N > or = 3/group). Immunocytochemistry (with a polyclonal rabbit antirat MCP-1 antibody) was used to determine the anatomic and temporal distribution of MCP-1, in samples obtained 10 minutes to 5 days after hypoxic exposure (N > or = 3/group). Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 mRNA was first detected in periventricular regions of the lesioned hemisphere 1 hour after hypoxia-ischemia; periependymal and intraparenchymal MCP-1 mRNA expression were detected at 4 hours; hybridization signal peaked at 8 to 24 hours; and no MCP-1 mRNA was detected at 48 and 120 hours. In lesioned forebrain, MCP-1 protein expression were consistently detected at 2.5 to 48 hours after hypoxia-ischemia. Many immunoreactive cells appeared to be neurons. These results suggest that in the developing brain, MCP-1 could represent a functionally important molecular signal for the microglial response to hypoxic-ischemic injury. FAU - Ivacko, J AU - Ivacko J AD - Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-0646, USA. FAU - Szaflarski, J AU - Szaflarski J FAU - Malinak, C AU - Malinak C FAU - Flory, C AU - Flory C FAU - Warren, J S AU - Warren JS FAU - Silverstein, F S AU - Silverstein FS LA - eng GR - HL 48287/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - NS 31054/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - United States TA - J Cereb Blood Flow Metab JT - Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism JID - 8112566 RN - 0 (Chemokine CCL2) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Animals, Newborn/*metabolism MH - Brain/*metabolism MH - Brain Ischemia/*metabolism MH - Chemokine CCL2/*metabolism MH - Hypoxia/*metabolism MH - Immunohistochemistry MH - In Situ Hybridization MH - Rats MH - Rats, Sprague-Dawley EDAT- 1997/07/01 00:00 MHDA- 1997/07/01 00:01 CRDT- 1997/07/01 00:00 PHST- 1997/07/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1997/07/01 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1997/07/01 00:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1097/00004647-199707000-00006 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 1997 Jul;17(7):759-70. doi: 10.1097/00004647-199707000-00006.