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- Title
Intermittent hypoxia mimicking obstructive sleep apnea aggravates early brain injury following ICH via neuroinflammation and apoptosis.
- Authors
Fei, Wenjing; Jiao, Wei; Feng, Xiaoyan; Chen, Xufeng; Wang, Yuhai
- Abstract
Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is a subtype of stroke associated with high mortality and morbidity due to the lack of effective therapy. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has been reported to aggravate early brain injury (EBI) and worsen the overall outcome of patients with ICH. However, the precise role of OSA-mediated neuroinflammation and apoptosis following ICH has not been confirmed. The present study aimed to investigate the neuronal damage induced by OSA and the potential molecular mechanisms by which ICH-induced EBI regulates neural apoptosis in a C57BL/6 mouse ICH model. Mortality, neurological score, brain water content and neuronal death were evaluated by Evans blue extravasation, TUNEL staining, ELISA, analysis of reactive oxygen species/lipid peroxidation and western blotting. The results showed that OSA induction decreased survival rate, neurological score and neuron survival and upregulated the protein expression levels of Caspase-3, Bax, cytokines IL-1β, IL-6 and TNF-α and NF-κB, which indicated that OSA-mediated induction of apoptosis and neuroinflammation aggravated neuronal death following ICH. The molecular mechanism was partly dependent on the activating transcription factor/CHOP pathway. Taken together, the results demonstrated that OSA worsens neurological outcomes in mice and increases neuronal death by enhancing neural apoptosis and neuroinflammation.
- Subjects
SLEEP apnea syndromes; CELL death; NEUROINFLAMMATION; BRAIN injuries; SURVIVAL rate; LABORATORY mice; APOPTOSIS
- Publication
Molecular Medicine Reports, 2021, Vol 24, Issue 5, pN.PAG
- ISSN
1791-2997
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3892/mmr.2021.12464