Triglyceride is a Good Biomarker of Increased Injury Severity on a High Fat Diet Rat After Traumatic Brain Injury
- 1 July 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Neurochemical Research
- Vol. 45 (7), 1536-1550
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11064-020-03018-x
Abstract
Injury severity is correlated with poor prognosis after traumatic brain injury (TBI). It is not known whether triglycerides (TGs) or total cholesterol (TC) is good biomarker of increased injury of neuroinflammation and apoptosis in a high fat diet (HFD)-treated rat after TBI episodes. Five-week-old male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were fed a HFD for 8 weeks. The anesthetized male SD rats were divided into three sub-groups: sham-operated and TBI with 1.6 atm or with 2.4 atm fluid percussion injury (FPI). Cell infarction volume (triphenyltetrazolium chloride stain), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) expression in the microglia (OX42 marker) and astrocytes (Glial fibrillary acidic protein marker), TNF-alpha receptor expression in the neurons (TNFR1 and TNFR2 markers), and the extent of neuronal apoptosis (TUNEL marker) were evaluated by immunofluorescence, and the functional outcome was assessed by an inclined plane test. These tests were performed 72 h after TBI. Serum triglyceride and cholesterol levels were measured at 24, 48 and 72 h after TBI. The FPI with 2.4 atm significantly increased body weight loss, infarction volume, neuronal apoptosis and TNF-alpha expression in the microglia and astrocytes, and it decreased the maximum grasp degree and TNFR1 and TNFR2 expression in neurons at the 3rd day following TBI. The serum TG level was positively correlated with FPI force, infarction volume, Neu-N-TUNEL, GFAP-TNF alpha, and OX42-TNF alpha Simultaneously; the serum TG level was negatively correlated with Neu-N-TNFR1 and Neu-N-TNFR2. TG is a good biomarker of increased injury for neuroinflammation and apoptosis at the 3rd day after TBI in HFD rats.This publication has 41 references indexed in Scilit:
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