Immediate remote ischemic postconditioning after hypoxia ischemia in piglets protects cerebral white matter but not grey matter
Open Access
- 8 October 2015
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
- Vol. 36 (8), 1396-1411
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0271678x15608862
Abstract
Remote ischemic postconditioning (RIPostC) is a promising therapeutic intervention whereby brief episodes of ischemia/reperfusion of one organ (limb) mitigate damage in another organ (brain) that has experienced severe hypoxia-ischemia. Our aim was to assess whether RIPostC is protective following cerebral hypoxia-ischemia in a piglet model of neonatal encephalopathy (NE) using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) biomarkers and immunohistochemistry. After hypoxia-ischemia (HI), 16 Large White female newborn piglets were randomized to: (i) no intervention ( n = 8); (ii) RIPostC – with four, 10-min cycles of bilateral lower limb ischemia/reperfusion immediately after HI ( n = 8). RIPostC reduced the hypoxic-ischemic-induced increase in white matter proton MRS lactate/N acetyl aspartate ( p = 0.005) and increased whole brain phosphorus-31 MRS ATP ( p = 0.039) over the 48 h after HI. Cell death was reduced with RIPostC in the periventricular white matter ( p = 0.03), internal capsule ( p = 0.002) and corpus callosum ( p = 0.021); there was reduced microglial activation in corpus callosum ( p = 0.001) and more surviving oligodendrocytes in corpus callosum ( p = 0.029) and periventricular white matter ( p = 0.001). Changes in gene expression were detected in the white matter at 48 h, including KATP channel and endothelin A receptor. Immediate RIPostC is a potentially safe and promising brain protective therapy for babies with NE with protection in white but not grey matter.Keywords
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