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Immediate remote ischemic postconditioning after hypoxia ischemia in piglets protects cerebral white matter but not grey matter

Ezzati, M; Bainbridge, A; Broad, KD; Kawano, G; Oliver-Taylor, A; Rocha-Ferreira, E; Alonso-Alconada, D; ... Robertson, NJ; + view all (2015) Immediate remote ischemic postconditioning after hypoxia ischemia in piglets protects cerebral white matter but not grey matter. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism , 36 (8) pp. 1396-1411. 10.1177/0271678X15608862. Green open access

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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.

Type: Article
Title: Immediate remote ischemic postconditioning after hypoxia ischemia in piglets protects cerebral white matter but not grey matter
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1177/0271678X15608862
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0271678X15608862
Language: English
Additional information: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
Keywords: Birth asphyxia, hypoxia–ischemia, neonatal encephalopathy, neuroprotection, remote ischemic postconditioning
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1473317
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