1. Dexmedetomidine Reverses Postoperative Spatial Memory Deficit by Targeting Surf1 and Cytochrome c.
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Niu, Kun, Qin, Jia-Lin, Lu, Guo-Fang, Guo, Jian, Williams, John P., and An, Jian-Xiong
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SPATIAL memory , *DEXMEDETOMIDINE , *COGNITIVE ability , *CYTOCHROME c , *NEUROBEHAVIORAL disorders , *WESTERN immunoblotting , *IMMOBILIZATION stress - Abstract
• Dexmedetomidine reverses surgery-induced spatial memory deficit in rats PND model. • Dexmedetomidine mitigates Iba-1 and GFAP expression in the hippocampus. • Surf1 and Cytochrome c may involve in the therapeutic mechanism of dexmedetomidine. Anesthesia and surgery are associated with perioperative neurocognitive disorders (PND). Dexmedetomidine is known to improve PND in rats; however, little is known about the mechanisms. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were subjected to resection of the hepatic apex under propofol anesthesia to clinically mimic human abdominal surgery. The rats were divided into four groups: control group (C), anesthesia group (A), model group (M), and model + dex group (D). Cognitive function was evaluated with the Morris water maze (MWM). Neuronal morphology was observed with H&E staining, Nissl's staining and immunohistochemistry. Transcriptome analysis and quantitative real-time PCR were performed to investigate functional mitochondrial mRNA changes in the hippocampus. Protein levels were measured by Western blotting at 1, 3, and 7 days after surgery. Surgery-induced cognitive decline lasted for three days, but not seven days after surgery in the M group; however, rats in the D group were significantly improved by dexmedetomidine. No significant differences in the number of neurons were observed between the groups after surgery. Rats from the M group showed significantly greater expression levels of Iba-1 and GFAP compared with the C group and the D group. Rats in the M group demonstrated increased Surf1 and Cytochrome c expression on days 1 and 3, but not day 7; similar changes were not induced in rats in the D group. Dexmedetomidine appears to reverse surgery-induced behavior, mitigate the higher density of Iba-1 and GFAP, and downregulate the expression of Surf1 and Cytochrome c protein in the hippocampus of rats in a PND model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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