神经保护
血脑屏障
炎症
氧化应激
药理学
促炎细胞因子
下调和上调
信号转导
细胞凋亡
化学
中枢神经系统
生物
医学
细胞生物学
免疫学
生物化学
内科学
基因
作者
Qianlei Zhao,Tingting Chen,Chao Ni,Yingying Hu,Yan Nan,Wei Lin,Yanli Liu,Feixia Zheng,Xulai Shi,Zhongdong Lin,Jianghu Zhu,Zhenlang Lin
标识
DOI:10.1021/acschemneuro.2c00418
摘要
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is an important physiological barrier of the human body contributing to maintaining brain homeostasis and normal function. Hypoxic-ischemic (HI)-related brain injury is one of the main causes of neonatal acute morbidity and chronic disability. The previous research of our group confirmed that there was serious BBB destruction during HI brain injury. However, at present, the protection strategy of BBB is very limited, and further research on the protection mechanism is warranted. Indole-3-propionic acid (IPA) is a bacterial metabolism with anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, having neuroprotective effects and protective effects on the mucosal barrier. However, the role of IPA in BBB is not clear. In this research, we demonstrated the protective effect of IPA on BBB disruption from HI brain injury and hypothesized that it involves the amelioration of inflammation, oxidative stress, and MMP activation, thereby inhibiting apoptosis of rat brain microvascular endothelial cells (rBMECs). We demonstrated that expression levels of several inflammatory markers, including iNOS, TNF-α, IL-6, and IL-1β, were significantly increased from HI damage or OGD injury. However, IPA treatment inhibited the increase significantly. Moreover, we demonstrated that IPA reduced intracellular ROS levels and MMP activation in rBMECs from OGD injury. Further research on the underlying detailed molecular mechanisms suggested that IPA attenuates inflammation by inhibiting NF-κB signaling. Finally, we investigated the mechanism of the relationship between PXR activation and NF-κB inhibition. The results suggested overexpression of PXR in rBMECs could significantly counteract the decrease of junction proteins and downregulate the increased p-IκB-α and p-NF-κB from OGD injury. However, the protective effects of IPA were reversed by antagonists of the PXR. Taken together, IPA might mitigate HI-induced damage of the BBB and the protective effect may be exerted through modulating the PXR signaling pathway.
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