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EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY
Volume 347, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2021.113893
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Pgrmc1; Neonatal; Hypoxic-ischemic cerebral injury; Neurological function; Signaling pathway
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- National Nature Science Foundation of China [81571469, 82171420]
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This study found that the expression of pgrmc1 significantly increased in the cortex and hippocampus after neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, and inhibiting pgrmc1 exacerbated brain damage in male neonatal mice. The inhibition of pgrmc1 also worsened neurological dysfunction in the acute stage of hypoxic-ischemic injury.
This study investigated the expression of progesterone receptor membrane component 1 (pgrmc1) in the brains of male and female mice, and the effect of inhibiting pgrmc1 on neonatal hypoxic-ischemic (HI) cerebral injury in male mice. A mouse model of neonatal HI brain injury was established, and AG205, a specific antagonist of pgrmc1, was injected into the left lateral cerebral ventricle 1 h before HI. Histological staining, behavior testing, Western blots, and quantitative PCR (qPCR) were employed to evaluate pgrmc1 expression, brain damage, neurological function, and molecular mechanisms. Results demonstrated that the mRNA and protein levels of pgrmc1 increased significantly in the cortex and hippocampus 72 h after HI without sex differences. The inhibition of pgrmc1 exacerbated the neonatal brain damage in the acute stage of HI in male mice as seen in the increase in brain water content, infarction area, and neuronal death. Inhibition of pgrmc1 also aggravated the neurological dysfunction and anxiety induced by HI brain injury. In addition, inhibition of pgrmc1 activated the NF-kB signaling and NF-Kappa B-mediated cytokines, and inhibited BDNF/PI3K/AKT pathway in the brains of the newborn HI mice. The results indicated that pgrmc1 inhibition exacerbated the brain damage in newborn male mice subjected to HI by activating I Kappa B alpha/NF Kappa B signaling and inhibiting BDNF/PI3K/Akt pathway.
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