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NEURAL REGENERATION RESEARCH
Volume 18, Issue 10, Pages 2285-2290Publisher
WOLTERS KLUWER MEDKNOW PUBLICATIONS
DOI: 10.4103/1673-5374.369124
Keywords
astrocyte; astrocyte-neuron communication; glutamate; glutamate transporter; hypoxic-ischemic injury; magnetic resonance spectroscopy; neonate; Notch signaling pathway; plasticity; synapse
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The study aimed to investigate the regulatory mechanisms of the Notch pathway in mediating glutamate transport and synaptic plasticity. The findings showed that in the early stage of hypoxic ischemic injury, glutamate transporter expression was downregulated and synaptic vesicle number decreased. However, activation of the Notch pathway after 12-24 hours led to an increase in glutamate transporter expression and synaptic vesicle number. Inhibition of the Notch pathway resulted in decreased expression of glutamate transporter and synaptophysin. These results suggest that glutamate transport in astrocytes-neurons after hypoxic ischemic injury is regulated by the Notch pathway and affects vesicle release and synaptic plasticity through the expression of synaptophysin.
Maintaining glutamate homeostasis after hypoxic ischemia is important for synaptic function and neural cell activity, and regulation of glutamate transport between astrocyte and neuron is one of the important modalities for reducing glutamate accumulation. However, further research is needed to investigate the dynamic changes in and molecular mechanisms of glutamate transport and the effects of glutamate transport on synapses. The aim of this study was to investigate the regulatory mechanisms underlying Notch pathway mediation of glutamate transport and synaptic plasticity. In this study, Yorkshire neonatal pigs (male, age 3 days, weight 1.0-1.5 kg, n = 48) were randomly divided into control (sham surgery group) and five hypoxic ischemia subgroups, according to different recovery time, which were then further subdivided into subgroups treated with dimethyl sulfoxide or a Notch pathway inhibitor (N-[N-(3, 5-difluorophenacetyl-l-alanyl)]-S-phenylglycine t-butyl ester). Once the model was established, immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence staining, and western blot analyses of Notch pathway-related proteins, synaptophysin, and glutamate transporter were performed. Moreover, synapse microstructure was observed by transmission electron microscopy. At the early stage (6-12 hours after hypoxic ischemia) of hypoxic ischemic injury, expression of glutamate transporter excitatory amino acid transporter-2 and synaptophysin was downregulated, the number of synaptic vesicles was reduced, and synaptic swelling was observed; at 12-24 hours after hypoxic ischemia, the Notch pathway was activated, excitatory amino acid transporter-2 and synaptophysin expression was increased, and the number of synaptic vesicles was slightly increased. Excitatory amino acid transporter-2 and synaptophysin expression decreased after treatment with the Notch pathway inhibitor. This suggests that glutamate transport in astrocytes-neurons after hypoxic ischemic injury is regulated by the Notch pathway and affects vesicle release and synaptic plasticity through the expression of synaptophysin.
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