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MOLECULAR MEDICINE REPORTS
Volume 15, Issue 6, Pages 3623-3630Publisher
SPANDIDOS PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2017.6485
Keywords
aging; ischemic stroke; post-ischemic treadmill exercise; pyramidal neurons; astrocytes; microglia
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- Osong Innovation Center - Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea [HO14C0001]
- Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - the Ministry of Education [NRF-2014R1A1A3051721]
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Therapeutic exercise is an integral component of the rehabilitation of patients who have suffered a stroke. The objective of the present study was to use immunohistochemistry to investigate the effects of post-ischemic exercise on neuronal damage or death and gliosis in the aged gerbil hippocampus following transient cerebral ischemia. Aged gerbils (male; age, 22-24 months) underwent ischemia and were subjected to treadmill exercise for 1 or 4 weeks. Neuronal death was detected in the stratum pyramidale of the hippocampal CA1 region and in the polymorphic layer of the dentate gyrus using cresyl violet and Fluoro-Jade B histofluorescence staining. No significant difference in neuronal death was identified following 1 or 4 weeks of post-ischemic treadmill exercise. However, post-ischemic treadmill exercise affected gliosis (the activation of astrocytes and microglia). Glial fibrillary acidic protein-immunoreactive astrocytes and ionized calcium binding adaptor molecule 1-immunoreactive microglia were activated in the CA1 and polymorphic layer of the dentate gyrus of the group without treadmill exercise. Conversely, 4 weeks of treadmill exercise significantly alleviated ischemia-induced astrocyte and microglial activation; however, 1 week of treadmill exercise did not alleviate gliosis. These findings suggest that long-term post-ischemic treadmill exercise following transient cerebral ischemia does not influence neuronal protection; however, it may effectively alleviate transient cerebral ischemia-induced astrocyte and microglial activation in the aged hippocampus.
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