期刊
MOLECULAR NEURODEGENERATION
卷 9, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/1750-1326-9-55
关键词
Traumatic brain injury; Animal model of traumatic brain injury; Animal model of closed head injury; Diffuse axonal injury; Microglia activation; Neuroinflammation; Tau hyperphosphorylation; Head kinematics; Head injury biomechanics; Impact-acceleration traumatic brain injury model; Surgery-free animal model of traumatic brain injury; Traumatic brain injury biomechanics
资金
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [MOP 123461]
- Alzheimer Society Research Program (ASRP) Doctoral Award
- ASRP Doctoral Award
- Comissao Technica de Atribuicao de Bolsas para Estudos Pos-Graduados Macao
Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major health care concern that currently lacks any effective treatment. Despite promising outcomes from many preclinical studies, clinical evaluations have failed to identify effective pharmacological therapies, suggesting that the translational potential of preclinical models may require improvement. Rodents continue to be the most widely used species for preclinical TBI research. As most human TBIs result from impact to an intact skull, closed head injury (CHI) models are highly relevant, however, traditional CHI models suffer from extensive experimental variability that may be due to poor control over biomechanical inputs. Here we describe a novel CHI model called CHIMERA (Closed-Head Impact Model of Engineered Rotational Acceleration) that fully integrates biomechanical, behavioral, and neuropathological analyses. CHIMERA is distinct from existing neurotrauma model systems in that it uses a completely non-surgical procedure to precisely deliver impacts of prescribed dynamic characteristics to a closed skull while enabling kinematic analysis of unconstrained head movement. In this study, we characterized head kinematics as well as functional, neuropathological, and biochemical outcomes up to 14d following repeated TBI (rTBI) in adult C57BL/6 mice using CHIMERA. Results: Head kinematic analysis showed excellent repeatability over two closed head impacts separated at 24h. Injured mice showed significantly prolonged loss of righting reflex and displayed neurological, motor, and cognitive deficits along with anxiety-like behavior. Repeated TBI led to diffuse axonal injury with extensive microgliosis in white matter from 2-14d post-rTBI. Injured mouse brains also showed significantly increased levels of TNF-alpha and IL-1 beta and increased endogenous tau phosphorylation. Conclusions: Repeated TBI using CHIMERA mimics many of the functional and pathological characteristics of human TBI with a reliable biomechanical response of the head. This makes CHIMERA well suited to investigate the pathophysiology of TBI and for drug development programs.
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