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NEURAL PLASTICITY
卷 2021, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
HINDAWI LTD
DOI: 10.1155/2021/4504363
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81703857]
Pyroptosis plays a crucial role in promoting Aβ accumulation, disrupting BBB-glymphatic system, and increasing neuronal damage after cerebral ischemia/reperfusion. Glycine inhibits pyroptosis-induced pathological changes, suggesting it as a potential strategy for preventing ischemic stroke sequelae, including dementia.
Neuroinflammation-related amyloid-beta peptide (A beta) accumulation after cerebral ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) accounts for cerebral I/R injuries and poststroke dementia. Recently, pyroptosis, a proinflammatory cell death, has been identified as a crucial pathological link of cerebral I/R injuries. However, whether pyroptosis acts as a trigger of A beta accumulation after cerebral I/R has not yet been demonstrated. Blood-brain barrier (BBB) and glymphatic system mediated by aquaporin-4 (AQP-4) on astrocytic endfeet are important pathways for the clearance of A beta in the brain, and pyroptosis especially occurring in astrocytes after cerebral I/R potentially damages BBB integrity and glymphatic function and thus influences A beta clearance and brain homeostasis. In present study, the method of middle cerebral artery occlusion/reperfusion (MCAO/R) was used for building models of focal cerebral I/R injuries in rats. Then, we used lipopolysaccharide and glycine as the agonist and inhibitor of pyroptosis, respectively, Western blotting for detections of pyroptosis, AQP-4, and A beta(1-42) oligomers, laser confocal microscopy for observations of pyroptosis and A beta locations, and immunohistochemical stainings of SMI 71 (a specific marker for BBB integrity)/AQP-4 and Nissl staining for evaluating, respectively, BBB-glymphatic system and neuronal damage. The results showed that pyroptosis obviously promoted the loss of BBB integrity and AQP-4 polarization, brain edema, A beta accumulation, and the formation of A beta(1-42) oligomers and thus increased neuronal damage after cerebral I/R. However, glycine could inhibit cerebral I/R-induced pyroptosis by alleviating cytomembrane damage and downregulating expression levels of cleaved caspase-11/1, N-terminal gasdermin D, NLRP3 (nucleotide-binding domain, leucine-rich repeat containing protein 3), interleukin-6 (IL-6) and IL-1 beta and markedly abate above pathological changes. Our study revealed that pyroptosis is a considerable factor causing toxic A beta accumulation, dysfunctional BBB-glymphatic system, and neurological deficits after cerebral I/R, suggesting that targeting pyroptosis is a potential strategy for the prevention of ischemic stroke sequelae including dementia.
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