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Administration of Tauroursodeoxycholic Acid Attenuates Early Brain Injury via Akt Pathway Activation

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of trauma-induced mortality and disability, and emerging studies have shown that endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress plays an important role in the pathophysiology of TBI. Tauroursodeoxycholic acid (TUDCA), a hydrophilic bile acid, has been rep...

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Autores principales: Sun, Dongdong, Gu, Gang, Wang, Jianhao, Chai, Yan, Fan, Yueshan, Yang, Mengchen, Xu, Xin, Gao, Weiwei, Li, Fei, Yin, Dongpei, Zhou, Shuai, Chen, Xin, Zhang, Jianning
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5498474/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28729823
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2017.00193
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author Sun, Dongdong
Gu, Gang
Wang, Jianhao
Chai, Yan
Fan, Yueshan
Yang, Mengchen
Xu, Xin
Gao, Weiwei
Li, Fei
Yin, Dongpei
Zhou, Shuai
Chen, Xin
Zhang, Jianning
author_facet Sun, Dongdong
Gu, Gang
Wang, Jianhao
Chai, Yan
Fan, Yueshan
Yang, Mengchen
Xu, Xin
Gao, Weiwei
Li, Fei
Yin, Dongpei
Zhou, Shuai
Chen, Xin
Zhang, Jianning
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description Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of trauma-induced mortality and disability, and emerging studies have shown that endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress plays an important role in the pathophysiology of TBI. Tauroursodeoxycholic acid (TUDCA), a hydrophilic bile acid, has been reported to act as an ER stress inhibitor and chemical chaperone and to have the potential to attenuate apoptosis and inflammation. To study the effects of TUDCA on brain injury, we subjected mice to TBI with a controlled cortical impact (CCI) device. Using western blotting, we first examined TBI-induced changes in the expression levels of GRP78, an ER stress marker, p-PERK, PERK, p-eIF2a, eIF2a, ATF4, p-Akt, Akt, Pten, Bax, Bcl-2, Caspase-12 and CHOP, as well as changes in the mRNA levels of Akt, GRP78, Caspase-12 and CHOP using RT-PCR. Neuronal cell death was assessed by a terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT)-mediated dUTP nick end-labeling (TUNEL) assay, and CHOP expression in neuronal cells was detected by double-immunofluorescence staining. Neurological and motor deficits were assessed by modified neurological severity scores (mNSS) and beam balance and beam walking tests, and brain water content was also assessed. Our results indicated that ER stress peaked at 72 h after TBI and that TUDCA abolished ER stress and inhibited p-PERK, p-eIF2a, ATF4, Pten, Caspase-12 and CHOP expression levels. Moreover, our results show that TUDCA also improved neurological function and alleviated brain oedema. Additionally, TUDCA increased p-Akt expression and the Bcl-2/Bax ratio. However, the administration of the Akt inhibitor MK2206 or siRNA targeting of Akt abolished the beneficial effects of TUDCA. Taken together, our results indicate that TUDCA may attenuate early brain injury via Akt pathway activation.
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spelling pubmed-54984742017-07-20 Administration of Tauroursodeoxycholic Acid Attenuates Early Brain Injury via Akt Pathway Activation Sun, Dongdong Gu, Gang Wang, Jianhao Chai, Yan Fan, Yueshan Yang, Mengchen Xu, Xin Gao, Weiwei Li, Fei Yin, Dongpei Zhou, Shuai Chen, Xin Zhang, Jianning Front Cell Neurosci Neuroscience Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of trauma-induced mortality and disability, and emerging studies have shown that endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress plays an important role in the pathophysiology of TBI. Tauroursodeoxycholic acid (TUDCA), a hydrophilic bile acid, has been reported to act as an ER stress inhibitor and chemical chaperone and to have the potential to attenuate apoptosis and inflammation. To study the effects of TUDCA on brain injury, we subjected mice to TBI with a controlled cortical impact (CCI) device. Using western blotting, we first examined TBI-induced changes in the expression levels of GRP78, an ER stress marker, p-PERK, PERK, p-eIF2a, eIF2a, ATF4, p-Akt, Akt, Pten, Bax, Bcl-2, Caspase-12 and CHOP, as well as changes in the mRNA levels of Akt, GRP78, Caspase-12 and CHOP using RT-PCR. Neuronal cell death was assessed by a terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT)-mediated dUTP nick end-labeling (TUNEL) assay, and CHOP expression in neuronal cells was detected by double-immunofluorescence staining. Neurological and motor deficits were assessed by modified neurological severity scores (mNSS) and beam balance and beam walking tests, and brain water content was also assessed. Our results indicated that ER stress peaked at 72 h after TBI and that TUDCA abolished ER stress and inhibited p-PERK, p-eIF2a, ATF4, Pten, Caspase-12 and CHOP expression levels. Moreover, our results show that TUDCA also improved neurological function and alleviated brain oedema. Additionally, TUDCA increased p-Akt expression and the Bcl-2/Bax ratio. However, the administration of the Akt inhibitor MK2206 or siRNA targeting of Akt abolished the beneficial effects of TUDCA. Taken together, our results indicate that TUDCA may attenuate early brain injury via Akt pathway activation. Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5498474/ /pubmed/28729823 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2017.00193 Text en Copyright © 2017 Sun, Gu, Wang, Chai, Fan, Yang, Xu, Gao, Li, Yin, Zhou, Chen and Zhang. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Neuroscience
Sun, Dongdong
Gu, Gang
Wang, Jianhao
Chai, Yan
Fan, Yueshan
Yang, Mengchen
Xu, Xin
Gao, Weiwei
Li, Fei
Yin, Dongpei
Zhou, Shuai
Chen, Xin
Zhang, Jianning
Administration of Tauroursodeoxycholic Acid Attenuates Early Brain Injury via Akt Pathway Activation
title Administration of Tauroursodeoxycholic Acid Attenuates Early Brain Injury via Akt Pathway Activation
title_full Administration of Tauroursodeoxycholic Acid Attenuates Early Brain Injury via Akt Pathway Activation
title_fullStr Administration of Tauroursodeoxycholic Acid Attenuates Early Brain Injury via Akt Pathway Activation
title_full_unstemmed Administration of Tauroursodeoxycholic Acid Attenuates Early Brain Injury via Akt Pathway Activation
title_short Administration of Tauroursodeoxycholic Acid Attenuates Early Brain Injury via Akt Pathway Activation
title_sort administration of tauroursodeoxycholic acid attenuates early brain injury via akt pathway activation
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5498474/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28729823
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2017.00193
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