Neuroprotective effect of human placental extract on hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in neonatal rats
- Authors
- Park, Jee Yoon; Byeon, Jung Hye; Park, Sung-Won; Eun, So-Hee; Chae, Kyu Young; Eun, Baik-Lin
- Issue Date
- 1월-2013
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER
- Keywords
- Cerebral ischemia; Neuroprotection; Human placental extract; Newborn
- Citation
- BRAIN & DEVELOPMENT, v.35, no.1, pp.68 - 74
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- BRAIN & DEVELOPMENT
- Volume
- 35
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 68
- End Page
- 74
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/104261
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.braindev.2012.01.009
- ISSN
- 0387-7604
- Abstract
- We investigated the neuroprotective effects of human placental extracts (HPE) and the effects of HPE on recovery of cognitive and behavioral function on hypoxic ischemic brain injury in the newborn rat. The right common carotid arteries of 7-day-old rats were coagulated, and rats were then exposed to 8% oxygen. Immediately before and again at three times after the hypoxia ischemia (pre-treatment group), and immediately after and three times again after hypoxia ischemia (post-treatment group), the rats were intraperitoneally injected with HPE (0.1, 0.25, or 0.5 mL/10 g/dose). No-treatment rats received saline only. On postnatal day 12, brains were removed and gross morphological damage was evaluated. To quantify the severity of brain injury, bilateral cross-sectional areas of the anterior commissural and posterior hippocampal levels were analyzed with NIH Image. Assessments of the open field activity levels at 2, 4, 6 and 8 week and, the Morris water maze test at 8 weeks after hypoxia ischemia were carried out according to standard methods. HPE pre-treatment decreased the incidence of liquefactive cerebral infarction, at an optimally neuroprotective dose of 0.5 mL/10 g/dose (P < 0.05). In the Morris water maze test, the group injected with HPE at 0.5 mL/10 g/dose concentration showed shorter escape latencies than the no-treatment group (P < 0.05). These findings support a protective effect of the HPE treatment on neuronal integrity and cognitive function following hypoxic ischemic brain injury. Injected at an appropriate dose prior to exposure, HPE may significantly reduce or prevent hypoxic-ischemic injury in the immature brain. (C) 2012 The Japanese Society of Child Neurology. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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