TY - JOUR
T1 - In vivo optical imaging for evaluating the efficacy of edaravone after transient cerebral ischemia in mice
AU - Liu, Ning
AU - Shang, Jingwei
AU - Tian, Fengfeng
AU - Nishi, Hiroyoshi
AU - Abe, Koji
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partly supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) 21390267 and the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of Japan , and by Grants-in-Aid from the Research Committee of CNS Degenerative Diseases(Nakano I) , and grants (Itoyama Y, Imai T, Sobue G) from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan .
PY - 2011/6/23
Y1 - 2011/6/23
N2 - Detection and protection of apoptosis, autophagy and neurovascular unit (NVU) are essentially important in understanding and treatment for ischemic stroke patients. In this study, we have conducted an in vivo optical imaging for detecting apoptosis and activation of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), then evaluated the protective effect of 2 package types of free radical scavenger edaravone (A and B) on apoptosis, autophagy and NVU in mice after transient middle cerebral artery occlusion (tMCAO). As compared to vehicle treatment, edaravones A and B showed a significant improvement of clinical scores and infarct size at 48 h after 90 min of tMCAO with great reductions of in vivo fluorescent signal for MMPs and early apoptotic annexin V activations. Ex vivo imaging of MMPSense 680 or annexin V-Cy5.5 showed a fluorescent signal, while which was remarkably different between vehicle and edaravone groups, and colocalized with antibody for MMP-9 or annexin V. Edaravone A and B ameliorated the apoptotic neuronal cell death in immunohistochemistry, and activations of MMP-9 and aquaporin 4 with reducing autophagic activations of microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3 (LC3) in Western blot. In this study, edaravone in both packages showed a similar strong neuroprotection after cerebral ischemia, which was confirmed with in vivo and ex vivo optical imagings for MMPs and annexin V as well as reducing cerebral infarct, inhibiting apoptotic/autophagic mechanisms, and protecting a part of neurovascular unit.
AB - Detection and protection of apoptosis, autophagy and neurovascular unit (NVU) are essentially important in understanding and treatment for ischemic stroke patients. In this study, we have conducted an in vivo optical imaging for detecting apoptosis and activation of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), then evaluated the protective effect of 2 package types of free radical scavenger edaravone (A and B) on apoptosis, autophagy and NVU in mice after transient middle cerebral artery occlusion (tMCAO). As compared to vehicle treatment, edaravones A and B showed a significant improvement of clinical scores and infarct size at 48 h after 90 min of tMCAO with great reductions of in vivo fluorescent signal for MMPs and early apoptotic annexin V activations. Ex vivo imaging of MMPSense 680 or annexin V-Cy5.5 showed a fluorescent signal, while which was remarkably different between vehicle and edaravone groups, and colocalized with antibody for MMP-9 or annexin V. Edaravone A and B ameliorated the apoptotic neuronal cell death in immunohistochemistry, and activations of MMP-9 and aquaporin 4 with reducing autophagic activations of microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3 (LC3) in Western blot. In this study, edaravone in both packages showed a similar strong neuroprotection after cerebral ischemia, which was confirmed with in vivo and ex vivo optical imagings for MMPs and annexin V as well as reducing cerebral infarct, inhibiting apoptotic/autophagic mechanisms, and protecting a part of neurovascular unit.
KW - Apoptosis
KW - Autophagy
KW - Cerebral ischemia
KW - Edaravone
KW - In vivo imaging
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U2 - 10.1016/j.brainres.2011.04.038
DO - 10.1016/j.brainres.2011.04.038
M3 - Article
C2 - 21571257
AN - SCOPUS:79958249379
VL - 1397
SP - 66
EP - 75
JO - Molecular Brain Research
JF - Molecular Brain Research
SN - 0006-8993
ER -