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Pan L, Tang WD, Wang K, Fang QF, Liu MR, Wu ZX, Wang Y, Cui SL, Hu G, Hou TJ, Hu WW, Chen Z, Zhang XN. Novel Caspase-1 inhibitor CZL80 improves neurological function in mice after progressive ischemic stroke within a long therapeutic time-window. Acta Pharmacol Sin 2022; 43:2817-2827. [PMID: 35501362 PMCID: PMC9622895 DOI: 10.1038/s41401-022-00913-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2021] [Accepted: 04/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Progressive ischemic stroke (PIS) is featured by progressive neurological dysfunction after ischemia. Ischemia-evoked neuroinflammation is implicated in the progressive brain injury after cerebral ischemia, while Caspase-1, an active component of inflammasome, exaggerates ischemic brain injury. Current Caspase-1 inhibitors are inadequate in safety and druggability. Here, we investigated the efficacy of CZL80, a novel Caspase-1 inhibitor, in mice with PIS. Mice and Caspase-1-/- mice were subjected to photothrombotic (PT)-induced cerebral ischemia. CZL80 (10, 30 mg·kg-1·d-1, i.p.) was administered for one week after PT onset. The transient and the progressive neurological dysfunction (as foot faults in the grid-walking task and forelimb symmetry in the cylinder task) was assessed on Day1 and Day4-7, respectively, after PT onset. Treatment with CZL80 (30 mg/kg) during Day1-7 significantly reduced the progressive, but not the transient neurological dysfunction. Furthermore, we showed that CZL80 administered on Day4-7, when the progressive neurological dysfunction occurred, produced significant beneficial effects against PIS, suggesting an extended therapeutic time-window. CZL80 administration could improve the neurological function even as late as Day43 after PT. In Caspase-1-/- mice with PIS, the beneficial effects of CZL80 were abolished. We found that Caspase-1 was upregulated during Day4-7 after PT and predominantly located in activated microglia, which was coincided with the progressive neurological deficits, and attenuated by CZL80. We showed that CZL80 administration did not reduce the infarct volume, but significantly suppressed microglia activation in the peri-infarct cortex, suggesting the involvement of microglial inflammasome in the pathology of PIS. Taken together, this study demonstrates that Caspase-1 is required for the progressive neurological dysfunction in PIS. CZL80 is a promising drug to promote the neurological recovery in PIS by inhibiting Caspase-1 within a long therapeutic time-window.
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- Ling Pan
- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
- Key Laboratory of Neuropharmacology and Translational Medicine of Zhejiang Province, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, 310053, China
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- Department of Pharmachemistry, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine and Life Sciences, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, 210029, China
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- Department of Pharmachemistry, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
- Key Laboratory of Neuropharmacology and Translational Medicine of Zhejiang Province, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, 310053, China.
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
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Dynamic cerebral blood flow changes with FOXOs stimulation are involved in neuronal damage associated with high-altitude cerebral edema in mice. Brain Res 2022; 1790:147987. [PMID: 35724762 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2022.147987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2022] [Revised: 05/21/2022] [Accepted: 06/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Acute hypobaric hypoxia (AHH) exposure causes altitude mountain sickness (AMS) and life-threatening high altitude cerebral edema (HACE). Despite decades of research, the role of cerebral blood flow (CBF) changes in the pathophysiology of severe AMS remains unclear. The current study evaluated spatiotemporal responses of CBF associated with HACE in mice during the early stages of ascent to high altitudes. First, mice were exposed to AHH to test their tolerance to increasing altitudes (3000-8000 m). Because of its significant influence on both locomotor activity and rotarod behavior tests in mice, further observations were initiated at an altitude of 6000 m to investigate the specific pathophysiology of AMS. Compared with controls, laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) revealed a significant decrease in CBF during the early stage (0.5-24 h) at an altitude of 6000 m that was accompanied by a significant increase in brain water content (BWC). Moreover, observations of brain lipid oxidative damage and oxidative stress during the early stage of AHH exposure revealed DNA and cellular damage in cortical and hippocampal regions. Transcriptome profiling of the hippocampus revealed upregulation of forkhead box transcription factors. Similarly, western blot assays revealed upregulation of FOXO1a, FOXO3a, caspase-3 and Bax, and downregulation of Bcl-2, indicating a temporal influence of AHH on mitochondrial function and neuronal apoptosis. Thus, we found that the pathophysiology of HACE occurred with dynamic CBF changes, which triggered oxidative stress and neuronal damage in the mouse brain after AHH exposure. Our findings provide potential strategies for treatment of AHH in the future.
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Galectin-1 Contributes to Vascular Remodeling and Blood Flow Recovery After Cerebral Ischemia in Mice. Transl Stroke Res 2021; 13:160-170. [PMID: 33973144 DOI: 10.1007/s12975-021-00913-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2020] [Revised: 11/28/2020] [Accepted: 04/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Galectin-1 is found in the vasculature and has been confirmed to promote angiogenesis in several cancer models. Furthermore, galectin-1 has been demonstrated to improve the recovery of cerebral ischemia. However, whether vascular remodeling contributes to this improvement is still unknown. In the present study, photochemical cerebral ischemia was induced in both galectin-1-treated (2 μg/day, i.c.v, 3 days) and galectin-1 knockout mice. Laser speckle imaging and immunofluorescent staining demonstrated that circulation and vascular remodeling in the ischemic cortex were improved by galectin-1 treatment but disrupted in galectin-1 knockout mice. Western blot analysis showed that the expression of matrix metallopeptidase-9 and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) was regulated by galectin-1 in vivo. To determine how galectin-1 influences endothelial cells, the expression of galectin-1 in bEnd.3 cells was increased by transfection with an expression plasmid and knocked down by siRNA. As demonstrated by quantitative RT-PCR and western blot analysis, the expression of metallopeptidase-9, VEGF, and VEGF receptors was upregulated by galectin-1 overexpression but downregulated after galectin-1 knockdown. Flow cytometry, Transwell assay, and capillary-like tube formation assay were performed on cells after gene manipulation as well as cells treated by exogenous galectin-1 after anoxia. It demonstrated that galectin-1 potentiated the cell proliferation, migration capacity, and tube formation ability. Taken together, these data suggest that by targeting vascular remodeling, galectin-1 contributes to the restoration of blood flow, which promotes the recovery of mice after cerebral ischemic insults.
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Portörő I, Mukli P, Kocsis L, Hermán P, Caccia D, Perrella M, Mozzarelli A, Ronda L, Mathe D, Eke A. Model-based evaluation of the microhemodynamic effects of PEGylated HBOC molecules in the rat brain cortex: a laser speckle imaging study. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2020; 11:4150-4175. [PMID: 32923034 PMCID: PMC7449705 DOI: 10.1364/boe.388089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2020] [Revised: 04/24/2020] [Accepted: 05/04/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers (HBOCs) were developed with the aim of substituting transfusions in emergency events. However, they exhibit adverse events, such as nitric oxide (NO) scavenging, vasoactivity, enhanced platelet aggregation, presently hampering their clinical application. The impact of two prototypical PEGylated HBOCs, Euro-PEG-Hb and PEG-HbO2, endowed by different oxygen affinities and hydrodynamic volumes, was assessed on the cerebrocortical parenchymal microhemodynamics, and extravasation through the blood-brain-barrier (BBB) by laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) method and near-infrared (NIR) imaging, respectively. By evaluating voxel-wise cerebrocortical red blood cell velocity, non-invasively for its mean kernel-wise value ( v ¯ RBC ), and model-derived kernel-wise predictions for microregional tissue hematocrit, THt, and fractional change in hematocrit-corrected vascular resistance, R', as measures of potential adverse effects (enhanced platelet aggregation and vasoactivity, respectively) we found i) no significant difference between tested HBOCs in the systemic and microregional parameters, and in the relative spatial dispersion of THt, and R' as additional measures of HBOC-related adverse effects, and ii) no extravasation through BBB by Euro-PEG-Hb. We conclude that Euro-PEG-Hb does not exhibit adverse effects in the brain microcirculation that could be directly attributed to NO scavenging.
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- István Portörő
- Institute of Translational Medicine, Semmelweis University, Hungary
- These authors contributed equally to this work
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, Semmelweis University, Hungary
- Department of Physiology, Semmelweis University, Hungary
- These authors contributed equally to this work
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, Semmelweis University, Hungary
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Science and Technology, University of Milan, Italy
- Department of Food and Drug, University of Parma, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Science and Technology, University of Milan, Italy
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- Department of Food and Drug, University of Parma, Italy
- Institute of Biophysics, National Research Council, Pisa, Italy
- Biopharmanet-TEC, University of Parma, Italy
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- Institute of Biophysics, National Research Council, Pisa, Italy
- Biopharmanet-TEC, University of Parma, Italy
- Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- CROmed Research and Service Centers Ltd., Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, Semmelweis University, Hungary
- Department of Physiology, Semmelweis University, Hungary
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Trotman-Lucas M, Wong R, Allan SM, Gibson CL. Improved reperfusion following alternative surgical approach for experimental stroke in mice. F1000Res 2020; 9:188. [PMID: 32477496 PMCID: PMC7217225 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.22594.2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/30/2020] [Indexed: 03/29/2024] Open
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Background: Following ischemic stroke, recanalisation and restoration of blood flow to the affected area of the brain is critical and directly correlates with patient recovery. In vivo models of ischemic stroke show high variability in outcomes, which may be due to variability in reperfusion. We previously reported that a surgical refinement in the middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) model of stroke, via repair of the common carotid artery (CCA), removes the reliance on the Circle of Willis for reperfusion and reduced infarct variability. Here we further assess this refined surgical approach on reperfusion characteristics following transient MCAO in mice. Methods: Mice underwent 60 min of MCAO, followed by either CCA repair or ligation at reperfusion. All mice underwent laser speckle contrast imaging at baseline, 24 h and 48 h post-MCAO. Results: CCA ligation reduced cerebral perfusion in the ipsilateral hemisphere compared to baseline (102.3 ± 4.57%) at 24 h (85.13 ± 16.09%; P < 0.01) and 48 h (75.04 ± 12.954%; P < 0.001) post-MCAO. Repair of the CCA returned perfusion to baseline (94.152 ± 2.44%) levels and perfusion was significantly improved compared to CCA ligation at both 24 h (102.83 ± 8.41%; P < 0.05) and 48 h (102.13 ± 9.34%; P < 0.001) post-MCAO. Conclusions: Our findings show CCA repair, an alternative surgical approach for MCAO, results in improved ischemic hemisphere perfusion during the acute phase.
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- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK
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Trotman-Lucas M, Wong R, Allan SM, Gibson CL. Improved reperfusion following alternative surgical approach for experimental stroke in mice. F1000Res 2020; 9:188. [PMID: 32477496 PMCID: PMC7217225 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.22594.3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Background: Following ischemic stroke, recanalisation and restoration of blood flow to the affected area of the brain is critical and directly correlates with patient recovery. In vivo models of ischemic stroke show high variability in outcomes, which may be due to variability in reperfusion. We previously reported that a surgical refinement in the middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) model of stroke, via repair of the common carotid artery (CCA), removes the reliance on the Circle of Willis for reperfusion and reduced infarct variability. Here we further assess this refined surgical approach on reperfusion characteristics following transient MCAO in mice. Methods: Mice underwent 60 min of MCAO, followed by either CCA repair or ligation at reperfusion. All mice underwent laser speckle contrast imaging at baseline, 24 h and 48 h post-MCAO. Results: CCA ligation reduced cerebral perfusion in the ipsilateral hemisphere compared to baseline (102.3 ± 4.57%) at 24 h (85.13 ± 16.09%; P < 0.01) and 48 h (75.04 ± 12.954%; P < 0.001) post-MCAO. Repair of the CCA returned perfusion to baseline (94.152 ± 2.44%) levels and perfusion was significantly improved compared to CCA ligation at both 24 h (102.83 ± 8.41%; P < 0.05) and 48 h (102.13 ± 9.34%; P < 0.001) post-MCAO. Conclusions: Our findings show CCA repair, an alternative surgical approach for MCAO, results in improved ischemic hemisphere perfusion during the acute phase.
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- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK
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Soleimanzad H, Smekens F, Peyronnet J, Juchaux M, Lefebvre O, Bouville D, Magnan C, Gurden H, Pain F. Multiple speckle exposure imaging for the study of blood flow changes induced by functional activation of barrel cortex and olfactory bulb in mice. NEUROPHOTONICS 2019; 6:015008. [PMID: 30854406 PMCID: PMC6400140 DOI: 10.1117/1.nph.6.1.015008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2018] [Accepted: 02/13/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Speckle contrast imaging allows in vivo imaging of relative blood flow changes. Multiple exposure speckle imaging (MESI) is more accurate than the standard single-exposure method since it allows separating the contribution of the static and moving scatters of the recorded speckle patterns. MESI requires experimental validation on phantoms prior to in vivo experiments to ensure the proper calibration of the system and the robustness of the model. The data analysis relies on the calculation of the speckle contrast for each exposure and a subsequent nonlinear fit to the MESI model to extract the scatterers correlation time and the relative contribution of moving scatters. We have designed two multichannel polydimethylsiloxane chips to study the influence of multiple and static scattering on the accuracy of MESI quantitation. We also propose a method based on standard C++ libraries to implement a computationally efficient analysis of the MESI data. Finally, the system was used to obtain in vivo hemodynamic data on two distinct sensory areas of the mice brain: the barrel cortex and the olfactory bulb.
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- Haleh Soleimanzad
- IMNC, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
- BFA, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
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- IMNC, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
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- IMNC, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
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- IMNC, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
- C2N, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau, France
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- IMNC, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
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- C2N, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau, France
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- BFA, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
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- IMNC, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
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