Protection of ischemic post conditioning against transient focal ischemia-induced brain damage is associated with inhibition of neuroinflammation via modulation of TLR2 and TLR4 pathways

Journal of Neuroinflammation

Yuhong Zhu³  Tianfei Luo¹  Hao Zha²  Chunyun Wu²  Li Yang²  Pengfei Ge⁴  Ying Wang³ 

[1] Department of Neurology, First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun 130021, China;Department of Histology and Embryology, Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650031, China;Department of Neurology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650031, China;Department of Neurosurgery, First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun 130021, China

关键词: Neuroinflammation;    TLR4;    TLR2;    Cerebral ischemia/reperfusion;    Ischemic postconditioning;   

Others  :  825834
DOI  :  10.1186/1742-2094-11-15

 received in 2013-12-03, accepted in 2014-01-16,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background and purpose

Ischemic postconditioning has been demonstrated to be a protective procedure to brain damage caused by transient focal ischemia/reperfusion. However, it is elusive whether the protection of postconditioning against brain damage and neuroinflammation is via regulating TLR2 and TLR4 pathways. In the present study, we examined the protection of ischemic postconditioning performed immediately prior to the recovery of cerebral blood supply on brain damage caused by various duration of ischemia and tested the hypothesis that its protection is via inhibition of neuroinflammation by modulating TLR2/TLR4 pathways.

Methods

Brain damage in rats was induced by using the middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) model. Ischemic postconditioning consisting of fivecycles of ten seconds of ischemia and reperfusion was performed immediately following theischemic episode Theduration of administration of ischemic postconditioning was examined by comparing its effects on infarction volume, cerebral edema and neurological function in 2, 3, 4, 4.5and 6 hour ischemia groups. The protective mechanism of ischemic postconditioning was investigated by comparing its effects on apoptosis, production of the neurotoxic cytokine IL-1β and the transcription and expression of TLR2, TLR4 and IRAK4 in the 2 and 4.5 hour ischemia groups.

Results

Ischemic postconditioning significantly attenuated cerebral infarction, cerebral edema and neurological dysfunction in ischemia groups of up to 4 hours duration, but not in 4.5and 6 hour ischemia groups. It also inhibited apoptosis, production of IL-1β, abnormal transcription and expression of TLR2, TLR4 and IRAK4 in the 2 hour ischemia group, but not in the 4.5 hour ischemia group.

Conclusions

Ischemic postconditioning protected brain damage caused by 2, 3 and 4 hours of ischemia, but not by 4.5 and 6 hours of ischemia. The protection of ischemic postconditioning is associated with its inhibition of neuroinflammation via inhibition of TLR2 and TLR4 pathways.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Wang et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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