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Cerebral Hypoxia-Ischemia Stimulates Cytokine Gene Expression in Perinatal Rats

Jerzy Szaflarski, MD; Douglas Burtrum, BA Faye S. Silverstein, MD

From the Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Correspondence to Dr F.S. Silverstein, Room 8301, MSRB III Bldg, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0646. E-mail faye.silverstein@umich.edu.

Background and Purpose We tested the hypothesis that cerebral hypoxia-ischemia selectively stimulates interleukin-1ß (IL-1ß) and tumor necrosis factor-{alpha} (TNF-{alpha}) gene expression in brain regions susceptible to irreversible injury in perinatal rats.

Methods To elicit focal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, 7-day-old perinatal (P7) rats were subjected to right carotid artery ligation followed by 3 hours of 8% O2 exposure and were killed 0 to 48 hours after hypoxia. Regional tissue IL-1ß and TNF-{alpha} mRNA content were measured by reverse transcription followed by polymerase chain reaction amplification (RT-PCR) in samples prepared from cortex and hippocampus of the lesioned and contralateral hemispheres. cDNAs were amplified with primers specific for IL-1ß, TNF-{alpha}, and the housekeeping gene glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH), which served as an internal control. The RT-PCR products were subjected to Southern blot analysis and hybridized with 32P-labeled gene-specific probes. Radioactivity was measured in excised bands, and results were normalized on the basis of levels of GAPDH expression.

Results In unlesioned P7 brain, IL-1ß mRNA was barely detectable. In lesioned forebrain, there was a marked, transient stimulation of IL-1ß mRNA expression, peaking at 4 hours after hypoxia. Hybridization signal was increased 16- to 30-fold over values from contralateral hemisphere samples in three independent assays (P<.05 comparing values in left and right cortex and in left and right hippocampus with the Kruskal-Wallis ranking test); by 24 hours after hypoxia, levels returned to normal. Similar transient increases in TNF-{alpha} mRNA expression were detected. In a closely related model of perinatal brain injury elicited by focal intracerebral N-methyl-D-aspartate injection, there was a corresponding acute stimulation of IL-1ß and TNF-{alpha} mRNA expression at 4 hours after injection.

Conclusions These results suggest that IL-1ß and TNF-{alpha} may play important roles in the response of the developing brain to acute hypoxic-ischemic injury.


Key Words: interleukins • excitotoxicity • newborn • tumor necrosis factor • rats




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