Effects of nerve growth factor in experimental model of focal microgyria.
Childs Nerv Syst
; 27(12): 2117-22, 2011 Dec.
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| ID: mdl-21720818
ABSTRACT
AIM:
The effects on neural repair of intraparenchymal nerve growth factor (NGF) administration were evaluated in neonate Wistar rats with experimentally induced focal microgyria.METHODS:
A freezing focal polymicrogyric lesion was induced on the frontal cortex in 35 newborn Wistar rats on postnatal day 1. NGF was administered in 15 cases, with 20 pups as controls. Animals were sacrificed at 72 h and 7 days after NGF administration. Real-time PCR was used for the quantification of the expression of TrkA, p75, and doublecortin (DCX) at the level of the cortical lesion in seven different groups of animals control 72 h (n = 5), control 7 days (n = 5), microgyria 72 h (n = 5), microgyria 7 days (n = 5), microgyria + NGF 72 h (n = 5), microgyria + NGF 7 days (n = 5), and control + NGF (n = 5).RESULTS:
A significant increase in TrkA expression was found in the microgyria + NGF 7 days group compared to the others. TrkA upregulation was already visible 72 h after NGF administration. Unlike TrkA, p75 expression increased in animals subjected to the experimental focal microgyria and decreased markedly after NGF administration. DCX expression in injured animals was observed to increase strongly 7 days after NGF administration compared with other groups.CONCLUSIONS:
NGF administration interferes with neural repair mechanisms at the polymicrogyric lesion site by means of TrkA and DCX upregulation which possibly counteracts the process of apoptosis caused by the brain injury.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Regulação da Expressão Gênica no Desenvolvimento
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Fator de Crescimento Neural
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Malformações do Desenvolvimento Cortical
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Animals
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Childs Nerv Syst
Assunto da revista:
NEUROLOGIA
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PEDIATRIA
Ano de publicação:
2011
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Itália