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ArticleMolecular neurobiology2015

Cardiac Arrest Alters Regional Ubiquitin Levels in Association with the Blood-Brain Barrier Breakdown and Neuronal Damages in the Porcine Brain.

Hari S Sharma, Ranjana Patnaik, Aruna Sharma, José Vicente Lafuente, Adriana Miclescu, Lars Wiklund

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Article in Molecular neurobiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Hari S SharmaLaboratory of Cerebrovascular Research, Department of Surgical Sciences, Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Uppsala University, S-75185, Uppsala, Sweden, Sharma@surgsci.uu.se.
Ranjana Patnaik
Aruna Sharma
José Vicente Lafuente
Adriana Miclescu
Lars Wiklund
Uppsala University · SEUniversity of the Basque Country · ES

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The possibility that ubiquitin expression is altered in cardiac arrest-associated neuropathology was examined in a porcine model using immunohistochemical and biochemical methods. Our observations show that cardiac arrest induces progressive increase in ubiquitin expression in the cortex and hippocampus in a selective and specific manner as compared to corresponding control brains using enzyme-linked immunoassay technique (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)). Furthermore, immunohistochemical studies showed ubiquitin expression in the neurons exhibiting immunoreaction in the cytoplasm and karyoplasm of distorted or damaged cells. Separate Nissl and ubiquitin staining showed damaged and distorted neurons and in the same cortical region ubiquitin expression indicating that ubiquitin expression after cardiac arrest represents dying neurons. The finding that methylene blue treatment markedly induced neuroprotection following identical cardiac arrest and reduced ubiquitin expression strengthens this view. Taken together, our observations are the first to show that cardiac arrest enhanced ubiquitin expression in the brain that is related to the magnitude of neuronal injury and the finding that methylene blue reduced ubiquitin expression points to its role in cell damage, not reported earlier.

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Blood-Brain BarrierAnimalsAntioxidantsBrain StemCardiopulmonary ResuscitationCerebral CortexGene Expression RegulationHeart ArrestHippocampusMethylene BlueNerve Tissue ProteinsNeuronsProteasome Endopeptidase ComplexRandom AllocationSerum AlbuminSus scrofaAntioxidantsMethylene BlueNerve Tissue ProteinsProteasome Endopeptidase ComplexSerum AlbuminUbiquitin

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PMID26108181
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