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ArticleInternational neurourology journal2016

Pentoxifylline Alleviates Perinatal Hypoxic-Ischemia-Induced Short-term Memory Impairment by Suppressing Apoptosis in the Hippocampus of Rat Pups.

Je Hoon Park, Sung Eun Kim, Jun Jang Jin, Han Sung Choi, Chang Ju Kim, Il Gyu Ko

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Article in International neurourology journal, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Je Hoon ParkDepartment of Surgery, International St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, Catholic Kwandong University, Incheon, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-6930-3793
Sung Eun KimDepartment of Physiology, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-3742-0271
Jun Jang JinDepartment of Physiology, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-5594-5915
Han Sung ChoiDepartment of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-7477-5405
Chang Ju KimDepartment of Physiology, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-4749-5795
Il Gyu KoDepartment of Physiology, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-2696-6869
Kyung Hee University · KRCatholic Kwandong University International St. Mary's Hospital · KR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposePerinatal hypoxic-ischemic brain damage is a major cause of acute mortality and chronic neurologic morbidity in infants and children. We investigated the effects of pentoxifylline, a methylxanthine derivative and type-4 phosphodiesterase inhibitor, on short-term memory and apoptotic neuronal cell death in the hippocampus following perinatal hypoxic-ischemia in newborn rats.

methodsWe used a step-down avoidance task to evaluate short-term memory and 3ʹ-5ʹ-cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) assay to detect cAMP levels. We evaluated apoptosis using a terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) assay for evidence of DNA fragmentation, immunohistochemistry for caspase-3 levels, and western blot for Bcl-2 and Bax.

resultsPerinatal hypoxic-ischemic injury increased apoptotic cell death in the hippocampus, resulting in impaired short-term memory with decreased cAMP levels. Pentoxifylline treatment improved short-term memory by suppressing apoptotic cell death in the hippocampus with elevated cAMP levels.

conclusionsPentoxifylline ameliorated perinatal hypoxic-ischemia in rat pups. This alleviating effect could be ascribed to the inhibition apoptosis due to increased cAMP production by pentoxifylline.

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ApoptosisCyclic AMPHypoxia-IschemiaMemoryPentoxifyllinePhosphodiesterase-4 Inhibitors

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PMCPMC4932643
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