ArticleInflammation2018
Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) Provides Neuroprotection in Traumatic Brain Injury Models via Activating Nrf2-ARE Signaling.
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- The More, the Better: High-Dose Omega-3 Fatty Acids Improve Behavioural and Molecular Outcomes in Preclinical Models in Mild Brain Injury.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2021Pooled it
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- Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Alzheimer's Disease: Toward a New Understanding of Neuroprotective Mechanisms and Intervention Strategies.Marine drugs · 2026Review
- Elovanoid neuroprotection targets cell transcriptomics and proteomics to sustain synaptic integrity after brain injury.Communications biology · 2026Article
- FADS1 contributes to anesthesia/surgery-induced cognitive impairment by aggravating omega-6 fatty acid metabolic disruption in aged mice.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2026Article
- Neuroprotective effect of Continentalic acid by targeting NF-κB/Bcl-2 and oxidative stress signaling in traumatic brain injury in male BALB/c mice.Molecular biology reports · 2025Article
- The multifaceted roles of fatty acids and their dysregulation in obese mothers: potential implications for infant development.Nutrition & metabolism · 2025Review
- Dietary Intake of n-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Prior to a Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Demonstrates a Dose-Response Effect for Neuroprotective Benefits in Male C57BL/6 Mice.Current developments in nutrition · 2025Article
- Neuroprotective effects of Saxagliptin in traumatic brain injury: ameliorating oxidative stress, neuroinflammation, and apoptosis.Metabolic brain disease · 2025Article
- Severity of Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Depends on Microglial Heme Oxygenase-1 and Carbon Monoxide.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025Article
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- Impact of fish oil supplementation on plasma levels of highly unsaturated fatty acid-containing lipid classes and molecular species in American football athletes.Nutrition & metabolism · 2024Article
- Role of antioxidative activity in the docosahexaenoic acid's enteroprotective effect in the indomethacin-induced small intestinal injury model.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2024Article
- Maternal supplementation with n-3 fatty acids affects placental lipid metabolism, inflammation, oxidative stress, the endocannabinoid system, and the neonate cytokine concentrations in dairy cows.Journal of animal science and biotechnology · 2024Article
- Semaglutide alleviates early brain injury following subarachnoid hemorrhage by suppressing ferroptosis and neuroinflammation via SIRT1 pathway.American journal of translational research · 2024Article
- n-3 PUFA ameliorate functional outcomes following repetitive mTBI in theFrontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
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- DHA supplementation and pregnancy complications.Journal of translational medicine · 2023Review
- Docosahexaenoic Acid as Master Regulator of Cellular Antioxidant Defenses: A Systematic Review.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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Abstract
In this study, we explored the neuroprotective effects of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in traumatic brain injury (TBI) models. In this study, we first confirmed that DHA was neuroprotective against TBI via the NSS test and Morris water maze experiment. Western blot was conducted to identify the expression of Bax, caspase-3, and Bcl-2. And the cell apoptosis of the TBI models was validated by TUNEL staining. Relationships between nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2-antioxidant response element (Nrf2-ARE) pathway-related genes and DHA were explored by RT-PCR and Western blot. Rats of the DHA group performed remarkably better than those of the TBI group in both NSS test and water maze experiment. DHA conspicuously promoted the expression of Bcl-2 and diminished that of cleaved caspase-3 and Bax, indicating the anti-apoptotic role of DHA. Superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity and cortical malondialdehyde content, glutathione peroxidase (GPx) activity were renovated in rats receiving DHA treatment, implying that the neuroprotective influence of DHA was derived from lightening the oxidative stress caused by TBI. Moreover, immunofluorescence and Western blot experiments revealed that DHA facilitated the translocation of Nrf2 to the nucleus. DHA administration also notably increased the expression of the downstream factors NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase (NQO-1) and heme oxygenase 1(HO-1). DHA exerted neuroprotective influence on the TBI models, potentially through activating the Nrf2- ARE pathway.
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