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ArticleScientific reports2018

Neonatal anesthesia exposure impacts brain microRNAs and their associated neurodevelopmental processes.

Daisy Lin, Jinyang Liu, Zihua Hu, James E Cottrell, Ira S Kass

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Daisy LinAnesthesiology Department, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA. daisy.lin@downstate.edu.
Jinyang LiuAnesthesiology Department, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Zihua HuCenter for Computational Research, New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA.
James E CottrellAnesthesiology Department, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Ira S KassAnesthesiology Department, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
State University of New York · USSUNY Downstate Health Sciences University · USUniversity at Buffalo, State University of New York · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

MicroRNAs (miRNAs), when subjected to environmental stimuli, can exhibit differential expression. As critical regulators of gene expression, differential miRNA expression has been implicated in numerous disorders of the nervous system. In this study, we focused on the effect of a general anesthetic, as an environmental stimulus, on miRNA expression of the developing brain. General anesthetics have potential long-lasting neurotoxic effects on the developing brain, resulting in behavioral changes in adulthood. We first carried out an unbiased profiling approach to examine the effect of single-episode neonatal general anesthetic, sevoflurance (sevo), exposure on miRNA expression of the brain. Neonatal sevo has a significant effect on the expression of specific miRNAs of the whole brain and the hippocampus that is both immediate - directly after neonatal treatment, as well as long-lasting - during adulthood. Functionally, neonatal sevo-associated miRNA gene-targets share potential neurodevelopmental pathways related to axon guidance, DNA transcription, protein phosphorylation and nervous system development. Our understanding on the role of miRNAs provides a putative epigenetic/molecular bridge that links neonatal general anesthetic's effect with its associated functional change.

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Age FactorsAnesthesia, GeneralAnesthetics, GeneralAnimalsAnimals, NewbornBrainFemaleGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMicroRNAsModels, AnimalSevofluraneTime FactorsAnesthetics, GeneralMicroRNAsSevoflurane

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PMID30006558
PMCPMC6045579
OpenAlexW2863792220

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