ArticleNeural regeneration research2021
Enriched environment boosts the post-stroke recovery of neurological function by promoting autophagy.
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- Enriched environment inhibits GLT-1 ubiquitination by downregulating SMURF1 to attenuate ischemic brain injury induced excitotoxicity.Cell & bioscience · 2025Article
- Environmental enrichment: a neurostimulatory approach to aging and ischemic stroke recovery and rehabilitation.Biogerontology · 2025Review
- Relationship between enriched environment and neurodegeneration: a review from mechanism to therapy.Clinical epigenetics · 2025Review
- Anesthesia-Induced Ferroptosis: Bidirectional Regulation and Molecular Mechanisms in Cardio-Cerebral Injury.Journal of inflammation research · 2025Review
- Environmental Enrichment in Stroke Research: an Update.Translational stroke research · 2024Review
- Autophagy Genes and Otitis Media Outcomes.Clinics and practice · 2024Review
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- Post-Stroke Brain Health Monitoring and Optimization: A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Enriched Environment Attenuates Ferroptosis after Cerebral Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury via the HIF-1Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity · 2023Article
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- Demand Coupling Drives Neurodegeneration: A Model of Age-Related Cognitive Decline and Dementia.Cells · 2022Review
- Stellate ganglion block reduces inflammation and improves neurological function in diabetic rats during ischemic stroke.Neural regeneration research · 2022Article
- Myeloperoxidase: a new target for the treatment of stroke?Neural regeneration research · 2022Review
- Effect of prior exposure to enriched environment on cellular apoptosis after experimental stroke.Molecular biology reports · 2022Article
- The role of enriched environment in neural development and repair.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2022Review
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Abstract
Autophagy is crucial for maintaining cellular homeostasis, and can be activated after ischemic stroke. It also participates in nerve injury and repair. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether an enriched environment has neuroprotective effects through affecting autophagy. A Sprague-Dawley rat model of transient ischemic stroke was prepared by occlusion of the middle cerebral artery followed by reperfusion. One week after surgery, these rats were raised in either a standard environment or an enriched environment for 4 successive weeks. The enriched environment increased Beclin-1 expression and the LC3-II/LC3-I ratio in the autophagy/lysosomal pathway in the penumbra of middle cerebral artery-occluded rats. Enriched environment-induced elevations in autophagic activity were mainly observed in neurons. Enriched environment treatment also promoted the fusion of autophagosomes with lysosomes, enhanced the lysosomal activities of lysosomal-associated membrane protein 1, cathepsin B, and cathepsin D, and reduced the expression of ubiquitin and p62. After 4 weeks of enriched environment treatment, neurological deficits and neuronal death caused by middle cerebral artery occlusion/reperfusion were significantly alleviated, and infarct volume was significantly reduced. These findings suggest that neuronal autophagy is likely the neuroprotective mechanism by which an enriched environment promotes recovery from ischemic stroke. This study was approved by the Animal Ethics Committee of the Kunming University of Science and Technology, China (approval No. 5301002013855) on March 1, 2019.
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