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ArticleJournal of neuroinflammation2021

Repeated neonatal sevoflurane induced neurocognitive impairment through NF-κB-mediated pyroptosis.

Jing Dai, Xue Li, Cai Wang, Shuxin Gu, Lei Dai, Jingyun Zhang, Yunxia Fan, Jing Wu

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Article in Journal of neuroinflammation, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jing DaiDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Affiliated Jintan Hospital of Jiangsu University, Changzhou, 213200, China.
Xue LiDepartment of Anesthesiology, Affiliated Jintan Hospital of Jiangsu University, Changzhou, 213200, China.
Cai WangDepartment of Anesthesiology, Affiliated Jintan Hospital of Jiangsu University, Changzhou, 213200, China.
Shuxin GuDepartment of Anesthesiology, Affiliated Jintan Hospital of Jiangsu University, Changzhou, 213200, China.
Lei DaiDepartment of Anesthesiology, Affiliated Jintan Hospital of Jiangsu University, Changzhou, 213200, China.
Jingyun ZhangDepartment of Anesthesiology, Affiliated Jintan Hospital of Jiangsu University, Changzhou, 213200, China.
Yunxia FanDepartment of Anesthesiology, Affiliated Jintan Hospital of Jiangsu University, Changzhou, 213200, China. fanyinjia@aliyun.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4488-2511
Jing WuDepartment of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450052, China. boaz.jing@gmail.com.
Jiangsu University · CNFirst Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University · CN

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 81901944Science and Technology Plan Project of Changzhou CJ20200001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundExposure to general anesthesia (GA) during the postnatal period is associated with neuroinflammation and long-term neurocognitive impairment in preclinical and clinical settings. Pyroptosis is a novel type of programmed cell death that, along with inflammation, has been found to play an important role in the mechanism of diverse neurological diseases. However, its roles in GA-induced neuroinflammation and neurocognitive impairment in the developing brain have not been investigated.

methodsRats at postnatal day 6 or primary hippocampal neurons at 9 days in vitro received 3% sevoflurane for 2 h daily for three consecutive days. A pharmacological inhibitor of nuclear factor (NF)-κB (BAY 11-7082) was administered to suppress NF-κB activation. Histological and biochemical analyses were performed to assess the pyroptosis as well as neuronal and synaptic damage both in vivo and in vitro. In addition, behavioral tests were performed to evaluate neurocognitive ability in rats.

resultsRepeated sevoflurane exposure activated NF-κB-mediated pyroptosis and neuroinflammation in the hippocampus in developing rats, damaged the neuronal morphology and synaptic integrity, and induced neurocognitive impairment in rats. BAY 11-7082 treatment suppressed the activation of pyroptosis, attenuated the neuronal and synaptic damage, and ameliorated the neurocognitive impairment induced by repeated sevoflurane administration to developing rats.

conclusionsRepeated sevoflurane GA may induce neuroinflammation and neurocognitive impairment in developing rats via the activation of NF-κB-mediated pyroptosis. Our findings characterize a novel role of pyroptosis as a potential therapeutic target in neuroinflammation after repeated neonatal GA.

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Anesthetics, InhalationAnimalsCell SurvivalCognitive DysfunctionHippocampusNeuroinflammatory DiseasesNeuronsNF-kappa BPyroptosisRatsRats, Sprague-DawleySevofluraneAnesthetics, InhalationNF-kappa BSevofluraneGeneral anesthesiaNeurocognitionNeuroinflammationNF-κBPyroptosis

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