ArticleBiological research2023
Electroacupuncture protective effects after cerebral ischemia are mediated through miR-219a inhibition.
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- Role and Mechanism of Microglia in White Matter Injury Recovery in Ischemic Stroke.Immunity, inflammation and disease · 2025Pooled it
- Meta-analysis with trial sequential analysis investigating the impact of adjunctive electroacupuncture therapy on vascular mild cognitive impairment.Translational psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Pressure pain threshold and perceived impact of pain differentially predict short-term and long-term pain reduction following acupuncture in fibromyalgia.Journal of integrative medicine · 2025Trial
- Astrocytic regulation in hippocampal CA2 mediates the impact of sleep deprivation on spatial working memory.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2026Article
- Acupuncture for Mild Cognitive Impairment in Vascular Parkinsonism: A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Trial Protocol.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2026Article
- Electroacupuncture treatment enhances synaptic plasticity in middle cerebral artery occlusion mice via the miR-670-3p/HMGB1 axis.Journal of the Chinese Medical Association : JCMA · 2025Article
- Electroacupuncture Preconditioning Ameliorates the Ischemic Microenvironment to Improve Long-Term Potentiation in Chronic Cerebral Hypoperfusion Rats With MGE Neural Progenitor Transplantation.Neural plasticity · 2025Article
- Electroacupuncture Pretreatment Reduces Ischemic Brain Injury by Inhibiting the Lactate Production and Its Derived Protein Lactylation Formation.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2025Article
- Resting-State fMRI Reveals the Neural Correlates of Acupuncture in the Treatment of Vascular Cognitive Impairment.Clinical interventions in aging · 2025Review
- The Impact of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy on Functional and Structural Plasticity in Rats With Spinal Cord Injury.Brain and behavior · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundElectroacupuncture (EA) is a complementary and alternative therapy which has shown protective effects on vascular cognitive impairment (VCI). However, the underlying mechanisms are not entirely understood.
methodsRat models of VCI were established with cerebral ischemia using occlusion of the middle cerebral artery or bilateral common carotid artery. The brain structure and function imaging were measured through animal MRI. miRNA expression was detected by chip and qPCR. Synaptic functional plasticity was detected using electrophysiological techniques.
resultsThis study demonstrated the enhancement of Regional Homogeneity (ReHo) activity of blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) signal in the entorhinal cortical (EC) and hippocampus (HIP) in response to EA treatment. miR-219a was selected and confirmed to be elevated in HIP and EC in VCI but decreased after EA. N-methyl-D-aspartic acid receptor1 (NMDAR1) was identified as the target gene of miR-219a. miR-219a regulated NMDAR-mediated autaptic currents, spontaneous excitatory postsynaptic currents (sEPSC), and long-term potentiation (LTP) of the EC-HIP CA1 circuit influencing synaptic plasticity. EA was able to inhibit miR-219a, enhancing synaptic plasticity of the EC-HIP CA1 circuit and increasing expression of NMDAR1 while promoting the phosphorylation of downstream calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII), improving overall learning and memory in VCI rat models.
conclusionInhibition of miR-219a ameliorates VCI by regulating NMDAR-mediated synaptic plasticity in animal models of cerebral ischemia.
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