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ArticleMolecular brain2025

Sodium butyrate attenuates microglia-mediated neuroinflammation by modulating the TLR4/MyD88/NF-κB pathway and microbiome-gut-brain axis in cardiac arrest mice.

Jianfei Sun, Liping Lu, Yingtao Lian, Song Xu, Ying Zhu, Yanping Wu, Qianhui Lin, Jing Hou, Yinping Li, Zhui Yu

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Article in Molecular brain, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  2. ELAVL3 Exacerbates Brain Injury and Cognitive Dysfunction in Mice After Cardiac Arrest by Increasing S100B mRNA Stability to Promote Microglia Activation.Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Jianfei SunDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, No. 99 ZhangZhidong Road, Wuhan, 430060, Hubei, China.
Liping LuDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, No. 99 ZhangZhidong Road, Wuhan, 430060, Hubei, China.
Yingtao LianCentral Laboratory, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430060, China.
Song XuDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, No. 99 ZhangZhidong Road, Wuhan, 430060, Hubei, China.
Ying ZhuDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, No. 99 ZhangZhidong Road, Wuhan, 430060, Hubei, China.
Yanping WuDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, No. 99 ZhangZhidong Road, Wuhan, 430060, Hubei, China.
Qianhui LinDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, No. 99 ZhangZhidong Road, Wuhan, 430060, Hubei, China.
Jing HouDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, No. 99 ZhangZhidong Road, Wuhan, 430060, Hubei, China.
Yinping LiDepartment of Pathophysiology, Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Allergy and Immunology, Taikang Medical School (School of Basic Medical Sciences), Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430060, China.
Zhui YuDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, No. 99 ZhangZhidong Road, Wuhan, 430060, Hubei, China. yuzhui@whu.edu.cn.

Funding

Knowledge Innovation Program Project of Wuhan Municipal Science and Technology Bureau No. 2022020801010474National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 81772039Project of Healthcare Talent "Chutian Talent Program" in Hubei Province CZ2024020001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cardiac arrest (CA) is one of the most common illnesses worldwide. Post-CA brain injury (PCABI) is a major cause of death and poor recovery in CA patients and the current CA treatments are not very effective. The microbiome-gut-brain axis has been found to significantly affect brain ischemia injury. Furthermore, in ischemic stroke patients, short-chain fatty acids (SCFA), especially sodium butyrate (SB), have been observed to promote neuroprotective effects by modulating inflammatory response and microglial polarization in the cortex. However, the precise mechanism of SB on CA-induced injury remains elusive. Therefore, this research study established an oxygen-glucose deprivation and reoxygenation (OGD/R) model using BV-2 microglial and HT22 cells to simulate cerebral ischemia/reperfusion injury in vitro and a potassium chloride-induced CA mouse model to mimic CA in vivo. The data revealed that SB markedly improved neurological scores and reduced neuronal death and apoptosis. Moreover, it reduced M1 microglia and neuroinflammation in CA mice. In addition, SB increased intestinal integrity and alleviated systemic inflammation. The 16S rDNA sequencing analysis indicated that SB intervention mitigated CA-induced gut microbiota dysbiosis and SCFA depletion. It was also observed that CA mice's brain and OGD/R-exposed BV2 cells had substantially increased levels of MyD88, phosphorylated NF-κB p65, and TLR4 proteins, which were reduced after SB treatment. In summary, this study revealed that SB can protect against cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury by controlling microglia polarization and microbiome-gut-brain axis to inhibit brain inflammation via the TLR4/MyD88/NF-κB pathway.

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BrainBrain-Gut AxisButyric AcidGastrointestinal MicrobiomeHeart ArrestMicrogliaMyeloid Differentiation Factor 88Neuroinflammatory DiseasesNF-kappa BSignal TransductionToll-Like Receptor 4AnimalsApoptosisCell LineFatty Acids, VolatileGlucoseButyric AcidFatty Acids, VolatileGlucoseMyeloid Differentiation Factor 88NF-kappa BToll-Like Receptor 4Cardiac arrestGut microbiotaMicrogliaNeuroinflammationSodium butyrateTLR4/MyD88/NF-κB pathway

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PMID39962509
PMCPMC11834616

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