Deficiency of brain ATP-binding cassette transporter A-1 exacerbates blood-brain barrier and white matter damage after stroke.
Deficiency of brain ATP-binding cassette transporter A-1 exacerbates blood-brain barrier and white matter damage after stroke.
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DOI:
10.1161/strokeaha.114.007145
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发表时间:
2015-03
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8.3
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Chen J
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作者:
Cui X;Chopp M;Zacharek A;Karasinska JM;Cui Y;Ning R;Zhang Y;Wang Y;Chen J
The ATP-binding cassette transporter A-1 (ABCA1) gene is a key target of the transcription factors liver-X-receptors (LXRs). LXR activation has anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective effects in animal ischemic stroke models. Here, we tested the hypothesis that brain ABCA1 reduces blood-brain barrier (BBB) and white matter (WM) impairment in the ischemic brain after stroke. Adult brain-specific ABCA1 deficient (ABCA1−B/−B) and floxed-control (ABCA1fl/fl) mice were subjected to permanent distal middle cerebral artery occlusion (dMCAo) and were sacrificed 7 days after dMCAo. Functional outcome, infarct volume, BBB leakage, and WM-damage were analyzed. Compared to ABCA1fl/fl mice, ABCA1−B/−B mice showed marginally (P=0.052) increased lesion volume, but significantly increased BBB leakage and WM-damage in the ischemic brain, and more severe neurological deficits. Brain-ABCA1 deficient mice exhibited increased the level of matrix-metalloproteinase-9 (MMP9) and reduced the level of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF1) in the ischemic brain. BBB leakage was inversely correlated (r=−0.073, P<0.05) with aquaporin-4 (AQP4) expression. Reduction of IGF1 and AQP4, but upregulation of MMP9 expression were also found in the primary astrocyte-cultures derived from ABCA1−B/−B mice. Cultured primary-cortical-neurons (PCNs) derived from C57BL/6 wild-type mice with ABCA1−B/−B astrocyte-conditioned-medium exhibited decreased neurite-outgrowth compared to culture with ABCA1fl/fl astrocyte-conditioned-medium. ABCA1−B/−B PCNs show significantly decreased neurite-outgrowth, which was attenuated by IGF1 treatment. We demonstrate that brain ABCA1-deficiency increases BBB leakage, WM/axonal damage and functional deficits after stroke. Concomitant reduction of IGF1 and upregulation of MMP9 may contribute to brain ABCA1-deficiency induced BBB and WM/axonal damage in the ischemic brain.