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β-catenin, a protein that functions in both cell adhesion and Wnt signaling, plays a key role in mammalian neural development. To investigate the role of β-catenin in hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO)-induced neurogenesis after hypoxic ischemic brain damage (HIBD), we transfected β-catenin siRNA and negative control siRNA into neural stem cells (NSCs) after HIBD. We found that HBO promoted NSCs differentiate into neurons or oligodendrocytes, and inhibited NSCs differentiate into astrocytes; HIBD brain tissue extract conditioned cultures promoted NSCs differentiate into neurons; β-Catenin siRNA decreased the NSE-positive neurons and increased GFAP-positive astrocytes in the NSCs in vitro. Furthermore, the expression of Ngn1 protein and mRNA in NSCs was increased when HBO promoted NSCs differentiate into neurons after HIBD, and the expression of BMP-4 protein and mRNA was decreased when HBO depressed NSCs differentiate into astrocytes after HIBD. These results showed that β-catenin-mediated transcriptional activation functions in the decision of NSCs to proliferate neurogenesis during HBO-induced after HIBD, and suggested that HBO therapy promotes the proliferation of neural stem cells in vitro, an effect that may be correlated with β-catenin protein and HBO therapy could promote neurogenesis by β-catenin-induced activated Ngn1 gene and repress astrocytogenesis by β-catenin-induced down-regulated BMP-4 gene.
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This study was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 30672240 and Grant No. 30772341).
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Zhang, XY., Yang, YJ., Xu, PR. et al. The Role of β-Catenin Signaling Pathway on Proliferation of Rats Neural Stem Cells After Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy In Vitro. Cell Mol Neurobiol 31, 101–109 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10571-010-9559-z
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