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Comparison of Trophic Factors Changes in the Hippocampal CA1 Region Between the Young and Adult Gerbil Induced by Transient Cerebral Ischemia

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In the present study, we investigated neuronal death/damage in the gerbil hippocampal CA1 region (CA1) and compared changes in some trophic factors, such as brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), in the CA1 between the adult and young gerbils after 5 min of transient cerebral ischemia. Most of pyramidal neurons (89 %) were damaged 4 days after ischemia–reperfusion (I–R) in the adult; however, in the young, about 59 % of pyramidal neurons were damaged 7 days after I–R. The immunoreactivity and levels of BDNF and VEGF, not GDNF, in the CA1 of the normal young were lower than those in the normal adult. Four days after I–R in the adult group, the immunoreactivity and levels of BDNF and VEGF were distinctively decreased, and the immunoreactivity and level of GDNF were increased. However, in the young group, all of their immunoreactivities and levels were much higher than those in the normal young group. From 7 days after I–R, all the immunoreactivities and levels were apparently decreased compared to those of the normal adult and young. In brief, we confirmed our recent finding: more delayed and less neuronal death occurred in the young following I–R, and we newly found that the immunoreactivities of trophic factors, such as BDNF, GDNF, and VEGF, in the stratum pyramidale of the CA1 in the young gerbil were much higher than those in the adult gerbil 4 days after transient cerebral ischemia.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Mr. Seung Uk Lee and Ms. Hyun Sook Kim for their technical help in this study. This study was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (NO2011-0022812), and by a grant (2010K000823) from Brain Research Center of the 21st Century Frontier Research Program funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, the Republic of Korea.

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  1. Department of Neurobiology, School of Medicine, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, 200-701, South Korea

    Bing Chun Yan, Joon Ha Park & Moo-Ho Won

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital, College of Medicine, Hallym University, Seoul, 150-950, South Korea

    Sung Koo Kim

  3. Department of Anatomy, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, 200-701, South Korea

    Jung Hoon Choi

  4. Department of Anatomy and Physiology, College of Pharmacy, Dankook University, Cheonan, 330-714, South Korea

    Choong Hyun Lee

  5. Department of Oral Anatomy, College of Dentistry and Research Institute of Oral Biology, Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, 210-702, South Korea

    Ki-Yeon Yoo

  6. Department of Biochemistry, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

    Young-Geun Kwon

  7. Vascular System Research Center and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, 200-701, South Korea

    Young-Myeong Kim

  8. Division of Food Biotechnology, School of Biotechnology, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, 200-701, South Korea

    Jong-Dai Kim

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Yan, B.C., Park, J.H., Kim, S.K. et al. Comparison of Trophic Factors Changes in the Hippocampal CA1 Region Between the Young and Adult Gerbil Induced by Transient Cerebral Ischemia. Cell Mol Neurobiol 32, 1231–1242 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10571-012-9848-9

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