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  2. Downregulation of Sepina3n Aggravated Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption after Traumatic Brain Injury by Activating Neutrophil Elastase in Mice

Downregulation of Sepina3n Aggravated Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption after Traumatic Brain Injury by Activating Neutrophil Elastase in Mice

  • Neuroscience. 2022 Sep 8;503:45-57. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2022.08.023.
Xudong Ma 1 Xiaorong Niu 1 Junjie Zhao 2 Zhong Deng 1 Jiaxi Li 1 Xiang Wu 1 Bo Wang 1 Ming Zhang 2 Yonglin Zhao 2 Xiaoye Guo 3 Peng Sun 4 Tingqin Huang 2 Jia Wang 1 Jinning Song 5
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Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Neurosurgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710061, China; Center for Brain Science, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710061, China.
  • 2 Department of Neurosurgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710061, China.
  • 3 Department of Neurosurgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710061, China.
  • 4 Department of Neurosurgery, Tangdu Hospital, Military Medical University of PLA Airforce, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710038, China.
  • 5 Department of Neurosurgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710061, China; Center for Brain Science, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710061, China. Electronic address: [email protected].
Abstract

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death in young adults and the main cause of mortality and disability across all ages worldwide. We previously analyzed the expression profile data of TBI models obtained from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database and found that the seripina3n mRNA was markedly upregulated in the acute phase of TBI in four mRNA expression profile data sets, indicating that serpina3n may be involved in the pathophysiological process of TBI. Therefore, we further investigated the biological role and molecular mechanism of serpina3n in traumatic brain injury in this study. As a result, the endogenous level of sepina3n was markedly elevated in the cortex around the contusion sit in mice at day 1 and day 3 after TBI. Inhibiting the expression of serpina3n caused aggravation of neutrophil Elastase (NE) expression, BBB disruption, and neurological deficit. With the inactivation of NE, even if serpina3n was silenced, the disruption of the BBB was not further aggravated. In vitro experiments further proved that recombinant serpina3n dose-dependently inhibited the activity of recombinant NE. Based on the above, this study demonstrated that the endogenous level of sepina3n was significantly elevated in the cortex around the contusion sit after TBI in mice, which reduced the secondary blood-brain barrier disruption by inhibiting the activity of neutrophil Elastase.

Keywords

blood-brain barrier; neutrophil elastase; seripina3n; traumatic brain injury.

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