Effect of the mitochondrial antioxidant, Mito Vitamin E, on hypoxic-ischemic striatal injury in neonatal rats: a dose-response and stereological study.
A mitochondria-targeted antioxidant, Mito Vitamin E (MitoVit E), has previously been shown to prevent mitochondrial oxidative damage. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of MitoVit E on neuronal survival in the rat striatum after acute perinatal hypoxia-ischemia. Continuous striatal infusion with 4.35 microM, 43.5 microM, or 148 microM of MitoVit E before, during, and after hypoxia-ischemia was not neuroprotective for striatal medium-spiny neurons. Pre- or posttreatment with 435 microM MitoVit E was neurotoxic. These results suggest that MitoVit E is not significantly neuroprotective for striatal medium-spiny neurons after acute perinatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury. The results also suggest that mitochondrial oxidative damage does not contribute significantly to the death of striatal medium-spiny neurons after perinatal hypoxia-ischemia.
Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, University of Otago, PO Box 913, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Matthew V
MV
Covey
Michael P
MP
Murphy
Catherine E
CE
Hobbs
Robin A J
RA
Smith
Dorothy E
DE
Oorschot
D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D000975:Antioxidants / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D003342:Corpus Striatum / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000473:pathology; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005260:Female; D020925:Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques; D014810:Vitamin E / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D000975:Antioxidants; D014810:Vitamin E