title: Up-regulation of heat shock protein HSP 20 in the hippocampus as an early response to hypoxia of the newborn.
abstract: Hypoxia is an important challenge for newborn mammals. Stress generated at the brain level under low oxygenation conditions results in up-regulation of heat shock proteins (HSPs) and other stress proteins. The aim of the present work was to determine the effect of hypoxia in the newborn on some newly described small molecular weight HSPs (HSP 20 and B8) in the hippocampus, cortex and cerebellum of newborn piglets. These effects will be compared with those of other closely related proteins such as alphaB crystallin, HSP 27, heme oxygenase (HO)-1, HO-2, cyclooxygenase (COX)-1 and COX-2. The piglets were submitted to hypoxia (5% O(2); 95% N(2)) over either 1 or 4 h, with recovery periods ranging from 0 to 68 h. Western blot analysis showed that HSP 20 was rapidly induced only in the hippocampus, long before hypoxia-inducible transcription factor HIF-1alpha, while HSP 27 was rapidly induced in the cortex and cerebellum. Vascular epithelial growth factor was increased simultaneously in the three regions. Moreover, an increase in the expression of, respectively, HO-1 and COX-2 was observed later, but at the same time, in the three regions tested. It appears that HSP 20 can be an early marker of hypoxia in the hippocampus. The other small HSPs or stress proteins display different temporal patterns of up-regulation (HSP 27 and HO-1, COX-2) or do not show changes in their expressions (alphaB crystallin, HSP B8, HO-2 and COX-1).
authors.affiliation: SENAH INRA Agrocampus de Rennes, St Gilles, France. Jean-Claude.David@rennes.inra.fr
authors.forename: Jean-Claude
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: David
authors.forename: Wilbert C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Boelens
authors.forename: Jean-François
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Grongnet
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000378:metabolism; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology; D051546:Cyclooxygenase 2 / Q000378:metabolism; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D050886:HSP20 Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D055551:HSP27 Heat-Shock Proteins; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D051547:Heme Oxygenase-1 / Q000378:metabolism; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000503:physiopathology; D002534:Hypoxia, Brain / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000503:physiopathology; D051795:Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit / Q000378:metabolism; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D018832:Molecular Chaperones; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D034421:Sus scrofa; D013997:Time Factors; D015854:Up-Regulation
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers; C497442:HIF1A protein, human; D050886:HSP20 Heat-Shock Proteins; D055551:HSP27 Heat-Shock Proteins; C057725:HSPB1 protein, human; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins; D051795:Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D018832:Molecular Chaperones; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; C496541:HMOX1 protein, human; D051547:Heme Oxygenase-1; D051546:Cyclooxygenase 2; C496540:PTGS2 protein, human