title: [Effects of leptin on apoptosis of rat cerebral astrocytes with ischemia/hypoxia injury].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the effect of leptin on apoptosis of rat cerebral astrocytes with ischemia/ hypoxia injury and its mechanism.
  
  
  METHODS
  The cerebral astrocytes with ischemic/hypoxia injury were induced in neonatal SD rats. The cellular viability of injury of astrocytes was detected by MTT assay. The apoptosis of astrocyte were detected with Annexin V-FITC kit. The effect of leptin on the expression of apoptosis factor bcl-2, bax, caspase-3 was detected by RT-PCR and Western blot.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Compared with the ischemia group, the cellular viability of leptin intervention group increased significantly (P < 0.01), while the astrocytes apoptosis of leptin intervention group decreased significantly (P < 0.01). The mRNA and protein expression level of antiapoptosis factor bcl-2 in leptin intervention group was much higher than that of ischemia group (P < 0.01), whereas the mRNA and protein expression of bax and caspase-3 was much lower than that of ischemia group (P < 0.01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Leptin could significantly decrease the apoptosis of astrocytes with ischemia/hypoxia injury, and it i relevant to the increase of bcl-2 expression and the decrease of bax caspase-3 expression level.
authors.affiliation: Research Laboratory of Biochemistry, Basic Medical Institute, General Hospital of PLA, Beijing 100853, China.
authors.forename: Yi-Ling
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Si
authors.forename: Jin-Ying
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xiu-Hua
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Hao
authors.forename: Zi-Hui
authors.initials: ZH
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.forename: Guang-Tao
authors.initials: GT
authors.lastname: Yan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000187:drug effects*; D001253:Astrocytes / Q000473:pathology*; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D053148:Caspase 3 / Q000378:metabolism; D020925:Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D020738:Leptin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D019253:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2 / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D015427:Reperfusion Injury / Q000473:pathology*; D051028:bcl-2-Associated X Protein / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: C494828:Bax protein, rat; D020738:Leptin; D019253:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D051028:bcl-2-Associated X Protein; C505410:Casp3 protein, rat; D053148:Caspase 3