title: Hyperbaric oxygenation promotes neural stem cell proliferation and protects the learning and memory ability in neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain damage.
abstract: The aim of our study was to evaluate whether hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO) was an effective therapy for neonatal hypoxic ischemic brain damage (HIBD). Seven-day-old rat pups were divided into 3 groups: sham, hypoxia-ischemia (HI) control and HI-HBO group. HBO was administered for HI rats daily. The pathologic changes in brain tissues were observed by hematoxylin-eosin (H-E) staining. The immunohistochemical staining was applied to detect the Nestin and 5-bromo-2-deoxyuridine (BrdU) positive cells in hippocampal dentate gyrus region. The learning and memory function of rats was examined by Morris water maze. The HI rats showed obvious pathologic changes accompanied by levels decreasing and disorder arrangement of pyramidal cells, glial cells proliferation in postoperative, and nerve nuclei broken, while pathologic changes of rats in sham group was approximate to that in the HI + HBO group that was opposite to the HI group. Compared with the sham group, the Nestin and BrdU positive cells in HBO + HI group at different time points increased significantly (P < 0.01). Learning and memory function of rats in HI group was poor compared with the sham/HI + HBO group (P < 0.01), while that in HI + HBO group was approximate to that in sham group (P > 0.05). HBO treatment improved the learning and memory ability of the HI rats. HBO therapy may be effective for neonatal HIBD treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Children's Medical Center, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University Jinan 250012, China ; Department of Pediatrics, Liaocheng People's Hospital Liaocheng 252000, China.
authors.forename: Lixia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Liaocheng People's Hospital Liaocheng 252000, China.
authors.forename: Jinshen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Neonatal, Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical College Zunyi 563003, China.
authors.forename: Yuntao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Liaocheng People's Hospital Liaocheng 252000, China.
authors.forename: Qing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Liaocheng People's Hospital Liaocheng 252000, China.
authors.forename: Lili
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: Brain Science Research Institute, Shandong University Jinan 250012, China.
authors.forename: Xingang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Children's Medical Center, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Brain Science Research Institute, Shandong University Jinan 250012, China.
authors.forename: Jiwen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D001238:Asphyxia Neonatorum; D049109:Cell Proliferation; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005260:Female; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000473:pathology*; D006931:Hyperbaric Oxygenation; D020925:Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008297:Male; D018782:Maze Learning; D008568:Memory; D058953:Neural Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley
keywords: 5-bromo-2-deoxyuridine; Hypoxic ischemic brain damage; Morris water maze; Nestin; hematoxylin-eosin staining; hyperbaric oxygenation