PTEN inhibition prevents rat cortical neuron injury after hypoxia-ischemia.

Abstract:

:Alterations in axon-dendrite polarity impair functional recovery in the developing CNS after hypoxia-ischemia (HI) injury. PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome 10) signaling pathway mediates the formation of neuronal polarity. However, its role in cerebral HI injury is not fully understood. In this study, we investigated the role of PTEN pathway in regulation of axon-dendrite polarity using an oxygen-glucose deprivation (OGD) model with rat cortical neurons. We found that the activity of PTEN and glycogen synthase kinase 3β (GSK-3β) was increased after OGD, along with the decrease of the activity in protein kinase B (Akt) and collapsin response mediator protein-2 (CRMP-2). Pretreatment with bpv, a potent inhibitor of PTEN, caused a decrease of the activity in PTEN and GSK-3β, and a significant increase of the activity in Akt and CRMP-2. Simultaneously, the morphological polarity of neurons was maintained and neuronal apoptosis was reduced. Moreover, inhibition of PTEN rescued vesicle recycling in axons. These findings suggested that the PTEN/Akt/GSK-3β/CRMP-2 pathway is involved in the regulation of axon-dendrite polarity, providing a novel route for protecting neurons following neonatal HI.

journal_name

Neuroscience

journal_title

Neuroscience

authors

Zhao J,Qu Y,Wu J,Cao M,Ferriero DM,Zhang L,Mu D

doi

10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.02.046

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2013-05-15 00:00:00

pages

242-51

eissn

0306-4522

issn

1873-7544

pii

S0306-4522(13)00187-5

journal_volume

238

pub_type

杂志文章