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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-1-27
pubmed:abstractText
Endostatin (ES) has been recognized as a potent anti-angiogenic factor. We here investigated the expression of ES in ischemic brain and the consequence of cells expressing ES after stroke in adult stroke-prone renovascular hypertensive rats. A single dose of Ca-074ME, a membrane-permeable cathepsin B (CB) specific inhibitor, or vehicle was given by intraperitoneal injection immediately after distal middle cerebral artery occlusion (dMCAO), ES expression was evaluated using fluorescent immunohistochemistry staining, and CB enzyme activity was tested by measuring the free 7-amino-4-methylcoumarin (AMC) released by CB from its' specific substrate, the Z-Arg-Arg-7-amido-4-methylcoumarin. ES immunoreactivity (IR) was significantly up-regulated as early as 6 h and returned to baseline level at 3 days in peri-infarct area following dMCAO. Double-staining experiment revealed that the majority of ischemia-induced ES positive cells were neurons. Furthermore, ES was co-labeled with CB and Cleaved Caspase-3(Asp175) whereas treatment with Ca-074ME reduced up-regulation of ES expression and attenuated apoptosis in peri-infarct neurons. Collectively, our data suggest that peri-infarct neurons express ES during the early stage of cerebral ischemia and treatment with Ca-074ME attenuates ES expression and apoptosis in peri-infarct neurons.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
1872-6240
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
22
pubmed:volume
1311
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
182-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19941836-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:19941836-Apoptosis, pubmed-meshheading:19941836-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:19941836-Brain Ischemia, pubmed-meshheading:19941836-Caspase 3, pubmed-meshheading:19941836-Cathepsin B, pubmed-meshheading:19941836-Coumarins, pubmed-meshheading:19941836-Dipeptides, pubmed-meshheading:19941836-Disease Models, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:19941836-Endostatins, pubmed-meshheading:19941836-Enzyme Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:19941836-Hypertension, pubmed-meshheading:19941836-Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery, pubmed-meshheading:19941836-Male, pubmed-meshheading:19941836-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:19941836-Random Allocation, pubmed-meshheading:19941836-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:19941836-Rats, Sprague-Dawley, pubmed-meshheading:19941836-Stroke, pubmed-meshheading:19941836-Time Factors
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Endostatin expression in neurons during the early stage of cerebral ischemia is associated with neuronal apoptotic cell death in adult hypertensive rat model of stroke.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurology and stroke center, First affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, No 58 Zhongshan Road 2, Guangzhou 510080, PR China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't