Perinatal iron deficiency predisposes the developing rat hippocampus to greater injury from mild to moderate hypoxia-ischemia.

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Serval ID
serval:BIB_EB1B3B7E2DEB
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Title
Perinatal iron deficiency predisposes the developing rat hippocampus to greater injury from mild to moderate hypoxia-ischemia.
Journal
Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism
Author(s)
Rao R., Tkac I., Townsend E.L., Ennis K., Gruetter R., Georgieff M.K.
ISSN
0271-678X (Print)
ISSN-L
0271-678X
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2007
Volume
27
Number
4
Pages
729-740
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov'tPublication Status: ppublish. PDF type: Original Article
Abstract
The hippocampus is injured in both hypoxia-ischemia (HI) and perinatal iron deficiency that are co-morbidities in infants of diabetic mothers and intrauterine growth restricted infants. We hypothesized that preexisting perinatal iron deficiency predisposes the hippocampus to greater injury when exposed to a relatively mild HI injury. Iron-sufficient and iron-deficient rats (hematocrit 40% lower and brain iron concentration 55% lower) were subjected to unilateral HI injury of 15, 30, or 45 mins (n=12 to 13/HI duration) on postnatal day 14. Sixteen metabolite concentrations were measured from an 11 microL volume on the ipsilateral (HI) and contralateral (control) hippocampi 1 week later using in vivo 1H NMR spectroscopy. The concentrations of creatine, glutamate, myo-inositol, and N-acetylaspartate were lower on the control side in the iron-deficient group (P<0.02, each). Magnetic resonance imaging showed hippocampal injury in the majority of the iron-deficient rats (58% versus 11%, P<0.0001) with worsening severity with increasing durations of HI (P=0.0001). Glucose, glutamate, N-acetylaspartate, and taurine concentrations were decreased and glutamine, lactate and myo-inositol concentrations, and glutamine/glutamate ratio were increased on the HI side in the iron-deficient group (P<0.01, each), mainly in the 30 and 45 mins HI subgroups (P<0.02, each). These neurochemical changes likely reflect the histochemically detected neuronal injury and reactive astrocytosis in the iron-deficient group and suggest that perinatal iron deficiency predisposes the hippocampus to greater injury from exposure to a relatively mild HI insult.
Keywords
Animals, Animals, Newborn/physiology, Astrocytes/pathology, Body Weight/physiology, Brain Chemistry, Electromagnetic Fields, Female, Hippocampus/growth & development, Hippocampus/pathology, Histocytochemistry, Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain/pathology, Iron/deficiency, Iron/metabolism, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Male, Neurons/pathology, Organ Size/physiology, Rats, Rats, Sprague-Dawley
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