Pomalidomide Improves Motor Behavioral Deficits and Protects Cerebral Cortex and Striatum Against Neurodegeneration Through a Reduction of Oxidative/Nitrosative Damages and Neuroinflammation After Traumatic Brain Injury

Neuronal damage resulting from traumatic brain injury (TBI) causes disruption of neuronal projections and neurotransmission that contribute to behavioral deficits. Cellular generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS) is an early event following TBI. ROS often damage DNA, lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates while RNS attack proteins. The products of lipid peroxidation 4-hydroxynonenal (4-HNE) and protein nitration 3-nitrotyrosine (3-NT) are often used as indicators of oxidative and nitrosative damages, respectively. Increasing evidence has shown that striatum is vulnerable to damage from TBI with a disturbed dopamine neurotransmission. TBI results in neurodegeneration, oxidative stress, neuroinflammation, neuronal apoptosis, and autophagy in the striatum and contribute to motor or behavioral deficits. Pomalidomide (Pom) is a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved immunomodulatory drug clinically used in treating multiple myeloma. We previously showed that Pom reduces neuroinflammation and neuronal death induced by TBI in rat cerebral cortex. Here, we further compared the effects of Pom in cortex and striatum focusing on neurodegeneration, oxidative and nitrosative damages, as well as neuroinflammation following TBI. Sprague-Dawley rats subjected to a controlled cortical impact were used as the animal model of TBI. Systemic administration of Pom (0.5 mg/kg, intravenous [i.v.]) at 5 h post-injury alleviated motor behavioral deficits, contusion volume at 24 h after TBI. Pom alleviated TBI-induced neurodegeneration stained by Fluoro-Jade C in both cortex and striatum. Notably, Pom treatment reduces oxidative and nitrosative damages in cortex and striatum and is more efficacious in striatum (93% reduction in 4-HNE-positive and 84% reduction in 3-NT-positive neurons) than in cerebral cortex (42% reduction in 4-HNE-positive and 55% reduction in 3-NT-positive neurons). In addition, Pom attenuated microgliosis, astrogliosis, and elevations of proinflammatory cytokines in cortical and striatal tissue. We conclude that Pom may contribute to improved motor behavioral outcomes after TBI through targeting oxidative/nitrosative damages and neuroinflammation.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:33

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Cell transplantation - 33(2024) vom: 12. Jan., Seite 9636897241237049

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Huang, Ya-Ni [VerfasserIn]
Greig, Nigel H [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Pen-Sen [VerfasserIn]
Chiang, Yung-Hsiao [VerfasserIn]
Hoffer, Alan [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Chih-Hao [VerfasserIn]
Tweedie, David [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Ou, Ju-Chi [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jia-Yi [VerfasserIn]

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4Z8R6ORS6L
Cytokines
D2UX06XLB5
Journal Article
Motor behavioral deficits
Neurodegeneration
Oxidative/nitrosative damages
Pomalidomide
Reactive Oxygen Species
Thalidomide
Traumatic brain injury

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Date Completed 15.03.2024

Date Revised 18.03.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1177/09636897241237049

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NLM369728289