Suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid attenuates cognitive impairment in offspring caused by maternal surgery during mid-pregnancy

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Some pregnant women have to experience non-obstetric surgery during pregnancy under general anesthesia. Our previous studies showed that maternal exposure to sevoflurane, isoflurane, propofol, and ketamine causes cognitive deficits in offspring. Histone acetylation has been implicated in synaptic plasticity. Propofol is commonly used in non-obstetric procedures on pregnant women. Previous studies in our laboratory showed that maternal propofol exposure in pregnancy impairs learning and memory in offspring by disturbing histone acetylation. The present study aims to investigate whether HDAC inhibitor suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA) could attenuate learning and memory deficits in offspring caused by maternal surgery under propofol anesthesia during mid-pregnancy. Maternal rats were exposed to propofol or underwent abdominal surgery under propofol anesthesia during middle pregnancy. The learning and memory abilities of the offspring rats were assessed using the Morris water maze (MWM) test. The protein levels of histone deacetylase 2 (HDAC2), phosphorylated cAMP response-element binding (p-CREB), brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), and phosphorylated tyrosine kinase B (p-TrkB) in the hippocampus of the offspring rats were evaluated by immunofluorescence staining and western blot. Hippocampal neuroapoptosis was detected by TUNEL staining. Our results showed that maternal propofol exposure during middle pregnancy impaired the water-maze learning and memory of the offspring rats, increased the protein level of HDAC2 and reduced the protein levels of p-CREB, BDNF and p-TrkB in the hippocampus of the offspring, and such effects were exacerbated by surgery. SAHA alleviated the cognitive dysfunction and rescued the changes in the protein levels of p-CREB, BDNF and p-TrkB induced by maternal propofol exposure alone or maternal propofol exposure plus surgery. Therefore, SAHA could be a potential and promising agent for treating the learning and memory deficits in offspring caused by maternal nonobstetric surgery under propofol anesthesia.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:19

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PloS one - 19(2024), 3 vom: 02., Seite e0295096

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Feng, Yunlin [VerfasserIn]
Qin, Jia [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Yanfei [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Mengdie [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Shengqiang [VerfasserIn]
Luo, Foquan [VerfasserIn]

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58IFB293JI
Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor
Histones
Journal Article
Propofol
Vorinostat
YI7VU623SF

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Date Completed 01.04.2024

Date Revised 01.04.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.1371/journal.pone.0295096

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NLM370414365