Egr2 contributes to age-dependent vulnerability to sevoflurane-induced cognitive deficits in mice  

作　　者：Ye-ru Chen Shu-xia Zhang Man Fang Piao Zhang You-fa Zhou Xin Yu Xiang-nan Zhang Gang Chen 

机构地区：[1]Department of Anesthesiology,Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital,School of Medicine,Zhejiang University,Hangzhou 310058,China [2]The Cancer Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Zhejiang Cancer Hospital),Institute of Basic Medicine and Cancer(IBMC),Chinese Academy of Sciences,Hangzhou 310022,China [3]Institute of Pharmacology&Toxicology,College of Pharmaceutical Sciences,Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology of the Ministry of Health of China,Zhejiang University,Hangzhou 310058,China

出　　处：《Acta Pharmacologica Sinica》2022年第11期2828-2840,共13页中国药理学报（英文版）

基　　金：the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.82171176 and No.82001424);the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(No.LQ19H030009);the Key Program of the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang,China(No.LZ19H090003).

摘　　要：Sevoflurane inhalation is prone to initiate cognitive deficits in infants.The early growth response-2(Egr-2)gene is DNA-binding transcription factor,involving in cognitive function.In this study we explored the molecular mechanisms underlying the vulnerability to cognitive deficits after sevoflurane administration.Six-day-old(young)and 6-week-old(early adult)mice received anesthesia with 3%sevoflurane for 2 h daily for 3 days.We showed that multiple exposures of sevoflurane induced significant learning ability impairment in young but not early adult mice,assessed in Morris water maze test on postnatal days 65.The integrated differential expression analysis revealed distinct transcription responses of Egr family members in the hippocampus of the young and early adult mice after sevoflurane administration.Particularly,Egr2 was significantly upregulated after sevoflurane exposure only in young mice.Microinjection of Egr2 shRNA recombinant adeno-associated virus into the dentate gyrus alleviated sevoflurane-induced cognitive deficits,and abolished sevoflurane-induced dendritic spins loss and BDNF downregulation in young mice.On the contrary,microinjection of the Egr2 overexpression virus in the dentate gyrus aggravated learning ability impairment induced by sevoflurane in young mice but not early adult mice.Furthermore,we revealed that sevoflurane markedly upregulated the nuclear factors of activated T-cells NFATC1 and NFATC2 in young mice,which were involved in Egr2 regulation.In conclusion,Egr2 serves as a critical factor for age-dependent vulnerability to sevoflurane-induced cognitive deficits.

关 键 词：SEVOFLURANE learning ability impairment hippocampus early growth response 2 brain-derived neurotrophic factor dendritic spins nuclear factors of activated T-cell 

分 类 号：R589.2[医药卫生—内分泌]