Repulsive guidance molecule a suppresses angiogenesis after ischemia/reperfusion injury of middle cerebral artery occlusion in rats.

Abstract

Repulsive guidance molecule a (RGMa) has now emerged as a molecule with pleiotropic roles, including repulsion, adhesion, migration and differentiation in the nervous system. In this study, adult male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats received 90-min middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) to observe RGMa/neogenin expression sites after ischemia/reperfusion injury and changes in angiogenesis after treatment with RNA interference using RGMa-specific recombinant adenovirus rAd5-shRNA-RGMa (rAd-shRGMa). To clarify how RGMa mediates angiogenesis, the RGMa function-blocking peptide six fibronectin type III (6FNIII) was also administered, and corresponding changes in vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), angiopoietin-2 (Ang2), angiopoietin-1 (Ang1), and brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) were determined by western blotting. Both RGMa and its receptor neogenin were expressed in neurons and vessel endothelial cells after ischemia/reperfusion injury, and angiogenesis, coupled with functional recovery, was enhanced after RNA interference against RGMa compared with the vehicle groups. VEGF, Ang2, Ang1 and BDNF expression levels were significantly increased after intervention with rAd-shRGMa or 6FNIII. Thus, RGMa might suppress angiogenesis via VEGF, Ang2, Ang1 and BDNF after cerebral ischemia/reperfusion injury, which has therapeutic potential by reducing these endogenous detrimental mechanisms.

• Authors: Yu Wang, Rongrong Zhang, Xiangfeng Xing, Jia Guo, Fei Xie, Gang Zhang, Xinyue Qin
• Journal: Neuroscience letters (Neurosci Lett) Vol. 662 Pg. 318-323 (Jan 01 2018) ISSN: 1872-7972 [Electronic] Ireland
• PMID: 29061393 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
• Copyright: Copyright © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Chemical References

• GPI-Linked Proteins
• Membrane Proteins
• Nerve Tissue Proteins
• RGMA protein, rat
• neogenin

Topics

• Animals
• Cerebral Cortex (metabolism)
• GPI-Linked Proteins
• Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery (complications, metabolism)
• Male
• Membrane Proteins (metabolism)
• Neovascularization, Physiologic (physiology)
• Nerve Tissue Proteins (metabolism)
• Rats
• Rats, Sprague-Dawley
• Recovery of Function (physiology)
• Reperfusion Injury (etiology, metabolism)