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  • Transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 agonist GSK1016790A improves neurological outcomes after intracerebral hemorrhage in mice.

Transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 agonist GSK1016790A improves neurological outcomes after intracerebral hemorrhage in mice.

Biochemical and biophysical research communications (2020-08-02)
Yasunori Asao, Shota Tobori, Masashi Kakae, Kazuki Nagayasu, Koji Shibasaki, Hisashi Shirakawa, Shuji Kaneko
RESUMEN

Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is one of the most severe subtypes of stroke with high morbidity and mortality. Although a lot of drug discovery studies have been conducted, the drugs with satisfactory therapeutic effects for motor paralysis after ICH have yet to reach clinical application. Transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 (TRPV4), a Ca2+-permeable cation channel and activated by hypoosmolarity and warm temperature, is expressed in various cell types. The present study investigated whether TRPV4 would participate in the brain damage in a mouse model of ICH. ICH was induced by intrastriatal treatment of collagenase. Administration of GSK1016790A, a selective TRPV4 agonist, attenuated neurological and motor deficits. The inhibitory effects of the TRPV4 agonist in collagenase-injected WT mice were completely disappeared in TRPV4-KO mice. The TRPV4 agonist did not alter brain injury volume and brain edema at 1 and 3 days after ICH induction. The TRPV4 agonist did not show any differences with respect to the increased number of Iba1-positive microglia/macrophages, GFAP-positive astrocytes, and Gr1-positive neutrophils at 1 and 3 days after ICH induction. Quantitative RT-PCR experiments revealed that the TRPV4 agonist significantly upregulated the expression level of c-fos, a marker of neuronal activity, while the agonist gave no effects on the expression level of cytokines/chemokines at 1 day after ICH induction, These results suggest that stimulation of TRPV4 would ameliorate ICH-induced brain injury, presumably by increased neuronal activity and TRPV4 provides a novel therapeutic target for the treatment for ICH.

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Colagenasa from Clostridium histolyticum, 0.2 μm filtered, high purity, purified by chromatography, Type VII-S, ≥4 FALGPA units/mg solid, ≥700 CDU/mg solid (CDU = collagen digestion units)