Glial response to 17β-estradiol in neonatal rats with excitotoxic brain injury

Julien Pansiot, Hoa Pham, Jeremie Dalous, Didier Chevenne, Marina Colella, Leslie Schwendimann, Assia Fafouri, Jérôme Mairesse, Raffaella Moretti, Anne-Laure Schang, Christiane Charriaut-Marlangue, Pierre Gressens, Olivier Baud

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Abstract

White-matter injury is the most common cause of the adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes observed in preterm infants. Only few options exist to prevent perinatal brain injury associated to preterm delivery. 17β-estradiol (E2) is the predominant estrogen in circulation and has been shown to be neuroprotective in vitro and in vivo. However, while E2 has been found to modulate inflammation in adult models of brain damage, how estrogens influence glial cells response in the developing brain needs further investigations. Using a model of ibotenate-induced brain injury, we have refined the effects of E2 in the developing brain. E2 provides significant neuroprotection both in the cortical plate and the white matter in neonatal rats subjected to excitotoxic insult mimicking white matter and cortical damages frequently observed in very preterm infants. E2 promotes significant changes in microglial phenotypes balance in response to brain injury and the acceleration of oligodendrocyte maturation. Maturational effects of E2 on myelination process were observed both in vivo and in vitro. Altogether, these data demonstrate that response of glial cells to E2 could be responsible for its neuroprotective properties in neonatal excitotoxic brain injury.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)56-65
Number of pages10
JournalExperimental Neurology
Volume282
Early online date21 May 2016
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2016

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