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Chronic fetal hypoxia affects axonal maturation in guinea pigs during development: a longitudinal Diffusion Tensor Imaging and T2 mapping study
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Dec 15 2014
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Source: J Magn Reson Imaging. 42(3):658-665.
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Alternative Title:J Magn Reson Imaging
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Description:Purpose
Chronic hypoxemia is the prime cause of fetal brain injury and long-term sequelae such as neurodevelopmental compromise, seizures and cerebral palsy. This study aims to investigate the impact of chronic hypoxemia on neonatal brains, and follow developmental alterations and adaptations non-invasively in a guinea pig model.
Materials and Methods
Thirty guinea pigs underwent either normoxic and hypoxemic conditions during the critical stage of brain development (0.7 gestation) and studied prenatally (n=16) or perinatally (n=14). Fourteen newborns (7 hypoxia and 7 normoxia group) were scanned longitudinally to characterize physiological and morphological alterations, and axonal myelination and injury using in vivo DTI, T2 mapping, and T2-weighted MRI. Sixteen fetuses (8 hypoxia and 8 normoxia) were studied ex vivo to assess hypoxia-induced neuronal injury/loss using Nissl staining and quantitative reverse transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction methods.
Results
Developmental brains in the hypoxia group showed lower fractional anisotropy in the corpus callosum (−12%, p=0.02) and lower T2 values in the hippocampus (−16%, p=0.003) compared with the normoxia group with no differences in the cortex (p>0.07), indicating vulnerability of the hippocampus and cerebral white matter during early development. Fetal guinea pig brains with chronic hypoxia demonstrated an over-tenfold increase in expression levels of hypoxia index genes such as erythropoietin and HIF-1α, and an over 40% reduction in neuronal density, confirming prenatal brain damage.
Conclusion
In vivo MRI measurement, such as DTI and T2 mapping, provides quantitative parameters to characterize neuro-developmental abnormalities and to monitor the impact of prenatal insult on the postnatal brain maturation of guinea pigs.
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Pubmed ID:25504885
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Pubmed Central ID:PMC4468050
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Volume:42
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Issue:3
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