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Blood-Based Glutamate Scavengers Reverse Traumatic Brain Injury-Induced Synaptic Plasticity Disruption by Decreasing Glutamate Level in Hippocampus Interstitial Fluid, but Not Cerebral Spinal Fluid, In Vivo

First author:Zhang Dainan

Corresponding author:Jia Wang

Glutamate-oxaloacetate transaminase Hippocampus Lo

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  • Person in charge:Zhang Dainan
  • Data Sources: OTHERS
  • Number of papers:OTHERS20190665
  • Published time:2019-02-01

2019-02-01

Published articles

Journal:Neurotox Res

Publication type: Original Article

IF(IF): 3.911

PMID: 30255425 Link To Pubmed Full text Download

Background And Purpose

Method

Acutely promoting brain glutamate clearance with a blood-based scavenging system, glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase (GOT), prevents the delayed inhibition of LTP post-TBI. Here, we report that repeated dosing of recombinant GOT type 1, with the glutamate co-substrate oxaloacetate, could induce a persistent enhancement of serum level of GOT and reverse the disruption of synaptic plasticity 4 days after the induction of TBI in rats.

Conclusion

Overall, the present findings support the importance of clearance of glutamate post-TBI and provide new evidence of the mechanism of glutamate-induced LTP inhibition which leads to a development of evaluations, intervention, and reversion for post-TBI cognitive deficit.

Main results

Moreover, the change of glutamate level post-TBI presents a different timeframe in ventricular CSF and hippocampus interstitial fluid (ISF), and the application of rGOT may reverse the inhibition of LTP by decreasing the glutamate level in hippocampus ISF, but not ventricular CSF. Lastly, we found that the intervention did not significantly affect the total level of glutamate in the hippocampus as well as the expression of major glutamate transporters, EAAT1 and EAAT2.