4th WCSET-2015 at Japan
Applied Sciences and Engineering:
Title:
Neuro-protective potential of therapeutic choline and
DHA supplements in rats with chronic cerebral
hypo-perfusion injury
Authors:
Kiranmai S. Rai, Sivakumar G.
Abstract:
Cerebrovascular disease-risk, including stroke, is
projected as the second most frequent cause for
death/disability by year 2020. Therapeutic interventions
to minimize stroke-related hippocampal neural cell
deficit is limited. Several studies establish the
critical importance of essential dietary nutrients and
neuronal membrane phospholipid precursors Choline and
Docosahexaenoic acid [DHA] as important in neurogenesis
and neural plasticity. There are no studies exploring
the therapeutic neuro-protective potential of choline
and DHA in minimizing hippocampal neural cell injury,
when exposed to chronic cerebral ischemia. In the
present study, choline and DHA were supplemented to
Wistar rats subsequent to chronic hypo-perfusion
ischemic-brain injury. 10 month-old male Wistar rats
were subdivided into 4 groups [n=6 /group]-Normal
control group [NC], Bilateral common carotid artery
occlusion group [BCCAO], Sham-BCCAO group and Choline-
DHA supplemented BCCAO group [Post Choline-DHA BCCAO
group]. Choline and DHA were orally supplemented to
Post-Choline-DHA group of rats for forty days subsequent
to permanent surgical BCCAO that induces chronic
cerebral hypo-perfusion injury. All groups of rats were
tested for cognition efficacy and subsequently
sacrificed to study hippocampal neural cell survival by
cresyl staining. Hippocampal sections from ischemic
brain-injured rats show neural cell deficits in CA1 and
CA3 regions compared to the same in agematched
sham-BCCAO and NC rats. Combined supplementation of
Choline-DHA subsequent to ischemicstroke in rats
significantly attenuated neural deficits in these
regions as compared to the same in age-matched
non-supplemented BCCAO rats. Combined choline and DHA
supplements given as an adjuvant, subsequent to stroke /
ischemic brain injury, protects and minimizes
hippocampal neural cell damage.
Keywords: Choline,
Docosahexaenoic Acid, Chronic Cerebral Hypo-perfusion
Injury, Neuroprotection.
Pages:
037-042