Ischemia-induced angiogenesis is attenuated in aged rats

Yaohui Tang, Liuqing Wang, Jixian Wang, Xiaojie Lin, Yongting Wang, Kunlin Jin, Guo Yuan Yang

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Abstract

To study whether focal angiogenesis is induced in aged rodents after permanent distal middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO), young adult (3-month-old) and aged (24-month-old) Fisher 344 rats underwent MCAO and sacrificed up to two months after MCAO. Immunohistochemistry and synchrotron radiation microangiography were performed to examine the number of newly formed blood vessels in both young adult and aged rats post-ischemia. We found that the number of capillaries and small arteries in aged brain was the same as young adult brain. In addition, we found that after MCAO, the number of blood vessels in the peri-infarct region of ipsilateral hemisphere in aged ischemic rats was significantly increased compared to the aged sham rats (p<0.05). We also confirmed that ischemia-induced focal angiogenesis occurred in young adult rat brain while the blood vessel density in young adult ischemic brain was significantly higher than that in the aged ischemic brain (p<0.05). Our data suggests that focal angiogenesis in aged rat brain can be induced in response to ischemic brain injury, and that aging impedes brain repairing and remodeling after ischemic stroke, possible due to the limited response of angiogenesis.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)326-335
Number of pages10
JournalAging and Disease
Volume7
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016

Keywords

  • Aging angiogenesis
  • Brain
  • Focal cerebral ischemia
  • Rat

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