Background: Epidemiology, clinical trials and meta-analysis studies have established that Hyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy) is an independent risk factor for stroke. However, the exact molecular mechanism underlying the HHcy-induced risk of stroke is unclear. Our study aims to investigate the role of HHcy in stroke. Methods and results: We established a mice mode of focal ischemic stroke, termed transient Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion (tMCAO) and conducted surgery on a mice model of HHcy (plasma homocysteine level ~150μM), in which a Zn2+ inducible human cystathionine β-synthase (CBS) transgene was introduced to circumvent the neonatal lethality of the CBS gene deficiency (Tg-hCBS Cbs-/- mice). Fourteen-week-old male mice were used in the experiment. A student’s t-test was used for the evaluation of the statistical significance between the two groups. For the comparison across multiple groups, one-way ANOVA was used. We found that HHcy 1) increased the infarction volume from 42.3 ± 4.9 mm / Pharmacology
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TEMPLE/oai:scholarshare.temple.edu:20.500.12613/3929 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Zhang, Lixiao |
| Contributors | Wang, Hong, 1956 September 19-, Yang, Xiao-Feng, Ashby, Barrie, Persidsky, Yuri, Eguchi, Satoru, Yu, Jun, Zhow, Bin |
| Publisher | Temple University. Libraries |
| Source Sets | Temple University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation, Text |
| Format | 168 pages |
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| Relation | http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/3911, Theses and Dissertations |
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