双侧颈总动脉闭塞(BCCAO)大鼠模型是模拟人类慢性脑低灌注病理的理想动物模型。然而,神经元活动的动态变化,细胞水肿,和BCCAO后体内神经元结构完整性的报道很少。目的利用9.4TMRI探讨血管性痴呆的病理生理机制。
12只SD大鼠随机分为假手术组和模型组,每组6只。使用T2*WI对大鼠进行MRI,扩散张量成像(DTI),在以下六个时间点通过MRI进行DWI序列:手术前和6小时,3天,7天,21天,术后28天。然后,T2*,分数各向异性(FA),测量双侧皮质和海马的平均表观扩散系数(ADC)值。MRI扫描后,两组大鼠均进行Y迷宫测试,新颖的物体识别测试,和野外测试来评估他们的学习,记忆,认知,和运动活动。
T2*,FA,与假手术组相比,模型组BCCAO后6h大脑皮层和海马的ADC值急剧下降。到第28天,T2*和ADC值逐渐增加到接近假手术组,但是FA值变化不大,模型组大鼠学习能力较差,记忆,和认知和运动活动低于假手术组大鼠。
BCCAO是研究血管性痴呆病理生理机制的理想大鼠模型。
The bilateral common carotid artery occlusion (BCCAO) rat model is an ideal animal model for simulating the pathology of chronic brain hypoperfusion in humans. However, dynamic changes in neuronal activity, cellular edema, and neuronal structural integrity in vivo after BCCAO have rarely been reported. The purpose of this study is to use a 9.4 T MRI to explore the pathophysiological mechanisms of vascular dementia.
Twelve Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were randomly divided into two groups: the sham group and the model group (n = 6 for each group). Rats were subjected to MRI using T2*WI, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and DWI sequences by MRI at the following six time points: presurgery and 6 h, 3 days, 7 days, 21 days, and 28 days postsurgery. Then, the T2*, fractional anisotropy (FA), and average apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values were measured in the bilateral cortices and hippocampi. After MRI scanning, all rats in both groups were subjected to the Y-maze test, novel object recognition test, and open-field test to assess their learning, memory, cognition, and locomotor activity.
The T2*, FA, and ADC values in the cerebral cortex and hippocampus decreased sharply at 6 h after BCCAO in the model group compared with those of the sham group. By Day 28, the T2* and ADC values gradually increased to close to those in the sham group, but the FA values changed little, and the rats in the model group had worse learning, memory, and cognition and less locomotor activity than the rats in the sham group.
The BCCAO is an ideal rat model for studying the pathophysiological mechanisms of vascular dementia.