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  • Title: The experimental study of hypoxia-inducible factor-1alpha and its target genes in spinal cord injury.
    Author: Xiaowei H, Ninghui Z, Wei X, Yiping T, Linfeng X.
    Journal: Spinal Cord; 2006 Jan; 44(1):35-43. PubMed ID: 16044166.
    Abstract:
    STUDY DESIGN: Animal model of compressive spinal cord injury (SCI), reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), in situ hybridization (ISH), immunohistochemistry (IHC) and enzymehistochemistry (EHC) were used to test the hypothesis that hypoxia-inducible factor-1alpha (HIF-1alpha) and the target genes activated by HIF-1alpha are involved in cell hypoxia tolerance and tissue vascularity to help injured tissue to go through the stress disease. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether HIF-1alpha and its target genes associated with hypoxia tolerance and neovascularization take part in the pathophysiological procedure of SCI in rats. SETTING: Yunnan University, China. METHODS: Random-bred adult male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats weighing 250+/-50 g were prepared for compressive SCI models. After receiving compressive injury at T(10), rats were sacrificed at different times from 6 h to 1 week after injury. The injured cords were removed, and HIF-1alpha and its target genes were assayed by RT-PCR, ISH, IHC and EHC. The data were statistically analyzed. RESULTS: An increase in HIF-1alpha mRNA expression was observed 12 h postinjury, reached a maximum at 3 days, and reduced gradually thereafter. HIF-1alpha protein expressed earlier than HIF-1alpha mRNA. Additionally, two glycolytic enzymes and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which are regulated by HIF-1alpha, also increased after an interval postinjury, and their expression patterns shared a same trend with that of HIF-1alpha protein. CONCLUSION: The findings suggested that the most important hypoxic regulatory factor HIF-1alpha was upregulated in involved cells by activating the transcription and increasing protein stability, and subsequently activated the expression of HIF-1alpha target genes, including glycolytic enzymes and VEGF in SCI. Combined with the pathologic observation, it suggested that overexpression of HIF-1alpha and its target genes might take part in hypoxia tolerance and vascularity of the injured spinal cord.
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