The relationship between miRNA-210 and SCN1B in fetal rats with hypoxic-ischemic brain injury

Abstract

Hypoxic-ischemic brain injury contributes to major neurodevelopmental disorders and is one of the leading causes of seizures, which substantially results in neurodevelopmental impairments with long-lasting outcomes and is one of the main causes of death in neonates. We aimed to investigate the correlation between miRNA-210 and SCN1B, a voltage-gated sodium channel gene, in brain tissue of fetal rats with hypoxic-ischemic brain injury. We found that after 10 min of hypoxia-ischemia, all reperfusion groups showed different degrees of damage. The degree of the injury increased in all the groups after 30 min of hypoxia-ischemia. Those changes include changes in the pericellular lumen, capillaries in the cortex, erythrocytes, enlarged pericellular lumen, the enlarged pericapillary lumen in the cortex, edema around glial cells, enlarged gap to form multiple necrotic foci, deformation of neurons, and loss of cell structure. The expression levels of HIF-1α, miRNA-210, and HIF-1α mRNA were higher in the hypoxic-ischemic groups than that in the control groups, among which the expression levels in the severe group were higher than that in mild group. SCN1B is down-regulated in both the mild and severe groups, and the lowest level was found at 30 min after hypoxia in both groups. MiRNA-210 plays a role in the development of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) by regulating the expression changes of SCN1B. The brain tissue of fetal rats in the hypoxic-ischemic animal model showed pathological changes of brain injury.