Turkish Journal of Biochemistry,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Dec. 5, 2024
Abstract
As
one
of
the
volatile
anaesthetic
drugs
commonly
used
in
clinical
anaesthesia,
sevoflurane
is
extensively
general
anaesthesia
surgery
because
its
rapid
induction,
hemodynamic
stability,
and
metabolism.
However,
postoperative
cognitive
dysfunction
(POCD)
most
prevalent
complications
application.
Neuroinflammation
neuronal
apoptosis
are
currently
believed
to
be
primary
mechanisms
responsible
for
development
dysfunction.
MicroRNAs
(miRNAs)
can
negatively
regulate
expression
target
genes,
thereby
influencing
neurological
processes.
Therefore,
effects
potential
miRNAs
on
function
may
provide
new
ideas
prevention
treatment
sevoflurane-induced
POCD,
a
topic
intense
research
interest
at
moment.
The
involved
regulation
by
sevoflurane,
genes
downstream
signalling
pathways
were
reviewed
order
obtain
comprehensive
understanding
function.
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
15
Published: Oct. 18, 2022
Patients
with
Alzheimer's
disease
(AD),
Parkinson's
(PD),
traumatic
brain
injury
(TBI),
stroke,
and
postoperative
neurocognitive
disorder
(POND)
are
commonly
faced
disorders
limited
therapeutic
options.
Some
non-coding
ribonucleic
acids
(ncRNAs)
involved
in
the
development
of
various
cognitive
disorders.
Circular
RNAs
(circRNAs),
a
typical
group
ncRNAs,
can
function
as
competitive
endogenous
(ceRNAs)
to
dysregulate
shared
microRNAs
(miRNAs)
at
post-transcription
level,
inhibiting
regulation
miRNAs
on
their
targeted
messenger
(mRNAs).
circRNAs
abundant
central
nervous
system
(CNS)
diseases
cause
disorders,
but
exact
roles
unclear.
The
crosstalk
between
circRNA,
miRNA,
mRNA
plays
an
important
role
pathogenesis
these
dysfunction
abnormal
conditions
including
AD,
PD,
TBI,
POND.
In
this
review,
we
summarized
participation
circRNA
neuroglial
damage
inflammation.
Finally,
aimed
highlight
regulatory
mechanisms
circRNA–miRNA–mRNA
networks
provide
new
insights
into
therapeutics
diseases.
BMC Anesthesiology,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
25(1)
Published: Feb. 6, 2025
Postoperative
cognitive
dysfunction
(POCD)
represents
a
post-surgical
complication
that
features
progressive
impairment
and
memory
loss,
often
occurring
in
elderly
patients.
This
study
aimed
to
investigate
the
potential
biological
mechanisms
underlying
POCD.
Male
C57BL/6
mice
(2
17
months
old)
were
randomly
assigned
surgery
or
control
groups.
The
group
underwent
laparotomy
under
1.5%
isoflurane
anesthesia,
while
controls
received
no
intervention.
Cognitive
function
was
assessed
7–10
days
post-surgery
using
open
field,
Y-maze,
novel
object
recognition
tests.
Hippocampal
mRNA
expression
analyzed
Encyclopedia
of
Genes
Genomes
(KEGG)
Gene
Ontology
(GO)
enrichment.
A
competing
endogenous
RNA
(ceRNA)
network
constructed
microRNA
(miRNA)
target
prediction
databases
(miRanda,
miRTarbase,
miRcode)
sequencing
results.
Key
findings
validated
by
RT-qPCR
immunofluorescence.
Connectivity
Map
(CMap)
database
queried
predict
POCD
treatments.
Aging
significantly
affected
mice's
spontaneous
activity
field
test
(F1,
28
=
8.933,
P
<
0.01)
proportion
time
spent
center
area
5.387,
0.05).
Surgery
reduced
rate
alternations
Y-maze
16.94,
0.001)
index
6.839,
0.05)
aging
mice,
but
had
effect
on
young
mice.
Transcriptome
analysis
revealed
downregulated
multiple
neurogenesis-related
genes
hippocampus.
Doublecortin
(DCX)
immunofluorescence
staining
confirmed
hippocampal
neurogenesis
which
further
decreased
after
surgery.
We
identified
several
key
lncRNAs
miRNAs
implicated
regulation.
Additionally,
drugs
predicted
as
therapeutic
candidates
for
treatment.
Both
have
complex
effects
transcriptome
significant
decrease
may
be
reason
increased
susceptibility
regulatory
lncRNAs,
miRNAs,
provide
targets
prevention
Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
81(1)
Published: March 13, 2024
Abstract
Circular
RNAs
(circRNAs)
have
garnered
significant
attention
in
the
field
of
neurodegenerative
diseases
including
Alzheimer’s
due
to
their
covalently
closed
loop
structure.
However,
involvement
circRNAs
postoperative
cognitive
dysfunction
(POCD)
is
still
largely
unexplored.
To
identify
genes
differentially
expressed
between
non-POCD
(NPOCD)
and
POCD
mice,
we
conducted
whole
transcriptome
sequencing
initially
this
study.
According
expression
profiles,
observed
that
circAKT3
was
associated
with
hippocampal
neuronal
apoptosis
mice.
Moreover,
found
overexpression
reduced
neurons
alleviated
POCD.
Subsequently,
through
bioinformatics
analysis,
our
data
showed
vitro
vivo
elevated
abundance
miR-106a-5p
significantly,
resulting
a
decrease
HDAC4
protein
an
increase
MEF2C
protein.
Additionally,
effect
blocked
by
inhibitor.
Interestingly,
could
activate
transcription
promoter
form
positive
feedback
loop.
Therefore,
findings
revealed
more
potential
modulation
ways
circRNA-miRNA
miRNA-mRNA,
providing
different
directions
targets
for
preclinical
studies
Frontiers in Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
16
Published: Sept. 20, 2022
Postoperative
cognitive
dysfunction
(POCD)
is
a
common
postoperative
neurological
complication
in
elderly
patients.
Circular
RNAs
(circRNAs)
are
abundant
the
mammalian
brain
and
can
probably
regulate
function.
However,
competitive
endogenous
RNA
(ceRNA)
regulatory
network
POCD
remains
illiterate.
Transcriptomic
signatures
hippocampus
of
mice
derived
from
Gene
Expression
Omnibus
(GEO)
dataset
GSE190880,
GSE95070,
GSE115440
were
used
to
identify
circRNA,
miRNA,
mRNA
expression
profiles
compared
with
controls,
respectively.
A
set
differentially
expressed
RNAs,
including
119
circRNAs,
33
miRNAs,
49
mRNAs
identified.
Transcript
validation
showed
enhanced
circ_0001634,
circ_0001345,
circ_0001493.
ceRNA
composed
three
six
was
established.
The
hub
further
found
be
involved
hormone
catabolic
process
regulation
canonical
Wnt
signaling
pathway,
revealing
their
crucial
role
POCD.
Finally,
miRNAs
four
verified
by
qRT-PCR.
These
results
based
on
bioinformatics
PCR
array
suggest
that
circ_0001634/miR-490-5p/Rbm47,
circ_0001634/miR-490-5p/Sostdc1,
circ_0001634/miR-7001-5p/Sostdc1,
circ_0001345/miR-7001-5p/Sostdc1,
circ_0001493/miR-7001-5p/Sostdc1
may
novel
diagnostic
biomarkers
therapeutic
targets
for
Frontiers in Genetics,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
13
Published: Nov. 22, 2022
Aging
is
a
complicated
process
characterized
by
progressive
and
extensive
changes
in
physiological
homeostasis
at
the
organismal,
tissue,
cellular
levels.
In
modern
society,
age
estimation
essential
large
variety
of
legal
rights
duties.
Accumulating
evidence
suggests
roles
for
microRNAs
(miRNAs)
circular
RNAs
(circRNAs)
regulating
numerous
processes
during
aging.
Here,
we
performed
circRNA
sequencing
two
groups
analyzed
microarray
data
171
healthy
subjects
(17-104
years
old)
downloaded
from
Gene
Expression
Omnibus
(GEO)
ArrayExpress
databases
with
integrated
bioinformatics
methods.
A
total
1,403
were
differentially
expressed
between
young
old
groups,
141
exclusively
elderly
samples
while
10
only
subjects.
Based
on
their
expression
pattern
these
categorized
into
three
classes:
age-related
old,
age-limited
expression-young
only,
expression-old
only.
Top
five
among
classes
18
screened
online
selected
to
validate
using
RT-qPCR
tests.
An
independent
set
200
blood
(20-80
was
used
develop
prediction
models
based
15
noncoding
(11
4
RNAs).
Different
machine
learning
algorithms
applied,
including
regression
tree,
bagging,
support
vector
(SVR),
random
forest
(RFR),
XGBoost.
Among
them,
model
best
both
training
(mean
absolute
error
=
3.68
years,
r
0.96)
testing
(MAE
6.840
0.77).
Models
one
single
type
predictors,
RNAs-only
or
microRNAs-only,
result
bigger
errors.
Smaller
errors
shown
males
than
females
when
constructing
according
different-sex
separately.
Putative
microRNA
targets
(430
genes)
enriched
senescence
pathway
cell
differentiation
regulation,
indirectly
indicating
that
our
study
correlated
development
This
demonstrates
RNA
aging
clock
has
potential
predicting
chronological
will
be
an
available
biological
marker
routine
forensic
investigation
predict
samples.
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
15
Published: Oct. 3, 2022
Obesity
induced
by
a
high-fat
diet
(HFD)
is
an
important
cause
of
impaired
memory
and
cognitive
function,
but
the
underlying
mechanisms
are
not
clear.
In
present
study,
we
analyzed
levels
circRNAs
in
hippocampus
C57BL/6J
mice
evaluated
cognition
ability
with
HFD
using
Morris
water
maze
Y-maze
approaches
to
explore
potential
linking
obesity-associated
impairment.
Learning
performance
showed
that
HFD-induced
obesity
have
cognition.
The
Arraystar
analysis
displayed
leads
differential
expression
(DE-circRNAs)
mice.
total,
46
circular
RNAs
elevated
10
decreased
were
identified.
Among
them,
mmu_circRNA_004797
was
identified
be
significantly
downregulated
mmu_circRNA_21040
upregulated
HFD-fed
mice,
compared
control
PCR
test.
Bioinformatics
also
related
neuronal
function
behavior,
material
transport
process,
while
participated
process
cell
response
external
stimuli,
such
as
cellular
nutrient
levels.
Furthermore,
KEGG
pathway
mainly
involved
Axon
guidance,
calcium
signaling
pathway,
ErbB
pathway.
Only
single
significant
is,
"protein
processing
endoplasmic
reticulum",
observed
circRNAs.
Finally,
examined
deficits
hippocampal
synaptic
plasticity
detected
ER
stress-related
protein.
results
stress
activated
hippocampus,
displayed.
Our
demonstrated
most
likely
implicated
predisposition
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
15
Published: March 27, 2023
Circular
RNAs
are
highly
stable
single-stranded
circular
and
enriched
in
the
brain.
Previous
studies
showed
that
circRNAs,
as
part
of
competing
endogenous
(ceRNAs)
network,
play
an
important
role
neurodegenerative
psychiatric
diseases.
However,
mechanism
circRNA-related
ceRNA
networks
postoperative
cognitive
dysfunction
(POCD)
has
not
been
elucidated
yet.
POCD
usually
occurs
elderly
patients
is
characterized
by
hippocampal
dysfunction.
Here,
aged
C57BL/6
mice
were
subjected
to
exploratory
laparotomy
under
sevoflurane
anesthesia,
this
model
was
verified
Morris
water
maze
test.
Whole-transcriptome
sequencing
performed
on
hippocampus
control
group
(Con)
surgery
group.
One
hundred
seventy-seven
DEcircRNAs,
221
DEmiRNAs
2,052
DEmRNAs
identified
between
two
groups.
A
network
established
with
92
DEcircRNAs
having
binding
sites
76
549
target
DEmRNAs.
In
functional
enrichment
analysis,
a
pathological
pattern
highlighted
network:
Abnormal
metabolic
process
neural
cells,
including
oxygen
metabolism,
could
promote
apoptosis
then
affect
synaptic
function,
which
may
undermine
plasticity
eventually
lead
changes
function
other
behavioral
patterns.
conclusion,
specific
circRNAs-miRNAs-mRNAs
provided
novel
insights
into
regulatory
mechanisms
revealed
potential
therapeutic
gene
targets.
Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
21, P. 1942 - 1954
Published: Jan. 1, 2023
The
gene-regulatory
landscape
is
highly
dynamic
in
healthy
and
diseased
brains.
DNA
methylation
a
well-known
epigenetic
modification
that
regulates
gene
expression,
our
previous
study
demonstrated
S-adenosylmethionine
(SAM),
methylome
modulator,
was
neuroprotectant
against
perioperative
neurocognitive
disorder
(PND).
However,
the
underlying
mechanism
remains
to
be
elucidated.
Here,
we
integrated
an
assay
for
transposase-accessible
chromatin
by
sequencing
(ATAC-seq)
RNA
(RNA-seq)
identify
key
genes
pathways
involved
neuroprotection
of
SAM
PND.
Our
RNA-seq
data
biological
processes
such
as
Wnt
signaling,
inflammatory
response,
transcription
long-term
potentiation
likely
mediate
SAM.
ATAC-seq
provided
comprehensive
maps
accessibility
changes
induced
laparotomy
+
treatment,
functional
annotation
regions
with
high
variations
highlighted
role
signaling
pathway
PND
pathogenesis
treatment.
Further
motif
analysis
identified
factors
(e.g.,
CTCF,
TFDP1,
TCFL5,
KLF15,
ZBTB14,
TFAP2E)
may
participate
In
conclusion,
current
provides
epigenomic
perspective
understand
its
treatment