Abstract
Lidocaine, a local anesthetic, is a valuable agent for the treatment of neuronal ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury. The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of lidocaine in oxygen-glucose deprivation/reperfusion (OGD/R)-induced cortical neurons and explore the related molecular mechanisms. Cerebral cortical neurons were isolated from Sprague-Dawley rat embryos and stimulated with OGD/R to establish an in vitro I/R injury model. Subsequently, neuronal cell viability, cytotoxicity and apoptosis were evaluated by performing the MTT assay, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) assay and flow cytometry, respectively. The results suggested that OGD/R exposure significantly decreased cerebral cortical neuron cell viability, accelerated LDH release and induced cell apoptosis compared with control neurons, indicating that cerebral I/R injury was stimulated by OGD/R treatment. Further investigation indicated that 10 µM lidocaine significantly enhanced neuronal cell viability, and reduced LDH release and neuronal cell apoptosis in OGD/R-exposed cells compared with the OGD/R + saline group, which indicated that lidocaine displayed neuroprotective effects against I/R damage. In addition, the findings of the present study suggested that OGD/R exposure significantly decreased Bcl-2 and Bcl-xl protein expression levels, but increased Bax protein expression levels, the Bax/Bcl-2 ratio and caspase-3 activity compared with control neurons. However, lidocaine reversed OGD/R-mediated alterations to apoptosis-related protein expression. Furthermore, the results of the present study indicated that lidocaine increased Wnt3a, β-catenin and cyclin D1 expression levels in OGD/R-exposed cells compared with the OGD/R + saline group, thus activating the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway. The findings of the present study suggested that lidocaine served a protective role in OGD/R-triggered neuronal damage by activating the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway; therefore, lidocaine may serve as a potential candidate for the treatment of cerebral I/R injury.
Keywords: lidocaine, cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury, cerebral cortical neurons
Introduction
Ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury is caused by deficient oxygen supply followed by restoration of blood circulation. I/R is the primary cause of cerebral damage and is a major clinical problem in cerebral injury therapy (1,2). Previous studies have demonstrated that deficient oxygen and glucose supply may result in neuronal injury during ischemic brain damage (3,4). Previous studies have also demonstrated that oxygen-glucose deprivation (OGD) has detrimental effects on the cells, including oxidative stress and immoderate glutamate release, resulting in toxic levels (5,6). However, the specific pathogenesis of cerebral I/R injury and the possible signaling pathways participating in ischemic neuronal injury are not completely understood.
A number of studies have indicated that numerous anesthetic drugs exert neuroprotective effects in cerebral I/R injury, including isoflurane (7), propofol (8) and curcumin (9). Lidocaine, a widely used local anesthetic, may improve the cognitive ability of patients suffering from cardiopulmonary conditions (10). In addition, the protective effects of lidocaine on ischemia- or hypoxia-stimulated neuronal injury are mediated by diverse mechanisms, including vasodilation, improvement of the microcirculation and suppression of platelet aggregation (11,12). Although the neuroprotective role of lidocaine in brain I/R damage has been previously demonstrated in in vitro and in vivo models (13,14), the mechanisms underlying the neuroprotective properties of lidocaine remain to be elucidated. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the functions of lidocaine in an in vitro I/R model.
Various signaling pathways have been associated with the pathogenesis of cerebral I/R, including mitogen-activated protein kinase (15), N-methyl D-aspartate receptor subtype 2B/ERK/cAMP response element-binding protein (16), Janus kinase 2/STAT3(17) and Wnt/β-catenin (18) signaling pathways. The Wnt signaling pathway is the most common signaling pathway that regulates and mediates a series of cellular processes, including proliferation and apoptosis (19). The canonical Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway serves a key role in cell survival following cerebral ischemia (18). Previous studies have demonstrated that activation of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway during I/R exerts corresponding organ-protective effects (20-22). However, whether lidocaine affects the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway in I/R injury is not completely understood.
The aim of the present study was to investigate the roles and mechanisms underlying the action of lidocaine in OGD/reperfusion (OGD/R)-induced cortical neurons.
Materials and methods
Primary culture of cortical neurons
Brain cortical neurons were obtained from Sprague-Dawley rats (age, embryonic day 18; SD rats were obtained from the Model Animal Research Center of Nanjing University) according to previous study (23). In brief, cerebral cortices were separated and digested with trypsin (Gibco; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) at 37˚C for 15 min, re-tempered in DMEM (Gibco; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) supplemented with 10% FBS (Gibco; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) and 1% penicillin/streptomycin (Gibco; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) and filtered through a 40-mm nylon mesh. Cells were cultured in a 6-well poly-L-lysine coated culture plate (Sigma-Aldrich; Merck KGaA) and maintained at 37˚C in an incubator in DMEM containing 2% B27 (Gibco; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.), 0.5 mM glutamine and 100 U/ml penicillin/streptomycin. Following culture at 37˚C for 24 h, 10 mM cytosine arabinoside (Sigma-Aldrich; Merck KGaA) was applied to inhibit non-neuronal cell survival and neurons were cultured at 37˚C for an additional 2 days. The mother rats (n=3; Model Animal Research Center of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China) were anaesthetized with 2% halothane prior to sacrifice by cervical dislocation. The depth of anesthesia was monitored by the toe pinch method. Death was verified by monitoring cessation of the heartbeat and breathing. The fetuses (n=6) were also anaesthetized with 2% halothane prior to sacrifice by cervical dislocation. All rats were housed under standard conditions at room temperature (22-24˚C) and 60-65% humidity, on a 12-h light/dark cycle with ad libitum supply of food and water. The present study was approved by the Animal Ethics Committee of the First Medical Center, People's Liberation Army General Hospital. All experiments conformed to the guidelines for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the National Institutes of Health (24).
Neuronal I/R injury model establishment and lidocaine stimulation
The OGD/R model was constructed as previously described (25). To induce OGD, brain cortical neurons were cultured in Earle's Balanced Salt Solution (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) and transferred into a hypoxia chamber for 4 h with 95% N2 and 5% CO2 at 37˚C. Subsequently, cells were cultured in an environment of 5% CO2 and 95% air at 37˚C for 24 h. To induce R, following culture in the hypoxic chamber, cells were cultured for 24 h in HyClone medium 199 (Cytiva) supplemented with 2% B27 and 0.5 mM glutamine in normoxic conditions (95% air/5% CO2) at 37˚C. For lidocaine stimulation, cultured cortical neurons were treated with 10 µM lidocaine, as previously described (26), or saline at 37˚C for 4 h after exposure to OGD/R injury.
MTT assay
Following treatment, MTT solution was added to each well (5x104 cells per well) and incubated for 4 h at 37˚C. The supernatant was discarded and 100 µl DMSO was added to dissolve blue formazan crystals. The absorbance of each well was measured at a wavelength of 570 nm using a microplate reader (Jupiter G19060; Montréal Biotech, Inc.).
Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) analysis
LDH production in cells was determined using an LDH-Cytotoxicity assay kit (Sigma-Aldrich; Merck KGaA). Briefly, the supernatant of cerebral cortical neurons was collected from each well after treatment through centrifugation (400 x g, 5 min, 4˚C) and subjected to the assay according to the manufacturer's protocol at room temperature for 15 min. The absorbance of each sample was measured at a wavelength of 490 nm using the FLUOstar® Omega Microplate Reader (BMG Labtech GmbH).
Flow cytometry analysis
Following OGD/R and lidocaine or saline treatment, the cerebral cortical neurons were collected for Annexin V-FITC/PI (BD Biosciences) double staining, according to the manufacturer's instructions. Neuronal cell apoptosis (early + late apoptosis) was evaluated by flow cytometry using a BD FACSCalibur flow cytometer (BD Biosciences) and FlowJo software (version 7.2.4; FlowJo LLC).
Determination of caspase-3 activity
To determine caspase3 activity, a Caspase-3 Assay kit (cat. no. ab39401; Abcam) was used according to the manufacturer's protocol. Briefly, cells were resuspended in 50 µl of chilled Cell Lysis Buffer (Abcam) and incubated the cells on ice for 10 min. Then cells were centrifuged at 10,000 x g for 1 min. Subsequently, supernatant (cytosolic extract) was transferred to a fresh tube and put on ice. Subsequently, an automatic micro-plate reader (ELX800; BioTek Instruments, Inc.) was used to spectrophotometrically determine caspase-3 activity levels at a wavelength of 405 nm according to the manufacturer's protocol.
Reverse transcription-quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) analysis
Following the indicated treatment, total RNA was extracted from cerebral cortical neurons (107 cells per well) using TRIzol® reagent (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) according to the manufacturer's protocol. Total RNA was reverse transcribed into cDNA using the PrimeScript™ RT reagent kit (Takara Bio, Inc.). The temperature protocol for reverse transcription was as follows: 70˚C for 5 min, 37˚C for 5 min and 42˚C for 1 h. Subsequently, qPCR was performed using an ABI 7000 Real-Time PCR system (Applied Biosystems; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) with SYBR-Green PCR Master Mix Kit (Takara Bio, Inc.). The thermocycling conditions used for qPCR were as follows: Initial denaturation at 95˚C for 5 min; 40 cycles at 95˚C for 15 sec and 60˚C for 60 sec; and a final extension at 72˚C for 30 sec. The following primers were used for qPCR (Sangon Biotech Co., Ltd.): Wnt3a forward, 5'-AACTGCACCACCGTCCAC-3' and reverse, 5'-AAGGCCGACTCCCTGGTA-3'; β-catenin forward, 5'-AACAGGGTCTGGGACATTAGTC-3' and reverse, 5'-CGAAAGCCAATCAAACACAAAC-3'; cyclin D1 forward, 5'-AACTACCTGGACCGCTTCCT-3' and reverse, 5'-CCACTTGAGCTTGTTCACCA-3'; and GAPDH forward, 5'-TGTTGCCATCAATGACCCCTT-3' and reverse, 5'-CTCCACGACGTACTCAGCG-3'. mRNA expression levels were quantified using the 2-ΔΔCq method (27) and normalized to the internal reference gene GAPDH.
Western blotting
The cerebral cortical neurons were treated as indicated. Total protein was extracted from cerebral cortical neurons using RIPA lysis buffer (Sigma-Aldrich; Merck KGaA). Total protein was quantified using the BCA Protein assay kit (Sigma-Aldrich; Merck KGaA). Proteins (40 µg/lane) were subjected to 10% SDS-PAGE and transferred onto PVDF membranes (EMD Millipore). The membranes were blocked in 5% fat-free milk at room temperature for 1.5 h. Subsequently, the membranes were incubated overnight at 4˚C with primary antibodies targeted against: Wnt3a (cat. no. ab219412; 1:1,000; Abcam), β-catenin (cat. no. ab32572; 1:1,000; Abcam), cyclin D1 (cat. no. ab16663; 1:1,000; Abcam), Bcl-2 (cat. no. ab196495; 1:1,000; Abcam), Bax (cat. no. ab32503; 1:1,000; Abcam), Bcl-xl (cat. no. ab32370; 1:1,000; Abcam) and GAPDH (cat. no. ab181602; 1:1,000; Abcam). Subsequently, the membranes were incubated with a horseradish peroxidase-conjugated secondary antibody (cat. no. ab7090; 1:2,000; Abcam) at room temperature for 2 h. Finally, the protein bands were observed by chemiluminescence using the ECL Advance Western Blotting Detection kit (Cytiva). Protein expression levels were quantified using ImageJ software (version 1.52s; National Institutes of Health).
Statistical analysis
SPSS (version 21.0; IBM Corp.) was used to perform statistical analyses. All data are presented as the mean ± standard deviation from three independent experiments. Comparisons between two groups were analyzed using the unpaired Student's t-test. Comparisons among multiple groups were analyzed using one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey's post hoc test. P<0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference.
Results
OGD/R successfully induces a cerebral I/R injury model
Brain cortical neurons were cultured under OGD conditions for 4 h and exposed to R conditions for 24 h to induce cerebral I/R injury in vitro. Subsequently, cell viability, LDH release and cell apoptosis were detected to assess neuronal injury. Cerebral cortical neuronal cell viability was significantly decreased in the OGD/R group compared with the control group (Fig. 1A). In addition, OGD/R-exposed cortical neurons displayed significantly increased LDH release compared with control cortical neurons (Fig. 1B). Furthermore, the level of apoptosis in control and OGD/R-stimulated cells was determined. OGD/R treatment notably enhanced cell apoptosis and significantly increased the percentage of apoptotic neurons in the OGD/R group compared with the control group (Fig. 1C and D). In summary, the results demonstrated that OGD/R successfully induced the neuronal I/R injury model in vitro.
Lidocaine exerts neuroprotective effects against OGD/R-induced neuronal injury
The role of lidocaine in OGD/R-stimulated neuronal damage was investigated. Cerebral cortical neurons were treated with 10 µM lidocaine or saline for 4 h following exposure to OGD/R. Cell viability was evaluated by performing the MTT assay. Cell viability in the OGD/R group was significantly decreased compared with the control group, whereas cell viability was significantly enhanced in the OGD/R + lidocaine group compared with the OGD/R + saline group (Fig. 2A). In addition, LDH release was measured to assess cell toxicity. The results indicated that OGD/R exposure significantly increased LDH release from cerebral cortical neurons compared with the control group, whereas lidocaine reversed this effect (Fig. 2B). The results demonstrated that lidocaine increased cell viability and reduced LDH secretion in the OGD/R-induced neuronal injury model, indicating that lidocaine suppressed neuronal injury.
Lidocaine inhibits OGD/R-induced neuronal cell apoptosis
To further elucidate the mechanism underlying the effects of lidocaine in OGD/R-triggered neuronal injury, neuronal cells were subjected to OGD/R and then treated with 10 µM lidocaine or saline. Neuronal cell apoptosis was assessed by flow cytometry. The number of apoptotic neurons was notably higher in the OGD/R group compared with the control group (Fig. 3A). However, the number of apoptotic neurons was obviously reduced in the OGD/R + lidocaine group compared with the OGD/R + saline group (Fig. 3A). The percentage of apoptotic neurons was also quantified in the different groups. The number of apoptotic neurons was significantly higher in the OGD/R group compared with the control group, but significantly lower in the ODG/R + lidocaine group compared with the ODG/R + saline group (Fig. 3B). Neuronal apoptosis is regulated by apoptosis-specific proteins, including Bcl-2, Bax and Bcl-xl (28); thus, the expression of apoptosis-related proteins in the different groups was detected by western blotting. The western blotting results indicated that OGD/R markedly decreased Bcl-2 and Bcl-xl protein expression levels, but increased Bax protein expression levels compared with the control group. However, lidocaine reversed OGD/R-mediated apoptosis-related protein expression (Fig. 3C). The Bax/Bcl-2 ratio was also significantly increased by OGD/R treatment compared with the control group, whereas lidocaine treatment reduced the effect of OGD/R on the Bax/Bcl-2 ratio (Fig. 3D). OGD/R-mediated reductions in Bcl-xl protein expression were inhibited by lidocaine treatment (Fig. 3E). Compared with the control group, caspase-3 activity was also significantly increased by OGD/R treatment, but lidocaine treatment reversed OGD/R-mediated alterations to caspase-3 activity (Fig. 3F). The results indicated the potential role of lidocaine in OGD/R-mediated neuronal injury.
Lidocaine regulates the activation of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway in OGD/R-induced neurons
Finally, the potential mechanism underlying the effects of lidocaine on OGD/R-triggered neurons was investigated. The western blotting results indicated that Wnt3a, β-catenin and cyclin D1 protein expression levels were significantly reduced in OGD/R-stimulated neurons compared with control neurons. However, lidocaine significantly upregulated the expression of the three proteins in OGD/R-exposed neurons compared with the OGD/R + saline group (Fig. 4A-D). Similar results were obtained for mRNA expression levels of Wnt3a, β-catenin and cyclin D1 (Fig. 4E-G). Collectively, the results suggested that Wnt/β-catenin signaling may be involved in OGD/R-mediated neuron injury, and lidocaine displayed neuroprotective activity in OGD/R-exposed neurons, at least partly by activating the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway.
Discussion
I/R injury is a major health concern in the clinic (29); therefore, designing an effective treatment strategy for cerebral I/R injury is of clinical significance. According to previous studies, deficient oxygen and glucose supply may contribute to neuronal injury during ischemic brain damage (3,4,30). OGD may have detrimental effects on cell function, such as oxidative stress and immoderate glutamate release, resulting in toxic levels (31). In previous studies, cerebral cortical neurons were stimulated with OGD/R to induce an in vitro cerebral I/R injury model (32,33). In the present study, cortical neurons were isolated from Sprague-Dawley rat embryos and OGD/R was used to establish an in vitro I/R injury model. Subsequently, cell viability, LDH release and cell apoptosis were detected to evaluate neuronal cell damage. The results indicated that OGD/R exposure significantly decreased cerebral cortical neuronal viability, increased LDH release and induced cell apoptosis compared with control neurons. The results also indicated that OGD/R successfully established an in vitro I/R injury model. However, the staining of NSE of primary cerebral cortical neurons was not conducted in the present study, which was a key limitation.
Previous studies have demonstrated that various elements serve neuroprotective roles in cerebral I/R injury models, such as tamibarotene (34), daucosterol (35) and orally administered crocin (36). Zhang et al (36) reported that orally administered crocin exerted protective effects against cerebral I/R injury via metabolic transformation of crocetin by the gut microbiota. Tian et al (34) observed that tamibarotene improves hippocampal injury stimulated by focal cerebral I/R via the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway in rats. Lidocaine, a local anesthetic that is widely used in surgery, is frequently used to treat neurovascular diseases and serves pivotal roles in the prevention and treatment of ischemic brain injury (37). However, the neuroprotective effects of lidocaine and the underlying mechanisms in OGD/R-stimulated injury are not completely understood. Therefore, the present study investigated the neuroprotective mechanisms underlying the effects of lidocaine in cerebral I/R neurons in vitro.
To evaluate the role of lidocaine in OGD/R-induced neuronal cell injury, MTT and LDH release assays were performed. The results demonstrated that 10 µM lidocaine significantly enhanced cell viability and reduced LDH release in OGD/R-induced cerebral cortical neurons compared with the OGD/R + saline group. Therefore, the results indicated that lidocaine relieved OGD/R-induced neuronal cell injury. It was previously suggested that lidocaine may be beneficial to the nervous system by regulating cell apoptosis (38). In the present study, flow cytometry was conducted to evaluate apoptosis in the OGD/R-induced neuronal cell injury model and the results indicated that the number of apoptotic neurons was significantly decreased in OGD/R-induced neurons following lidocaine treatment compared with saline treatment. Neuronal cell apoptosis is usually triggered by interactions between Bcl-2 family members via endogenic apoptotic cascades (39,40). In addition, the Bax/Bcl-2 ratio is considered a key indicator of apoptotic stimulation (41). In the present study, lidocaine enhanced Bcl-2 and Bcl-xl protein expression levels, but decreased Bax expression levels, the Bax/Bcl-2 ratio and caspase-3 activity in OGD/R-stimulated neurons compared with the OGD/R + saline group. Multiple signaling pathways are associated with the pathogenesis of cerebral I/R, including the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway (18,42). To further investigate the mechanism underlying the neuroprotective effects of lidocaine, RT-qPCR and western blotting were conducted to evaluate the relative mRNA and protein levels of Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway components. The results demonstrated that the mRNA and protein expression levels of Wnt3a, β-catenin and cyclin D1 were significantly increased in OGD/R-exposed neurons treated with 10 µM lidocaine compared with OGD/R-exposed neurons treated with saline; however, immunofluorescence staining was not performed to verify the results, which may be a limitation of the present study. Taken together, the results indicated that lidocaine treatment promoted neuronal viability, and reduced LDH release and neuronal cell apoptosis by regulating the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway. However, the effects of lidocaine on I/R injury were not studied in vivo in the present study, which was a further a limitation of the present study and requires further investigation.
The findings of the present study may provide novel insight into the mechanism underlying the neuroprotective effects of lidocaine against OGD/R-induced neuronal damage via activating the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway. However, the present study was only a preliminary in vitro study of the effects of lidocaine on I/R injury. In order to verify the results of the present study, further in-depth research is required. For example, an inhibitor of Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway should be applied to investigate whether lidocaine directly regulates the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway. Furthermore, only one dose of lidocaine (10 µg/ml) was used in the present study to investigate the effect of lidocaine on I/R injury in vitro, which is a further limitation of the present study. Therefore, future studies should investigate the effect of different doses of lidocaine on I/R injury. In addition, the effect of lidocaine on I/R injury should also be investigated in vivo.
In conclusion, the present study indicated that lidocaine suppressed OGD/R-induced neuronal cell injury and apoptosis by stimulating the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway, thereby exerting a protective effect against OGD/R-induced neuronal injury. Therefore, lidocaine may serve as a potential therapeutic candidate for I/R injury.
Acknowledgements
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Funding Statement
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Availability of data and materials
The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Authors' contributions
XL contributed to study design, data collection, statistical analysis, data interpretation and manuscript preparation. YX contributed to data collection and statistical analysis and manuscript preparation. XL and YX confirmed the authenticity of all the raw data. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Ethics approval and consent to participate
The present study was approved by the Animal Ethics Committee of the First Medical Center, People's Liberation Army General Hospital. All experiments conformed to the guidelines for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the National Institutes of Health.
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Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.