The effects of rehabilitation training on microvessel nltrastructure and expression of CD31 in rats with focal cerebral infarction / 中华物理医学与康复杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To study the effects of rehabilitation training on angiogenesis and its ultrastructure and expression of CD32 in the peri-infarction region of rats with focal cerebral infarction. Methods Sixty-six Spra-gue-Dawley rats with experimental left middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) were used as subjects in this study. All the rats were randomly divided into three groups a rehabilitation training group (n=30), which was given bar rotating, balancing and rolling exercises everyday after 48 hours post MCAO; a control group (n = 30) and a sham-operated group (n=6), which were fed in cages with no special training exercises. Then brain tissues were fixed on the 3rd d, 7th d, 14th d after MCAO, for observing the morphological alterations of microvessels in peri-infarction re-gion using transmission electron microscope, immunohistochemistry and Western blotting were used to measure the ex-pression of CD31, which acted as the marker of the neogenetic microvessels. Results (1) It showed that the capil-lary endothelial cells were less edematous in the rehabilitation training group, and there were less pinocytosis bullae in basal membrane more integral nucleus of endothelial cells in rehabilitation training group when compared with those in the control group. (2) Expression of CD31 can be observed in peri-infarction region in both groups from the 3rd d on-wards, and peaked on the 7th d, and then gradually went down after the 14th d. Comparison between the 2 groups showed that the expression of CD31 in rehabilitation training group was higher than that in the control group at every time point, but statistical difference between the 2 groups in this regard could be revealed only on the 7th d (P< 0.05), Conclusion Rehabilitation training could promote ultrastruetural recovery of microvessels and induce an-giogenesis in peri-infaretion region, and it might be one of the mechanisms of neural functional recovery in rats after MCAO.