Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), a bleeding into the brain parenchyma, is a devastating neurologic disease with the highest mortality among all stroke subtypes. In ICH brain, thrombin induces activation of microglia/macrophages followed by neuroinflammation. Furthermore, ICH leads to infiltration of numerous leukocytes. Recent report shows the arachidonic acid metabolite, leukotriene B4 (LTB4), participates pathological progression of ICH (Hijioka et al., 2017). In this study, we focused on lipoxin A4 (LXA4), synthesized from arachidonic acid as same as LTB4. Treatment of murine microglial cell line BV-2 cells with thrombin (30 U/mL) increased mRNA expression level of inducible NO synthase (iNOS) and interleukin-6 (IL-6). Pretreatment with LXA4 (100 µM) suppressed thrombin-induced increases in iNOS and IL-6 mRNA expression. Moreover, immunocytochemical analysis revealed the translocation of nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) into the nucleus induced by thrombin, and thrombin-induced nuclear translocation of NF-κB was suppressed by LXA4. Finally, daily intravenous administration of LXA4 receptor agonist, BML-111 (1 mg/kg) attenuated the motor dysfunction of mouse model of ICH. These data suggest that LXA4 may be the novel therapeutic agent for ICH.

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