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. 2020 Sep;47(9):1564-1574.
doi: 10.1111/1440-1681.13330. Epub 2020 May 18.

Hyperbaric oxygen treatment mitigates liver damage in mice with noise exposure

Xingxing Meng  1 , Xi Zhang  1 , Yuting Su  1 , Zhenghui Gu  1 , Xiaoping Xie  1 , Yaoming Chang  1 , Junxiang Bao  1
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Hyperbaric oxygen treatment mitigates liver damage in mice with noise exposure

Xingxing Meng et al. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol. 2020 Sep.

Abstract

Noise exposure relates to various pathological disorders including liver damage, preventive measures of which are being demanded. Hyperbaric oxygen treatment (HBOT), as a non-invasive procedure, exerts convincing therapeutic potency on multiple liver diseases. The efficacy of HBOT in mitigating noise induced liver damage (NILD) and associated mechanisms would be elucidated here. Mice were subject to broad band noise (20-20k Hz, 90-110 dB) for 5 days by 3 hours/day. HBOT with 2.5 atmosphere absolute (ata) was employed before noise exposure. Morphology of liver tissue was examined by hematoxylin-eosin (HE) staining. Oil Red O (ORO), transferase-mediated dUTP nick end labelling (TUNEL) test and western blot were utilized to detect lipid accumulation, apoptotic cells and protein expression, respectively. Ceramide (Cer) level was assayed by immunohistochemistry (IHC) analysis. With noise exposure, conspicuous structural derangement and lipid deposition occurred in liver tissue of mice, which was alleviated significantly by the application of HBOT. Meanwhile, HBOT reduced the proportion of apoptotic hepatocytes, restraining the superoxide production in noise exposed mice. In view of underlying mechanisms, noise enhanced the acid sphingomyelinase (ASM) protein expression and the Cer generation in liver tissue of mice which was reversed substantially by HBOT. Altogether, HBOT ameliorates the structural and functional derangement of liver by neutralizing the ASM/Cer pathway in noise exposed mice.

Keywords: acid sphingomyelinase; ceramide; hyperbaric oxygen; liver; noise.

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