Department of Psychiatry, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Radiology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Department of Psychiatry, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging. 2023 Sep;334:111681. doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2023.111681. Epub 2023 Jul 14.
Oxidative stress, an imbalance between the production of reactive oxygen species and available antioxidant capacity, is implicated in multiple psychiatric disorders and neurodegenerative conditions. Peripheral and preclinical studies suggest oxidative stress differs by biological sex and covaries with estrogens. However, limited knowledge exists on the effect of circulating sex hormones on oxidative stress in the brain in humans in vivo. We aimed to examine the relationship of circulating estrogen with regional concentrations of brain glutathione (GSH) as a marker of oxidative stress. GSH was measured using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) at 7 Tesla in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC), and left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) in 34 individuals (18 females and 16 males). We observed an inverse correlation of estradiol with DLPFC GSH, as well as a trend inverse correlation of estrone with DLPFC GSH, in the combined sample of males and females and in females only. No significant sex differences were observed for GSH levels in the brain. Our study provides evidence of diminished DLPFC GSH in females with higher estradiol, suggesting circulating sex hormones may be important factors to consider in future studies examining brain GSH levels related to psychiatric and other disorders.
氧化应激是活性氧物种的产生与可用抗氧化能力之间的失衡,与多种精神疾病和神经退行性疾病有关。外周和临床前研究表明,氧化应激因生物性别而异,并与雌激素相关。然而,目前对于循环性激素对人类大脑中氧化应激的影响知之甚少。我们旨在研究循环雌激素与脑谷胱甘肽 (GSH) 浓度的关系,GSH 是氧化应激的标志物。使用 7 特斯拉磁共振波谱 (MRS) 在 34 名个体(18 名女性和 16 名男性)的背侧前扣带皮层 (ACC)、腹内侧前额叶皮层 (VMPFC) 和左侧背外侧前额叶皮层 (DLPFC) 中测量 GSH。我们观察到在男性和女性的合并样本以及仅女性中,雌二醇与 DLPFC GSH 呈负相关,雌酮与 DLPFC GSH 呈负相关趋势。在大脑中,GSH 水平没有观察到显著的性别差异。我们的研究提供了女性 DLPFC GSH 减少的证据,这表明循环性激素可能是未来研究与精神疾病和其他疾病相关的大脑 GSH 水平时需要考虑的重要因素。