• Li Gong, Chao Dong, Qian Cai, and Wen Ouyang.
• Department of Anesthesiology, The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Tongzipo Road 138#, Changsha 410013, Hunan, China.
• Med. Hypotheses. 2020 Nov 1; 144: 110158.

AbstractPerioperative neurocognitive disorders (PND) are highly prevalent after surgery, especially in aged patients. PND results in long-term morbidity and mortality with unclear pathophysiologic mechanisms. As a key hallmark of PND, surgery-induced neuroinflammation resulted from the invading of exogenous tracers into the cerebral parenchyma, causing hippocampal neuroinflammation and cognitive impairment. IL-32, with different isoforms, played a significant regulatory role in various inflammatory diseases. Its prevalence in peripheral circulating blood was closely associated with the central nervous system (CNS) diseases. Beyond that, specific subtype of IL-32 was reported to involve in the neuroinflammation regulation in cerebral ischemia impairment, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's Disease, and so on. Thus, we speculate that IL-32 may participate in the regulation of the surgery-induced neuroinflammation during the parthenogenesis of PND. The isoforms, spatio-temporal regulation of IL-32 may determine its pro- or anti-inflammation properties in parthenogenesis of PND. Therefore, IL-32 could be a putative therapeutic target for the prevention and reversal of PND in the future.Copyright © 2020. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

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