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Iczkiewicz J, Rose S, Jenner P. Increased osteopontin expression following intranigral lipopolysaccharide injection in the rat. Eur J Neurosci 2005; 21:1911-20. [PMID: 15869484 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04009.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Nigral cell death in Parkinson's disease is characterized by glial cell activation leading to inflammatory changes. Osteopontin (OPN) is a glycosylated phosphoprotein that is induced by inflammatory mediators and which we have previously shown to be present in the substantia nigra. However, the role of OPN in the nigral inflammation is not known. We now report on the effects of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced glial cell activation in the substantia nigra of rats on OPN expression. LPS administration induced dopaminergic cell death as shown by reduced nigral tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity. There was a corresponding time-dependent increase in both OPN mRNA, which was maximal at 48 h, and protein levels, which peaked at 72 h before returning to control levels by 120 h. This increase was accompanied by marked reactive gliosis as shown by increased OX-42, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and ED1 immunoreactivity. OX-42-positive cells increased in a time-dependent manner, peaking at 72 h before returning to control levels at 120 h. Similarly, ED1-positive cells were present in their greatest numbers at 24 h but then gradually declined. These changes mirrored the alterations occurring in OPN protein and OPN mRNA, respectively. In contrast, GFAP-positive cells only started to increase in number at 120 h. Colocalization studies showed that OPN was present in both ED1- and OX-42-positive cells but not in GFAP-positive cells. These data confirm that intranigral injection of LPS induces a rapid and marked gliosis that accompanies the loss of tyrosine hydroxylase-positive neurones and suggest that, after glial cell activation, enhanced expression of OPN occurs linked to increased numbers of microglia and/or macrophages. This suggests that OPN may be functionally important in the control of inflammatory changes.
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- Joanna Iczkiewicz
- Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Centre, Guy's, King's and St Thomas School of Biomedical Sciences, King's College, London SE1 1UL, UK
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Yao HH, Ding JH, Zhou F, Wang F, Hu LF, Sun T, Hu G. Enhancement of glutamate uptake mediates the neuroprotection exerted by activating group II or III metabotropic glutamate receptors on astrocytes. J Neurochem 2005; 92:948-61. [PMID: 15686497 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2004.02937.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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We investigated whether the activation of astroglial group II and III metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) could exert neuroprotective effects and whether the neuroprotection was related to glutamate uptake. Our results showed that the activation of astroglial group II or III mGluRs exerted neuroprotection against 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium (MPP+) astroglial conditioned medium-induced neurotoxicity in midbrain neuron cultures. Furthermore, MPP+ decreased glutamate uptake of primary astrocytes and C6 glioma cells, which was recovered by activating group II or III mGluRs. Specific group II or III mGluRs antagonists completely abolished the neuroprotective effects and the enhancement of glutamate uptake of their respective agonists. Our results showed that the primary cultured rat astrocytes and C6 glioma cells expressed receptor proteins for group II mGluR2/3, group III mGluR4, mGluR6 and mGluR7. C6 glioma cells expressed mRNA for group II mGluR3, group III mGluR4, mGluR6, mGluR7 and mGluR8. In conclusion, we confirmed that the activation of astroglial mGluRs exerted neuroprotection, and demonstrated that the mechanism underlying this protective role was at least partially related to the enhancement of glutamate uptake.
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- Hong-Hong Yao
- Department of Pharmacology & Neurobiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, China
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Zhan G, Fenik P, Pratico D, Veasey SC. Inducible nitric oxide synthase in long-term intermittent hypoxia: hypersomnolence and brain injury. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2005; 171:1414-20. [PMID: 15750040 PMCID: PMC2718483 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200411-1564oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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RATIONALE Long-term intermittent hypoxia (LTIH) exposure in adult mice, modeling oxygenation patterns of moderate-severe obstructive sleep apnea, results in lasting hypersomnolence and is associated with nitration and oxidation injuries in many brain regions, including wake-active regions. OBJECTIVES We sought to determine if LTIH activates inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in sleep/wake regions, and if this source of NO contributes to the LTIH-induced proinflammatory gene response, oxidative injury, and wake impairments. METHODS Mice with genetic absence of iNOS activity and wild-type control animals were exposed to 6 weeks of long-term hypoxia/reoxygenation before behavioral state recordings, molecular and biochemical assays, and a pharmacologic intervention. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Two weeks after recovery from hypoxia/reoxygenation exposures, wild-type mice showed increased iNOS activity in representative wake-active regions, increased sleep times, and shortened sleep latencies. Mutant mice, with higher baseline sleep times, showed no effect of long-term hypoxia/reoxygenation on sleep time latencies and were resistant to hypoxia/reoxygenation increases in lipid peroxidation and proinflammatory gene responses (tumor necrosis factor alpha and cyclooxygenase 2). Inhibition of iNOS after long-term hypoxia/reoxygenation in wild-type mice was effective in reversing the proinflammatory gene response. CONCLUSIONS These data support a critical role for iNOS activity in the development of LTIH wake impairments, lipid peroxidation, and proinflammatory responses in wake-active brain regions, and suggest a potential role for inducible NO inhibition in protection from proinflammatory responses, oxidative injury, and residual hypersomnolence in obstructive sleep apnea.
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- Guanxia Zhan
- Center for Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Bae JS, Furuya S, Ahn SJ, Yi SJ, Hirabayashi Y, Jin HK. Neuroglial activation in Niemann-Pick Type C mice is suppressed by intracerebral transplantation of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells. Neurosci Lett 2005; 381:234-6. [PMID: 15896475 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.02.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2004] [Revised: 02/03/2005] [Accepted: 02/09/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Glial activation is thought to play a key role in pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders. Here we show that direct transplantation of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSC) results in alleviation of inflammatory responses associated with the cerebellum of Niemann-Pick disease Type C (NP-C) model mice. Immunohistochemical examinations using glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and F4/80 antibodies revealed that BM-MSC transplantation reduced significantly both of astrocytic and microglial activations in the cerebellum of NP-C mice. Expression of macrophage colony stimulating factor (M-CSF), a microglial activator, was also considerably down-regulated by the BM-MSC transplantation. These findings suggest that BM-MSC transplantation may have potential for a therapeutic role in the treatment of NP-C and other neurodegenerative brain disorders.
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- Jae-sung Bae
- College of Veterinary Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701, Korea
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Iczkiewicz J, Rose S, Jenner P. Osteopontin (Eta-1) is present in the rat basal ganglia. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 132:64-72. [PMID: 15548430 DOI: 10.1016/j.molbrainres.2004.09.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/09/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Osteopontin (OPN) is a secreted glycosylated phosphoprotein that is responsive to oxidative stress and inflammation and controls cytokine production, inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) expression and apoptotic cell death. In this study, we demonstrate the presence of OPN in the rat basal ganglia. Using reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), OPN cDNA was found in the substantia nigra, and striatum. The presence of OPN mRNA was demonstrated in the same areas of the basal ganglia, using in situ hybridisation. OPN protein was found in the SN, using Western blotting and confirmed by immunohistochemistry. The protein was localised to neurones but not to microglia or astroglia. This is the first report of the presence of OPN in the basal ganglia where it may be involved in the maintenance of neuronal viability.
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- Joanna Iczkiewicz
- Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Centre, Guy's, King's and St. Thomas School of Biomedical Sciences, King's College, London, SE1 1UL, UK
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Jin J, Meredith GE, Chen L, Zhou Y, Xu J, Shie FS, Lockhart P, Zhang J. Quantitative proteomic analysis of mitochondrial proteins: relevance to Lewy body formation and Parkinson's disease. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 134:119-38. [PMID: 15790536 DOI: 10.1016/j.molbrainres.2004.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2004] [Revised: 09/29/2004] [Accepted: 10/01/2004] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The mechanisms underlying Parkinson's disease (PD) and Lewy body (LB) formation, a pathological hallmark of PD, are incompletely understood; however, mitochondrial dysfunction is likely to be at least partially responsible. To study the processes that might be related to nigral neurodegeneration and LB formation, we employed nonbiased quantitative proteomics with isotope-coded affinity tag (ICAT) to compare the mitochondrial protein profiles in the substantia nigra (SN) between controls and mice treated chronically with 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP), a potent mitochondrial toxicant, and an adjuvant, probenecid (prob), for 5 weeks, which produced selective nigrostriatal neurodegeneration with formation of LB-like cytoplasmic inclusions in the remaining nigral neurons. This method identified a total of more than 300 proteins; of these proteins, more than 100 displayed significant changes in relative abundance in the MPTP/prob-treated mice compared to the controls. We validated one of these proteins, DJ-1, whose mutation has been implicated in familial PD, with Western blot analysis, followed by immunohistochemical studies of its distribution in the SN in relation to cytoplasmic inclusions in mice, as well as in classical LBs in PD patients. The results demonstrated that DJ-1 was not only colocalized with alpha-synuclein in dopaminergic neurons but also to cytoplasmic inclusions in mice treated with MPTP/prob. In addition, DJ-1 was present in the halo but not in the core of classical LBs in patients with PD. Our findings suggested that DJ-1 might play an important role in mitochondrial dysfunction, as well as LB formation in PD.
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- Jinghua Jin
- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
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Pierri M, Vaudano E, Sager T, Englund U. KW-6002 protects from MPTP induced dopaminergic toxicity in the mouse. Neuropharmacology 2005; 48:517-24. [PMID: 15755479 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2004.11.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2004] [Revised: 10/14/2004] [Accepted: 11/27/2004] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The risk of Parkinson's disease (PD) is associated with a lower intake of caffeine, a non-selective adenosine A2A antagonist. In agreement, genetic or pharmacological inactivation of adenosine A2A receptors in animal models of PD has demonstrated both symptomatic and neuroprotective effects. These findings and the lack of disease modifying therapies have led to intense research on adenosine A2A antagonists as a novel treatment for PD. In the present study the neuroprotective effect of the A2A receptor antagonist KW-6002 was investigated using different models of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) in mice, which induced dopaminergic terminal and or dopaminergic cell loss and inflammation. Treatment with KW-6002 prevented the loss of dopaminergic striatal terminals and nigral cell bodies and inhibited the nigral microglia activation. Our results confirm previous findings that pharmacological inactivation of A2A receptors inhibits MPTP-induced dopaminergic damage at the level of striatum. In addition, we demonstrate for the first time that, after MPTP treatment in mice, an A2A antagonist is neuroprotective, and has anti-inflammatory effects, at the level of the substantia nigra. Thus, our data further support the use of A2A receptor antagonists as a novel neuroprotective therapy for PD.
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- Mette Pierri
- Pharmacology Target Research, H. Lundbeck A/S, Ottilliavej 7-9, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark
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Vallés SL, Blanco AM, Pascual M, Guerri C. Chronic ethanol treatment enhances inflammatory mediators and cell death in the brain and in astrocytes. Brain Pathol 2005; 14:365-71. [PMID: 15605983 PMCID: PMC8095743 DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.2004.tb00079.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 192] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Inflammatory processes and cytokine expression have been implicated in the pathogenesis of several neurodegenerative disorders. Chronic ethanol intake induces brain damage, although the mechanisms involved in this effect are not well understood. We tested the hypothesis that activation of glial cells by ethanol would induce stimulation of signaling pathways and inflammatory mediators in brain, and would cause neurotoxicity. We used cerebral cortex from control and chronic ethanol-fed rats, which received ethanol-liquid diet for 5 months and cultured of astrocytes exposed to 75 mM ethanol for 7 days. Our results demonstrate that chronic ethanol treatment up-regulates iNOS, COX-2 and IL-1beta in rat cerebral cortex and in cultured astrocytes. Under both experimental conditions, up-regulation of these inflammatory mediators and IL-1RI concomitantly occurs with the stimulation of IRAK and MAP kinases, including ERK1/2, p-38 and JNK, which trigger the downstream activation of oxidant-sensitive transcription factors NF-KB and AP-1. These effects were associated with an increased in both caspase-3 and apoptosis in ethanol-fed rats and in astrocytes exposed to ethanol. In conclusion, chronic ethanol treatment stimulates glial cells, up-regulating the production and the expression of inflammatory mediators in the brain, and activating signalling pathways and transcription factors involved in inflammatory damage and cell death.
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- Soraya L. Vallés
- Instituto de Investigaciones Citológicas (FVIB), Valencia, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Citológicas (FVIB), Valencia, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Citológicas (FVIB), Valencia, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Citológicas (FVIB), Valencia, Spain
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Leng A, Mura A, Feldon J, Ferger B. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha receptor ablation in a chronic MPTP mouse model of Parkinson's disease. Neurosci Lett 2005; 375:107-11. [PMID: 15670651 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.10.077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2004] [Revised: 08/07/2004] [Accepted: 10/27/2004] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Recently, we demonstrated that mice deficient of the pro-inflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) were partly protected against 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) neurotoxicity. Here we extended the study and investigated TNF-alpha receptor 1 (-/-) (TNFR1) and TNF-alpha receptor 2 (-/-) (TNFR2) mice using a chronic MPTP dosing regimen (15 mg/kg MPTP on 8 consecutive days). One week after the last MPTP treatment, HPLC determination of striatal dopamine (DA) and immunostaining for the dopamine transporter (DAT) in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) was performed. MPTP treatment reduced striatal DA levels significantly; nigral DAT immunoreactivity was reduced to a lower extent. However, there was no difference in DA levels and the number of DAT positive neurons between TNFR1 (-/-), TNFR2 (-/-) and wild type mice after MPTP treatment. In contrast to TNF-alpha deficiency neither TNFR1 nor TNFR2 gene ablation showed protection against MPTP neurotoxicity, which argues for a protective mechanism of TNF-alpha not mediated by TNFR1 and TNFR2 signaling.
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MESH Headings
- 1-Methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine
- Animals
- Chronic Disease
- Corpus Striatum/metabolism
- Corpus Striatum/physiopathology
- Cytoprotection/genetics
- Disease Models, Animal
- Dopamine/metabolism
- Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins
- Down-Regulation/drug effects
- Down-Regulation/physiology
- Male
- Membrane Glycoproteins/metabolism
- Membrane Transport Proteins/metabolism
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Motor Activity/drug effects
- Motor Activity/genetics
- Nerve Tissue Proteins/metabolism
- Parkinsonian Disorders/chemically induced
- Parkinsonian Disorders/genetics
- Parkinsonian Disorders/physiopathology
- Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor/genetics
- Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Type I
- Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Type II/genetics
- Substantia Nigra/metabolism
- Substantia Nigra/physiopathology
- Tumor Necrosis Factor Decoy Receptors
- Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/metabolism
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- Andreas Leng
- Behavioural Neurobiology Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, CH-8603 Schwerzenbach, Switzerland
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Chen H, Jacobs E, Schwarzschild MA, McCullough ML, Calle EE, Thun MJ, Ascherio A. Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug use and the risk for Parkinson's disease. Ann Neurol 2005; 58:963-7. [PMID: 16240369 DOI: 10.1002/ana.20682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 357] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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We investigated whether nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug use was associated with a lower risk for Parkinson's disease (PD) in a large cohort of US men and women. PD risk was lower among ibuprofen users than nonusers. Compared with nonusers, the relative risks were 0.73 for users of fewer than 2 tablets/week, 0.72 for 2 to 6.9 tablets/week, and 0.62 for 1 or more tablets/day (p trend = 0.03). No association was found between the use of aspirin, other nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs, or acetaminophen and PD risk. The results suggest that ibuprofen use may delay or prevent the onset of PD.
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- Honglei Chen
- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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De Pablos RM, Herrera AJ, Villarán RF, Cano J, Machado A. Dopamine-dependent neurotoxicity of lipopolysaccharide in substantia nigra. FASEB J 2004; 19:407-9. [PMID: 15625078 DOI: 10.1096/fj.04-2153fje] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Intranigral injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a potent inductor of inflammation, induces degeneration of dopaminergic neurons, along with an inflammatory process that features activation of microglial cells and loss of astrocytes. To test the involvement of dopamine (DA) in this degeneration induced by LPS, we treated albino Wistar rats with different concentrations of alpha-methyl-p-tyrosine (alpha-MPT), an inhibitor of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) activity. Results showed that alpha-MPT prevented LPS-induced loss of TH immunostaining and expression of mRNA for TH and DA transporter; it also prevented substantial activation of microglial cells. Loss of the astroglial population, a marker of damage in our model, was also prevented. This protective effect resulted from inhibition of TH and the consequent decrease in DA concentration, because treatment with L-DOPA/benserazide, which bypasses TH inhibition induced by alpha-MPT, reversed the protective effect produced by this drug. These results point out the important contribution of DA to the vulnerability and degeneration of dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra. Knowledge about the involvement of DA in this process may lead to the possibility of new protection strategies against this important degenerative process.
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- Rocío M De Pablos
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Bromatología, Toxicología y Medicina Legal, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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Zucca FA, Giaveri G, Gallorini M, Albertini A, Toscani M, Pezzoli G, Lucius R, Wilms H, Sulzer D, Ito S, Wakamatsu K, Zecca L. The Neuromelanin of Human Substantia Nigra: Physiological and Pathogenic Aspects. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 17:610-7. [PMID: 15541018 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.2004.00201.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Neuromelanin (NM) accumulates as a function of age in normal human substantia nigra (SN) but is relatively depleted in the SN of patients with Parkinson disease (PD). Several studies have been performed to further our understanding of the role of NM in neuronal aging and neurodegenerative mechanisms of PD. To this purpose, NM from human SN was isolated and its structure and molecular interactions were investigated. Cysteinyl-dopamine was shown to be one precursor of NM synthesis. A striking affinity of NM for specific metals, lipids, drugs and pesticides was found in vitro, and in animal and human brain postmortem studies. Because of these affinities, NM seems to play a protective role in the human brain by blocking toxic molecules. On the other hand, experiments in cell culture indicate that NM can activate microglia, eliciting the release of cytotoxic factors that can induce neurodegeneration.
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- Fabio A Zucca
- Institute of Biomedical Technologies-CNR 20090 Segrate (Milano), Italy
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Huerta C, Alvarez V, Mata IF, Coto E, Ribacoba R, Martínez C, Blázquez M, Guisasola LM, Salvador C, Lahoz CH, Peña J. Chemokines (RANTES and MCP-1) and chemokine-receptors (CCR2 and CCR5) gene polymorphisms in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Neurosci Lett 2004; 370:151-4. [PMID: 15488313 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.08.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2004] [Revised: 08/04/2004] [Accepted: 08/07/2004] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is a complex disorder characterized by the progressive degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the midbrain. Late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) is the most common cause of dementia in the elderly, affecting about 5% of the population older than 65 years. Several works have demonstrated the involvement of inflammation in the pathogenesis of both, PD and LOAD. Genetic susceptibility to develop PD and LOAD has also been widely recognised. Thus, functional polymorphisms at the genes encoding inflammatory proteins could influence the overall risk of developing these neurodegenerative disorders. We examined whether DNA-polymorphisms at the genes encoding chemokines MCP-1 (-2518 A/G) and RANTES (-403 A/G), and chemokine receptors 5 (CCR5, Delta32) and 2 (CCR2,V64I), were associated with the risk and/or the clinical outcome of LOAD and PD. A total of 200 PD, 326 LOAD, and 370 healthy controls were genotyped for the four polymorphisms, and genotype frequencies statistically compared. We did not find significant differences in the frequencies of the different genotypes between both groups of patients and controls. We conclude that the four DNA polymorphisms, which have been associated with several immuno-modulated diseases, did not contribute to the risk of PD or LOAD.
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- Cecilia Huerta
- Genética Molecular-IRSIN/FRIAT, Hospital Central Asturias, Oviedo 33006, Spain
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Liu XY, Zhou HF, Pan YL, Liang XB, Niu DB, Xue B, Li FQ, He QH, Wang XH, Wang XM. Electro-acupuncture stimulation protects dopaminergic neurons from inflammation-mediated damage in medial forebrain bundle-transected rats. Exp Neurol 2004; 189:189-96. [PMID: 15296849 DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2004.05.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2004] [Revised: 05/21/2004] [Accepted: 05/21/2004] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Through producing a variety of cytotoxic factors upon activation, microglia are believed to participate in the mediation of neurodegeneration. Intervention against microglial activation may therefore exert a neuroprotective effect. Our previous study has shown that the electro-acupuncture (EA) stimulation at 100 Hz can protect axotomized dopaminergic neurons from degeneration. To explore the underlying mechanism, the effects of 100 Hz EA stimulation on medial forebrain bundle (MFB) axotomy-induced microglial activation were investigated. Complement receptor 3 (CR3) immunohistochemical staining revealed that 24 sessions of 100 Hz EA stimulation (28 days after MFB transection) significantly inhibited the activation of microglia in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) induced by MFB transection. Moreover, 100 Hz EA stimulation obviously inhibited the upregulation of the levels of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha and interleukin (IL)-1beta mRNA in the ventral midbrains in MFB-transected rats, as revealed by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). ED1 immunohistochemical staining showed that a large number of macrophages appeared in the substantia nigra (SN) 14 days after MFB transection. The number of macrophages decreased by 47% in the rats that received 12 sessions of EA simulation after MFB transection. These data indicate that the neuroprotective role of 100 Hz EA stimulation on dopaminergic neurons in MFB-transected rats is likely to be mediated by suppressing axotomy-induced inflammatory responses. Taken together with our previous results, this study suggests that the neuroprotective effect of EA on the dopaminergic neurons may stem from the collaboration of its anti-inflammatory and neurotrophic actions.
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- Xian-Yu Liu
- Neuroscience Research Institute, Peking University, Beijing 100083, PR China
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Arai H, Furuya T, Yasuda T, Miura M, Mizuno Y, Mochizuki H. Neurotoxic effects of lipopolysaccharide on nigral dopaminergic neurons are mediated by microglial activation, interleukin-1beta, and expression of caspase-11 in mice. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:51647-53. [PMID: 15383538 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m407328200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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The endotoxin lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a component of the Gram-negative bacterial cell wall, selectively induces degeneration of substantia nigral (SN) dopaminergic neurons via activation of microglial cells in rats and mice. Caspase-11 plays a crucial role in LPS-induced septic shock in mice. We examined the mechanism of LPS neurotoxicity on SN dopaminergic neurons in C57BL/6 mice and caspase-11 knockout mice. Mice were stereotaxically injected with LPS into the SN on one side and vehicle into the SN of the other side. Immunohistochemistry, Western blotting analysis, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and reverse transcriptase-PCR were performed to evaluate damage of SN dopaminergic neurons and activation of microglial cells. Intranigral injection of LPS at 1 or 3 microg/microl/site decreased tyrosine hydroxylase-positive neurons and increased microglial cells in the SN compared with the contralateral side injected with vehicle at days 7 and 14 post-injection in C57BL/6 mice. Intranigral injection of LPS at 3 microg/microl/site induced the expression of caspase-11 mRNA in the ventral midbrain at 6, 8, and 12 h post-injection, and the expression of caspase-11-positive cells in the SN at 8 and 12 h post-injection. Moreover, LPS at 3 microg/microl/site increased interleukin-1beta content in the ventral midbrain at 12 and 24 h post-injection. LPS failed to elicit these responses in caspase-11 knockout mice. Our results indicate that the neurotoxic effects of LPS on nigral dopaminergic neurons are mediated by microglial activation, interleukin-1beta, and caspase-11 expression in mice.
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- Hiroyuki Arai
- Research Institute for Diseases of Old Ages, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Diguet E, Gross CE, Tison F, Bezard E. Rise and fall of minocycline in neuroprotection: need to promote publication of negative results. Exp Neurol 2004; 189:1-4. [PMID: 15296829 DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2004.05.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2004] [Accepted: 05/14/2004] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Initial studies conducted on the neuroprotective effects of minocycline, a second-generation tetracycline, in experimental models of neurodegeneration gave promising results. However, more recently, minocycline has clearly been shown to have variable and even contradictory (beneficial or detrimental) effects in different species and models of neurological disorders, and its "neuroprotective" mechanisms remain to be clarified. Although its anti-inflammatory properties are likely to contribute to its neuroprotective effects observed in several animal models, a body of recent evidence indicates that our community should proceed with caution in the clinical use of minocycline for central nervous system disorders.
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- Elsa Diguet
- CNRS UMR 5543, Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux2, Bordeaux, France
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Kielian T, Esen N. Effects of neuroinflammation on glia-glia gap junctional intercellular communication: a perspective. Neurochem Int 2004; 45:429-36. [PMID: 15145557 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuint.2003.09.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2003] [Revised: 09/15/2003] [Accepted: 09/15/2003] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Gap junctions serve as intercellular conduits that allow for the direct transfer of small molecular weight molecules (up to 1 kDa) including ions involved in cellular excitability, metabolic precursors, and second messengers. The observation of extensive intercellular coupling and large numbers of gap junctions in the central nervous system (CNS) suggests a syncytium-like organization of glial compartments. Inflammation is a hallmark of various CNS diseases such as bacterial and viral infections, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, and cerebral ischemia. A general consequence of brain inflammation is reactive gliosis typified by astrocyte hypertrophy and proliferation of astrocytes and microglia. Changes in gap junction intercellular communication as reflected by alterations in dye coupling and connexin expression have been associated with numerous CNS inflammatory diseases, which may have dramatic implications on the survival of neuronal and glial populations in the context of neuroinflammation. A review of the effects of inflammatory products on glia-glia gap junctional communication and glial glutamate release is presented. In addition, the hypothesis of a "syncytial switch" based upon differential regulation of gap junction expression in astrocytes and microglia during normal CNS homeostasis and neuroinflammation is proposed.
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- Tammy Kielian
- Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 4301 W. Markham Street, Slot 510, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA.
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Barcia C, Sánchez Bahillo A, Fernández-Villalba E, Bautista V, Poza Y Poza M, Fernández-Barreiro A, Hirsch EC, Herrero MT. Evidence of active microglia in substantia nigra pars compacta of parkinsonian monkeys 1 year after MPTP exposure. Glia 2004; 46:402-9. [PMID: 15095370 DOI: 10.1002/glia.20015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Inflammatory changes have been found in Parkinson's disease, in humans intoxicated with the parkinsonian toxin MPTP, and in animal models of the disease. However, it is still not known whether inflammatory changes are responsible for active nerve cell death or if they have a protective role against neurodegeneration. In this study, we analyzed the glial reaction in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) and the striatum of monkeys rendered parkinsosian by chronic MPTP injections. At postmortem examination 1 year after the last MPTP injection, the density of astroglial cells and activated microglial cells in the SNpc, but not in the striatum, of MPTP-intoxicated animals was significantly higher than in the two control animals. These data suggest that neurodegeneration was still active despite the absence of the agent triggering cell death and that the glial reaction is associated with long-term neurodegeneration.
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- Carlos Barcia
- Experimental Neurology and Neurosurgery Group, Department of Human Anatomy and Psychobiology, School of Medicine, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain.
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Miwa H, Kubo T, Morita S, Nakanishi I, Kondo T. Oxidative stress and microglial activation in substantia nigra following striatal MPP+. Neuroreport 2004; 15:1039-44. [PMID: 15076730 DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200404290-00021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The present study aims to study sequential alterations occurring in both dopaminergic neurons and microglia in substantia nigra (SN) following intrastriatal injection of 1-methyl-4-phenylpridium ion (MPP+) in rats. Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1), a marker of oxidative stress, first appeared in dopaminergic neurons in SN at 1 day post-lesion. Subsequently, microglia in SN exhibited morphological changes indicative of activation. At 7 days post-lesion, those findings increased severity and 7a significant reduction in the number of dopaminergic neurons was observed. The present finding suggests that extensive oxidative stress and secondary-induced neuroinflammation play a relevant role in MPP(+)-induced retrograde dopaminergic neuron degeneration. We hope that this model will be useful in developing a disease modifying therapy of Parkinson's disease.
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- Hideto Miwa
- Department of Neurology, Wakayama Medical University, 811-1 Kimiidera, Wakayama-city, Wakayama 641-8510, Japan.
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Diguet E, Fernagut PO, Wei X, Du Y, Rouland R, Gross C, Bezard E, Tison F. Deleterious effects of minocycline in animal models of Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease. Eur J Neurosci 2004; 19:3266-76. [PMID: 15217383 DOI: 10.1111/j.0953-816x.2004.03372.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Minocycline has been shown to exert anti-inflammatory effects underlying its putative neuroprotective properties in the 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) mouse model of Parkinson's disease and in the R6/2 mouse model of Huntington's disease (HD). However, contradictory results have recently been reported. We report deleterious effects of minocycline in two phenotypic (toxic) models of Parkinson's disease and HD in monkey and mouse. Of seven MPTP-intoxicated female cynomolgus monkeys (0.2 mg/kg, i.v. until day 15), three received minocycline (200 mg b.i.d.). While placebo-MPTP-treated animals displayed mild parkinsonism at day 15, the minocycline/MPTP-treated animals tended to be more affected (P = 0.057) and showed a greater loss of putaminal dopaminergic nerve endings (P < 0.0001). In the 3-nitropropionic acid (3-NP) mouse model of HD, minocycline (45 mg/kg i.p.) was administered 30 min before each i.p. injection of 3-NP (b.i.d., cumulated dose, 360 mg/kg in 5 days). Mice receiving minocycline exhibited a worsening of the mean motor score with a slower recovery slope, more impaired general activity and significantly deteriorated performances on the rotarod, pole test and beam-traversing tasks. The histopathological outcome demonstrated that minocycline-treated mice presented significantly more severe neuronal cell loss in the dorsal striatum. The effect of minocycline vs. 3-NP was also investigated on hippocampal and cortical cell cultures. minocycline blocked 3-NP-induced neurotoxicity at certain doses (1 mm cortical neurons) but not at higher doses (10 mm). Thus, minocycline may have variable and even deleterious effects in different species and models according to the mode of administration and dose.
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- Elsa Diguet
- Physiologie et Physiopathologie de la Signalization Cellulaire, UMR-CNRS 5543, Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux2, 146 rue Léo Saignat, 33076, Bordeaux, France
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Waldmeier PC, Tatton WG. Interrupting apoptosis in neurodegenerative disease: potential for effective therapy? Drug Discov Today 2004; 9:210-8. [PMID: 14980539 DOI: 10.1016/s1359-6446(03)03000-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Current treatment options for neurodegenerative diseases are limited and mainly affect only the symptoms of disease. Because of the unknown and probably multiple causes of these diseases, they cannot be readily targeted. However, it has been established that apoptosis contributes to neuronal loss in most neurodegenerative diseases. A possible treatment option is to interrupt the signaling networks that link neuronal damage to apoptotic degradation in neurodegeneration. The viability of this option depends upon the extent to which apoptosis accounts for neuron loss, whether or not interruption of apoptosis signaling results in recovery of neurological function and whether or not there are significant downsides to targeting apoptosis. Several compounds acting at different sites in known apoptotic signaling networks are currently in development and a few are in clinical trial. If an apoptosis-targeted compound succeeds in slowing or halting neurological dysfunction in one or more neurodegenerative diseases, a new era in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases will begin.
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- Peter C Waldmeier
- WKL-125.607, Neuroscience Research, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR), CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland.
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Gayle DA, Beloosesky R, Desai M, Amidi F, Nuñez SE, Ross MG. Maternal LPS induces cytokines in the amniotic fluid and corticotropin releasing hormone in the fetal rat brain. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2004; 286:R1024-9. [PMID: 14988088 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00664.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Perinatal infections are a risk factor for fetal neurological pathologies, including cerebral palsy and schizophrenia. Cytokines that are produced as part of the inflammatory response are proposed to partially mediate the neurological injury. This study investigated the effects of intraperitoneal injections of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to pregnant rats on the production of cytokines and stress markers in the fetal environment. Gestation day 18 pregnant rats were treated with LPS (100 μg/kg body wt ip), and maternal serum, amniotic fluid, placenta, chorioamnion, and fetal brain were harvested at 1, 6, 12, and 24 h posttreatment to assay for LPS-induced changes in cytokine protein (ELISA) and mRNA (real-time RT-PCR) levels. We observed induction of proinflammatory cytokines interleukin (IL)-1β, IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) as well as the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 in the maternal serum within 6 h of LPS exposure. Similarly, proinflammatory cytokines were induced in the amniotic fluid in response to LPS; however, no significant induction of IL-10 was observed in the amniotic fluid. LPS-induced mRNA changes included upregulation of the stress-related peptide corticotropin-releasing factor in the fetal whole brain, TNF-α, IL-6, and IL-10 in the chorioamnion, and TNF-α, IL-1β, and IL-6 in the placenta. These findings suggest that maternal infections may lead to an unbalanced inflammatory reaction in the fetal environment that activates the fetal stress axis.
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- Dave A Gayle
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Harbor-University of California Los Angleles Medical Center and Research and Education Institute, Torrance, CA 90502, USA.
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Sánchez-Pernaute R, Ferree A, Cooper O, Yu M, Brownell AL, Isacson O. Selective COX-2 inhibition prevents progressive dopamine neuron degeneration in a rat model of Parkinson's disease. J Neuroinflammation 2004; 1:6. [PMID: 15285796 PMCID: PMC483059 DOI: 10.1186/1742-2094-1-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 153] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2004] [Accepted: 05/17/2004] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Several lines of evidence point to a significant role of neuroinflammation in Parkinson's disease (PD) and other neurodegenerative disorders. In the present study we examined the protective effect of celecoxib, a selective inhibitor of the inducible form of cyclooxygenase (COX-2), on dopamine (DA) cell loss in a rat model of PD. We used the intrastriatal administration of 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) that induces a retrograde neuronal damage and death, which progresses over weeks. Animals were randomized to receive celecoxib (20 mg/kg/day) or vehicle starting 1 hour before the intrastriatal administration of 6-OHDA. Evaluation was performed in vivo using micro PET and selective radiotracers for DA terminals and microglia. Post mortem analysis included stereological quantification of tyrosine hydroxylase, astrocytes and microglia. 12 days after the 6-OHDA lesion there were no differences in DA cell or fiber loss between groups, although the microglial cell density and activation was markedly reduced in animals receiving celecoxib (p < 0.01). COX-2 inhibition did not reduce the typical astroglial response in the striatum at any stage. Between 12 and 21 days, there was a significant progression of DA cell loss in the vehicle group (from 40 to 65%) that was prevented by celecoxib. Therefore, inhibition of COX-2 by celecoxib appears to be able, either directly or through inhibition of microglia activation to prevent or slow down DA cell degeneration.
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- Rosario Sánchez-Pernaute
- McLean Hospital/Harvard University Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Center of Excellence, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA
- Neuroregeneration Laboratories, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA
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- McLean Hospital/Harvard University Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Center of Excellence, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA
- Neuroregeneration Laboratories, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA
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- McLean Hospital/Harvard University Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Center of Excellence, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA
- Neuroregeneration Laboratories, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA
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- McLean Hospital/Harvard University Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Center of Excellence, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- McLean Hospital/Harvard University Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Center of Excellence, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- McLean Hospital/Harvard University Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Center of Excellence, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA
- Neuroregeneration Laboratories, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA
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Furuya T, Hayakawa H, Yamada M, Yoshimi K, Hisahara S, Miura M, Mizuno Y, Mochizuki H. Caspase-11 mediates inflammatory dopaminergic cell death in the 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine mouse model of Parkinson's disease. J Neurosci 2004; 24:1865-72. [PMID: 14985426 PMCID: PMC6730410 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.3309-03.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The present study was designed to elucidate the inflammatory and apoptotic mechanisms of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP)-induced neurotoxicity in a model of Parkinson's disease. Our results showed that mutant mice lacking the caspase-11 gene were significantly more resistant to the effects of acute treatment with MPTP than their wild-type mice. Thus, the neurotoxicity of MPTP seems to be mediated by the induction of both mitochondrial dysfunction and free radical generation. Previously, we showed that overexpression of the Apaf-1 dominant-negative inhibitor inhibited the mitochondrial apoptotic cascade in chronic MPTP treatment but not in acute MPTP treatment. The present results indicate that MPTP neurotoxicity may be mediated via activation of the caspase-11 cascade and inflammatory cascade, as well as the mitochondrial apoptotic cascade.
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- Tsuyoshi Furuya
- Department of Neurology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan
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Youdim MBH, Stephenson G, Ben Shachar D. Ironing Iron Out in Parkinson's Disease and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases with Iron Chelators: A Lesson from 6-Hydroxydopamine and Iron Chelators, Desferal and VK-28. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2004; 1012:306-25. [PMID: 15105275 DOI: 10.1196/annals.1306.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 171] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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In Parkinson's disease (PD) and its neurotoxin-induced models, 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) and N-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP), significant accumulation of iron occurs in the substantia nigra pars compacta. The iron is thought to be in a labile pool, unbound to ferritin, and is thought to have a pivotal role to induce oxidative stress-dependent neurodegeneration of dopamine neurons via Fenton chemistry. The consequence of this is its interaction with H(2)O(2) to generate the most reactive radical oxygen species, the hydroxyl radical. This scenario is supported by studies in both human and neurotoxin-induced parkinsonism showing that disposition of H(2)O(2) is compromised via depletion of glutathione (GSH), the rate-limiting cofactor of glutathione peroxide, the major enzyme source to dispose H(2)O(2) as water in the brain. Further, radical scavengers have been shown to prevent the neurotoxic action of the above neurotoxins and depletion of GSH. However, our group was the first to demonstrate that the prototype iron chelator, desferal, is a potent neuroprotective agent in the 6-OHDA model. We have extended these studies and examined the neuroprotective effect of intracerebraventricular (ICV) pretreatment with the prototype iron chelator, desferal (1.3, 13, 134 mg), on ICV induced 6-OHDA (250 micro g) lesion of striatal dopamine neurons. Desferal alone at the doses studied did not affect striatal tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) activity or dopamine (DA) metabolism. All three pretreatment (30 min) doses of desferal prevented the fall in striatal and frontal cortex DA, dihydroxyphenylacetic acid, and homovalinic acid, as well as the left and right striatum TH activity and DA turnover resulting from 6-OHDA lesion of dopaminergic neurons. A concentration bell-shaped neuroprotective effect of desferal was observed in the striatum, with 13 micro g being the most effective. Neither desferal nor 6-OHDA affected striatal serotonin, 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid, or noradrenaline. Desferal also protected against 6-OHDA-induced deficit in locomotor activity, rearing, and exploratory behavior (sniffing) in a novel environment. Since the lowest neuroprotective dose (1.3 micro g) of desferal was 200 times less than 6-OHDA, its neuroprotective activity may not be attributed to interference with the neurotoxin activity, but rather iron chelation. These studies led us to develop novel brain-permeable iron chelators, the VK-28 series, with iron chelating and neuroprotective activity similar to desferal for ironing iron out from PD and other neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Friedreich's ataxia, and Huntington's disease.
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- Moussa B H Youdim
- Eve Topf and US National Parkinson Foundation Centers of Excellence for Neurodegenerative Diseases Research, and Department of Pharmacology, Technion-Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel.
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Milatovic D, Zaja-Milatovic S, Montine KS, Horner PJ, Montine TJ. Pharmacologic suppression of neuronal oxidative damage and dendritic degeneration following direct activation of glial innate immunity in mouse cerebrum. J Neurochem 2004; 87:1518-26. [PMID: 14713307 DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.2003.02120.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Activation of glial innate immunity is widely proposed to contribute to a number of degenerative and destructive diseases of brain. However, the precise role of activated innate immunity has been difficult to define in vivo because of multiple simultaneous pathogenic processes and responses to injury that confound interpretation of results from complex models of disease. Here, we used the model of intracerebroventricular (ICV) injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to test the hypothesis that directly activated glial innate immunity leads to neurodegeneration in cerebrum and to establish the molecular determinants of and neuroprotectants from such innate immunity-mediated neuronal damage. Our results showed that ICV LPS induced delayed, reversible oxidative damage to cerebral neuronal membranes as measured by F4-neuroprostanes that was coincident with degeneration of the hippocampal pyramidal neuron dendritic system, but not neuron death, in adult mice. Both neuronal oxidative damage and dendritic degeneration were NF-kappaB and iNOS dependent and were completely suppressed by ibuprofen and alpha-tocopherol, but not naproxen or gamma-tocopherol. These results prove that activation of glial innate immunity can lead to neurodegeneration independent of other pathologic processes, closely associate oxidative damage to neuronal membranes with degeneration of the dendritic system, and provide a possible explanation for the varying efficacy of neuroprotectants that have been suggested in observational studies of dementia.
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- Dejan Milatovic
- Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is a complex disorder with many different causes, yet they may intersect in common pathways, raising the possibility that neuroprotective agents may have broad applicability in the treatment of PD. Current evidence suggests that mitochondrial complex I inhibition may be the central cause of sporadic PD and that derangements in complex I cause alpha-synuclein aggregation, which contributes to the demise of dopamine neurons. Accumulation and aggregation of alpha-synuclein may further contribute to the death of dopamine neurons through impairments in protein handling and detoxification. Dysfunction of parkin (a ubiquitin E3 ligase) and DJ-1 could contribute to these deficits. Strategies aimed at restoring complex I activity, reducing oxidative stress and alpha-synuclein aggregation, and enhancing protein degradation may hold particular promise as powerful neuroprotective agents in the treatment of PD.
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- Ted M Dawson
- Institute for Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
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Schapira AHV, Olanow CW. Rationale for the use of dopamine agonists as neuroprotective agents in Parkinson's disease. Ann Neurol 2003; 53 Suppl 3:S149-57; discussion S157-9. [PMID: 12666106 DOI: 10.1002/ana.10514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Anthony H V Schapira
- University Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Royal Free and University College Medical School, UCL, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom.
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Barcia C, Fernández Barreiro A, Poza M, Herrero MT. Parkinson's disease and inflammatory changes. Neurotox Res 2003; 5:411-8. [PMID: 14715444 DOI: 10.1007/bf03033170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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In 1988 McGeer and colleagues (Neurology 38, 1285-91) observed an activation of the microglia in substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) and striatum of brains from patients with Parkinson's disease. In the years that followed several studies performed in the cerebrospinal fluid and during post-mortem analysis in parkinsonian patients revealed increased levels of cytokines, suggesting the activation of a proinflammatory response. Moreover, Langston and his group described the presence of active microglia in the SNpc of three patients who had been exposed to MPTP several years before death. These results suggested that the inflammatory response may increase negative feed-back into the damaged area of the cerebral parenchyma, inducing an imbalance that could perpetuate and/or accelerate neuronal death over a period of years. Similar results have been obtained in parkinsonian monkeys, rats and mice. For these reasons, several groups have treated parkinsonian animals with different anti-inflammatory drugs and obtained promising results. However, it is still not known whether inflammatory changes are responsible for active nerve cell death or whether they play a protective role in neurodegeneration. These changes are putatively related to neuronal loss and suggest that anti-inflammatory treatment for parkinsonian patients could have beneficial effects in the progression of the disease by slowing down the process of neuronal loss.
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- Carlos Barcia
- Experimental Neurology and Neurosurgery Group, School of Medicine, Campus Espinardo, University of Murcia, 30071 Murcia, Spain.
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