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Hu S, Sheng WS, Peterson PK, Chao CC. Differential regulation by cytokines of human astrocyte nitric oxide production. Glia 1995; 15:491-4. [PMID: 8926042 DOI: 10.1002/glia.440150412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Reactive nitrogen intermediates, such as nitric oxide (NO), play an important role in host-defense and injury. Human astrocytes released abundant NO upon stimulation with the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin (IL)-1 beta, which was potentiated by interferon (IFN)-gamma and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha. IL-1 receptor antagonist protein markedly attenuated astrocyte NO production. The anti-inflammatory cytokines IL-4 and IL-10 potently suppressed IL-1 beta plus IFN-gamma-stimulated NO, while transforming growth factor-beta preferentially inhibited IL-1 beta plus TNF-alpha-stimulated production of NO. These findings suggest that while IL-1 plays a key role in inducing astrocyte NO production, anti-inflammatory cytokines have the capacity to downregulate NO production by IL-1-stimulated astrocytes.
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- S Hu
- Neuroimmunobiology and Host Defense Laboratory, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minnesota 55404, USA
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Galea E, Reddi J, Feinstein DL. Differential suppression of glial nitric oxide synthase induction by structurally related tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Neurosci Lett 1995; 200:195-8. [PMID: 9064610 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(94)12119-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Incubation of C6 astrocytoma cells with bacterial endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide; LPS) plus interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma), or with a combination of cytokines (TNF-alpha, IL1-beta, and IFN-gamma) leads to high levels of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) expression. Previous results demonstrated a requirement for tyrosine kinase (TK) activities for iNOS induction. In the present study, a set of structurally related TK inhibitors, the tyrphostins (TYRs), were used to characterize possible differences between LPS and cytokine iNOS induction. All TYRs tested suppressed both types of induction. However, dose-response curves revealed significant differences in the IC50 values obtained for some TYRs (T25 and T56), and significant differences in the IC50 potency rank order when comparing inhibition of LPS versus cytokine-dependent iNOS induction. These results are consistent with differential TK utilization by the LPS versus cytokine pathways of iNOS induction, and establish a basis for developing further selective inhibitors of iNOS expression.
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- E Galea
- Division of Neurobiology, Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY 10021, USA
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Lu J, Kaur C, Ling EA. Histochemical demonstration of nitric oxide synthase-like immunoreactivity in epiplexus cells and choroid epithelia in the lateral ventricles of postnatal rat brain induced by an intracerebral injection of lipopolysaccharide. Brain Res 1995; 699:275-85. [PMID: 8616631 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)00919-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The present in vivo study showed the expression of nitric oxide synthase-like immunoreactivity in epiplexus cells in the lateral ventricles induced by intracerebral injection of lipopolysaccharide into postnatal rats. Nitric oxide synthase-like immunoreactivity was vigorously expressed in epiplexus cells 1 and 3 days after the lipopolysaccharide injection, but by 7 days post-injection, it became undetectable. The expression of nitric oxide synthase-like immunoreactivity was also observed in some of the choroid epithelial cells. The nitric oxide synthase-like immunoreactivity in these cells appeared to be more intense in the ventricle ipsilateral to the LPS injection than that on the contralateral side. The immunostaining patterns of OX-42 and OX-6 for the detection of complement type 3 receptors and major histocompatibility complex class II antigens respectively paralleled that of anti-nitric oxide synthase, indicating that lipopolysaccharide-induced nitric oxide synthase-like immunoreactivity was primarily in epiplexus cells. Immunoelectron microscopy revealed that the nitric oxide synthase-like immunoprecipitate in epiplexus cells and choroid epithelial cells filled the entire cytoplasm and in some areas associated with the membranes of some of the organelles especially the mitochondria, suggesting that the enzyme is mainly cytosolic. It is speculated that nitric oxide synthase in these cells is involved in the synthesis of nitric oxide. The nitric oxide production, if any, through the enzymatic activity of nitric oxide synthase in epiplexus cells as well as the choroid epithelial cells may be involved in host defense against bacterial endotoxin in the ventricular system of postnatal rat brain.
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- J Lu
- Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Much of our present knowledge of glial cell function stems from studies of glioma cell lines, both rodent (C6, C6 polyploid, and TR33B) and human (1321N1, 138MG, D384, R-111, T67, Tp-276MG, Tp-301MG, Tp-483MG, Tp-387MG, U-118MG, U-251MG, U-373MG, U-787MG, U-1242MG, and UC-11MG). New methods such as patch clamp and Ca2+ imaging have lead to rapid progress the last few years in our knowledge about glial cells, where an unexpected presence and diversity of receptors and ion channels have emerged. Basic mechanisms related to membrane potential and K+ transport and the presence of voltage gated ion channels (Na+, inwardly rectifying K+, Ca(2+)-activated K+, Ca2+, and Cl- channels) have been identified. Receptor function and intracellular signaling for glutamate, acetylcholine, histamine, serotonin, cathecolamines, and a large number of neuropeptides (bradykinin, cholecystokinin, endothelin, opioids, and tachykinins) have been characterized. Such studies are facilitated in cell lines which offer a more homogenous material than primary cultures. Although the expression of ion channels and receptors vary considerably between different cell lines and comparative studies are rare, a few differences (compared to astrocytes in primary culture) have been identified which may turn out to be characteristic for glioma cells. Future identification of specific markers for receptors on glial and glioma cells related to cell type and growth properties may have great potential in clinical diagnosis and therapy.
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- T Brismar
- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden
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Suzuki S, Kassell NF, Lee KS. Hemin activation of an inducible isoform of nitric oxide synthase in vascular smooth-muscle cells. J Neurosurg 1995; 83:862-6. [PMID: 7472555 DOI: 10.3171/jns.1995.83.5.0862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Hemin is a prominent breakdown product of hemoglobin, and high levels of hemin are found in the cerebrospinal fluid during subarachnoid hemorrhage-induced vasospasm. The possible role of hemin in modifying vascular function was examined in the present study by testing its effects on nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity in cultured rat aortic smooth-muscle cells. Nitric oxide synthase activity was estimated from the amounts of accumulated nitrite and nitrate, which are oxidative products of nitric oxide (NO). Hemin (1-100 microM) increased the levels of nitrite and nitrate in culture medium in a dose- and time-dependent manner. The hemin-induced elevation of nitrite and nitrate was inhibited significantly by the NOS inhibitor, N omega-nitro-L-arginine (300 microM), and by the protein synthesis inhibitor, cycloheximide (5 micrograms/ml). These results indicate that hemin is capable of stimulating the expression of an inducible isoform of NOS (iNOS) in vascular smooth muscle. Transcriptional expression of iNOS is known to cause injurious effects on the maintenance of cellular homeostasis by generating extremely high levels of NO. The generation of hemin from methemoglobin during hemolysis of a subarachnoid blood clot could therefore stimulate an excessive production of NO in vascular smooth-muscle cells. It is postulated that this series of events contributes to the development of vascular injury associated with cerebral vasospasm after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.
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- S Suzuki
- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, USA
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Page GK, Morton AJ. Correlation of neuronal loss with increased expression of NADPH diaphorase in cultured rat cerebellum and cerebral cortex. Brain Res 1995; 697:157-68. [PMID: 8593572 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)00801-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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NADPH diaphorase expression in neurones and glial cells was examined in primary cultures of embryonic cerebellum and cerebral cortex with (i) increasing age in culture and (ii) the exogenous application of glutamate. In neurone-enriched cultures from both regions, NADPH diaphorase histochemistry selectively labelled discrete sub-populations of neurones and glial cells. Double labelling of the cultures showed that 2-4% of the cells with a neuronal phenotype were NADPH diaphorase-positive. Although the total numbers of neurones present in the cultures declined with increased age of cultures, there was no change in the percentage of NADPH diaphorase-positive neurones with time. In contrast, the percentage of NADPH diaphorase-positive glial cells increased from around 10% at 7 days in culture to more than 50% after 3 or more weeks in both cortical and cerebellar cultures. The age-related increase in staining was due to a greater number of cells expressing NADPH diaphorase activity rather than increased activity of existing enzyme. There was a strong correlation between the decline in neuronal cell population and the increase in the number of NADPH diaphorase positive glial cells. To determine whether or not there was a relationship between the loss of neurones and the increased expression of NADPH diaphorase in glia, neurotoxicity experiments were performed using glutamate. In both cortical and cerebellar cultures, glutamate had a significant neurotoxic effect, with a 30-50% loss of neurons 24 h after application. There was no preferential survival of NADPH diaphorase-positive neurones over the rest of the population, suggesting that NADPH diaphorase positive neurones are not selectively spared in these cultures. Glutamate had no effect on the survival of glial cells. However, glutamate cause a significant increase in the NADPH diaphorase staining of the glia. As with the aging cultures, this increase was due to an increased number of cells with enzyme activity rather than increase in the intensity of staining. The increase in NADPH diaphorase staining was not related to the expression of GFAP and was independent of the presence of neurones, since glutamate also increased NADPH diaphorase activity in pure glial cultures. In both neurone-enriched and pure glial cultures, the increase in NADPH diaphorase activity was independent of extracellular calcium and was not attenuated by the NMDA receptor antagonist dizocilpine (MK 801). However, the increase in activity could be blocked by dexamethasone. The precise identity of the enzyme responsible for these effects is unknown, but these data are consistent with the NADPH diaphorase activity we observed being due to an inducible astrocytic form of nitric oxide synthase. The strong correlation between the increased glial expression of NADPH diaphorase and decreased neuronal survival in both aging and glutamate-treated cultures suggests that NADPH diaphorase expression in glial cells may be an important factor governing the survival of neurones in culture.
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- G K Page
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, UK
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Krum JM. Age-dependent susceptibility of CNS glial populations in situ to the antimetabolite 6-aminonicotinamide. MOLECULAR AND CHEMICAL NEUROPATHOLOGY 1995; 26:79-94. [PMID: 8573244 DOI: 10.1007/bf02815007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Intraperitoneal injections of the nicotinamide antagonist 6-amino-nicotinamide (6-AN) were used to determine if there are regional differences in putative glial energy metabolism between the developing and adult rat CNS. 6-AN shuts down the hexose monophosphate pathway, which is used preferentially by astrocytes and oligodendrocytes. These cells subsequently undergo cytotoxic edema and cell death. Adult rats and pups ranging in age from 7 to 31 d received a single injection of 6-AN and were sacrificed after 24 h. As demonstrated wit immunocytochemical staining for the astroglia-specific markers GFAP and S-100 beta, the 7-9-d-old animals exhibited a uniform appearance with edematous glial cells located throughout the CNS. However, with advancing age, a consistent pattern of progressively decreasing amounts of injured glia, which has not been previously described, occurred in cerebral and cerebellar structures. After 3 wk postnatal, the adult pattern was manifested in which glial degeneration occurred only in specific regions of the spinal cord, cerebellum, medulla, and thalamus, whereas the remainder of the CNS appeared normal. The results suggest the presence of heterogeneous populations of glia whose preferred use of the hexose monophosphate pathway is predicated on both the age of the animal and their location in the CNS.
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- J M Krum
- Department of Anatomy, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20037, USA
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Nagafuji T, Sugiyama M, Matsui T, Muto A, Naito S. Nitric oxide synthase in cerebral ischemia. Possible contribution of nitric oxide synthase activation in brain microvessels to cerebral ischemic injury. MOLECULAR AND CHEMICAL NEUROPATHOLOGY 1995; 26:107-57. [PMID: 8573240 DOI: 10.1007/bf02815009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The results of our continuing studies on the role of nitric oxide (NO) in cellular mechanisms of ischemic brain damage as well as related reports from other laboratories are summarized in this paper. Repetitive ip administration of NG-nitro-L-arginine (L-NNA), a NO synthase (NOS) inhibitor, protected against neuronal necrosis in the gerbil hippocampal CA1 field after transient forebrain ischemia with a bell-shaped response curve, the optimal dose being 3 mg/kg. Repeated ip administration of L-NNA also mitigated rat brain edema or infarction following permanent and transient middle cerebral artery (MCA) occlusion with a U-shaped response. The significantly ameliorative dose-range and optimal dose were 0.01-1 mg/kg and 0.03 mg/kg, respectively. Studies using a NO-sensitive microelectrode revealed that NO concentration in the affected hemisphere was remarkably increased by 15-45 min and subsequently by 1.5-4 h after MCA occlusion. Restoration of blood flow after 2 h-MCA occlusion resulted in enhanced NO production by 1-2 h after reperfusion. Administration of L-NNA (1 mg/kg, ip) diminished the increments in NO production during ischemia and reperfusion, leading to a remarkable reduction in infarct volume. In brain microvessels obtained from the affected hemisphere, Ca(2+)-dependent constitutive NOS (cNOS) was activated significantly at 15 min, and Ca(2+)-independent inducible NOS (iNOS) was activated invariably at 4 h and 24 h after MCA occlusion. Two hour reperfusion following 2 h-MCA occlusion caused more than fivefold increases in cNOS activity with no apparent alterations in iNOS activity. Thus, we report here based on available evidence that there is good reason to think that NOS activation in brain microvessels may play a role in the cellular mechanisms underlying ischemic brain injury.
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- T Nagafuji
- CNS Diseases Research Unit, Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Shizuoka, Japan
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Molina-Holgado F, Lledó A, Guaza C. Evidence for cyclooxygenase activation by nitric oxide in astrocytes. Glia 1995; 15:167-72. [PMID: 8567068 DOI: 10.1002/glia.440150209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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We have evaluated the role of nitric oxide (NO) on the cyclooxygenase pathway in mouse glial cells. Exposure of primary cultures of neonatal mouse cortical astrocytes to bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS; 1 microgram/ml, 18 h) caused an increase in the release of both nitrite (NO2-) and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), products of NO synthase (NOS) and cyclooxygenase, respectively. Production of both, NO2- and PGE2 by astrocytes, was inhibited by the exposure of the NOS inhibitor Nw-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME: 1, 10, and 100 microM) in a dose related manner. Besides, other NOS inhibitors such as Nitro L-arginine (NNA: 10(-3) M) prevented the increase in PGE2 release from LPS-stimulated astrocytes. Sodium nitroprusside (SNP; 100-200 microM) used as a NO donor caused a dose-related enhancement in the accumulation of PGE2 induced by LPS and the presence of hemoglobin blocked the SNP effects. The exposure to SNP counteracted the decrease of PGE2 production in LPS-treated astrocytes in which NO synthesis was blocked by L-NAME. In addition, SNP also enhanced the synthesis of PGE2 following exogenous arachidonic acid astrocytes exposure. Interestingly, this effect was blocked by indomethacin. Treatment of astrocytes cultures with dexamethasone (0.1, 1 microM) blocked dose-relatedly the LPS-induced release of both NO2- and PGE2. As expected, the presence of indomethacin (1, 10, and 20 microM) prevented in a dose related fashion, PGE2 production by astrocytes following exposure to LPS. These results strongly indicate that in astroglial cells, NO is able to activate the cyclooxygenase pathway.
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Okuda Y, Nakatsuji Y, Fujimura H, Esumi H, Ogura T, Yanagihara T, Sakoda S. Expression of the inducible isoform of nitric oxide synthase in the central nervous system of mice correlates with the severity of actively induced experimental allergic encephalomyelitis. J Neuroimmunol 1995; 62:103-12. [PMID: 7499486 DOI: 10.1016/0165-5728(95)00114-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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A cytokine-mediated excessive increase in nitric oxide (NO) by macrophages or glial cells via an inducible isoform of NO synthase (iNOS) has been proposed to play an important role in demyelinating diseases. To further investigate the role of iNOS in demyelination, experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE), a known animal model of multiple sclerosis (MS) in mice, was chosen in this study. A semiquantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT/PCR) analysis revealed an increase in the mRNA levels of iNOS and cytokines known to induce iNOS or inflammatory cytokines (interleukin (IL)-1 alpha, IL-1 beta, IL-2, IL-6, interferon (IFN)-gamma, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha and TNF-beta) in the spinal cord corresponding to the severity of the disease without significant change in the mRNA levels of immunoregulatory cytokines (IL-4, IL-10 and transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta) during the course of EAE. An immunohistochemical examination of the spinal cord using an iNOS-specific antibody showed iNOS-positive cells to be mainly inflammatory cells with a higher frequency of iNOS-positive cells at the peak of EAE than in the early phase. These iNOS-positive cells at the peak appeared to be composed of infiltrating macrophages and most of them were located in the necrotic area. These results suggested that cytokine-induced excessive NO via iNOS by macrophages caused tissue damage in the central nervous system in EAE.
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- Y Okuda
- Department of Neurology, Osaka University Medical School, Japan
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Yamanaka K, Kumura E, Iwatsuki K, Yoshimine T, Masana Y, Hayakawa T, Shiga T, Kosaka H. Increase in plasma nitric oxide end products following rat cortical injury. Neurosci Lett 1995; 194:124-6. [PMID: 7478193 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(95)11715-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The changes in plasma nitric oxide (NO) end products, nitrite (NO2-) and nitrate (NO3-), were studied following cortical injury in rats. At 3 days after stereotactic cortical injury (day 3), plasma NO end products were significantly increased (P < 0.01), and decreased by day 7. This increase on day 3 was inhibited by a selective inhibitor of inducible NO synthase (NOS), aminoguanidine (100 mg/kg, i.p. on days 1 and 2, P < 0.001). The present study first demonstrated the temporary increase in plasma NO end products, which is attributable to the inducible NOS activation after cerebral injury.
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- K Yamanaka
- Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka University Medical School, Japan
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Schmidt W, Wolf G, Calka J, Schmidt HH. Evidence for bidirectional changes in nitric oxide synthase activity in the rat striatum after excitotoxically (quinolinic acid) induced degeneration. Neuroscience 1995; 67:345-56. [PMID: 7545791 DOI: 10.1016/0306-4522(95)00027-g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Nitric oxide, a gaseous inter- and intracellular messenger, is thought to mediate neurotoxicity via excitatory amino acid receptors which may contribute to the pathogenesis of a variety of neuronal diseases. Excitotoxin lesions induced by quinolinic acid were made unilaterally in the rat striatum to study biochemically, light- and electron microscopically the possible involvement of the nitric oxide synthesizing enzyme nitric oxide synthase in degeneration processes. 5 days after quinolinic acid injection nitric oxide synthase activity in the striatum was elevated to 196.5% (P < 0.005% as compared to controls). There was no requirement of Ca2+ for the enzyme activity measured indicating that the elevation is due to the inducible isoform of nitric oxide synthase. Parallel to the depletion of neurons by quinolinic acid a massive gliosis was seen. Whereas quiescent astroglial cells in the normal striatum did not show any light microscopically detectable nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate diaphorase reaction, reactive astroglia revealed a substantial labeling distributed over the cell body and their stellar processes. Within the lesion and, particularly, close to the needle tract the number of microglia/macrophages labeled by isolectin B4 increased dramatically. Reactive microglial cells macrophages, situated along the needle tract and characterized by a pseudopodic or a globular shape, contained highest staining activity. At the ultrastructural level only disintegrated, if any, neuronal perikarya were seen five days after quinolinic acid injection while numerous reactive glial cells were observed. Reactive astroglia showed nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate diaphorase activity by displaying a substantial labeling of the nuclear envelope and endoplasmic membranes. Occasionally stained mitochondria were encountered. Globular-shaped (ameboidal) microglia near the needle tract were rich in phagocytotic debris and, apart from formazan-positive endomembranes, their plasmalemma was often nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate diaphorase stained. Additionally, in those cells regions of highly electron-dense puncta were seen which differ sharply from other cytoplasmic areas. Such sand-like accumulations of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate diaphorase positive grains have never been observed in other cell types, indicating a special type of nitric oxide synthase representation, possibly that of the inducible isoform.
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- W Schmidt
- Institute of Medical Neurobiology, University of Magdeburg, Germany
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Gourine AV. Pharmacological evidence that nitric oxide can act as an endogenous antipyretic factor in endotoxin-induced fever in rabbits. GENERAL PHARMACOLOGY 1995; 26:835-41. [PMID: 7543428 DOI: 10.1016/0306-3623(94)00240-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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1. This study investigates the effects of the nitric oxide donors on lipopolysaccharide-induced fever in rabbits, and the effect of brain nitric oxide synthase inhibition on the febrile response in pyrogen tolerant animals. 2. The febrile response was reduced by intravenous injections of the nitric oxide donors molsidomine (1.0 mg/kg) and isosorbide dinitrate (0.5 mg/kg) 60 min after intravenous treatment with lipopolysaccharide. 3. The magnitude of fever was also attenuated by intracerebroventricular administration of molsidomine (75 micrograms). 4. Intracerebroventricular pretreatment with the nitric oxide synthase inhibitor, NG-nitro-L-arginine (100 micrograms) 10 min before the injection of lipopolysaccharide significantly enhanced the febrile response in pyrogen tolerant animals. 5. The results suggest that nitric oxide is involved in the central mechanisms of thermoregulation during fever as one of the effective endogenous antipyretics.
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- A V Gourine
- Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk
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Bernatowicz A, Ködel U, Frei K, Fontana A, Pfister HW. Production of nitrite by primary rat astrocytes in response to pneumococci. J Neuroimmunol 1995; 60:53-61. [PMID: 7642748 DOI: 10.1016/0165-5728(95)00053-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Recent studies using a rat model of pneumococcal meningitis have shown that nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitors greatly attenuated microvascular changes and brain edema formation. The site of NO production during bacterial meningitis is unknown. In this study we tested whether primary astrocyte cultures from neonatal rat cortex can be induced to release NO upon stimulation with pneumococci. NO production was assessed by measuring nitrite in the cell culture supernatant using the Griess reaction. Stimulation with heat-killed unencapsulated pneumococci (HKP) increased nitrite concentrations in astrocyte culture supernatants in a dose-dependent fashion. Administration of N-nitro-L-arginine (L-NA), aminoguanidine, L-canavanine, cycloheximide, and dexamethasone prevented the increase in nitrite concentrations. Addition of L-arginine, but not of D-arginine, partially reversed the inhibitory effect of L-NA. Administration of SOD increased nitrite accumulation. Moreover, at 72 h after stimulation with heat-killed pneumococci (10(7) cfu/ml) astrocytes showed an inducible NOS-like immunoreactivity. Accumulation of nitrite was also observed when rat cerebellar neurons and microglia were stimulated with HKP, whereas there was only a slight increase of nitrite in media of rat C6 glioma cells, but no increase of nitrite when the human glioblastoma cell line LN-229 was stimulated with HKP. There was a stronger increase in nitrite levels when astrocytes from Lewis rats were used compared to that from Wistar rats. In conclusion, our study indicates that astrocytes, neurons and microglia are inducible for NO production upon stimulation with pneumococci.
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- A Bernatowicz
- Department of Neurology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Klinikum Grosshadern, Germany
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Hooper DC, Ohnishi ST, Kean R, Numagami Y, Dietzschold B, Koprowski H. Local nitric oxide production in viral and autoimmune diseases of the central nervous system. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1995; 92:5312-6. [PMID: 7539914 PMCID: PMC41684 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.92.12.5312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Because of the short half-life of NO, previous studies implicating NO in central nervous system pathology during infection had to rely on the demonstration of elevated levels of NO synthase mRNA or enzyme expression or NO metabolites such as nitrate and nitrite in the infected brain. To more definitively investigate the potential causative role of NO in lesions of the central nervous system in animals infected with neurotropic viruses or suffering from experimental allergic encephalitis, we have determined directly the levels of NO present in the central nervous system of such animals. Using spin trapping of NO and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, we confirm here that copious amounts of NO (up to 30-fold more than control) are elaborated in the brains of rats infected with rabies virus or borna disease virus, as well as in the spinal cords of rats that had received myelin basic protein-specific T cells.
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- D C Hooper
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Jefferson Cancer Institute, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107-6799, USA
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Kugaya A, Kagaya A, Uchitomi Y, Motohashi N, Yamawaki S. Inhibition of serotonin-induced Ca2+ mobilization by interleukin-1 beta in rat C6BU-1 glioma cells. Brain Res 1995; 682:151-6. [PMID: 7552306 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)00345-q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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To study the potential interaction between cytokine and serotonin (5-HT) signal transduction, we evaluated the effect of interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta) on the 5-HT2 receptor-mediated mobilization of intracellular Ca2+ in cultured rat C6BU-1 glioma cells. Pretreatment of cells with IL-1 beta significantly inhibited the 5-HT-induced mobilization of Ca2+ in a dose (30-1000 U/ml)- and time (12-24 h)-dependent manner. Inhibition was observed when cells were stimulated with concentrations of 5-HT of > or = 1 microM, which induced the maximal 5-HT response. Lipopolysaccharide (1 microgram/ml) also inhibited 5-HT-induced Ca2+ mobilization, but heat-inactivated IL-1 beta as well as interferon-alpha (1000 U/ml), interferon-gamma (1000 U/ml), and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (2000 U/ml) did not. The inhibitory effects of IL-1 beta and LPS were significantly prevented by genistein, a selective tyrosine kinase antagonist, and by H7, a potent inhibitor of protein kinase C. These results indicate that IL-1 beta and LPS inhibit 5-HT2 receptor-mediated Ca2+ mobilization via pathways that include the activation of a tyrosine kinase and protein kinase C. The interaction between cytokines (IL-1 beta) and monoamines (5-HT) may serve to modulate signal transduction in the central nervous system.
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- A Kugaya
- Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Japan
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Patrizio M, Costa T, Levi G. Interferon-gamma and lipopolysaccharide reduce cAMP responses in cultured glial cells: reversal by a type IV phosphodiesterase inhibitor. Glia 1995; 14:94-100. [PMID: 7558245 DOI: 10.1002/glia.440140204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The aim of the present study was to determine whether two classical macrophage activators, bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) could affect the accumulation of the second messenger cAMP in cultured rat microglia and astrocytes. Purified microglia and astrocyte secondary cultures obtained from the neonatal rat were grown for 3 days in basal medium Eagle (BME) + 10% fetal calf serum (FCS). Exposure of microglia to LPS resulted into a dose- and time-dependent decrease in the accumulation of cAMP induced by receptor-mediated (isoproterenol or prostaglandin E2) or direct (forskolin) activation of adenylate cyclase. The inhibitory effect of LPS was rapid (a 10 min preincubation was sufficient to approach a maximal effect), occurred at low doses (IC50 = 1.2 ng/ml), and was not abrogated by pertussis toxin. A selective inhibitor of type IV phosphodiesterase (rolipram, 100 nM) prevented the effect of LPS on cAMP accumulation, while inhibitors of other forms of phosphodiesterase were unable to do so. IFN-gamma (100 u/ml) also caused a depression of the evoked cAMP accumulation in microglia after a 10 min preincubation, and its effect was prevented by rolipram, as in the case of LPS. Astrocytes differed from microglia in that LPS (1-100 ng/ml) did not inhibit the accumulation of cAMP induced by either isoproterenol or forskolin; on the other hand, IFN-gamma did have an inhibitory effect (though less pronounced than in microglia) that could be prevented by rolipram.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- M Patrizio
- Neurobiology Section, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy
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Nakashima MN, Yamashita K, Kataoka Y, Yamashita YS, Niwa M. Time course of nitric oxide synthase activity in neuronal, glial, and endothelial cells of rat striatum following focal cerebral ischemia. Cell Mol Neurobiol 1995; 15:341-9. [PMID: 7553733 DOI: 10.1007/bf02089944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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1. The time course of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity in neuronal, endothelial, and glial cells in the rat striatum after middle cerebral artery (MCA) occlusion and reperfusion was examined using a histochemical NADPH-diaphorase staining method. 2. In sham-operated rats, neuronal cells of the striatum exhibited strong NADPH-diaphorase activities. When rats were subjected to MCA occlusion for 1 hr, neuronal damage, including neurons with positive NADPH-diaphorase activities, appeared in the striatum at 3 hr after and extended to all areas of the striatum 3-4 days after reperfusion. 3. NADPH-diaphorase activities in the endothelial cells increased in the damaged part of striatum from 3 hr after, peaked at 1-2 days after MCA occlusion/reperfusion, then gradually decreased. 4. In parallel with the development of neuronal damage, some astrocytes and a high proportion of microglia/macrophages located in the perisite and in the center of the damaged striatum, respectively, exhibited a moderate to high level of NADPH-diaphorase activities. Most of these activities disappeared at 4 days after MCA occlusion. 5. These findings provided evidence that an inappropriate activation of NOS in endothelial cells and microglia/macrophages, in response to MCA occlusion/reperfusion, is closely associated with initiation and progression of ischemic neuronal injury in the striatum.
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- M N Nakashima
- Department of Hospital Pharmacy, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Japan
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Gonçalves J, Grove KL, Deschepper CF. Generation of cyclic guanosine monophosphate in brain slices incubated with atrial or C-type natriuretic peptides: comparison of the amplitudes and cellular distribution of the responses. REGULATORY PEPTIDES 1995; 57:55-63. [PMID: 7644703 DOI: 10.1016/0167-0115(95)00018-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Natriuretic peptides have been demonstrated to induce a variety of effects when administered into the brain. Most studies to date have tested the effects of 'atrial' natriuretic peptide (ANP), but C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP) has recently been suggested to be the predominant form of natriuretic peptides within the brain. We therefore have compared the amplitudes of the cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) responses induced by either ANP or CNP in slices form different rat brain regions. Whereas both peptides induced the generation of cGMP, CNP-evoked responses were never greater than those obtained with ANP, regardless of the brain region used or the age of the animal. In diencephalon, ANP even induced a significantly higher cGMP response than CNP. To test which cells were targets to the actions of the peptides, brain slices were incubated with fluorocitrate (a drug that selectively blocks the metabolism of glial cells). Fluorocitrate totally blocked the ANP-evoked cGMP responses in brain slices. In contrast, fluorocitrate reduced only partially the responses evoked by sodium nitroprusside (a drug that stimulates soluble guanylate cyclase, which is contained predominantly in neurons). Likewise, the cGMP response induced by CNP was only partially affected by fluorocitrate. These results indicate that: (1) CNP is not more potent than ANP in terms of its ability to generate cGMP in rat brains; (2) brain cells generating cGMP upon exposure to ANP are predominantly glial; and (3) CNP-responsive cells are partly glial, but belong at least in part to a different compartment than ANP-responsive cells.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- J Gonçalves
- Neurobiology and Vasoactive Peptide Laboratory, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), Québec, Canada
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Mitrovic B, Ignarro LJ, Vinters HV, Akers MA, Schmid I, Uittenbogaart C, Merrill JE. Nitric oxide induces necrotic but not apoptotic cell death in oligodendrocytes. Neuroscience 1995; 65:531-9. [PMID: 7777166 DOI: 10.1016/0306-4522(94)00491-m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 158] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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We have investigated the mechanism of nitric oxide-induced damage in glial cells. Genomic DNA isolated from astrocytes and microglia, treated for 18 h with varying concentrations of a nitric oxide donor, was analysed by electrophoresis. No DNA damage was evident. Oligodendrocytes, treated with 2 mM nitric oxide for 3-48 h, showed single stranded breaks at 48 h but no laddering of nucleosomic fragments of DNA. When analysed by electron microscopy, ultrastructural changes in oligodendrocytes treated with 1 mM nitric oxide for 24 h showed intact nuclei but alterations in membranes and organelles characteristic of necrosis, including disrupted mitochondria with dissolution of their christae. Astrocytes, a glial cell type that we have previously shown to be much less sensitive to nitric oxide-induced damage, did not show ultrastructural changes. DNA analysis by flow cytometry of glial cells treated with nitric oxide supported the apparent necrotic-type death in oligodendrocytes. Double staining of oligodendrocytes, using Hoechst 33342 and propidium iodide for the simultaneous assessment of both apoptotic and necrotic cells, demonstrated that, while the proportion of dead cells increased with time and increasing concentrations of nitric oxide, the death was due to necrosis and not apoptosis. In this study, we demonstrate that direct exposure to soluble nitric oxide, produced in vitro from a nitric oxide donor chemical, ultimately kills oligodendrocytes by necrosis. Microglia and astrocytes maintain DNA and organelle integrity when exposed to exogenous nitric oxide.
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- B Mitrovic
- Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine 90024, USA
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Heuschling P. Nitric oxide modulates gamma-interferon-induced MHC class II antigen expression on rat astrocytes. J Neuroimmunol 1995; 57:63-9. [PMID: 7706441 DOI: 10.1016/0165-5728(94)00162-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Brain astroglial cells can be brought in vivo and in vitro to express an immunocompetent cell-like phenotype. We investigated the effect of the NO. releasing compound sodium nitroprusside (SNP) on Ia expression in rat astrocyte cultures. SNP down-regulates, in a concentration-dependent manner, the gamma-interferon-induced Ia expression. Inhibition of the NO. synthesis attenuates the glutamate mediated down-regulation of class II expression. Our results show that NO. is implicated in the immunomodulatory reactions in the brain parenchyma.
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- P Heuschling
- Centre de Recherche Public de la Santé, Luxembourg
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Van Dam AM, Bauer J, Man-A-Hing WK, Marquette C, Tilders FJ, Berkenbosch F. Appearance of inducible nitric oxide synthase in the rat central nervous system after rabies virus infection and during experimental allergic encephalomyelitis but not after peripheral administration of endotoxin. J Neurosci Res 1995; 40:251-60. [PMID: 7745618 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.490400214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The cellular localization of inducible (iNOS) and constitutive (cNOS) nitric oxide synthase was studied in rats by immunocytochemical techniques involving specific iNOS and cNOS directed antibodies and by NADPH-diaphorase histochemistry. Paraformaldehyde-fixed vibratome sections of brains and cryostat sections of peripheral lymph nodes were studied of rats treated with endotoxin (2.5 micrograms/kg or 2.5 mg/kg i.v.), rats infected with rabies virus, and rats exposed to experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE). Endotoxin-treated animals showed no appearance of immunoreactive iNOS (ir-iNOS) cells in the brain with the exception of a few microglial cells near the median eminence and some meningeal macrophages. In the same animals however, iNOS-immunoreactive cells were found in peripheral lymph nodes. Neurons that stain positive for cNOS and for NADPH-diaphorase could be observed in brains of control as well as of endotoxin-treated animals with a similar distribution and staining intensity. In contrast, animals that had been infected with rabies virus or subjected to EAE, showed the appearance of ir-iNOS-positive cells in several brain areas. These cells are located near blood vessels and lesion sites. The majority of these cells are GSA-I-B4 isolectin-positive and therefore are likely to represent macrophages. Our data suggest that increased production of nitric oxide may play a role in the altered brain functions in rabies-infected and EAE rats. On the contrary, increased nitric oxide production is probably not involved in the non-specific symptoms of sickness induced by endotoxin.
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- A M Van Dam
- Department of Pharmacology, Research Institute Neurosciences Free University, Faculty of Medicine, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Nitric oxide (NO.), a free radical gas, has been implicated in the CNS actions of ethanol. The brain contains several cell types that can produce NO., including neurons and glia. This study examined the effect of acute and chronic ethanol exposure on the activity of the inducible isoform of nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) found in neuroglia. Experiments were performed using intact rat C6 glioma cells, and NO. production was assessed by nitrite accumulation after iNOS induction by coadministration of phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Ethanol was inhibitory at high concentrations (IC50 approximately 150 mM) when acutely present during the 24-hr period subsequent to initiation of enzyme induction. In contrast, cells exposed to ethanol were inhibited chronically at clinically relevant lower concentrations (IC50 approximately 30 mM with 10 days exposure). Chronic inhibition was both time- and concentration-dependent. Inhibition by ethanol seems to be a consequence of interference with LPS signal transduction. Acutely, ethanol did not affect the ability of PMA to synergize with LPS to induce activity, but it attenuated the ability of LPS to synergize with the PMA. Ten days exposure to 50 mM ethanol decreased the LPS potency by 4-fold in the presence of a maximally activating concentration of PMA, although not significantly changing PMA potency. Inhibition by chronic ethanol exposure was long-lasting, being retained over 24 hr in cells returned to control conditions. Thus, chronic ethanol may downregulate key components needed for iNOS expression.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- P J Syapin
- Department of Pharmacology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock 79430-0001, USA
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Sun N, Perlman S. Spread of a neurotropic coronavirus to spinal cord white matter via neurons and astrocytes. J Virol 1995; 69:633-41. [PMID: 7815526 PMCID: PMC188623 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.69.2.633-641.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Mouse hepatitis virus strain JHM (MHV-JHM) causes a chronic encephalomyelitis in susceptible mice, with histological evidence of demyelination in the spinal cord. After intranasal inoculation, virus spreads retrogradely to several brain structures along neuroanatomic projections to the main olfactory bulb. In the absence of experimental intervention, mice become moribund before the spinal cord is infected. In this study, infusions of anti-MHV neutralizing monoclonal antibodies were administered to protect mice from the MHV-JHM-induced acute encephalitis and to allow survival until virus spread to the spinal cord. Under these conditions, virus was observed to enter specific layers (primarily laminae V to VII) in the gray matter of the upper spinal cord, consistent with transneuronal spread. While the brain structures which are the sources for virus spread to the spinal cord cannot be determined with certainty, the ventral reticular nucleus is likely to be important since it is consistently and extensively labeled in all mice and receives projections from subsequently infected areas of the spinal cord. After initial entry into the gray matter, virus rapidly spread to the white matter of the spinal cord. During the early stages of this process, extensive infection of astrocytes was noted, suggesting that cell-to-cell spread via these glial cells is an important part of this process. Reports from other laboratories using cultured cells strongly suggested that astrocytes serve as important regulators of oligodendrocyte function and, by extrapolation, have a major role in vivo in the processes of both demyelination and remyelination. Thus, our results not only outline the probable pathway used by MHV-JHM to infect the white matter of the spinal cord but also, with the assumption that infection of astrocytes leads to subsequent dysfunction, raise the possibility that infection of these cells contributes to the demyelinating process.
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- N Sun
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242
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Kagaya A, Motohashi N, Kugaya A, Yamaji T, Hayashi T, Okamoto Y, Shinno H, Takebayashi M, Uchitomi Y, Yamawaki S. Cyclic GMP generation mediated by 5-HT-2 receptors via nitric oxide-dependent pathway and its effect on the desensitization of 5-HT-2 receptors in C6 glioma cells. J Neural Transm (Vienna) 1995; 100:27-38. [PMID: 8748661 DOI: 10.1007/bf01276863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Serotonin (5-HT)-2 receptor-mediated cGMP generation was investigated in comparison with calcium (Ca2+) mobilization in C6 glioma cells. 5-HT enhanced cGMP generation, and risperidone and ketanserin potently blocked the response. These results indicate that 5-HT-2 receptors are responsible for the cGMP generation. 5-HT-induced cGMP production was completely abolished by BAPTA, an intracellular Ca2+ chelating agent, or NG-mono-methyl-L-arginine(NMMA), a nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitor, suggesting that 5-HT-induced cGMP generation was through nitric oxide (NO)-dependent pathway. 5-HT (10 microM)-elicited Ca2+ mobilization and cGMP generation were reduced to 40 and 15% after pretreatment with 10 microM 5-HT for 4 hours. NMMA did not modify 5-HT-induced desensitization of either Ca2+ mobilization or cGMP generation, suggesting that NO pathway is independent of the desensitization. The present study has demonstrated the nature of 5-HT-2 receptor-mediated cGMP generation in C6 glioma cells.
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- A Kagaya
- Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Japan
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Cardile V, Jiang X, Russo A, Casella F, Renis M, Bindoni M. Effects of ozone on some biological activities of cells in vitro. Cell Biol Toxicol 1995; 11:11-21. [PMID: 7600255 DOI: 10.1007/bf00769988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The aim of this work was to study the in vitro effect of ozone on the 70 kDa family of inducible heat shock proteins (HSPs70). We also performed tests to investigate possible toxic effects of ozone at the different doses employed. In human haematic mononucleated cells ozone at doses up to 20 micrograms/ml had no toxic effects and induced biosynthesis of the HSPs70. Biosynthesis of these proteins was greater at 40 micrograms/ml. In murine macrophages testing with tetrazolium salt (MTT), neutral red, and 2-deoxy-D-[1-3H]glucose uptake and study of the cell morphology showed a remarkable resistance or no toxic effects at a dose of 100 micrograms/ml also. Melanoma B16 murine cells assayed with the MTT test demonstrated less resistance to the toxic effects of ozone than normal cells. These results provide indications relevant to the problems of ozone therapy.
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- V Cardile
- Institute of Human Physiology, University of Catania, Italy
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Sato I, Kim Y, Himi T, Murota S. Induction of calcium-independent nitric oxide synthase activity in cultured cerebellar granule neurons. Neurosci Lett 1995; 184:145-8. [PMID: 7536905 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(94)11191-k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Cultured cerebellar granule neurons were assayed for nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity by measuring the conversion of L-arginine to L-citrulline. Granule neurons expressed constitutive NOS activity which was calcium-dependent. Treatment of neuron cultures for 24 h with the combined stimulation of IFN-gamma plus IL-1 beta, TNF-alpha and LPS induced NOS activity by 87-fold which was calcium-independent. We conclude that cultured cerebellar granule neurons can express both the constitutive and inducible forms of NOS activity.
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- I Sato
- Department of Physiological Chemistry, Graduate School, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
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Wagner JA, Boniece I, DeMeo D, Endoh M, Maiese K, Pulsinelli W, Skurat K. Regulation of Neuronal Vulnerability to Ischemia by Peptide Growth Factors and Intracellular Second Messenger Systems: The Role of Protein Kinase C and the cAMP Dependent Protein Kinase. Cerebrovasc Dis 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-7506-9603-6.50030-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Mollace V, Nisticò G. Release of nitric oxide from astroglial cells: a key mechanism in neuroimmune disorders. ADVANCES IN NEUROIMMUNOLOGY 1995; 5:421-30. [PMID: 8746514 DOI: 10.1016/0960-5428(95)00026-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Astrocytes are glial cells able to release nitric oxide (NO) under basal conditions as well as following different neurochemical stimuli including cytokines, endotoxins and soluble antigens, thereby participating in neuroimmune responses. In particular, the inducible isoform of NO synthase seems to be activated during co-incubation of this cell type with cytokines as well as in the presence of the HIV coating gp120 glycoprotein, an effect which is associated with an enhancement of prostanoid release. This seems also to occur via activation of cyclooxygenase by NO. Thus, the L-arginine-NO pathway found in astrocytes may represent a novel approach in the treatment of neuroimmune disorders such as multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease and AIDS.
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- V Mollace
- Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
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Kidd EJ, Michel AD, Humphrey PP. Autoradiographic distribution of [3H]L-NG-nitro-arginine binding in rat brain. Neuropharmacology 1995; 34:63-73. [PMID: 7542749 DOI: 10.1016/0028-3908(94)00132-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The distribution of nitric oxide synthase (NOS), the enzyme which produces nitric oxide, has previously been studied in the rat central nervous system (CNS) using the NADPH-diaphorase technique and anti-NOS antibodies. However, the former method may not always be selective for NOS while the latter is not quantitative. Therefore a selective, quantifiable method would be desirable. L-NG-Nitro-arginine, an inhibitor of NOS, is available in a tritiated form which we have shown to bind to NOS. We have now examined the regional distribution of [3H]L-NG-nitro-arginine binding in the rat CNS using autoradiography. [3H]L-NG-nitro-arginine specific binding was seen in a number of brain regions with the highest levels in the accessory olfactory bulb, the amygdaloid complex, the Islands of Calleja and the cerebellum. This regional distribution of [3H]L-NG-nitro-arginine binding sites in the rat CNS was, in general, similar to that seen with the NADPH-diaphorase method and anti-NOS antibodies, consistent with the view that all three methods identify NOS in the CNS. Thus, [3H]L-NG-nitro-arginine appears to be a useful radioligand for studying the distribution of NOS in the CNS as its binding is quantifiable and apparently selective for NOS.
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- E J Kidd
- Glaxo Institute of Applied Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, U.K
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Traub RJ, Solodkin A, Meller ST, Gebhart GF. Spinal cord NADPH-diaphorase histochemical staining but not nitric oxide synthase immunoreactivity increases following carrageenan-produced hindpaw inflammation in the rat. Brain Res 1994; 668:204-10. [PMID: 7535654 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(94)90525-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Recent reports suggest that NADPH-diaphorase (NADPH-d) may be a histochemical marker for neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) in the central nervous system. Carrageenan-produced unilateral hindpaw inflammation in the rat results in a bilateral increase in NADPH-d in spinal cord neurons. This suggests there would be a bilateral increase in NO, which mediates thermal hyperalgesia. However, carrageenan-produced unilateral hindpaw inflammation results in hyperalgesia of the inflamed hindpaw only. This study determined (1) if neurons that labeled for NADPH-d following carrageenan-produced unilateral hindpaw inflammation colocalized nNOS, and (2) whether there was an increase in nNOS-ir neurons following inflammation. Following unilateral hindpaw inflammation, double labeling of tissue sections and single labeling of alternate serial sections revealed a lack of colocalization or mismatch between NADPH-d histochemical activity and nNOS-like immunoreactivity in neurons in lamina I, the dorsolateral funiculus and lamina X. Quantitative analysis showed no difference in the number of nNOS-ir neurons and NADPH-d labeled neurons in the superficial laminae of the spinal cord in non-inflamed animals. Following unilateral hindpaw inflammation, there was a 34% increase in the number of NADPH-d labeled neurons but no increase in the number of nNOS-ir neurons. These results indicate that nNOS-immunoreactive neurons and NADPH-diaphorase stained neurons are not identical and that nNOS does not increase as a result of hindpaw inflammation, leaving the source of NO involved in thermal hyperalgesia following injury in question.
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- R J Traub
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242, USA
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Shapira S, Kadar T, Weissman BA. Dose-dependent effect of nitric oxide synthase inhibition following transient forebrain ischemia in gerbils. Brain Res 1994; 668:80-4. [PMID: 7535657 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(94)90513-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The extensive research concerning the interaction between nitric oxide (NO) and ischemic brain tissue has yielded contradictory results. The present study was designed to explore the effect of gradual inhibition of NO production on brain ischemia. Gerbils were administered (i.p.) either saline (control-ischemia), or 5, 10, 25 or 50 mg/kg of NG-nitro-L-arginine (NARG), a specific inhibitor of NO synthase (NOS), and 4 h later were subjected to 5 min of forebrain ischemia. A group receiving 50 mg/kg NARG with sham operation served as a second control (control-NARG) group. Body weights and spontaneous activity were monitored daily until day 6, when the gerbils were sacrificed and their brains processed for histologic-morphometric evaluation. All ischemia groups displayed significant decreases in body weights starting on day 1, as compared to control-NARG (non-ischemic) gerbils. At 24 h post-ischemia spontaneous activity was increased in all ischemia groups in a dose-dependent manner, reaching a peak at 25 mg/kg. Typical ischemia-induced neuronal cell degeneration was observed at the hippocampal CA1 layer in control-ischemia and in each of the dose-groups of 10 mg/kg NARG and above. The 5 mg/kg group displayed damage which was not different from control-NARG, and was milder (P < 0.01) than control-ischemia gerbils and each of the other dose-groups. It is suggested that during ischemia, NO activates a series of processes which are beneficial to brain tissue, whereas an excess amount of NO causes neurotoxic effects.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- S Shapira
- Department of Pharmacology, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona
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Vercelli AE, Cracco CM. Effects of eye enucleation on NADPH-diaphorase positive neurons in the superficial layers of the rat superior colliculus. BRAIN RESEARCH. DEVELOPMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH 1994; 83:85-98. [PMID: 7697874 DOI: 10.1016/0165-3806(94)90182-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Dihydronicotinamide adenine-dinucleotide phosphate diaphorase (NADPH-d) positive neurons in the superficial layers of superior colliculus (SC) were studied in the adult rat after eye enucleation at postnatal day 5 (P5). Bilaterally, NADPH-d histochemistry revealed either weakly or intensely labeled neurons. In the SC contralateral to the enucleation, the volume of superficial layers decreased significantly, whereas the total number of NADPH-d positive neurons was only slightly reduced, thus resulting in an increased cell density. Bilaterally, the number of NADPH-d positive neurons was around 20% of Nissl-stained neurons. While the number of neurons which were weakly positive for NADPH-d was unchanged contralateral to the enucleation (thus resulting in a significant increase in their percentage on the overall NADPH-d population), the number of intensely labeled neurons decreased by 30%. Intensely labeled neurons were classified with respect to cell size and dendritic distribution. Some (126) were reconstructed and analyzed on the computer, in order to quantitate morphological differences in dendritic distribution in the denervated and control SC. The percent of neurons which could be assigned to some classes (marginal, stellate, narrow field vertical and wide field vertical) was reduced contralateral to the enucleation. In addition, vertically-oriented neurons (narrow field vertical, wide field vertical and pyriform) showed a significant decrease in soma size, dendritic length and number of branch points. And finally, the overall orientation of dendrites on narrow and wide field vertical neurons was more dispersed, when compared to the control colliculus. Thus, P5 eye enucleation affects the adult morphology of NADPH-d positive neurons in the superficial layers of the rat SC, resulting in increased cell density, changed relative number of cells in each morphological type, and altered soma size, dendritic length and orientation in specific neurons.
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- A E Vercelli
- Department of Human Anatomy and Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Torino, Italy
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Mitrovic B, St Pierre BA, Mackenzie-Graham AJ, Merrill JE. The role of nitric oxide in glial pathology. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1994; 738:436-46. [PMID: 7832453 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1994.tb21835.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- B Mitrovic
- Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine 90024
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Feinstein DL, Galea E, Reis DJ. Suppression of glial iNOS expression by tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1994; 738:325-8. [PMID: 7530420 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1994.tb21818.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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- D L Feinstein
- Division of Neurobiology, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York 10021
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Meller ST, Dykstra C, Grzybycki D, Murphy S, Gebhart GF. The possible role of glia in nociceptive processing and hyperalgesia in the spinal cord of the rat. Neuropharmacology 1994; 33:1471-8. [PMID: 7532831 DOI: 10.1016/0028-3908(94)90051-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 280] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Recent studies have suggested that glia might play a more active role in synaptic function than previously thought. Therefore, the present studies have evaluated the potential role of spinal cord glia in acute nociceptive processing and in the thermal and mechanical hyperalgesia produced by peripheral injury. In the present experiments, we found that: (1) selective inhibition of glia metabolism with intrathecal (i.t.) administration of fluorocitrate (1 nmol) results in a marked, but reversible, attenuation of the persistent thermal and mechanical hyperalgesia produced by intraplantar zymosan (5 mg); (2) selective inhibition of the inducible form of nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) with i.t. aminoguanidine (1 pmol-1 nmol) resulted in a dose-dependent inhibition of the persistent thermal, but not mechanical hyperalgesia produced by intraplantar zymosan (5 mg); (3) i.t. coadministration of interleukin 1 beta (IL1 beta; 10 ng) and interferon gamma (IFN; 1000 U) resulted in expression of the message for iNOS 8 hr after administration assessed using reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and Southern blot analysis; and (4) i.t. administration of lipopolysaccharide (LPS; 150 micrograms) produced a time-dependent thermal hyperalgesia compared with saline treated-rats (15 microliters). There was no change in mechanical withdrawal thresholds over time following any treatment, except fluorocitrate. We have previously shown that NO plays a significant role in mechanisms of hyperalgesia. In the present experiments we have extended these observations and have now shown a role for iNOS, expressed by glia, in mechanisms of hyperalgesia. These results suggest an unexplored avenue for the development of potential new and novel therapies for pain control.
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- S T Meller
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242
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Park SK, Grzybicki D, Lin HL, Murphy S. Modulation of inducible nitric oxide synthase expression in astroglial cells. Neuropharmacology 1994; 33:1419-23. [PMID: 7532824 DOI: 10.1016/0028-3908(94)90044-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Nitric oxide is produced in the CNS by both constitutive and inducible isoforms of nitric oxide synthase. Once nitric oxide synthase is transcriptionally induced in astrocytes in vitro, these cells release large amounts of nitric oxide tonically. Glial cell-derived nitric oxide can be toxic to neurons and oligodendrocytes and is implicated in a variety of neuropathologies, suggesting that the expression of nitric oxide synthase in glia must be finely regulated. From northern and western blot analysis we have identified various agents (transforming growth factor-beta, nitric oxide, receptor agonists) that modulate cytokine-induced expression of nitric oxide synthase mRNA in astrocytes. This suggests that the magnitude and duration of nitric oxide production from activated astrocytes in vivo may be determined by signals from adjacent neurons and microglial cells.
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- S K Park
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242
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Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or a combination of interleukin (IL)-1 beta and interferon (IFN)-gamma cause transcriptional induction of a calcium-independent nitric oxide synthase (NOS) in astrocytes and C6 glioma cells. LPS induction of NOS in C6 cells was evidenced by a small amount of nitrite accumulation as compared with cells exposed to IL-1 beta/IFN-gamma, but the maximal NOS activity achieved (as revealed by cGMP formation) was the same. The NOS activity induced by LPS in C6 cells was maximal at 4 to 8 hr and then rapidly decreased, while NOS activity induced by IL-1 beta/IFN-gamma slowly decreased after 4 hr. In addition, the effects of re-presenting IL-1 beta/IFN-gamma to both astrocytes and C6 cells after maximal induction of activity of the inducible form of NOS were studied. The re-addition of cytokines prolonged both NOS mRNA expression and also enzyme activity, suggesting effects at either the transcriptional (further induction) or translational level (mRNA stability). These results imply that the time course of NO production by induced astrocytes depends both upon the nature of the inducing stimulus and the frequency of the cells' exposure to it.
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- S K Park
- Dept. of Pharmacology, Univ. of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242
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Bö L, Dawson TM, Wesselingh S, Mörk S, Choi S, Kong PA, Hanley D, Trapp BD. Induction of nitric oxide synthase in demyelinating regions of multiple sclerosis brains. Ann Neurol 1994; 36:778-86. [PMID: 7526776 DOI: 10.1002/ana.410360515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 461] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The amount of messenger RNA encoding human inducible nitric oxide synthase and the presence and distribution of NADPH diaphorase were determined in tissue sections from multiple sclerosis (MS) and control brains. Levels of human nitric oxide synthase messenger RNA were markedly elevated in MS brains when compared to normal control brains. NADPH diaphorase activity, a histochemical stain reflecting nitric oxide synthase catalytic activity, was detected in reactive astrocytes in active demyelinating MS lesions and at the edge of chronic active demyelinating lesions. Control brains did not contain NADPH diaphorase-positive astrocytes. These results implicate the free radical nitric oxide in the pathogenesis of demyelinating MS lesions.
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- L Bö
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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McElhaney MR, Chandler LJ, Streit WJ. Astrocytes but not microglia express NADPH-diaphorase activity after motor neuron injury in the rat. Neurosci Lett 1994; 180:67-70. [PMID: 7877765 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(94)90915-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The purpose of this study was to identify cellular sources of nitric oxide (NO) after injury to rat facial motor neurons using NADPH-diaphorase histochemistry. We employed intraneural injections of either saline or toxic ricin, followed by nerve crush, in order to produce regeneration or degeneration of facial motor neurons (FMNs), respectively. Reactive astrocytes responding to ricin-induced degeneration of FMNs showed increased NADPH-diaphorase activity while reactive astrocytes responding to axotomy (saline injection) did not. Reactive microglial cells were found not to express NADPH-diaphorase in either one of these two paradigms. We conclude that irreversible neuron injury resulting in neurodegeneration causes increased production of NO by reactive astrocytes.
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- M R McElhaney
- Department of Comparative and Experimental Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610
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Tominaga T, Sato S, Ohnishi T, Ohnishi ST. Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) detection of nitric oxide produced during forebrain ischemia of the rat. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 1994; 14:715-22. [PMID: 8063867 DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.1994.92] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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To detect if nitric oxide (NO) is produced in rat forebrain ischemia, we applied an electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) NO-trapping technique. We also performed a detailed characterization of the technique. Diethyldithiocarbamate (DETC) and Fe-citrate were used as NO-trapping reagents. Under controlled ventilation, forebrain ischemia was produced by occlusion of both carotid arteries combined with hemorrhagic hypotension at 50 mm Hg for 15 min. DETC and Fe were administered 30 min prior to the onset of ischemia. During ischemia, the cerebral cortex was removed, and EPR samples were prepared. At liquid nitrogen temperatures, the NO-Fe-DETC signal (a triplet signal centered at g = 2.039 with the hyperfine coupling constant aN of 13 G) was detected overlapping Cu-DETC signals. By perfusing various concentrations of an NO-generating agent, 1,1-diethyl-2-hydroxy-2-nitrosohydrazine, into the rat brains, the amount of the "trapped NO" was calibrated. The size of the NO-Fe-DETC signal was well correlated with the NO concentrations in the perfusate (correlation coefficient r = 0.998, p < 0.01). Based on this calibration curve, it was found that the amount of trapped NO during forebrain ischemia increased to seven times that of the control (control n = 5, forebrain ischemia n = 4, p < 0.005).
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- T Tominaga
- Philadelphia Biomedical Research Institute, King of Prussia 19406
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Bauer MB, Murphy S, Gebhart GF. Muscarinic cholinergic stimulation of the nitric oxide-cyclic GMP signaling system in cultured rat sensory neurons. Neuroscience 1994; 62:351-9. [PMID: 7530344 DOI: 10.1016/0306-4522(94)90370-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Acetylcholine or carbachol stimulated cyclic GMP production in neuronal cultures from embryonic rat dorsal root ganglia but not in non-neuronal dorsal root ganglia cultures. Acetylcholine stimulation of cyclic GMP production was mediated by muscarinic receptors and required extracellular Ca2+. Basal cyclic GMP production and acetylcholine-evoked cyclic GMP production were attenuated by Methylene Blue, suggesting the involvement of soluble guanylate cyclase and nitric oxide synthase. L-NG-Monomethyl arginine attenuated basal, acetylcholine or carbachol-stimulated cyclic GMP production; this inhibition of acetylcholine and carbachol stimulation of cyclic GMP was reversed by L-arginine. These results suggest that a nitrosyl factor mediates basal, as well as acetylcholine- and carbachol-stimulated, cyclic GMP production. Selective destruction of small diameter neurons by capsaicin pretreatment of dorsal root ganglion neuronal cultures abolished acetylcholine and capsaicin stimulation of cyclic GMP, but did not affect sodium nitroprusside stimulation of cyclic GMP. These results suggest that acetylcholine evoked production of a nitrosyl factor in capsaicin-sensitive (small diameter) sensory neurons, which subsequently stimulated a soluble guanylate cyclase and cyclic GMP production in adjacent neuronal and/or non-neuronal cells. These results demonstrate that muscarinic agonists stimulate the nitric oxide-cyclic GMP signaling system in capsaicin-sensitive sensory neurons. Thus, the noxious character of acetylcholine when administered peripherally may be mediated by nitric oxide-cyclic GMP.
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- M B Bauer
- Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242
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Mitrovic B, Ignarro LJ, Montestruque S, Smoll A, Merrill JE. Nitric oxide as a potential pathological mechanism in demyelination: its differential effects on primary glial cells in vitro. Neuroscience 1994; 61:575-85. [PMID: 7969931 DOI: 10.1016/0306-4522(94)90435-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 202] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Because we believe that macrophage-derived nitric oxide contributes to pathology of demyelinating diseases, we have determined the differential effects of nitric oxide on primary rat glial cells in vitro. Enriched cultures of microglia, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes were treated with S-nitroso,N-acetyl-DL-penicillamine, a nitric oxide-releasing chemical. There was a significantly decreased function of one of the ferrosulfur-containing mitochondrial enzymes after S-nitroso,N-acetyl-DL-penicillamine/nitric oxide treatment in oligodendrocytes and astrocytes compared to microglia, which were much less sensitive to S-nitroso,N-acetyl-DL-penicillamine/nitric oxide at all concentrations. At 0.5 mM S-nitroso,N-acetyl-DL-penicillamine/nitric oxide, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes suffered a 40% loss in succinate dehydrogenase activity, while microglia were unaffected. A control non-ferrosulfur-containing mitochondrial enzyme, isocitrate dehydrogenase, was not affected in any glial cell type. Although the per cent of mitochondrial damage in oligodendrocytes and astrocytes was the same for all concentrations of S-nitroso,N-acetyl-DL-penicillamine/nitric oxide, significant cell death occurred in oligodendrocytes at 1.0 mM; at this concentration there was no significant killing of microglia or astrocytes. Furthermore, at a 0.5 mM concentration of S-nitroso,N-acetyl-DL-penicillamine/nitric oxide, which inhibited mitochondrial respiration but did not kill oligodendrocytes, significant changes in oligodendrocyte morphology (e.g. retraction of processes) occurred. Morphological changes were not seen in microglia and astrocytes at any concentration of S-nitroso,N-acetyl-DL-penicillamine/nitric oxide. In addition, oligodendrocytes were more sensitive to S-nitroso,N-acetyl-DL-penicillamine/nitric oxide-induced single stranded DNA breaks than microglia or astrocytes. The mitochondrial damage was attributable to nitric oxide since N-acetyl-DL-penicillamine had no effect. Oxyhemoglobin, which competitively inhibits toxic effects of nitric oxide, protected these glial cells from mitochondrial damage, single stranded breaks in DNA and cell death in a time- and dose-dependent manner. Once again, oligodendrocytes were less easily rescued from nitric oxide effects by oxyhemoglobin than were astrocytes, suggesting greater vulnerability of the myelin-producing cell to nitric oxide. These findings suggest that there is differential sensitivity of glial cells to nitric oxide. Although oligodendrocytes and astrocytes are equally susceptible to nitric oxide-induced mitochondrial damage, oligodendrocytes are more sensitive to nitric oxide-induced single stranded DNA breaks, morphological changes and cell death. Compared to both oligodendrocytes and astrocytes, microglia, nitric oxide-producing cells, are resistant to nitric oxide-induced damage.
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- B Mitrovic
- Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles 90024-1769
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Clavier N, Tobin JR, Kirsch JR, Izuta M, Traystman RJ. Brain nitric oxide synthase activity in normal, hypertensive, and stroke-prone rats. Stroke 1994; 25:1674-7; discussion 1677-8. [PMID: 7518973 DOI: 10.1161/01.str.25.8.1674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Nitric oxide-mediated cerebral vasodilation is altered in spontaneously hypertensive stroke-prone rats. Stroke predisposition in this strain could be related to a genetic defect of brain nitric oxide synthase, the enzyme responsible for nitric oxide production. We tested the hypothesis that brain nitric oxide synthase activity is altered in spontaneously hypertensive stroke-prone rats compared with spontaneously hypertensive or Wistar-Kyoto rats. METHODS A colony of spontaneously hypertensive stroke-prone rats was bred, in which the rate of neurological events under salt load was assessed. In a separate cohort of animals brain nitric oxide synthase activity was measured in spontaneously hypertensive stroke-prone rats (n = 6) and in spontaneously hypertensive (n = 6) and genetically related Wistar-Kyoto rats (n = 6). Calcium dependency of nitric oxide synthase was also assessed in cortical brain samples from the three rat strains to determine if altered calcium-dependent activation of nitric oxide synthase was present. RESULTS Brain nitric oxide synthase activity was highest in the cerebellum (eg, spontaneously hypertensive stroke-prone rats: cerebral cortex, 10.6 +/- 0.9; cerebellum, 50.1 +/- 12.0; brain stem, 14.7 +/- 10.3 pmol/mg protein per minute); however, there was no difference among the three rat strains in any region (eg, cerebral cortex: spontaneously hypertensive stroke-prone, 10.6 +/- 0.9; spontaneously hypertensive, 10.8 +/- 0.5; Wistar-Kyoto, 10.9 +/- 0.7 pmol/mg protein per minute) or at any calcium concentration tested. CONCLUSIONS A genetic defect of brain nitric oxide synthase is unlikely to be the cause of stroke predisposition in spontaneously hypertensive stroke-prone rats.
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- N Clavier
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Md
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Hewett SJ, Csernansky CA, Choi DW. Selective potentiation of NMDA-induced neuronal injury following induction of astrocytic iNOS. Neuron 1994; 13:487-94. [PMID: 7520256 DOI: 10.1016/0896-6273(94)90362-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 257] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Nitric oxide (NO) produced by the constitutive NO synthase (cNOS) in neurons has been implicated in mediating excitotoxic neuronal death. In our murine cortical cell culture system, NMDA neurotoxicity was not blocked by addition of the NOS inhibitors, NG-nitro-L-arginine or aminoguanidine. However, following activation of inducible NOS in astrocytes by interleukin-1 beta plus interferon-gamma, NMDA but not kainate neurotoxicity was markedly potentiated. This selective potentiation of NMDA neurotoxicity was blocked by NOS inhibition or antioxidants (superoxide dismutase/catalase or Tempol) and could be mimicked by NO generators (SIN-1 or SNAP) or the oxygen radical generator, pyragallol. These results raise the possibility that NO production by astrocytes may contribute to NMDA receptor-mediated neuronal death, perhaps through interaction with oxygen radicals.
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- S J Hewett
- Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
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Ando M, Tatematsu T, Kunii S, Nagata Y. The intercellular communication via nitric oxide and its regulation in coupling of cyclic GMP synthesis upon stimulation of muscarinic cholinergic receptors in rat superior cervical sympathetic ganglia. Brain Res 1994; 650:283-8. [PMID: 7525017 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(94)91793-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Cyclic GMP (cGMP) production in rat superior cervical sympathetic ganglia (SCG) was markedly increased (ca. 7-9-fold) by the addition of either acetylcholine (ACh; 0.1 mM) or a muscarinic agonist, carbachol (Carb; 0.1 mM), in the presence of an inhibitor (3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine) for cGMP hydrolytic enzyme during in vitro aerobic incubation at 37 degrees C for 5 min. The ACh-induced accumulation of cGMP in SCG was effectively blocked (-73%) by the further addition of atropine (10 microM), a muscarinic antagonist, whereas a nicotinic blocker, hexamethonium (10 microM) partially antagonized (-41%) this ACh stimulation. The inhibitory effect of hexamethonium on ACh-evoked ganglionic cGMP production was effectively augmented (-83%) by addition of NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA, 50 microM), a compound that inhibits nitric oxide (NO) synthesis from L-arginine. Comparable inhibition of cGMP formation was observed following application of L-NMMA to the SCG upon stimulation of Carb. In contrast, L-NMMA had no effect on the decreased level of ACh-evoked cGMP production caused by the muscarinic antagonist. The Carb-induced elevation of ganglionic cGMP synthesis was significantly reduced within 1 min of incubation in the medium containing hemoglobin (Hb; 20 microM), an agent that scavenges only the extracellular fraction of NO. Thereafter, the tissue cGMP formation attenuated to the control level by subsequent incubation for several minutes. Addition of protein kinase C (PKC) activator, 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA; 1 microM) to the medium significantly decreased Carb-evoked cGMP synthesis (-61%) in SCG, whereas superoxide dismutase (SOD; 30 U/ml) only slightly suppressed the Carb stimulation.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- M Ando
- Department of Physiology, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Aichi-ken, Japan
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Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or a combination of interferon (IFN)-gamma and interleukin (IL)-1 beta can induce a calcium-independent nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in astrocyte cultures (Simmons and Murphy: J Neurochem 59:897, 1992; Eur J Neurosci 5:825, 1993; Galea et al: Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 89:10945, 1992). This induction can be measured by assaying cyclic GMP levels in the cultures, which correlates with, but is more sensitive than, measurement of nitrite accumulation. To study potential second-messenger systems involved in the induction of iNOS, phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), a protein kinase C (PKC) activator, and various protein kinase inhibitors were employed. PMA induced a time-, dose-, and L-arginine-dependent increase in cyclic GMP, which could be inhibited by dexamethasone or actinomycin D. This induction could be dramatically increased by concurrent treatment with IFN-gamma. The presence of iNOS mRNA could be demonstrated by hybridization with a specific cDNA probe. H7 (a non-specific serine/threonine kinase inhibitor) but not H89 (a more specific PKA inhibitor) prevented induction by all agents. However, downregulation of PKC or pretreatment with the PKC inhibitor calphostin C did not prevent the induction by LPS or cytokines, suggesting that PKC is not necessary for iNOS induction by these mediators. Additionally, genistein (a nonspecific tyrosine kinase inhibitor) could prevent induction by all agents, but the more specific inhibitor, tyrphostin, attenuated only NOS induction by LPS. These results suggest that activation of PKC can lead to, but is not necessary for, the induction of NOS in astrocytes and that there is a potential role for tyrosine kinases in NOS induction by LPS.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- M L Simmons
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242
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Uptake of radiolabelled L-arginine was studied in four different kinds of glial cultures, in astroglia-rich primary cultures derived from neonatal rat and mouse brains, in pure murine astrocyte cultures, and in rat glioma cells C6-BU-1. A saturable component of uptake was found in all cases with KM values between 15 and 35 microM and Vmax values between 0.8 and 2.5 nmol.min-1.(mg protein)-1. In addition, in all cell types a non-saturable component dominated total uptake at high concentrations of extracellular arginine. Rates of uptake of arginine were not affected when Na+ or Cl- were absent from the incubation buffer. Carrier-mediated uptake of arginine was reduced by depolarizing concentrations of K+ and strongly inhibited by an excess of lysine or ornithine. Histidine, asparagine, glutamine, citrulline, creatine, NG-nitro-L-arginine, NG-monomethyl-L-arginine, or L-canavanine inhibited L-arginine transport to various degrees. Uptake of arginine was not reduced in the presence of serine or alanine cysteic acid, N-methyl-alpha-aminoisobutyric acid, or 2-aminobicyclo-(2.2.1)-heptane-2-carboxylic acid. Rates of uptake of arginine were increased when cells had been preloaded with lysine. Preincubation of primary cultures, but not glioma cells, with bacterial lipopolysaccharide stimulated transport of arginine by increasing the Vmax value of uptake. This stimulation was dependent on protein synthesis. The results suggest that, at physiological concentrations, arginine is taken up into the glial cells with the help of the transport system "y+" for basic amino acids. In glial primary cultures, uptake of arginine appears to be regulated by compounds which also exert influence on nitric oxide synthesis.
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- A Schmidlin
- Physiologisch-Chemisches Institut der Universität, Tübingen, Federal Republic of Germany
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