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O’Sullivan A, Willoughby RE, Mishchuk D, Alcarraz B, Cabezas-Sanchez C, Condori RE, David D, Encarnacion R, Fatteh N, Fernandez J, Franka R, Hedderwick S, McCaughey C, Ondrush J, Paez-Martinez A, Rupprecht C, Velasco-Villa A, Slupsky CM. Metabolomics of cerebrospinal fluid from humans treated for rabies. J Proteome Res 2013; 12:481-90. [PMID: 23163834 PMCID: PMC4824192 DOI: 10.1021/pr3009176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Rabies is a rapidly progressive lyssavirus encephalitis that is statistically 100% fatal. There are no clinically effective antiviral drugs for rabies. An immunologically naïve teenager survived rabies in 2004 through improvised supportive care; since then, 5 additional survivors have been associated with use of the so-called Milwaukee Protocol (MP). The MP applies critical care focused on the altered metabolic and physiologic states associated with rabies. The aim of this study was to examine the metabolic profile of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from rabies patients during clinical progression of rabies encephalitis in survivors and nonsurvivors and to compare these samples with control CSF samples. Unsupervised clustering algorithms distinguished three stages of rabies disease and identified several metabolites that differentiated rabies survivors from those who subsequently died, in particular, metabolites related to energy metabolism and cell volume control. Moreover, for those patients who survived, the trajectory of their metabolic profile tracked toward the control profile and away from the rabies profile. NMR metabolomics of human rabies CSF provide new insights into the mechanisms of rabies pathogenesis, which may guide future therapy of this disease.
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Affiliation(s)
- Aifric O’Sullivan
- Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Kimron Veterinary Institute, Beit Dagan, Israel
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- INOVA-Fairfax Hospital, Fairfax, Virginia, United States
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- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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- INOVA-Fairfax Hospital, Fairfax, Virginia, United States
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- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis, California 95616, United States
- Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, California 95616, United States
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Rabies is a top-ten infectious killer and is newly re-emergent worldwide. Focusing on the unique aspects of the pathophysiology and immunology of rabies, we improvised a strategy that led to the first survivor of rabies without rabies prophylaxis. Our data support the long-standing speculation that rabies is a disorder of neurotransmission. Improvements in human survival have better delineated the immune and metabolic responses to rabies. We anticipate a new generation of rabies biologicals in the very near future, as well as the more remote possibility of rescue monoclonal antibodies engineered from several recent survivors of human rabies. The general approach to rabies treatment serves as a model for a more complex, physiological approach to treating infectious neurological disorders.
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- Rodney E Willoughby
- Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Medical College of Wisconsin, PO Box 1997, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1997, USA
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St'astný F, Skultétyová I, Pliss L, Jezová D. Quinolinic acid enhances permeability of rat brain microvessels to plasma albumin. Brain Res Bull 2000; 53:415-20. [PMID: 11136997 DOI: 10.1016/s0361-9230(00)00368-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Several studies have established that increased cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of quinolinic acid (QUIN), a macrophage/microglia-derived excitotoxin with N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)-receptor affinity, may reflect abnormal blood-brain barrier (BBB) function in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) dementia complex, exhibiting a relationship to their clinical and neurological status. This study was aimed to evaluate whether QUIN (250 nmol/0.25 microl/ventricle) infused into both lateral cerebral ventricles permeates adult rat brain microvessels to plasma albumin. Possible BBB dysfunction was examined 4 days after the intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) infusion of QUIN by measuring plasma albumin extravasation using rocket immunoelectrophoresis. The i.c.v. infusion of QUIN failed to increase the extracellular tissue concentration of albumin in the entorhinal cortex, but significantly higher levels were found in the hippocampus proper (but not in the subiculum region and dentate gyrus) and in the striatum. To evaluate the possible relationship between plasma protein extravasation and QUIN-induced tissue necrosis, we quantified neuronal death in the rat hippocampal formation (subiculum, CA1/CA3 areas of the hippocampus proper, dentate gyrus). We found significantly higher tissue levels of plasma albumin in the hippocampus proper, in which the CA1 area exhibited the highest neuronal loss while the low rate of neuronal death was not accompanied by significant albumin extravasation in the dentate gyrus. However, in case of the subiculum, in which the neuronal loss reached comparable values to those in the CA1 area, we did not find significant enhancement of plasma albumin leakage into this area. The regional differences in brain microvascular permeability may depend on the density of NMDA receptors in the multicellular capillary barrier, but the differences in neuronal death may also reflect an involvement of NMDA receptors in neuronal membranes. We conclude that increased CSF QUIN levels evoke a dysfunction of the BBB that may only partially be related to sites with pronounced neuronal damage in the rat brain regions susceptible to NMDA-receptor mediated toxicity.
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- F St'astný
- Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic.
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Spandou E, Karkavelas G, Soubasi V, Avgovstides-Savvopoulou P, Loizidis T, Guiba-Tziampiri O. Effect of ketamine on hypoxic-ischemic brain damage in newborn rats. Brain Res 1999; 819:1-7. [PMID: 10082854 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(98)01333-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The present study tests the hypothesis that ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic known to be a non-competitive antagonist of the NMDA receptor, will attenuate hypoxic-ischemic damage in neonatal rat brain. Studies were performed in 7-day-old rat pups which were divided into four groups. Animals of the first group, neither ligated nor exposed to hypoxia, served as controls. The second group was exposed to hypoxic-ischemic conditions and sacrificed immediately afterwards. Animals of the third and fourth groups were treated either with saline or ketamine (20 mg/kg, i.p.) in four doses following hypoxia. Hypoxic-ischemic injury to the left cerebral hemisphere was induced by ligation of the left common carotid artery followed by 1 h of hypoxia with 8% oxygen. Measurements of high energy phosphates (ATP and phosphocreatine) and amino acids (glutamate and glutamine) and neuropathological evaluation of the hippocampal formation were used to assess the effects of hypoxia-ischemia. The combination of common carotid artery ligation and exposure to an hypoxic environment caused major alterations in the ipsilateral hemisphere. In contrast, minor alterations in amino acid concentrations were observed after the end of hypoxia in the contralateral hemisphere. These alterations were restored during the early recovery period. Post-treatment with ketamine was associated with partial restoration of energy stores and amino acid content of the left cerebral hemisphere. Limited attenuation of the damage to the hippocampal formation as demonstrated by a reduction in the number of damaged neurons was also observed. These findings demonstrate that systemically administered ketamine after hypoxia offers partial protection to the newborn rat brain against hypoxic-ischemic injury.
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- E Spandou
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Stastný F, Dvoráková L, Lisý V. Biochemical characteristics of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase in capillaries from entorhinohippocampal complex of quinolinate-lesioned rat brain. MOLECULAR AND CHEMICAL NEUROPATHOLOGY 1997; 32:143-61. [PMID: 9437664 DOI: 10.1007/bf02815173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Quinolinic acid (QUIN) is an endogenous excitotoxic agonist of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) type of glutamate receptor, which causes slowly progressing degeneration of vulnerable neurons in some brain regions. Using changes in the activity of membrane-bound gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT) as a marker of cell damage, we found a significant decrease of this enzyme activity, which was preferentially located in the ipsilateral hippocampal formation and entorhinal cortex, 4 d after the unilateral intracerebroventricular (icv) injection of 0.5 mumol QUIN. The dose of QUIN divided into two half-doses injected bilaterally led to a symmetrical decline of GGT activity in hippocampal areas. The lesion was characterized by a suppression of GGT activity in hippocampal and entorhinal capillaries, corresponding to 60 and 81% of their initial value, respectively, but no significant changes were ascertained in synaptosomal membranes. The changes in the activity of capillary GGT were associated with the decrease of apparent maximal velocity Vmaxapp, whereas apparent Michaelis constant K(m)app (0.69-0.79 mM) remained unaffected. In the nonlesioned brain, concanavalin A (Con A) affinity chromatography revealed five glycoforms of synaptosomal GGT in contrast to only one found in hippocampal and entorhinal capillaries. The results document that neither the saccharide moiety of GGT nor the value of enzyme K(m)app is significantly affected by the QUIN-induced lesion of the rat brain. However, the suppression of GGT activity, which is accompanied by a decrease in the value of Vmaxapp in brain microvessels, may suggest dysfunction of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in the QUIN-injured rat brain.
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- F Stastný
- Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic.
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The protection provided by ketamine against the neuronal cytotoxicity of NMDA was investigated and compared with that provided by dizocilpine (MK 801). A massive anaesthetic dose of ketamine (180 mg/kg) was required for substantial protection (about 70%) of rat dorsal hippocampal neurons. Protection was markedly decreased if the ketamine was given in three divided doses of 60 mg/kg over a period of 2 hr, rather than as a bolus injection of 180 mg/kg. A lower dose (60 mg/kg i.p.) gave no protection when given 10 min prior to NMDA, but some protection (up to 30%) was found when administration was delayed for 1-2 hr. After 3 hr, ketamine at this dose did not protect. In comparison, the toxicity of NMDA was reduced by about 70% by prior treatment with dizocilpine at 1 mg/kg, and completely eliminated at 10 mg/kg. The lack of protection when ketamine at 60 mg/kg was administered prior to NMDA may be due to a proconvulsant action of ketamine, as diazepam in the presence but not in the absence of ketamine significantly reduced the toxicity of NMDA. However, there was no behavioural or histological evidence of increased seizure activity in the presence of ketamine. Neuroprotectant effects may prevail with massive anaesthetic doses of ketamine or when diffusion has reduced the concentration of NMDA. The heroic doses of ketamine required for protection diminish its attractiveness as a potential anti-ischaemic agent.
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- G J Lees
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science, School of Medicine, University of Auckland, New Zealand
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The lipofuscin of pyramidal cells in each hippocampal subfield of each of seven human autopsy cases without brain disease at the age of 3-12 months (infants) and of 17-23 years (young adults) was comparatively investigated at the electron microscopic level. In infant pyramidal neurons of the hippocampal subfields CA 1, CA 2, CA 3 and CA 4 O-2, very small lipofuscin particles were observed. The lipofuscin composition showed a slightly larger granular component compared to the vacuolar component with one or two small lipid droplets. No obvious ultrastructural variability of lipofuscin granules was observed. The CA 1 lipofuscin in young adults consists of larger particles than in infants, but no obvious difference in the composition of granular and vacuolar components from the infant lipofuscin was seen. The amount of lipofuscin in CA 1 strongly increased in young adults compared to infants and appeared in a perinuclear distribution. In young adults, in contrast to the infant group, the amount of lipofuscin in the subfields CA 2, CA 3 and CA 4 was significantly higher than in CA 1. In CA 2, CA 3 and CA 4 pyramidal neurons, the vacuolar component was significantly larger than the granular component. The similarity of infant hippocampal lipofuscin patterns in all subfields is discussed as a state of immaturity. To explain the observed differences between the CA 1 and the other subfields during neuronal development, as shown in the young adult group, several factors are discussed: the effects of cell specific metabolism, cellular functional activity, cytoprotective mechanisms and effects of efferent and afferent pathways connected with the subfields.
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- D R Thal
- Department of Neuropathology, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
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Murata S, Kawasaki K. Common and uncommon behavioural effects of antagonists for different modulatory sites in the NMDA receptor/channel complex. Eur J Pharmacol 1993; 239:9-15. [PMID: 8223917 DOI: 10.1016/0014-2999(93)90969-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The behavioural significance of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor/channel complex was investigated in rats, using different types of antagonists including D-2-amino-phosphonovaleric acid, (+/-)-3-(2-carboxypiperazin-4-yl)-propyl-1-phosphonic acid, 2-amino-4,5-(1,2-cyclohexyl)-7-phosphonoheptanoic acid, 7-Cl kynurenate, ifenprodil, phencyclidine (PCP), MK-801, ketamine, (+/-)-N-allylnormetazocine, dextromethorphan, ZnCl2, and MgCl2. All antagonists produced an impairment of learning and muscle relaxation when administered i.c.v. Frequent circling was characteristically produced by ligands for PCP binding sites and was unaffected by concomitant administration of a competitive NMDA receptor antagonist. These results suggest that the NMDA receptor/channel plays an important role in regulating learning/memory processes and muscle tone, whereas PCP binding sites unassociated with the NMDA channel are involved in the production of characteristic circling behaviour.
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- S Murata
- Division of Pharmacology, Kanzakigawa Laboratory, Shionogi & Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan
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Memantine, used as a drug for treatment of spasticity and other extrapyramidal disorders as well as dementia, was shown to prevent brain damage caused by the glutamate (N-methyl-D-aspartate, NMDA) receptor agonist, quinolinic acid. Studies were focused on the hippocampal formation which is known to be highly vulnerable to quinolinate. Pretreatment of animals with memantine added to the food led to a reliable protection of hippocampal neurons when the drug was administered chronically for a period of 10 days prior to quinolinate exposure (i.c.v. injected). Additional i.p. administration of memantine (simultaneously with quinolinic acid or up to 24 h later) did not substantially add to the protective potency of the memantine diet. Our findings indicate that memantine may have beneficial effects in the treatment of brain disorders which are mediated by excitotoxic effects of glutamate.
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- G Keilhoff
- Institute of Biology, Medical Academy of Magdeburg, Germany
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