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Downregulation of Spermine Augments Dendritic Persistent Sodium Currents and Synaptic Integration after Status Epilepticus. J Neurosci 2016; 35:15240-53. [PMID: 26586813 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0493-15.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED Dendritic voltage-gated ion channels profoundly shape the integrative properties of neuronal dendrites. In epilepsy, numerous changes in dendritic ion channels have been described, all of them due to either their altered transcription or phosphorylation. In pilocarpine-treated chronically epileptic rats, we describe a novel mechanism that causes an increased proximal dendritic persistent Na(+) current (INaP). We demonstrate using a combination of electrophysiology and molecular approaches that the upregulation of dendritic INaP is due to a relief from polyamine-dependent inhibition. The polyamine deficit in hippocampal neurons is likely caused by an upregulation of the degrading enzyme spermidine/spermine acetyltransferase. Multiphoton glutamate uncaging experiments revealed that the increase in dendritic INaP causes augmented dendritic summation of excitatory inputs. These results establish a novel post-transcriptional modification of ion channels in chronic epilepsy and may provide a novel avenue for treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT In this paper, we describe a novel mechanism that causes increased dendritic persistent Na(+) current. We demonstrate using a combination of electrophysiology and molecular approaches that the upregulation of persistent Na(+) currents is due to a relief from polyamine-dependent inhibition. The polyamine deficit in hippocampal neurons is likely caused by an upregulation of the degrading enzyme spermidine/spermine acetyltransferase. Multiphoton glutamate uncaging experiments revealed that the increase in dendritic persistent Na current causes augmented dendritic summation of excitatory inputs. We believe that these results establish a novel post-transcriptional modification of ion channels in chronic epilepsy.
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Hydroxycinnamic acid amide derivatives of polyamines reverse spermine-induced CNS excitation. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2015; 133:57-64. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2015.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2014] [Revised: 02/25/2015] [Accepted: 03/19/2015] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Several amine oxidases are involved in the metabolism of the natural polyamines putrescine, spermidine, and spermine, and play a role in the regulation of intracellular concentrations, and the elimination of these amines. Since the products of the amine oxidase-catalyzed reactions -- hydrogen peroxide and aminoaldehydes -- are cytotoxic, oxidative degradations of the polyamines have been considered as a cause of apoptotic cell death, among other things in brain injury. Since a generally accepted, unambiguous nomenclature for amine oxidases is missing, considerable confusion exists with regard to the polyamine oxidizing enzymes. Consequently the role of the different amine oxidases in physiological and pathological processes is frequently misunderstood. In the present overview the reactions, which are catalyzed by the different polyamine-oxidizing enzymes are summarized, and their potential role in brain damage is discussed.
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- N Seiler
- CIF INSERM 95-05, Institut de Recherche Contre les Cancers de l'Appareil Digestif, Strasbourg, France.
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Johnson TD. Polyamines and cerebral ischemia. PROGRESS IN DRUG RESEARCH. FORTSCHRITTE DER ARZNEIMITTELFORSCHUNG. PROGRES DES RECHERCHES PHARMACEUTIQUES 1998; 50:193-258. [PMID: 9670780 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-8833-2_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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It has been well established that alterations in polyamine metabolism are associated with animal models of global ischemia. Recently, this has been extended to include models of focal ischemia and traumatic brain injury. There is much evidence to support the idea that polyamines may play a multifaceted detrimental role following ischemia reperfusion. Due to the deficit of knowledge about their physiology in the CNS, the link between ischemia-induced alterations in polyamine metabolism and neuronal injury remains to be substantiated. With the recent revelation that polyamines are major intracellular modulators of inward rectifier potassium channels and certain types of NMDA and AMPA receptors, the long wait for the physiologic relevance of these ubiquitous compounds may be in sight. Therefore, it is now conceivable that the alterations in polyamines could have major effects on ion homeostasis in the CNS, especially potassium, and thus account for the observed injury after cerebral ischemia.
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- T D Johnson
- Department of Anesthesiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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Giménez-Llort L, Martínez E, Camón L, de Vera N. Changes in brain putrescine concentration associated with nonconvulsant behavioral patterns induced by systemic N-methyl-D-aspartate injection. MOLECULAR AND CHEMICAL NEUROPATHOLOGY 1997; 30:289-302. [PMID: 9165492 DOI: 10.1007/bf02815104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The relationship between the behavioral effects and motor activity induced by N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) (150 mg/kg, ip) and brain polyamine concentration was studied in male Wistar rats. Motor activity was evaluated by an automated subtraction analysis system to measure the duration and vigor of any kind of movement. The behavioral modifications exhibited by the nonconvulsant NMDA-treated rats were evaluated according to the composition and sequence of behavioral components as: hypoactivity (pattern A), partially stereotyped activity (pattern B), and generalized stereotyped activity (pattern C). The concentration of polyamines in the frontal cortex and hippocampus was measured 8 and 24 h after drug injection. A relationship was found between the concentration of putrescine in both regions and the motor activity. In addition, the concentrations of putrescine also correlated with the vigor of the movements performed. Moreover, the putrescine concentration in the frontal cortex and hippocampus paralleled the behavioral patterns. The histological examination of the frontocortical and hippocampal areas did not reveal any evidence of damage. In conclusion, partially or generalized stereotyped activity elicited by systemic NMDA administration induces an increase in putrescine in the brain not linked to histological damage.
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- L Giménez-Llort
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques de Barcelona (IIBB), CSIC, Spain
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Donevan SD, Rogawski MA. Intracellular polyamines mediate inward rectification of Ca(2+)-permeable alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1995; 92:9298-302. [PMID: 7568121 PMCID: PMC40972 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.92.20.9298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 196] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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alpha-Amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptors that lack the glutamate receptor GluR2 subunit are Ca(2+)-permeable and exhibit inwardly rectifying current responses to kainate and AMPA. A proportion of cultured rat hippocampal neurons show similar Ca(2+)-permeable inwardly rectifying AMPA receptor currents. Inward rectification in these neurons was lost with intracellular dialysis and was not present in excised outside-out patches but was maintained in perforated-patch whole-cell recordings, suggesting that a diffusible cytoplasmic factor may be responsible for rectification. Inclusion of the naturally occurring polyamines spermine and spermidine in the recording pipette prevented loss of rectification in both whole-cell and excised-patch recordings; Mg2+ and putrescine were without effect. Inward rectification of Ca(2+)-permeable AMPA receptors may reflect voltage-dependent channel block by intracellular polyamines.
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- S D Donevan
- Neuronal Excitability Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 29892, USA
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Hayashi Y, Baudry M. Effect of kainate-induced seizure activity on the polyamine interconversion pathway in juvenile rat brain. BRAIN RESEARCH. DEVELOPMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH 1995; 87:96-9. [PMID: 7554238 DOI: 10.1016/0165-3806(95)00053-g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The activity of the polyamine interconversion pathway was investigated in the hippocampus and piriform cortex after systemic KA administration in juvenile rats. Pretreatment of 7-day-old rats with the polyamine oxidase inhibitor, MDL 72527, induced a similar accumulation of N-acetylspermidine and N-acetylspermine in control and kainate-treated animals. The results indicate that KA-induced seizure activity has no effect on the polyamine interconversion pathway in developing rat brain.
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- Y Hayashi
- Neuroscience Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089-2520, USA
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Collaço-Moraes Y, De Belleroche J. Differential temporal patterns of expression of immediate early genes in cerebral cortex induced by intracerebral excitotoxin injection: sensitivity to dexamethasone and MK-801. Neuropharmacology 1995; 34:521-31. [PMID: 7566487 DOI: 10.1016/0028-3908(95)00021-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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A number of conditions associated with persistent excitation such as electrically and chemically-induced seizures cause a rapid increase in the expression of immediate early genes (IEG) such as c-fos. In this study the time-course of induction of c-jun, jun-B and zif 268 mRNA by kainate was characterized in rat cerebral cortex and compared to that of c-fos mRNA induction. Unilateral injection of kainate into the nucleus basalis caused a significant induction of c-jun mRNA in cerebral cortex from 4 hr which was maximal at 8 hr, being 3 times greater in ipsilateral cortex than in control cortex. This pattern was also shown for jun-B and was similar, but of small magnitude, to that obtained with c-fos mRNA, with a maximal increase at 8 hr, whilst the maximal induction of zif-268 mRNA preceded these responses occurring at 4 hr. A marked difference was seen in duration in the c-jun induction which was maintained at a high level for at least 24 hr. Treatment of animals with MK-801 (within 30 min of injection of kainate) or dexamethasone (2-30 mg/kg) at the time of kainate injection significantly attenuated the response. The induction of c-fos mRNA by kainate injection was most sensitive to dexamethasone (2 mg/kg), whereas a higher dose (30 mg/kg) was required to attenuate the induction of zif-268 mRNA. These results show that a time-dependent and co-ordinated induction of c-fos, c-jun, jun-B and zif-268 mRNA in cerebral cortex occurs in response to the persistent excitation caused by excitotoxin injection which is mediated by glutamate and shows a differential sensitivity to dexamethasone.
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- Y Collaço-Moraes
- Department of Biochemistry, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, London, U.K
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- G Sperk
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Innsbruck, Austria
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Lombardi G, Szekely AM, Bristol LA, Guidotti A, Manev H. Induction of ornithine decarboxylase by N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor activation is unrelated to potentiation of glutamate excitotoxicity by polyamines in cerebellar granule neurons. J Neurochem 1993; 60:1317-24. [PMID: 8095973 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.1993.tb03292.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Polyamines positively modulate the activity of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)-sensitive glutamate receptors. The concentration of polyamines in the brain increases in certain pathological conditions, such as ischemia and brain trauma, and these compounds have been postulated to play a role in excitotoxic neuronal death. In primary cultures of rat cerebellar granule neurons, exogenous application of the polyamines spermidine and spermine (but not putrescine) potentiated the delayed neurotoxicity elicited by NMDA receptor stimulation with glutamate. Furthermore, both toxic and nontoxic concentrations of glutamate stimulated the activity of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC)--the key regulatory enzyme in polyamine synthesis--and increased the concentration of ODC mRNA in cerebellar granule neurons but not in glial cells. Glutamate-induced ODC activation but not neurotoxicity was blocked by the ODC inhibitor difluoromethylornithine. Thus, high extracellular polyamine concentrations potentiate glutamate-triggered neuronal death, but the glutamate-induced increase in neuronal ODC activity may not play a determinant role in the cascade of intracellular events responsible for delayed excitotoxicity.
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- G Lombardi
- Fidia-Georgetown Institute for the Neurosciences, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C
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Hayashi Y, Hattori Y, Moriwaki A, Lu YF, Hori Y. Increases in brain polyamine concentrations in chemical kindling and single convulsion induced by pentylenetetrazol in rats. Neurosci Lett 1993; 149:63-6. [PMID: 8469383 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(93)90348-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Concentrations of the polyamines, putrescine, spermidine and spermine were investigated in rat brains, in which chemical kindling or single convulsion had been induced by intraperitoneal injection of pentylenetetrazol (PTZ). A single injection of 60 mg/kg of PTZ produced tonic-clonic convulsion and increased the putrescine concentration 8 h after the injection. At lower doses of PTZ (10 and 30 mg/kg), neither marked behavioral seizure nor significant change in any polyamine concentration was observed. On the other hand, repeated injections of 30 mg/kg of PTZ eventually resulted in intense motor seizures (PTZ kindling) and increased the concentrations of all three polyamines. The most marked increase was detected in putrescine 1-48 h after the intense seizures. The increase in putrescine was clearly higher in PTZ kindling than in single convulsion. These results suggest that increases in polyamine concentrations are involved in neuronal excitability in the epileptic brain.
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- Y Hayashi
- Department of Physiology, Okayama University Medical School, Japan
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Biosynthesis of the polyamines spermidine and spermine and their precursor putrescine is controlled by the activity of the two key enzymes ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) and S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase (SAMDC). In the adult brain, polyamine synthesis is activated by a variety of physiological and pathological stimuli, resulting most prominently in an increase in ODC activity and putrescine levels. The sharp rise in putrescine levels observed following severe cellular stress is most probably the result of an increase in ODC activity and decrease in SAMDC activity or an activation of the interconversion of spermidine into putrescine via the enzymes spermidine N-acetyltransferase and polyamine oxidase. Spermidine and spermine levels are usually less affected by stress and are reduced in severely injured areas. Changes of polyamine synthesis and metabolism are most pronounced in those pathological conditions that induce cell injury, such as severe metabolic stress, exposure to neurotoxins or seizure. Putrescine levels correlate closely with the density of cell necrosis. Because of the close relationship between the extent of post-stress changes in polyamine metabolism and density of cellular injury, it has been suggested that polyamines play a role in the manifestation of structural defects. Four different mechanisms of polyamine-dependent cell injury are plausible: (1) an overactivation of calcium fluxes and neurotransmitter release in areas with an overshoot in putrescine formation; (2) disturbances of the calcium homeostasis resulting from an impairment of the calcium buffering capacity of mitochondria in regions in which spermine levels are reduced; (3) an overactivation of the NMDA receptor complex caused by a release of polyamines into the extracellular space during ischemia or after ischemia and prolonged recirculation in the tissue surrounding severely damaged areas; (4) an overproduction of hydrogen peroxide resulting from an activation of the interconversion of spermidine into putrescine via the enzymes spermidine N-acetyltransferase and polyamine oxidase. Insofar as a sharp activation of polyamine synthesis is a common response to a variety of physiological and pathological stimuli, studying stress-induced changes in polyamine synthesis and metabolism may help to elucidate the molecular mechanisms involved in the development of cell injury induced by severe stress.
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- W Paschen
- Max-Planck-Institute for Neurological Research, Department of Experimental Neurology, Cologne, Germany
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Sauer D, Martin P, Allegrini PR, Bernasconi R, Amacker H, Fagg GE. Differing effects of α-difluoromethylornithine and CGP 40116 on polyamine levels and infarct volume in a rat model of focal cerebral ischaemia. Neurosci Lett 1992; 141:131-5. [PMID: 1359466 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(92)90878-b] [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: 11/29/2022]
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Focal cerebral ischaemia was induced in rats by occlusion of the left middle cerebral artery. Two days later, infarct volume was determined by magnetic resonance imaging and the concentrations of the polyamines putrescine (PU), spermine and spermidine by HPLC. In control (occluded) animals, PU levels were elevated in infarcted and non-infarcted areas of the left hemisphere. Treatment with the ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) inhibitor alpha-difluoromethylornithine, prevented the ischaemia-induced increase in tissue PU without affecting infarct volume. Conversely, administration of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist CGP 40116 decreased cortical infarction without changing the tissue content of PU. We conclude that there is no direct link between NMDA receptor activation and brain PU, or PU and post-ischaemic tissue damage, and that inhibitors of ODC are not cerebroprotective in this animal model of stroke.
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- D Sauer
- Ciba-Geigy, Pharmaceutical Research Division, Basel, Switzerland
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Herberg LJ, Rose IC, de Belleroche JS, Mintz M. Ornithine decarboxylase induction and polyamine synthesis in the kindling of seizures: the effect of alpha-difluoromethylornithine. Epilepsy Res 1992; 11:3-7. [PMID: 1563337 DOI: 10.1016/0920-1211(92)90015-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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It has been suggested that the kindling of seizures may depend on the induction of genes encoding enzymes involved in neurotransmission. Experimental seizures are followed by an especially rapid and massive induction of brain ornithine decarboxylase (ODC), an enzyme which catalyses the rate-limiting step in the synthesis of polyamines. The latter compounds have been shown to act as positive allosteric modulators of the NMDA receptor, and also to play an important role in cell growth and differentiation. The induction of ODC by seizures has accordingly been suggested to play a pivotal role in the changes in synaptic structure and function that underlie kindling. In the present study we examined the progress of kindling during treatment with alpha-difluoromethylornithine (DFMO), an irreversible inhibitor of ODC. We found that progressive increase in the duration and severity of kindled seizures and in the duration of local afterdischarges was unaffected by daily injections of DFMO in doses previously shown to cause substantial depression of brain ODC activity. Treatment with DFMO also failed to produce significant anticonvulsant or proconvulsant effects. Progressive increase in seizure activity during kindling is therefore unlikely to depend to any appreciable extent on enhanced synthesis of polyamines by ODC.
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- L J Herberg
- Experimental Psychology Laboratory, Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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During the development of kindling by daily electrical stimulations applied to the left amygdala of rats, concentrations of the polyamines putrescine, spermidine, and spermine were measured in the left amygdala and the remainder of the cerebrum. A significant increase of putrescine concentration appeared first at the left amygdala in prekindled rats and then propagated to the remainder of the cerebrum with the development of kindling. This increase in putrescine concentration in the left amygdala was higher in prekindled rats than in fully kindled rats and lasted for at least 24 h after the final kindling stimulation. The concentrations of spermidine and spermine were slightly increased in a fully kindled state. To clarify the role of putrescine in kindling, the development of amygdaloid kindling was examined in rats after microinjections of alpha-difluoromethylornithine, a specific inhibitor of polyamine synthesis, and putrescine into the ipsilateral amygdala. Pretreatment with alpha-difluoromethylornithine (50 nmol) for 10 days accelerated both the development of behavioral kindling and the propagation of the afterdischarge from the left amygdala to the frontal cortex. In contrast, pretreatment with putrescine (200 nmol) for 10 days retarded the development of kindling. These results suggest that the increase in putrescine concentration in the kindled brain has an inhibitory effect on the development of kindling.
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- Y Hayashi
- Department of Physiology, Okayama University Medical School, Japan
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Gardiner IM, Li A, Patel N, Ball S, de Belleroche J. Excitotoxin induction of ornithine decarboxylase in cerebral cortex is reduced by phospholipase A2 inhibition. Life Sci 1992; 51:PL77-81. [PMID: 1640804 DOI: 10.1016/0024-3205(92)90235-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The enzyme ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) has been shown to be induced by a number of conditions such as cold-injury, kindling, ischaemia and excitotoxin injection. In previous studies we have characterised the cortical response to kainate injection into the nucleus basalis and shown a substantial increase in both ODC mRNA and enzyme activity which reaches a maximum at 8h. This response is completely prevented by treatment with MK-801, indicating the involvement of NMDA receptors in mediating this response. Whilst NMDA receptors are known to gate a cation channel leading to increased calcium entry, an additional effect on the release of arachidonic acid has been reported. The possibility that NMDA receptor mediated activation of phospholipase A2 and release of arachidonic acid might mediate this ODC response was investigated in this study by treatment with the phospholipase inhibitors quinacrine and dexamethasone. Treatment of animals with quinacrine (100 mg/kg) at the time of injection of kainate into the nucleus basalis caused a significant attenuation of the induction of ODC in cerebral cortex of 43%. No further attenuation was seen at higher doses. A similar reduction in ODC induction was seen after treatment with dexamethasone (1 mg/kg) but a greater effect could be obtained (65% attenuation) at higher doses. The possible involvement of arachidonic acid derivatives in mediating ODC induction was further investigated by treatment with the cyclo-oxygenase inhibitor indomethacin and the lipoxygenase inhibitor nordihydroguaiaretic acid (NDGA). Indomethacin was able to significantly attenuate the induction of ODC (greater than 60%) whilst NDGA (30 mg/kg) was ineffective. These results indicate the possible role of arachidonic acid derivatives in the regulation of the expression of ODC in cerebral cortex after excitotoxin injection.
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- I M Gardiner
- Department of Biochemistry, Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School, London
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Gilad GM, Gilad VH, Wyatt RJ, Casero RA. Chronic lithium treatment prevents the dexamethasone-induced increase of brain polyamine metabolizing enzymes. Life Sci 1992; 50:PL149-54. [PMID: 1313939 DOI: 10.1016/0024-3205(92)90289-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The paper describes the effects of various regimens of lithium chloride treatment on dexamethasone-induced increases in brain polyamine metabolizing enzymes. In contrast to peripheral tissues where acute lithium treatment suppresses the increase in ornithine decarboxylase activity, in the brain only chronic treatment was effective in preventing this increase and also the increases in the activities of S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase and spermidine/spermine N1-acetyltransferase. This findings indicate a novel brain target for lithium's action and in turn provide new avenues for exploring polyamine function in the brain.
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- G M Gilad
- Neuropsychiatry Branch, NIMH Neuroscience Center, St. Elizabeths, Washington, DC 20032
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Hayashi Y. Effects of intra-amygdaloid injections of alpha-difluoromethylornithine and putrescine on the development of electrical kindling in rats. Brain Res 1991; 560:181-5. [PMID: 1760726 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(91)91230-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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In our previous study, an increase in concentration of putrescine was observed in the brain of amygdaloid kindled rats. To clarify the role of putrescine in kindling, the effects of intra-amygdaloid injections of alpha-difluoromethylornithine (DFMO), an inhibitor of polyamine synthesis, or putrescine on the development of electrical kindling were examined in rats. Kindling stimulations were applied to the left amygdala. Pretreatment with DFMO (50 nmol) for 10 days by injection into the ipsilateral amygdala decreased both the number of stimulations and total afterdischarge (AD) duration required to reach first fully kindled state. Kindling-induced elevation of the putrescine concentration was inhibited by pretreatment with this dose of DFMO. On the other hand, pretreatment with putrescine (200 nmol) for 10 days into the same site of the brain retarded the behavioral and electrographic development of kindling seizure during the period of drug administration, although these treatments did not produce any changes in the number of stimulations or total AD duration. Putrescine (200 nmol) demonstrated no anticonvulsive effects in previously kindled animals. These results suggest that putrescine has an inhibitory effect on the development of amygdaloid kindling in rats.
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- Y Hayashi
- Department of Physiology, Okayama University Medical School, Japan
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- P A Ferchmin
- Department of Biochemistry, Universidad Central del Caribe, Bayamon, Puerto Rico 00621-6032
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Wood H, de Belleroche J. Induction of c-fos mRNA in cerebral cortex by excitotoxin stimulation of cortical inputs: involvement of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors. Brain Res 1991; 545:183-90. [PMID: 1830508 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(91)91285-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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In this study we have characterized the induction of c-fos mRNA in cerebral cortex in response to unilateral kainate injection into the nucleus basalis. This treatment is associated with an intense stimulation of the ascending pathway and the subsequent induction of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) enzyme activity and ODC mRNA in ipsilateral cerebral cortex which is sensitive to treatment with MK-801 and dihydropyridine antagonists. Unilateral injection of kainate into nucleus basalis caused a marked induction of c-fos mRNA in ipsilateral cortex which was detectable at 1 h, reached a maximal value at 8 h where c-fos mRNA levels were 16 times those in unoperated animals and then returned to control values by 24 h. However, the early induction of c-fos mRNA at 1 h was not related to a specific effect of kainate since at this time point, sham-operated animals also showed a significant increase in the level of c-fos mRNA in ipsilateral cerebral cortex. No significant induction of c-fos mRNA was detected in ipsilateral cortex in sham-operated animals at 4 and 8 h after injection of vehicle. Treatment with the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist, MK-801 (3 mg/kg) significantly attenuated the response obtained at 4 h and 8 h after kainate injection by 73% and 55% respectively, but did not influence the level of c-fos mRNA induced at 1 h. Delaying administration of MK-801 by 30 min reduced the effectiveness of this treatment on the response obtained at 4 h.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- H Wood
- Department of Biochemistry, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, London, U.K
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McGurk JF, Bennett MV, Zukin RS. Polyamines potentiate responses of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors expressed in xenopus oocytes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:9971-4. [PMID: 1702227 PMCID: PMC55296 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.24.9971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Glutamate, the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system, activates at least three types of channel-forming receptors defined by the selective agonists N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), kainate, and quisqualate [or more selectively by alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA)]. Activation of the NMDA receptor requires glycine as well as NMDA or glutamate. Recent studies have provided evidence that certain polyamines potentiate the binding by NMDA receptors of glycine and the open channel blocker MK-801. To determine whether polyamines alter channel opening, we examined their effects on rat brain glutamate receptors expressed in Xenopus oocytes. Our results demonstrate that spermine potentiates the response of the NMDA receptor but has no effect on responses to kainate and quisqualate. Furthermore, spermine increases the maximum response to NMDA and glycine and acts, at least in part, by increasing the apparent affinity of the NMDA receptor/channel complex for glycine. The present findings and the fact that polyamines are a natural constituent of brain suggest that polyamines may play a role in the regulation of glutamatergic transmission.
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- J F McGurk
- Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461
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Reed LJ, de Belleroche J. Induction of ornithine decarboxylase in cerebral cortex by excitotoxin lesion of nucleus basalis: association with postsynaptic responsiveness and N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor activation. J Neurochem 1990; 55:780-7. [PMID: 1974604 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.1990.tb04560.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The major cholinergic innervation of the rat cerebral cortex arises from the nucleus basalis in the basal forebrain. Introduction of the excitotoxins kainate or ibotenate into the nucleus basalis by stereotaxic injection results in degeneration of the cholinergic cells. We have investigated the effect of this excitotoxic action on ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity and cholinergic responsiveness in the cerebral cortex. A massive and rapid induction of ODC activity was seen in ipsilateral cortex after injection of excitotoxin. A maximal increase in ODC activity of 268 times the control value was seen in ipsilateral cerebral cortex 8 h after lesioning. Thereafter, ODC activity declined but remained significantly greater than control levels for 32 h. Pretreatment of animals with the irreversible ODC inhibitor difluoromethylornithine prevented the induction of ODC by kainate. Tissue content of the ODC product putrescine showed a marked increase in cerebral cortex ipsilateral to the lesion, increasing sevenfold at 24 h, the maximal concentration reached. After 24 h, the level of putrescine decreased but remained significantly elevated above control values for 5 days. Levels of the polyamines spermidine and spermine were unaffected by lesioning. Increases on ODC activity of much smaller magnitude were also seen in brain regions not directly innervated from the ipsilateral nucleus basalis. However, the response in ipsilateral cortex was found to be dependent on an intact projection from nucleus basalis to cortex. The induction of ODC was shown to be prevented by treatment of rats with MK-801, a result indicating the involvement of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- L J Reed
- Department of Biochemistry, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, London, England
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