Vasoactive intestinal peptide induction by ciliary neurotrophic factor in donor human corneal endothelium in situ
| Autor: | Shay-Whey M. Koh, Xiuhuai Liu, Yan Guo, James A. Waschek, Aviva J. Symes, S. L. Bernstein |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Corneal endothelium Endothelium medicine.medical_treatment Vasoactive intestinal peptide Gene Expression Ciliary neurotrophic factor Article Internal medicine medicine Humans Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor RNA Messenger Autocrine signalling biology Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction General Neuroscience Endothelium Corneal Nerve injury Molecular biology Endothelial stem cell Endocrinology medicine.anatomical_structure Gene Expression Regulation biology.protein Receptors Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide Axotomy medicine.symptom Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide |
| Zdroj: | Neuroscience Letters. 423:89-94 |
| ISSN: | 0304-3940 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.05.067 |
| Popis: | After peripheral nerve axotomy, vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) gene expression is upregulated in neurons, whereas ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) accumulates extracellularly at the lesion site. Although CNTF-induced VIP gene expression has been reported in cultured sympathetic neurons and neuroblastoma cells, it still remains to be determined if CNTF and VIP play interrelated roles in nerve injury. The corneal endothelium, like sympathetic neurons, derives from the neural crest. Previously, we demonstrated that a sublethal-level of oxidative stress induces CNTF release from corneal endothelial (CE) cells in situ. Here, we show that human CE cells express the 53 kDa ligand-binding alpha subunit of the CNTF receptor (CNTFRalpha). We further demonstrate that CNTF induces VIP immunoreactivity in human donor corneas. To determine if the increase in VIP immunoreactivity was reflected by an increase in gene expression, donor human corneas were bisected and treated with CNTF or vehicle, and analyzed by real-time RT-qPCR. Two experiments using different sets of bisected corneas indicated that CNTF induced increases in VIP mRNA levels of 6.5+/-2.2-fold (N=7 corneas) and 2.3+/-0.6-fold (N=10 corneas) (mean+/-S.E.M.), respectively. Whereas VIP is produced as a CE autocrine factor against oxidative stress, the present study suggested that oxidative stress-released CNTF plays a role in protecting CE cells against oxidative stress injury by upregulating VIP expression. |
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