Nitric oxide synthase-I containing cortical interneurons co-express antioxidative enzymes and anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 following focal ischemia: evidence for direct and indirect mechanisms towards their resistance to neuropathology
| Autor: | Otto W. Witte, Karl Zilles, Barbara Emde, Bernd Mayer, Hans-J. Bidmon, Kanefusa Kato, Marcus Schmitt, Kohtaro Asayama, Tilo Kowalski |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Apoptosis Nitric Oxide Neuroprotection Antioxidants Brain Ischemia Nitric oxide Superoxide dismutase Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience chemistry.chemical_compound Interneurons Animals Rats Wistar Cerebral Cortex Glutathione Peroxidase Microscopy Confocal biology Superoxide Dismutase Superoxide Glutamate receptor Long-term potentiation Immunohistochemistry Rats Cell biology Nitric oxide synthase Disease Models Animal Oxidative Stress Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2 chemistry Biochemistry Heme Oxygenase (Decyclizing) Nerve Degeneration biology.protein Nitric Oxide Synthase Peroxynitrite |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy. 22:167-184 |
| ISSN: | 0891-0618 |
| Popis: | Neuronal nitric oxide-I is constitutively expressed in approximately 2% of cortical interneurons and is co-localized with gamma-amino butric acid, somatostatin or neuropeptide Y. These interneurons additionally express high amounts of glutamate receptors which mediate the glutamate-induced hyperexcitation following cerebral injury, under these conditions nitric oxide production increases contributing to a potentiation of oxidative stress. However, perilesional nitric oxide synthase-I containing neurons are known to be resistant to ischemic and excitotoxic injury. In vitro studies show that nitrosonium and nitroxyl ions inactivate N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors, resulting in neuroprotection. The question remains of how these cells are protected against their own high intracellular nitric oxide production after activation. In this study, we investigated immunocytochemically nitric oxide synthase-I containing cortical neurons in rats after unilateral, cortical photothrombosis. In this model of focal ischemia, perilesional, constitutively nitric oxide synthase-I containing neurons survived and co-expressed antioxidative enzymes, such as manganese- and copper-zinc-dependent superoxide dismutases, heme oxygenase-2 and cytosolic glutathione peroxidase. This enhanced antioxidant expression was accompanied by a strong perinuclear presence of the antiapoptotic Bcl-2 protein. No colocalization was detectable with upregulated heme oxygenase-1 in glia and the superoxide and prostaglandin G(2)-producing cyclooxygenase-2 in neurons. These results suggest that nitric oxide synthase-I containing interneurons are protected against intracellular oxidative damage and apoptosis by Bcl-2 and several potent antioxidative enzymes. Since nitric oxide synthase-I positive neurons do not express superoxide-producing enzymes such as cyclooxygenase-1, xanthine oxidase and cyclooxygenase-2 in response to injury, this may additionally contribute to their resistance by reducing their internal peroxynitrite, H(2)O(2)-formation and caspase activation. |
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