1Alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 treatment does not alter neuronal cyclooxygenase-2 expression in the cerebral cortex after stroke

Anatomy and Embryology
E OermannK Zilles

Abstract

The inducible prostaglandin synthase, cyclooxygenase-2, is upregulated in response to cerebral ischemia and contributes to potentiation of oxidative injury. Cyclooxygenase-2 expression is regulated by retinoic acid receptors, which form heterodimers with vitamin D receptors and vitamin D. In addition, vitamin D has been reported to have neuroprotective qualities. The aim of this study was to examine whether the biologically active vitamin D3-metabolite 1alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25-D3), influences the expression of inducible cyclooxygenase-2 in photothrombotically lesioned brain or is part of an independent neuroprotective mechanism. We compared groups of nonlesioned control rats and infarcted animals, which were treated with either 1,25-D3 or solvent at different times postlesion. In control animals, cyclooxygenase-2 immunoreactivity was readily evident in almost all cortical neurons of layers II/III as well as in a few pyramidal cells in layer V. Following photothrombotic infarction of the right cortical hindlimb area, there was a significant, but transient, increase in cyclooxygenase-2 labeling which was restricted to neurons of the injured hemisphere in both 1,25- D3-treated and solvent-treated rats. Highest levels of...Continue Reading

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