NGF, TrkA-P and neuroprotection after a hypoxic event in the developing central nervous system

International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience
M E BogettiS Fiszer de Plazas

Abstract

A decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the blood and tissues (hypoxia) produces important, sometimes irreversible, damages in the central nervous system (CNS) both during development and also postnatally. The present work aims at analyzing the expression of nerve growth factor (NGF) and p75 and the activation of TrkA in response to an acute normobaric hypoxic event and to evaluate the possible protective role of exogenous NGF. The developing chick optic tectum (OT), a recognized model of corticogenesis, was used as experimental system by means of in vivo and in vitro studies. Based on identification of the period of highest sensitivity of developmental programmed cell death (ED15) we show that hypoxia has a mild but reproducible effect that consist of a temporal increase of cell death 6 h after the end of a hypoxic treatment. Cell death was preceded by a significant early increase in the expression of Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) and its membrane receptor p75. In addition, we found a biphasic response of TrkA activation: a decrease during hypoxia followed by an increase -4 h later- that temporally coincide with the interval of NGF overexpression. To test the NGF - NGF receptors role in hypoxic cell death, we quantified, in p...Continue Reading

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