PMID: 9637404Jun 24, 1998Paper

NMDA-induced increases in rat brain glutamine synthetase but not glial fibrillary acidic protein are mediated by free radicals

Neuroscience Letters
J E Davenport JonesC K Atterwill

Abstract

Both excitotoxicity and oxidative stress are implicated in the pathophysiology of central nervous system (CNS) ischaemia-reperfusion injury whereby astrocytes offer neural protection through the production of endogenous antioxidants and removal of glutamate from the extracellular milieu. This study investigated whether exogenous alpha-tocopherol, an antioxidant, could prevent N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)-produced increases of the glial specific proteins, glutamine synthetase (GS) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) in rat brain spheroids in vitro. NMDA (320 microM; 3 days in vitro (DIV)) was unable to induce lipid peroxidation in rat brain spheroids implying that excitotoxicity in this system did not involve substantial free radical formation. However at non-cytotoxic concentrations, increases in astroglial GS were prevented by alpha-tocopherol treatment, suggesting a role for ROS in the excitotoxic process. In contrast, NMDA-induced increases in GFAP remained unchanged by alpha-tocopherol indicating that oxidative stress may not be involved in reactive gliosis at non-cytotoxic NMDA concentrations.

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