Nordihydroguaiaretic acid and RHC 80267 potentiate astroglial injury during combined glucose-oxygen deprivation

Molecular and Chemical Neuropathology
S E HaunL A Horrocks

Abstract

Membrane phospholipid degradation has been proposed to play a key role in hypoxic-ischemic brain injury. We tested the hypotheses that both nordihydroguaiaretic acid, a phospholipase A2 and lipoxygenase inhibitor, and RHC 80267, a diacylglycerol lipase inhibitor, would decrease the release of [3H]arachidonic acid metabolites from prelabeled cultures of astroglia subjected to combined glucose-oxygen deprivation and that these inhibitors would also decrease astroglial injury during combined glucose-oxygen deprivation. Both nordihydroguaiaretic acid and RHC 80267 significantly inhibited the release of [3H]arachidonic acid metabolites during combined glucose-oxygen deprivation. This suggests that two separate enzymic pathways, the phospholipase A2 pathway and the phospholipase C/diacylglycerol lipase pathway, contribute to the release of astroglial [3H]arachidonic acid metabolites during combined glucose-oxygen deprivation. However, both of these lipase inhibitors increased astroglial cell death during combined glucose-oxygen deprivation, probably due to inhibition of arachidonic acid release. We speculate that arachidonic acid release may be a mechanism of astroglial self-preservation during combined glucose-oxygen deprivation.

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