Oxidative events in neuronal and glial cell-enriched fractions of rat cerebral cortex

Free Radical Biology & Medicine
C CaféF Marzatico

Abstract

The aim of this work was to investigate how neurons and glial cells separated from rat brain cortex respond to "in vitro" oxidative stress induced by incubation of the cellular fractions in the presence of prooxidant mixtures; in addition, the endogenous enzymatic antioxidant capacity of the purified fractions was investigated. Neuronal and glial cell-enriched fractions were obtained from rat cerebral cortex following passages of the tissue through meshes and centrifugations. The following parameters were evaluated: antioxidant enzymes superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (GSHPx), and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH); lipid peroxidation products (TBARS) prior to (basal) and after (iron-stimulated) incubation with a mixture of iron and ascorbic acid; intracellular production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) using a fluorescent probe, dichlorofluorescin-diacetate, in basal, iron-stimulated, and menadione stimulated conditions. SOD and GSHPx activities showed no significant changes between neurons and glia, whereas CAT and G6PDH activities were found to be significantly lower in glia than in neurons. TBARS levels were significantly lower in the glial fraction than in neurons, both in basal an...Continue Reading

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