Abstract
Evidence suggests that vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) mediates neuroprotection to prevent an apoptotic cell death. The p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway is implicated as an important mediator of neuronal apoptosis but its role in VEGF-mediated neuroprotection is unclear. Herein, we show that treatments with the p38 MAPK inhibitor, SB202190, enhanced VEGF-mediated survival in serum deprived SK-N-SH neuroblastoma cells by decreasing caspase-3/7 activation while increasing the phosphorylation of the extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK1/2) and Akt signaled through the VEGF receptor, VEGFR2. A blockade of VEGFR2 signaling with a selective inhibitor, SU1498 or gene silencing with VEGFR2 siRNA in SB202190 treated cells abrogated this prosurvival response and induced high activation levels of caspase-3/7. These findings suggested that the protection elicited by p38 MAPK inhibition in serum starved cells was dependent on a functional VEGF/VEGFR2 pathway. However, p38 MAPK inhibition attenuated caspase-3 cleavage in SU1498/SB202190 treated cells, indicating that p38 MAPK and caspase-3 only contributed in part to the total levels of caspase-3/7 induced by VEGFR2 inhibition. Pretreatments with the pan ca...Continue Reading
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