TY - JOUR
T1 - Time-related changes in constitutive and inducible nitric oxide synthases in the rat striatum in a model of Huntington's disease
AU - Aguilera, Penélope
AU - Chánez-Cárdenas, María Elena
AU - Floriano-Sánchez, Esaú
AU - Barrera, Diana
AU - Santamaría, Abel
AU - Sánchez-González, Dolores Javier
AU - Pérez-Severiano, Francisca
AU - Pedraza-Chaverrí, José
AU - Maldonado Jiménez, Perla Deyanira
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by a grant from UNAM (DGAPA, PAPIIT #IN227103 and PAPIIT #IN229505). ABI Prism 7000 Sequence Detection System was lended by Escuela Militar de Graduados de Sanidad, UDEFA, México. DJSG received a scholarship No. 172018 from CONACYT.
PY - 2007/11
Y1 - 2007/11
N2 - Excitotoxicity and oxidative stress are mechanisms involved in the neuronal cell death induced by the intrastriatal injection of quinolinic acid (QUIN) as a model of Huntington's disease. Production of nitric oxide by nitric oxide synthase (NOS) has been proposed to participate in QUIN-induced neurotoxicity; however, the precise role of NOS in QUIN-induced toxicity still remains controversial. In order to provide further information on the role of NOS isoforms in QUIN toxicity, we performed real time RT-PCR and immunohistochemistry of inducible NOS (iNOS), endothelial NOS (eNOS) and neuronal NOS (nNOS) and determined Ca2+-dependent and Ca2+-independent NOS activity in a temporal course (3-48 h), after an intrastriatal injection of QUIN to rats. NOS isoforms exhibited a transitory expression of mRNA and protein after QUIN infusion: eNOS increased between 3 and 24 h, iNOS between 12 and 24 h, while nNOS at 35 and 48 h. Ca2+-independent activity (iNOS) did not show any change, while Ca2+-dependent activity (constitutive NOS: eNOS/nNOS) exhibited increased levels at 3 h. Our results support the participation of Ca2+-dependent NOS isoforms during the toxic events produced at early times after QUIN injection.
AB - Excitotoxicity and oxidative stress are mechanisms involved in the neuronal cell death induced by the intrastriatal injection of quinolinic acid (QUIN) as a model of Huntington's disease. Production of nitric oxide by nitric oxide synthase (NOS) has been proposed to participate in QUIN-induced neurotoxicity; however, the precise role of NOS in QUIN-induced toxicity still remains controversial. In order to provide further information on the role of NOS isoforms in QUIN toxicity, we performed real time RT-PCR and immunohistochemistry of inducible NOS (iNOS), endothelial NOS (eNOS) and neuronal NOS (nNOS) and determined Ca2+-dependent and Ca2+-independent NOS activity in a temporal course (3-48 h), after an intrastriatal injection of QUIN to rats. NOS isoforms exhibited a transitory expression of mRNA and protein after QUIN infusion: eNOS increased between 3 and 24 h, iNOS between 12 and 24 h, while nNOS at 35 and 48 h. Ca2+-independent activity (iNOS) did not show any change, while Ca2+-dependent activity (constitutive NOS: eNOS/nNOS) exhibited increased levels at 3 h. Our results support the participation of Ca2+-dependent NOS isoforms during the toxic events produced at early times after QUIN injection.
KW - Huntington's disease
KW - Neurotoxicity
KW - Nitric oxide synthase
KW - Quinolinic acid
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U2 - 10.1016/j.neuro.2007.07.010
DO - 10.1016/j.neuro.2007.07.010
M3 - Artículo
C2 - 17850874
SN - 0161-813X
VL - 28
SP - 1200
EP - 1207
JO - NeuroToxicology
JF - NeuroToxicology
IS - 6
ER -