PLATELET-ACTIVATING-FACTOR ANTAGONISTS REDUCE EXCITOTOXIC DAMAGE IN CULTURED NEURONS FROM EMBRYONIC CHICK TELENCEPHALON AND PROTECT THE RAT HIPPOCAMPUS AND NEOCORTEX FROM ISCHEMIC-INJURY INVIVO

被引:83
作者
PREHN, JHM
KRIEGLSTEIN, J
机构
[1] Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Philipps-Universität, Marburg
关键词
NEUROPROTECTION; TRANSIENT FOREBRAIN ISCHEMIA; GLUTAMATE; PRIMARY NEURONAL CULTURE;
D O I
10.1002/jnr.490340205
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
The neuroprotective effects of the platelet-activating factor (PAF) antagonists BN 52020 and BN 52021 were determined in a temperature-controlled model of transient forebrain ischemia in the rat (occlusion of both common carotid arteries combined with lowering of the mean arterial blood pressure to 40 mm Hg for 10 min). After 7 days of recirculation, the ischemic neuronal damage was evaluated histologically within the hippocampus and neocortex. Combined pre- and post-treatment with the PAF antagonists (2 x 25 mg/kg, s.c.) significantly reduced the resulting neuronal damage of the CA1 and CA3 hippocampal subfields and of the occipital and parietal cerebral cortex. The two PAF antagonists were also tested for their neuroprotective activity in primary neuronal cultures isolated from embryonic chick telencephalon. Since an excessive activation of excitatory amino acid receptors is discussed to be of importance for the ischemic brain damage, the cultured neurons were exposed to the excitatory amino acid L-glutamate (1 mM) for a period of 60 min. Twenty hours after the excitotoxic insult, BN 52020- and BN 52021-treated cultures (1-100 muM) showed both a better preserved morphology, as well as a dose-dependent increase in cell viability and protein content compared to the control cultures. Our results demonstrate that the PAF antagonists BN 52020 and BN 52021 have the capacity to protect brain tissue against ischemic neuronal damage independent of hypothermic effects and are also capable of reducing excitotoxic damage of telencephalic neurons from chick embryos cultured in the absence of glial or endothelial cells. We thus propose that PAF plays an important role in the pathophysiology of ischemic/excitotoxic neuronal injury via a direct action on neurons.
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