Caspase-3 activation and DNA fragmentation in primary hippocampal neurons following glutamate excitotoxicity

被引:53
作者
Brecht, S
Gelderblom, M
Srinivasan, A
Mielke, K
Dityateva, G
Herdegen, T
机构
[1] Univ Kiel, Inst Pharmakol, D-24105 Kiel, Germany
[2] IDUN Pharmaceut, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA
[3] Zentrum Mol Neurobiol, D-20246 Hamburg, Germany
来源
MOLECULAR BRAIN RESEARCH | 2001年 / 94卷 / 1-2期
关键词
cell death; GFAP; MAP-2; TUNEL;
D O I
10.1016/S0006-8993(01)02767-6
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
Excitotoxic glutamate CNS stimulation can result in neuronal cell death. Contributing mechanisms and markers of cell death are the activation of caspase-3 and DNA fragmentation. It remains to be resolved to which extent both cellular reactions overlap and/or indicate different processes of neurodegeneration. In this study, mixed neuronal cultures from newborn mice pubs (0-24 h) were stimulated with glutamate, and the co-localization of active caspase-3 and DNA fragmentation was investigated by immunocytochemistry and the TUNEL nick-end labelling. In untreated cultures, 8% scattered neurons (marked by MAP-2) displayed activated caspase-3 at different morphological stages of degeneration. TUNEL staining was detected in 5% of cell nuclei including GFAP-positive astrocytes. However, co-localization of active caspase-3 with TUNEL was less than 2%. After glutamate stimulation (125 muM), the majority of neurons was dying between 12 and 24 h. The absolute number of active caspase-3 neurons increased only moderately but in relation of surviving neurons after 24 h from 8 to 36% (125 muM), to 53% (250 muM) or to 32% (500 muM). TUNEL staining also increased after 24 h following glutamate treatment to 37% but the co-localization with active caspase-3 remained at the basal low level of 2%. In our system, glutamate-mediated excitotoxicity effects the DNA fragmentation and caspase-3 activation. Co-localization of both parameters, however, is very poor. Active caspase-3 in the absence of TUNEL indicates a dynamic degenerative process, whereas TUNEL marks the end stage of severe irreversible cell damage regardless to the origin of the cell. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science BY All rights reserved.
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