INHIBITORY EFFECTS OF ACTINOMYCIN-D AND CYCLOHEXIMIDE ON NEURONAL DEATH IN ADULT MANDUCA-SEXTA

被引:24
作者
FAHRBACH, SE
CHOI, MK
TRUMAN, JW
机构
[1] UNIV ILLINOIS, NEUROSCI PROGRAM, URBANA, IL 61801 USA
[2] UNIV WASHINGTON, DEPT ZOOL, SEATTLE, WA 98195 USA
来源
JOURNAL OF NEUROBIOLOGY | 1994年 / 25卷 / 01期
关键词
PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH; TOBACCO HORNWORM; METAMORPHOSIS; 20-HYDROXYECDYSONE; APOPTOSIS;
D O I
10.1002/neu.480250106
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
A decline in circulating 20-hydroxyecdysone permits the emergence of the adult Manduca sexta moth; this endocrine signal also triggers the death of approximately half of the neurons in the unfused abdomina,l ganglia of the moth central nervous system. This programmed death of neurons was markedly reduced by treatment with either actinomycin D (an RNA synthesis inhibitor) or cycloheximide (a protein synthesis inhibitor). Similar results were found after addition of these agents to ventral nerve cord cultures. The effectiveness of these treatments in delaying or blocking neuronal death depended upon their time of administration relative to the normal time of postemergence death in the particular motoneuron under study: late-dying neurons, for example, could still be saved by these treatments even after early-dying neurons had already initiated degeneration. In both intact moths and cultured ventral nerve cords, the ability of actinomycin D to prevent neuronal death waned at the same time at which replacement of the steroid hormone could no longer block neuronal death. This suggests that the steroid commitment point represents the time at which the genes that mediate cell death are transcribed. Cycloheximide remained effective in delaying or blocking neuronal death until shortly before the onset of degeneration, suggesting that ongoing protein synthesis is essential for the initiation of the degeneration response. (C) 1994 John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
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