Necroptosis contributes to the NMDA-induced excitotoxicity in rat's cultured cortical neurons
Necroptosis contributes to the NMDA-induced excitotoxicity in rat's cultured cortical neurons
复制标题
DOI:
10.1016/j.neulet.2008.08.037
复制
发表时间:
2008-12-12
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
Zhang, Ce
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Li, Yanli;Yang, Xiaorong;Zhang, Ce
Necroptosis is a newly discovered type of cell death characterized with the combined biochemical and ultrastructural features of necrosis and apoptosis. Nec-1 has been reported to exhibit the selective inhibition for necroptosis, which has now been used as an operational definition of necroptosis. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether necroptosis is involved in the NMDA-induced excitotoxicity and furthermore whether the elevation of intracellular Ca2+ is involved in the NMDA-induced necroptosis. Our findings showed that Nec-1 (100 mu mol/L) inhibited NMDA-induced decrease of cell viability by 26% (p < 0.01), suppressed NMDA-induced decrease of living cells by 23% (p < 0.01) and attenuated NMDA-induced leakage of LDH by 28% (p < 0.01). In addition, Nec-1 also suppressed NMDA-induced elevation of intracellular Ca2+ by 36% (p