Chemical Preconditioning with 3-Nitropropionic Acid in Gerbil Hippocampal Slices: Therapeutic Window and the Participation of Adenosine Receptor
Chemical Preconditioning with 3-Nitropropionic Acid in Gerbil Hippocampal Slices: Therapeutic Window and the Participation of Adenosine Receptor
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沙鼠海马切片中 3-硝基丙酸的化学预处理:治疗窗口和腺苷受体的参与
作者:
S. Aketa;H. Nakase;Y. Kamada;Ken;T. Sakaki
Ischemic tolerance induced by a subtoxic dose of neurotoxin, 3-nitropropionic acid (3-NPA), was recently reported as "chemical preconditioning." We electrophysiologically investigated the therapeutic window and the effect via action at the adenosine receptor using a gerbil hippocampal slice model of the tolerance phenomenon. 3-NPA at the dose of 4 mg/kg was administered intraperitoneally at 3, 24, and 72 h prior to slice preparation. Prolonged delay to hypoxic depolarization (HD) and improvement of the field excitatory postsynaptic potential recovery following a fixed period of hypoxia (8 min) were observed in the groups pretreated at 3 and 24 h compared with the control (P < 0.05). Correlation between the delay to HD and the recovery was highly significant (r = 0.37, P < 0.001). These effects were completely reversed by administration of theophylline (20 mg/kg), an adenosine receptor blocker. These findings indicate that chemical preconditioning with 3-NPA induces early onset (3 h) and long-lasting (24 h) tolerance of hypoxic damage to excitatory synaptic mechanisms in the hippocampus by delayed calcium entry, and the activation of adenosine receptor contributes to this neuroprotective effect.
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8.3
作者:
Somjen,GG;Aitken,PG;Balestrino,M;Herreras,O;Kawasaki,K
通讯作者:
Kawasaki,K