| Oxygen free radical injury is sufficient to cause some Alzheimer-type molecular abnormalities in human CNS neuronal cells. | |
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PMID: 12214088 Owner: NLM Status: PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
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Cell loss and neuritic/cytoskeletal lesions represent two of the major categories of dementia-associated structural abnormalities in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Cell loss is ultimately mediated by apoptosis and mitochondrial DNA damage due to enhanced sensitivity to oxidative stress, but the mechanism responsible for the neuritic/cytoskeletal lesions including the abnormal proliferation of cortical neurites is not known. This study examines the potential role of oxygen free radical injury as a factor contributing to both cell death and neuritic sprouting cascades in AD. PNET2 human neuronal cells were treated with H2O2 (8 micro M to 88 micro M) for 24 hours and then analyzed for viability, DNA damage, and pro-apoptosis, survival, and sprouting gene expression and signaling. H2O2-treatment resulted in dose-dependent increases in cell death due to genomic and mitochondrial DNA damage associated with increased levels of 8-OHdG and the p53 and CD95 pro-apoptosis genes, reduced levels of the Bcl-2 survival gene, activation of JNK and p38 stress kinases, and inhibition of PI3 kinase survival signaling. However, the H2O2-treated cells also manifested increased expression of growth and sprouting molecules, including GAP-43, nitric oxide synthase 3, neuronal thread protein (NTP; approximately 17 kD and approximately 21 kD forms), proliferating cell nuclear antigen, and phospho-Erk MAPK, and normal levels of the AD-associated approximately 41 kD NTP species, cyclin dependent kinase 5 (cdk-5), and phospho-tau. In addition, the H2O2-treated cells had increased levels of p25, the catalytically active and stable cleavage product of p35, which regulates cdk-5 activity. Previous studies demonstrated p25 accumulation in AD brains and p25-induced hyperphosphorylation of tau and neuronal apoptosis. The findings herein suggest that oxygen free radical injury in human CNS neuronal cells is sufficient to cause some but not all of the pro-death and pro-sprouting molecular abnormalities that occur in AD. |
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S M de la Monte; N Ganju; N Feroz; T Luong; K Banerjee; J Cannon; J R Wands |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD Volume: 2 ISSN: 1387-2877 ISO Abbreviation: J. Alzheimers Dis. Publication Date: 2000 Nov |
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Created Date: 2004-04-16 Completed Date: 2004-05-05 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9814863 Medline TA: J Alzheimers Dis Country: Netherlands |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 261-81 Citation Subset: - |
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MGH East Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, and Division of Neuropathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. delamonte@hotmail.com |
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