Mark G. Darlison
GABAA receptor chloride channels are involved in the neuroprotective role of GABA following oxygen and glucose deprivation in the rat cerebral cortex but not in the hippocampus
Authors
Severiano Dos-Anjos
Irene L. Llorente
Irene L Llorente
Diego Perez-Rodriguez
Beatriz
Severiano Dos Anjos
Mark G Darlison
Dr Amy Poole A.Poole@napier.ac.uk
Lecturer
Arsenio
Abstract
Assays on "ex vivo" sections of rat hippocampus and rat cerebral cortex, subjected to oxygen and glucose deprivation (OGD) and a three-hour reperfusion-like (RL) recovery, were performed in the presence of either GABA or the GABA(A) receptor binding site antagonist, bicuculline. Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and propidium iodide were used to quantify cell mortality. We also measured, using real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), the early transcriptional response of a number of genes of the glutamatergic and GABAergic systems. Specifically, glial pre- and post-synaptic glutamatergic transporters (namely GLAST1a, EAAC-1, GLT-1 and VGLUT1), three GABAA receptor subunits (?1, ?2 and ?2), and the GABAergic presynaptic marker, glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD65), were studied. Mortality assays revealed that GABAA receptor chloride channels play an important role in the neuroprotective effect of GABA in the cerebral cortex, but have a much smaller effect in the hippocampus. We also found that GABA reverses the OGD-dependent decrease in GABA(A) receptor transcript levels, as well as mRNA levels of the membrane and vesicular glutamate transporter genes. Based on the markers used, we conclude that OGD results in differential responses in the GABAergic presynaptic and postsynaptic systems.
Citation
Darlison, M. G., Dos-Anjos, S., Llorente, I. L., Llorente, I. L., Perez-Rodriguez, D., Martínez-Villayandre, B., …Fernández-López, A. (2013). GABAA receptor chloride channels are involved in the neuroprotective role of GABA following oxygen and glucose deprivation in the rat cerebral cortex but not in the hippocampus. Brain Research, 1533, 141-151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2013.08.024
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | 2013-10 |
Deposit Date | Mar 13, 2014 |
Print ISSN | 0006-8993 |
Electronic ISSN | 1872-6240 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 1533 |
Pages | 141-151 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2013.08.024 |
Keywords | Developmental Biology; General Neuroscience; Molecular Biology; Clinical Neurology |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6627 |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2013.08.024 |
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