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Heme oxygenase-1-mediated partial cytoprotective effect by NO on cadmium-induced cytotoxicity in C6 rat glioma cells
- Issue Date
- 2004-12-08
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Citation
- Toxicol In Vitro. 2005 Feb;19(1):31-9.
- Keywords
- Animals ; Brain Neoplasms/drug therapy/*enzymology/pathology ; Cadmium/*toxicity ; Cell Line, Tumor ; Cell Survival/drug effects ; Cytoprotection/*drug effects ; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ; Enzyme Induction ; Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology ; Glioma/drug therapy/*enzymology/pathology ; Heme Oxygenase (Decyclizing)/antagonists & ; inhibitors/*biosynthesis/genetics ; Heme Oxygenase-1 ; Nitric Oxide/*biosynthesis ; Nitric Oxide Donors/pharmacology ; Nitrogen Oxides ; Protoporphyrins/pharmacology ; RNA, Messenger/metabolism ; Rats ; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction ; Spermine/*analogs & derivatives/pharmacology ; Up-Regulation
- Abstract
- Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) is a 32-kDa stress induced enzyme that degrades heme to carbon monoxide (CO) and biliverdin. By employing RT-PCR and Western blotting techniques, we have examined the HO-1 induction in C6 glioma cells that were treated with cadmium chloride (CdCl(2)) or spermine NONOate (SPER/NO). By employing a cell viability assay, we have also examined the cytoprotective effect of HO-1 induction against the cytotoxicity caused by toxic dose of CdCl(2). In C6 glioma cells exposed to CdCl(2), expression of HO-1 (mRNA and protein) was increased in a dose- and time-dependent manner. Nitric oxide (NO) generated from SPER/NO very rapidly increased HO-1 mRNA expression in the C6 glioma cells. The induction of HO-1 by SPER/NO protected the cells from toxic dose of CdCl(2). The up-regulation of HO-1 mRNA expression by CdCl(2) was inhibited by a pre-incubation of the cells with actinomycin D, a potent inhibitor of mRNA transcription. Upon the inhibition of elevated HO-1 mRNA expression by the use of zinc protoporphyrin IX (ZnPP), an inhibitor of HO activity, the change of HO-1 mRNA expression by ZnPP was not observed. Thus, the glial cell may respond to CdCl(2) toxicity by enhancing the HO-1 expression in its effort to minimize the CdCl(2)-derived oxidative damage, and to survive. In the glioma cells, when the HO-1 expression was elevated by a prior incubation with SPER/NO, the cell viability against the cytotoxicity of CdCl(2) was significantly increased. When the results of our experiment are taken together, we discovered that NO provided a rapid enhancement of HO-1 expression, and it provided a protective effect against CdCl(2)-derived oxidative injury in the C6 rat glioma cells.
- ISSN
- 0887-2333 (Print)
- Language
- English
- URI
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=15582353
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/24517
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