Journal
INNATE IMMUNITY
Volume 20, Issue 3, Pages 249-260Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1753425913488429
Keywords
SOCS-1; dopaminergic neuron; cytokine; Parkinson's disease; resveratrol
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- Dottorato di Ricerca in Morfobiologia Applicata e Citometabolismo dei Farmaci'', University of Bari, Bari, Italy
- [PRIN2009YRH27R_003]
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In the present study we used a 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP)-induced Parkinson's disease (PD) mouse model to analyze resveratrol neuroprotective effects. The MPTP-induced PD model is characterized by chronic inflammation, oxidative stress and loss of the dopaminergic (DA) neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc). We observed that resveratrol treatment significantly reduced glial activation, decreasing the levels of IL-1 beta, IL-6 and TNF-alpha, as well as their respective receptors in the SNpc of MPTP-treated mice, as demonstrated by Western blotting, RT-PCR and quantitative PCR analysis. This reduction is related to possible neuroprotection as we also observed that resveratrol administration limited the decline of tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactivity induced in the striatum and SNpc by MPTP injection. Consistent with these data, resveratrol treatment up-regulated the expression of the suppressor of cytokine signaling-1 (SOCS-1), supporting the hypothesis that resveratrol protects DA neurons of the SNpc against MPTP-induced cell loss by regulating inflammatory reactions, possibly through SOCS-1 induction.
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