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NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
Volume 585, Issue -, Pages 126-131Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2014.11.040
Keywords
Carbon monoxide; Endoplasmic reticulum stress; Neuronal damage; Febrile seizure; Hippocampus; PERK
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81200998]
- Beijing Natural Science Foundation [7092105, 7112131]
- Key Clinical Project from the Ministry of Public Health
- National Key Technology R D Program [2012BAI03B02]
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Carbon monoxide (CO) is neuroprotective in various models of brain injury, but the precise mechanisms for this are yet to be established. In the present study, using a rat model of recurrent febrile seizures (FSs), we found an increase in plasma CO, evidence of neuronal damage and apoptosis, an increase in the expression of the endoplasmic reticulum stress (ERS) marker glucose-regulated protein 78 (GRP78) and C/EBP homologous binding protein (CHOP), and an increase in phosphorylated protein kinase RNA-like endoplasmic reticulum kinase (p-PERK)/eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2 alpha (p-eIF2 alpha) in the hippocampus after 10 FSs. Administration of Hemin (a CO donor) in FS rats alleviated the neuronal damage, reduced neuronal apoptosis, upregulated GRP78 expression, decreased CHOP, and increased p-PERK and p-eIF2 alpha expression in the hippocampus, compared to FS control rats. In contrast, treating FS rats with ZnPP-IX (a CO synthase inhibitor) aggravated the neuronal damage, enhanced neuronal apoptosis, downregulated GRP78 expression, increased CHOP, and decreased p-PERK and p-eIF2 alpha expression, compared to FS control rats. These results suggest that endogenous CO limits the neuronal damage induced by recurrent FSs, through the PERK-activated ERS pathway. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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