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NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 167, Issue 3, Pages 872-879Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.02.069
Keywords
chondroitin sulfate; glucosaminoglycan; astrocytes; lipopolysaccharide; NF kappa B
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- Catedra Bioiberica/UAM de Inflamacion Cronica y Citoproteccion(CABICYC) Spain
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [SAF2009-12150, SAF2008-04515-C02-01]
- Spanish Ministry of Health (Instituto de Salud Carlos III) [RETICS-RD06/0026]
- Comunidad Autonoma de Madrid [SAL2006/0275]
- Fundacion CIEN
- IS Carlos III
- MICINN [PI016/09]
- Agencia Lain Entralgo
- CN [NDE07/09]
- Comunidad de Madrid, Spain
- Fundacion Teofilo Hernando
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Chondroitin sulfate (CS) is a glucosaminoglycan (GAG) currently used for the treatment of osteoarthritis because of its antiinflammatory and antiapoptotic actions. Recent evidence has revealed that those peripheral effects of CS may also have therapeutic interest in diseases of the CNS. Since neuroinflammation has been implicated in different neuronal pathologies, this study was planned to investigate how CS could modulate the inflammatory response in the CNS by using rat astrocyte cultures stimulated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS). We have evaluated different proteins implicated in the nuclear factor kappa B (NF kappa B) and Janus kinase/signal transducer and activator of transcription (JAK/STAT) pathways employing RT-PCR, western blot and immunofluorescence techniques. At 10 mu M, CS prevented translocation of p65 to the nucleus, reduced tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) mRNA and mitigated cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) induction by LPS. However, it did not modify LPS-induced IP-10 and SOCS-1 mRNA, proteins that participate in the JAK/STAT pathway. The results of this study indicate that CS can potentially reduce neuroinflammation by inhibition of NF kappa B. Therefore endogenous GAGs could afford neuroimmunomodulatory actions under neurotoxic conditions. (C) 2010 IBRO. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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