Journal
BIOMATERIALS
Volume 156, Issue -, Pages 258-273Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2017.11.045
Keywords
Plasma; Cold atmospheric plasma (CAP); Neural differentiation; Reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS); Neurological disease
Funding
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Korean Government (MSIP: Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning) [NRF-2015M2B2A9031726, NRF-2016R1A2B4009375, NRF-2015R1A2A2A01003516, HI17C0509, NRF-2016K1A4A3914113]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2015M2B2A9031726] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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Plasma, formed by ionization of gas molecules or atoms, is the most abundant form of matter and consists of highly reactive physicochemical species. In the physics and chemistry fields, plasma has been extensively studied; however, the exact action mechanisms of plasma on biological systems, including cells and humans, are not well known. Recent evidence suggests that cold atmospheric plasma (CAP), which refers to plasma used in the biomedical field, may regulate diverse cellular processes, including neural differentiation. However, the mechanism by which these physicochemical signals, elicited by reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS), are transmitted to biological system remains elusive. In this study, we elucidated the physicochemical and biological (PCB) connection between the CAP cascade and Trk/Ras/ERK signaling pathway, which resulted in neural differentiation. Excited atomic oxygen in the plasma phase led to the formation of RONS in the PCB network, which then interacted with reactive atoms in the extracellular liquid phase to form nitric oxide (NO). Production of large amounts of superoxide radical (center dot O-2(-) in the mitochondria of cells exposed to CAP demonstrated that extracellular NO induced the reversible inhibition of mitochondria] complex IV. We also demonstrated that cytosolic hydrogen peroxide, formed by center dot O-2(-) dismutation, act as an intracellular messenger to specifically activate the Trk/Ras/ERK signaling pathway. This study is the first to elucidate the mechanism linking physicochemical signals from the CAP cascade to the intracellular neural differentiation signaling pathway, providing physical, chemical and biological insights into the development of therapeutic techniques to treat neurological diseases. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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