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NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE
Volume 24, Issue 3, Pages 492-505Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2006.08.016
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microglia; astroglia; tyrosine hydroxylase; neurodegeneration; striatum; substantia nigra pars compacta; cytokines; GDNF
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Complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA), a pro-inflammatory agent, was inoculated, subcutaneously, to Sprague-Dawley rats prior to the intrastriatal injection of 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA). Animals were sacrificed 7 and 28 days following 6-OHDA injection; neuronal damage, glial activation and cytokine levels, within the nigrostriatal system, were then investigated. Nigrostriatal degeneration induced by 6-OHDA was accompanied by early microglial and astroglial activation, which preceded the onset of dopaminergic cell loss, in the SNc, without significant changes in cytokine levels. CFA pretreatment markedly reduced the SNc neuronal loss and associated microglial activation, as well as the rotational response to apomorphine. These changes were associated with moderate, transient increases in the nigrostriatal levels of glial-cell-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) and pro-inflammatory cytokines, including interleukin (IL)-1 alpha, IL-1 beta and IL-6. Our results show that prior delivery of a peripheral, pro-inflammatory stimulus induces neuroprotection, in a rodent model of Parkinson's disease, possibly through the modulation of cytokine production at the nigrostriatal level. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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