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ANTIOXIDANTS & REDOX SIGNALING
Volume 7, Issue 5-6, Pages 654-661Publisher
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/ars.2005.7.654
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The herbicide paraquat (PQ) has been implicated as a potential risk factor for the development of Parkinson's disease. In this study, PQ (0.5-1 mu M) was shown to be selectively toxic to dopaminergic (DA) neurons through the activation of microglial NADPH oxidase and the generation of superoxide. Neuron-glia cultures exposed to PQ exhibited a decrease in DA uptake and a decline in the number of tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive cells. The selectivity of PQ for DA neurons was confirmed when PQ failed to alter gamma-aminobutyric acid uptake in neuron-glia cultures. Microglia-depleted cultures exposed to I mu M PQ failed to demonstrate a reduction in DA uptake, identifying microglia as the critical cell type mediating PQ neurotoxicity. Neuron-glia cultures treated with PQ failed to generate tumor necrosis factor-alpha and nitric oxide. However, microglia-enriched cultures exposed to PQ produced extracellular superoxide, supporting the notion that microglia are a source of PQ-derived oxidative stress. Neuron-glia cultures from NADPH oxidase-deficient (PHOX-/-) mice, which lack the functional catalytic subunit of NADPH oxidase and are unable to produce the respiratory burst, failed to show neurotoxicity in response to PQ, in contrast to PHOX+/+ mice. Here we report a novel mechanism of PQ-induced oxidative stress, where at lower doses, the indirect insult generated from microglial NADPH oxidase is the essential factor mediating DA neurotoxicity.
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