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NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING
Volume 22, Issue 2, Pages 187-194Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-4580(00)00235-9
Keywords
free radicals; lipid peroxidation; brain; Alzheimer's disease; neurotoxin; neuronal cultures
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- NIA NIH HHS [5-P50-AG05144, 5-P01-AG05119] Funding Source: Medline
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Accumulating evidence implicates oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of several neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Increased lipid peroxidation, decreased levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids, and increased levels of 4-hydroxynonenal (HNE), F-2-isoprostanes, and F-4-neuroprostanes are present in the brain in AD. Acrolein, an cr,P-unsaturated aldehydic product of lipid peroxidation, is approximately 100 times more reactive than HNE and recently was demonstrated in neurofibrillary tangles in the brain in AD. In three brain regions of 10 AD patients compared with 8 age-matched control subjects, we found increased mean extractable acrolein, with the increases reaching statistical significance in the amygdala and hippocampus/parahippocampal,gyrus. In hippocampal neuron cultures, acrolein was neurotoxic in a time- and concentration-dependent manner and more toxic than HNE at 5 muM concentrations of each. Acrolein exposure led to a significant concentration-dependent increase in intracellular calcium concentrations. Collectively, these data show that acrolein is increased in the brain in AD and demonstrate neurotoxicity mechanisms that might be important in the pathogenesis of neuron degeneration in AD. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.
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