Journal
FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
Volume 49, Issue 5, Pages 800-813Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2010.06.002
Keywords
Resveratrol; Superoxide dismutase; Oxidative stress; HT22; P13K/Akt signaling pathway; Free radicals
Funding
- NIH [ES015242]
- National Center for Research Resources [P20R021940]
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Oxidative stress can induce cytotoxicity in neurons, which plays an important role in the etiology of neuronal damage and degeneration This study sought to determine the cellular and biochemical mechanisms underlying resveratrol's protective effect against oxidative neuronal death Cultured HT22 cells, an immortalized mouse hippocampal neuronal cell line, were used as an in vitro model, and oxidative stress and neurotoxicity were induced in these neuronal cells by exposure to high concentrations of glutamate Resveratrol strongly protected HT22 cells from glutamate-induced oxidative cell death. Resveratrol's neuroprotective effect was independent of its direct radical scavenging property, but instead was dependent on its ability to selectively induce the expression of mitochondrial superoxide dismutase (SOD2) and, subsequently, reduce mitochondrial oxidative stress and damage The induction of mitochondrial SOD2 by resveratrol was mediated through the activation of the P13K/Akt and GSK-3 beta/beta-catenin signaling pathways Taken together, the results of this study show that up-regulation of mitochondrial SOD2 by resveratrol represents an important mechanism for its protection of neuronal cells against oxidative cytotoxicity resulting from mitochondrial oxidative stress (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc All rights reserved
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