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JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
卷 91, 期 12, 页码 2525-2538出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1002/jps.10256
关键词
blood-brain barrier; endothelial cell; tight junction; nicotine; cotinine; ZO-1
资金
- NINDS NIH HHS [R01NS 39592] Funding Source: Medline
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) adapts to a variety of pathological processes. Little is known about the effects of nicotine exposure on BBB function and the ability to adapt to stroke conditions. We have demonstrated, using a well-characterized in vitro BBB model, bovine brain microvessel endothelial cells (BBMEC) model, that nicotine and its major metabolite, cotinine, modulate BBB integrity by opening the paracellular route of solute entry into the brain. Additionally, nicotine and cotinine together increase the permeability change observed after 6 h of hypoxia/aglycemia, an in vitro model of stroke. This has important implications for how the BBB initially adapts to stroke in an environment that is previousely exposed to nicotine. Nicotine and cotinine exposure also resulted in reduced ZO-1 immunoreactivity (tight junctional protein) that occurred in a time-dependent manner. Interestingly, attenuation of bovine brain microvessel endothelial cell (BBMEC) ZO-1 protein expression was reversed using 10 nM BGT, an alpha7 nicotinic acetycholine receptor (nAChR) antagonist, suggesting that the effects of nicotine on BBMEC protein expression of ZO-1 protein are mediated by nAChR expressed on brain endothelial cells. In addition to alpha7, we found that BBMEC also contain positive immunoreactivity for the alpha3, alpha5, beta2, beta3 nAChR subunit. Both alpha7 and beta2 nAChR subunit protein levels decreased with prior nicotine and cotinine exposure. These data provide evidence that nicotine and cotinine alter BBB permeability and tight junctional protein expression of ZO-1, thereby altering the BBB response to stroke conditions. These changes in brain endothelial cell paracellular permeability are believed to be associated with nicotine binding to nAChRs present at the BBB. (C) 2002 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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