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Protective Effect of Edaravone on Glutamate-Induced Neurotoxicity in Spiral Ganglion Neurons
- Source :
- Neural Plasticity, Vol 2016 (2016)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2016.
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Abstract
- Glutamate is an important excitatory neurotransmitter in mammalian brains, but excessive amount of glutamate can cause “excitotoxicity” and lead to neuronal death. As bipolar neurons, spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs) function as a “bridge” in transmitting auditory information from the ear to the brain and can be damaged by excessive glutamate which results in sensorineural hearing loss. In this study, edaravone, a free radical scavenger, elicited both preventative and therapeutic effects on SGNs against glutamate-induced cell damage that was tested by MTT assay and trypan blue staining. Ho.33342 and PI double staining revealed that apoptosis as well as necrosis took place during glutamate treatment, and apoptosis was the main type of cell death. Oxidative stress played an important role in glutamate-induced cell damage but pretreatment with edaravone alleviated cell death. Results of western blot demonstrated that mechanisms underlying the toxicity of glutamate and the protection of edaravone were related to the PI3K pathway and Bcl-2 protein family.
- Subjects :
- Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
RC321-571
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20905904 and 16875443
- Volume :
- 2016
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Neural Plasticity
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.8142c66f994904ac166d2eebccec6b
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/4034218