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- Title
Oxidative Stress in the Central Nervous System: Monitoring the Metabolic Response using the Pentose Phosphate Pathway.
- Authors
Ben-Yoseph, Oded; Boxer, Peter A.; Ross, Brian D.
- Abstract
We propose that monitoring the activity of the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) may provide an opportunity to obtain unique information regarding the metabolic response to oxidative stress since glutathione peroxidase activity is coupled, via glutathione reductase, to the PPP enzyme glucoses-phosphate dehydrogenase. PPP activity was quantitated from data obtained from gas chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis of released lactate following metabolic degradation of (1,6-13C2,6,6-2H2)glucose. The feasibility of this approach for in vitro studies is shown using cultured rat 9L gliosarcoma cells, primary mixed cerebrocortical and primary astrocytic cultures and in vivo using intracerebral microdialysis. Exposure of 9L gliosarcoma cells to increasing concentrations of phenazine methosulfate, diamide and H2O2 correlated with increasing stimulation of the PPP, revealing the coupling of the PPP to the glutathione pathway. In all cultured cell types, the activity of the PPP was stimulated in a concentration-dependent fashion by exposure to H2O2. In primary mixed and purified astrocytic cultures, PPP activity was stimulated with H2O2 from 2.0 to 22.5 and from 5.9 to 66.7%, respectively. H2O2-induced neuronal injury was evident before saturation of the PPP occurred. H2O2 toxicity was attenuated when neurons were preincubated with the iron chelator, deferoxamine, and did not occur until saturation of the PPP. In vivo measurements of PPP activity in the conscious rat forebrain revealed basal levels of 4.5%, which was stimulated to 16.9 and 35.7% when 1 mM H2O2 and 500 μM phenazine methosulfate were added to the perfusion solution, respectively. We conclude that monitoring the activity of the PPP both in vitro and in vivo can provide a unique perspective from which the metabolic response to oxidative stress can be evaluated. Copyright © 1994 S. Karger AG, Basel
- Publication
Developmental Neuroscience, 1994, Vol 16, Issue 5/6, p328
- ISSN
0378-5866
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000112127