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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-6-9
pubmed:abstractText
Severe head injury in humans causes recurrent seizures; this form of epilepsy appears to correlate with occurrence of parenchymal hemorrhage. Injection of ferric cations, one component of hemoglobin, into rat amygdala, causes lipid peroxidation, and recurrent spontaneous seizures. We wondered whether regulation of extracellular glutamate might be perturbed as a mechanism of chronic epileptogenesis, therefore levels of glutamate transporter proteins GLT-1, GLAST and EAAC-1 were measured in ipsilateral and contralateral hippocampi removed from rats having spontaneous iron-induced limbic seizures. The neuronal transporter EAAC-1 was elevated bilaterally up to 30 days following the microinjection that initiated seizures. The neuronal transporter EAAC-1 was elevated bilaterally up to 30 days following the microinjection that initiated seizures. The glial transporter GLT-1 increased 5 and 15 days after iron injection on the side contralateral to the injection then returned to basal levels 30 days after the lesion. GLAST also showed an initial increase but at 15 and 30 days after injection, when experimental animals were experiencing spontaneous limbic behavioral seizures, this protein was down-regulated. The results suggest that iron-induced epileptogenesis involves alteration in glial glutamate transport that may lead to enhanced excitation within the hippocampus.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Amino Acid Transport System X-AG, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Carrier Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Chlorides, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Convulsants, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Excitatory Amino Acid Transporter 1, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Ferric Compounds, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Glutamate Plasma Membrane..., http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Slc1a3 protein, rat, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Symporters, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/ferric chloride
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0920-1211
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
39
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
201-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10771246-ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters, pubmed-meshheading:10771246-Amino Acid Transport System X-AG, pubmed-meshheading:10771246-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:10771246-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:10771246-Brain Chemistry, pubmed-meshheading:10771246-Carrier Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10771246-Chlorides, pubmed-meshheading:10771246-Convulsants, pubmed-meshheading:10771246-Densitometry, pubmed-meshheading:10771246-Epilepsy, pubmed-meshheading:10771246-Excitatory Amino Acid Transporter 1, pubmed-meshheading:10771246-Ferric Compounds, pubmed-meshheading:10771246-Glutamate Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10771246-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:10771246-Rats, Sprague-Dawley, pubmed-meshheading:10771246-Symporters, pubmed-meshheading:10771246-Synaptic Transmission
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Sequential changes in glutamate transporter protein levels during Fe(3+)-induced epileptogenesis.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychiatry, Miyazaki Medical College, Miyazaki-Gun, Kihara 5200, Kiyotake-cho, Miyazaki, Japan. usan@post1.miyazaki-med.ac.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't