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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-11-3
pubmed:abstractText
Nitric oxide is utilized at low levels for intercellular signaling, and at high levels as a cytotoxic weapon during inflammation. Cellular NO resistance can be increased by prior exposure to sublethal NO levels to induce defense gene expression (adaptive NO resistance), which has been correlated with increased expression of heme oxygenase-1 (HO1) and was blocked by a heme oxygenase inhibitor. However, the possibility remained that other activities were affected by the inhibitor. To address this question, we conducted a genetic study of the HO1 role. We show here that primary cultures of spinal motor neurons and glia from homozygous HO1-null mice are strikingly more sensitive to NO cytotoxicity than are cells expressing HO1. Following an exposure to NO, the HO1-deficient cells were much more prone to apoptosis than were HO1-expressing cells with either one or two copies of a functional HO1 gene. These results confirm the in vivo role of HO1 as a front-line defense against NO toxicity in neuronal cells.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0006-291X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
3
pubmed:volume
325
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15522193-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:15522193-Apoptosis, pubmed-meshheading:15522193-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:15522193-Embryo, Mammalian, pubmed-meshheading:15522193-Female, pubmed-meshheading:15522193-Heme Oxygenase (Decyclizing), pubmed-meshheading:15522193-Heme Oxygenase-1, pubmed-meshheading:15522193-In Situ Nick-End Labeling, pubmed-meshheading:15522193-Membrane Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15522193-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:15522193-Mice, Inbred BALB C, pubmed-meshheading:15522193-Mice, Knockout, pubmed-meshheading:15522193-Motor Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:15522193-Neuroglia, pubmed-meshheading:15522193-Nitric Oxide, pubmed-meshheading:15522193-Nitric Oxide Donors, pubmed-meshheading:15522193-Nitrogen Oxides, pubmed-meshheading:15522193-Reactive Nitrogen Species, pubmed-meshheading:15522193-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:15522193-Spermine
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
A key role for heme oxygenase-1 in nitric oxide resistance in murine motor neurons and glia.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA. bishopa@uah.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.