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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-6-18
pubmed:abstractText
Dopamine is considered one of the main contributing factors in the induction of oxidative stress and selective dopaminergic neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease. We have previously reported that tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) leads to dopamine oxidation and renders dopamine-producing cells vulnerable. In the present study, we found that BH4 selectively upregulates cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) expression in dopaminergic cells. BH4 caused an induction of COX-2 mRNA, and a critical regulatory motif for BH4-induced transcriptional activation of COX-2 is CRE/AP-1. COX-2 can oxidize dopamine and cause oxidative stress, which is evidenced by the findings that significant increase in dopamine-chrome formation and protein carbonyl contents by BH4-induced COX-2 up-regulation, and the increases are abolished by COX-2 selective inhibitor meloxicam. Increased COX-2 promotes dopaminergic neurodegeneration in both SH-SY5Y cells and rat mesencephalic neurons. These data suggest that BH4-induced COX-2 expression is responsible for dopamine oxidation, leading to the preferential vulnerability of dopaminergic cells in Parkinson's disease.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0006-291X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
3
pubmed:volume
359
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
735-41
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17560944-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:17560944-Biopterin, pubmed-meshheading:17560944-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:17560944-Cyclooxygenase 2, pubmed-meshheading:17560944-Dopamine, pubmed-meshheading:17560944-Enzyme Activation, pubmed-meshheading:17560944-Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic, pubmed-meshheading:17560944-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:17560944-JNK Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:17560944-Mesencephalon, pubmed-meshheading:17560944-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:17560944-Oxidation-Reduction, pubmed-meshheading:17560944-Oxidative Stress, pubmed-meshheading:17560944-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:17560944-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:17560944-Transcription, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:17560944-Transcription Factor AP-1, pubmed-meshheading:17560944-Up-Regulation
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Role of cyclooxygenase-2 in tetrahydrobiopterin-induced dopamine oxidation.
pubmed:affiliation
College of Pharmacy and Research Institute of Drug Development, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 500-757, South Korea.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't