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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-11-28
pubmed:abstractText
Glutaric (GA) and 3-hydroxyglutaric (OHGA) acids accumulate in glutaric acidemia I (GAI), a neurometabolic disease characterized by acute striatal degeneration and chronic progressive cortical atrophy. To explore the hypothesis that astrocytes are involved in GAI pathogenesis and targets of accumulating metabolites, we determined the effects of GA and OHGA on cultured rat cortical astrocytes. Remarkably, both acids induced mitochondria depolarization and stimulated proliferation in confluent cultures without apparent cell toxicity. Newborn rats injected with GA systemically also showed increased cell proliferation in different brain regions. Most of the proliferating cells displayed markers of immature astrocytes. Antioxidant iron porphyrins prevented both mitochondria dysfunction and increased in vitro and in vivo proliferation, suggesting a role of oxidative stress in inducing astrocytosis. Taken together, the data suggest that mitochondrial dysfunction induced by GA metabolites causes astrocytes to adopt a proliferative phenotype, which may underlie neuronal loss, white matter abnormalities and macrocephalia characteristics of GAI.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1095-953X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
32
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
528-34
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18930146-Amino Acid Metabolism, Inborn Errors, pubmed-meshheading:18930146-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:18930146-Animals, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:18930146-Anthracenes, pubmed-meshheading:18930146-Antioxidants, pubmed-meshheading:18930146-Astrocytes, pubmed-meshheading:18930146-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:18930146-Brain Diseases, Metabolic, Inborn, pubmed-meshheading:18930146-Butadienes, pubmed-meshheading:18930146-Cell Count, pubmed-meshheading:18930146-Cell Proliferation, pubmed-meshheading:18930146-Cell Survival, pubmed-meshheading:18930146-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:18930146-Glutarates, pubmed-meshheading:18930146-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:18930146-Membrane Potential, Mitochondrial, pubmed-meshheading:18930146-Mitochondria, pubmed-meshheading:18930146-Nitriles, pubmed-meshheading:18930146-Porphyrins, pubmed-meshheading:18930146-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:18930146-Rats, Sprague-Dawley
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Astrocytic proliferation and mitochondrial dysfunction induced by accumulated glutaric acidemia I (GAI) metabolites: possible implications for GAI pathogenesis.
pubmed:affiliation
Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology Department, Instituto Clemente Estable (IIBCE), Montevideo, Uruguay.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't