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1679329

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-10-2
pubmed:abstractText
Glutamate neurotoxicity is responsible for neuronal loss associated with numerous obstinate disorders. In this report, the mechanism of glutamate neurotoxicity was investigated on a viewpoint of DNA degradation. We found that chromosomal DNA of cultured neurons was degraded into nucleosomal-sized DNA fragments by the addition of glutamate, prior to the glutamate-induced neuronal death. Both the neuronal death and DNA fragmentation were prevented by the inhibitors of endonucleases and mRNA synthesis. Furthermore, an injection of glutamate into the rat hippocampi resulted in DNA fragmentation with the similar time course observed in neuronal death in vitro. These results suggest that the glutamate neurotoxicity involves an active suicide process which leads to neuronal death through internucleosomal DNA cleavage.
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
30
pubmed:volume
179
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
39-45
pubmed:dateRevised
2003-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
Glutamate triggers internucleosomal DNA cleavage in neuronal cells.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemical Genetics, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article