title: Induction of inducible nitric oxide synthase and heme oxygenase-1 in rat glial cells.
abstract: Recent observations suggest a possible interaction between the nitric oxide (NO)/NO synthases and carbon monoxide (CO)/heme oxygenases systems. We examined the effects of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma), and NO donor such as S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine (SNAP) on induction of inducible NO synthase (iNOS) and heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) in mixed glial cells and in rat hippocampus. In in vitro glial cells, treatment with LPS induced the expression of 130-kDa iNOS after 6 h, and NO2- accumulation and enhancement of the protein level of 33-kDa HO-1 after 12 h. In addition, treatment with SNAP induced HO-1 expression after 6 h. Although a NOS inhibitor, such as N(G)-nitro-L-arginine (NNA), did not change LPS-induced iNOS expression, the inhibitor suppressed both NO2- accumulation and the enhancement of HO-1. Immunocytochemistry showed that LPS-treatment induced iNOS-immunoreactivity predominantly in microglia, while this treatment induced HO-1-immunoreactivity in both microglia and astrocytes. These results suggest that endogenous NO production by iNOS in microglia causes autocrine- and paracrine-induction of HO-1 protein in microglia and astrocytes in rat brain.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurobiology, Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kitamura
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Matsuoka
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nomura
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Taniguchi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004790:Enzyme Induction; D006418:Heme / Q000378:metabolism*; D009457:Neuroglia / Q000201:enzymology*; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D052247:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II; D010088:Oxidoreductases / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D006418:Heme; D010088:Oxidoreductases; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase; D052247:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II; C496318:Nos2 protein, rat