title: Phospholipid fatty acids and neurotoxicity in human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells.
abstract: The fatty acid composition of phospholipids from differentiated human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells, human and rat brain tissue and rat brain synaptosomes was determined using high pressure liquid chromatography. Comparison of the fatty acid composition of the cells with that derived from brain tissue identified differences in the cells including a profound deficit of docosahexaenoic acid and an elevation of arachidonic acid. The phospholipid fatty acid content could be modified by addition of free fatty acids to the growth medium, and this was shown to influence the susceptibility of the SH-SY5Y cells to the cell death induced by a mitochondrial toxin, 3-nitropropionic acid.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK. l.m.reynolds@shef.ac.uk
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Reynolds
authors.forename: C F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Dalton
authors.forename: G P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Reynolds
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016718:Arachidonic Acid / Q000494:pharmacology; D016923:Cell Death / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D003292:Convulsants / Q000633:toxicity; D004281:Docosahexaenoic Acids / Q000494:pharmacology; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000633:toxicity*; D006801:Humans; D009447:Neuroblastoma / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology*; D009574:Nitro Compounds; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000633:toxicity*; D011422:Propionates / Q000633:toxicity; D051381:Rats; D013574:Synaptosomes / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D003292:Convulsants; D005227:Fatty Acids; D009574:Nitro Compounds; D010743:Phospholipids; D011422:Propionates; D004281:Docosahexaenoic Acids; D016718:Arachidonic Acid; C015392:3-nitropropionic acid