title: Role of NF-kappaB activation and nitric oxide expression during PGE protection against d-galactosamine-induced cell death in cultured rat hepatocytes.
abstract: Prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) reduces cell death in experimental and clinical liver dysfunction. Nitric oxide (NO) mediates PGE1 protection against D-galactosamine (D-GalN)-induced cell death. Nuclear factor kappa-B (NF-kappaB) plays a protective role in different experimental models of cell death. We investigated if NF-kappaB was responsible for inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) expression and cytoprotection induced by PGE1 against D-GalN cell death in cultured hepatocytes. Rat hepatocytes were isolated following the classical method of collagenase perfusion of liver. A kinetic study of cell death, NF-kappaB activation, mRNA and protein iNOS expression, and NO production was carried in hepatocytes treated with D-GalN (5 mM) in the presence or absence of PGE1 (1 microM) administered 2 h before the hepatotoxin. A proteasome inhibitor was used to evaluate the role of NF-kappaB activation in our experimental conditions. PGE1 protection against D-GalN-induced cell death was associated with its capacity to rapidly enhance NF-kappaB activation, mRNA and protein iNOS expression, and NO production in D-GalN-treated hepatocytes. The inhibition of NF-kappaB activation abolished iNOS expression and cell protection by PGE1 in hepatocytes treated with the hepatotoxin. The present study shows that the cytoprotection by PGE1 against D-GalN-induced apoptosis was related to NF-kappaB-dependent iNOS expression.
authors.affiliation: Unidad Clínica Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Córdoba, Spain.
authors.forename: Dalia
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fouad
authors.forename: Emilio
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Siendones
authors.forename: Guadalupe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Costán
authors.forename: Jordi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Muntané
mesh_terms: D000527:Alprostadil / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis; D016923:Cell Death; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003546:Cysteine Endopeptidases; D019610:Cytoprotection; D004790:Enzyme Induction / Q000502:physiology; D005688:Galactosamine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D022781:Hepatocytes / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology*; D020672:I-kappa B Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D009097:Multienzyme Complexes / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors; D000072000:NF-KappaB Inhibitor alpha; D016328:NF-kappa B / Q000502:physiology*; D009336:Necrosis; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000378:metabolism*; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics; D052247:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II; D046988:Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar
chemical_list: D020672:I-kappa B Proteins; D009097:Multienzyme Complexes; D016328:NF-kappa B; C000606206:Nfkbia protein, rat; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D000072000:NF-KappaB Inhibitor alpha; D009569:Nitric Oxide; D005688:Galactosamine; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase; D052247:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II; C496318:Nos2 protein, rat; D003546:Cysteine Endopeptidases; D046988:Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex; D000527:Alprostadil