title: Evaluation of sphingolipids changes in brain tissues of rats with pentylenetetrazol-induced kindled seizures using MALDI-TOF-MS.
abstract: Abnormal lipid metabolism has been implicated in the pathogenesis of many neural system diseases, including epilepsy. Pentylenetetrazol (PTZ)-induced kindling in rodents is considered a model of human absence epilepsy and myoclonic, generalized tonic-clonic seizure. In an effort to further understand the mechanism for PTZ-induced seizure, we analyzed crude lipids and sphingolipids in the cortex, hippocampus, and brain stem of normal and PTZ-rats using delayed extraction matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (DE MALDI-TOF-MS). It was found that phosphatidylcholines dominated the crude lipids in different tissues and there were no obvious differences in crude lipid profiles of different tissues between normal and PTZ-rats. However, ceramide, sphingomyelins, and ceramide-monohexoside were differently distributed in normal and PTZ-rats. Using the reference mass spectra method established in our laboratory, it was shown that sphingomyelins and ceramide-monohexoside levels were elevated in the brain tissues of PTZ-rats. Ceramide levels were found to be higher in brain stem than in cortex and hippocampus of normal rats, and PTZ caused a general decrease in ceramide levels. These data suggest that changes in sphingolipid metabolism contribute to PTZ-induced seizure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, and Kidney Disease Center of the First Affiliated Hospital, China.
authors.forename: Xiaoqiong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Guangyi
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Shuang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Zhong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Maode
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lai
authors.forename: Ziyang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism*; D001923:Brain Chemistry; D007696:Kindling, Neurologic / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D010433:Pentylenetetrazole; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D012640:Seizures / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000378:metabolism*; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization; D013107:Sphingolipids / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D013107:Sphingolipids; D010433:Pentylenetetrazole