title: Necroptosis contributes to the NMDA-induced excitotoxicity in rat's cultured cortical neurons.
abstract: Necroptosis is a newly discovered type of cell death characterized with the combined biochemical and ultrastructural features of necrosis and apoptosis. Nec-1 has been reported to exhibit the selective inhibition for necroptosis, which has now been used as an operational definition of necroptosis. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether necroptosis is involved in the NMDA-induced excitotoxicity and furthermore whether the elevation of intracellular Ca(2+) is involved in the NMDA-induced necroptosis. Our findings showed that Nec-1 (100 micromol/L) inhibited NMDA-induced decrease of cell viability by 26% (p<0.01), suppressed NMDA-induced decrease of living cells by 23% (p<0.01) and attenuated NMDA-induced leakage of LDH by 28% (p<0.01). In addition, Nec-1 also suppressed NMDA-induced elevation of intracellular Ca(2+) by 36% (p<0.05). These findings indicated for the first time that necroptosis contributes to the NMDA-induced excitotoxicity, and the elevation of intracellular Ca(2+) may be one of the potential mechanisms underlying NMDA-induced necroptosis. Although necroptosis may be involved in NMDA-induced excitotoxicity, it may just constitute a small contribution.
authors: Department of Neurobiology, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030001, PR China.
authors: Yanli
authors: Y
authors: Li
authors: Xiaorong
authors: X
authors: Yang
authors: Cungen
authors: C
authors: Ma
authors: Jiantian
authors: J
authors: Qiao
authors: Ce
authors: C
authors: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D016923:Cell Death / Q000187:drug effects; D002470:Cell Survival / Q000187:drug effects; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000166:cytology*; D016291:Dizocilpine Maleate / Q000494:pharmacology; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D018690:Excitatory Amino Acid Agonists / Q000633:toxicity*; D018691:Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D005452:Fluoresceins / Q000378:metabolism; D007093:Imidazoles / Q000494:pharmacology; D007211:Indoles / Q000494:pharmacology; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism; D016202:N-Methylaspartate / Q000633:toxicity*; D009474:Neurons / Q000187:drug effects*; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar
chemical_list: D018690:Excitatory Amino Acid Agonists; D018691:Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists; D005452:Fluoresceins; D007093:Imidazoles; D007211:Indoles; C507699:necrostatin-1; D016202:N-Methylaspartate; D016291:Dizocilpine Maleate; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase; D002118:Calcium; C007740:fluorexon