title: Decreased RGS9 protein level in the striatum of rodents undergoing MPTP or 6-OHDA neurotoxicity.
abstract: Western blot has been used to study the time-course effect of the two most popular parkinsonian neurotoxins, 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP, i.p.) and 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA, intra-substantia nigra), on the expression of several regulators of G-protein signaling (RGS2, 4 and 9) in striatum in rodents. During the few days after MPTP challenge, there was a decline (as expected) in tyrosine hydroxylase expression in the mouse striatum that was accompanied by a decline in RGS9 protein; the latter was specific and did not extend to RGS2 or RGS4 which were resistant to the MPTP challenge. Much the same pattern was observed in rats after 6-OHDA challenge, again, specific to RGS9, although the effect takes a few weeks, rather than a few days, to develop. These results may be helpful for the understanding of molecular mechanism underlying Parkinson's disease (PD) and RGS9 might involve in the striatal function associated with PD.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, Key Laboratory for Neurodegenerative Disease of Ministry of Education, 45 Changchun Street, Beijing 100053, PR China. yinll913@126.com
authors.forename: Lin-Lin
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Ke-Qiang
authors.initials: KQ
authors.lastname: Xie
mesh_terms: D015632:1-Methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine; D000818:Animals; D003342:Corpus Striatum / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D016627:Oxidopamine / Q000633:toxicity*; D020710:RGS Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D020710:RGS Proteins; C514563:RGS2 protein, rat; C105345:Rgs2 protein, mouse; C116925:regulator of g-protein signaling 9; C098799:RGS4 protein; D016627:Oxidopamine; D015632:1-Methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine