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The Journal of Neuroscience, October 1, 2001, 21(19):7455-7462
Oxidative Glutamate Toxicity Can Be a Component of the
Excitotoxicity Cascade
David
Schubert and
Dana
Piasecki
Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological
Studies, La Jolla, California 92037
Along with ionotropic and metabotropic glutamate receptors, the
cystine/glutamate antiporter x may play a
critical role in CNS pathology. High levels of extracellular glutamate
inhibit the import of cystine, resulting in the depletion of
glutathione and a form of cell injury called oxidative glutamate toxicity. Here we show that a portion of the cell death associated with
NMDA receptor-initiated excitotoxicity can be caused by oxidative glutamate toxicity. In primary mouse cortical neurons the cell death
resulting from the short-term application of 10 µM
glutamate can be divided into NMDA and NMDA receptor-independent
phases. The NMDA receptor-independent component is associated with high extracellular glutamate and is inhibited by a variety of reagents that
block oxidative glutamate toxicity. These results suggest that
oxidative glutamate toxicity toward neurons lacking functional NMDA
receptors can be a component of the excitotoxicity-initiated cell death pathway.
Key words:
excitotoxicity; brain; death; nerve; non-NMDA; oxidative
stress
Copyright © 2001 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/01/21197455-08$05.00/0
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