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Differential response of glutamine in cultured neurons and astrocytes

✍ Scribed by K.V. Rama Rao; A.R. Jayakumar; M.D. Norenberg

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
290 KB
Volume
79
Category
Article
ISSN
0360-4012

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Abstract

Glutamine, a byproduct of ammonia detoxification, is found elevated in brain in hepatic encephalopathy (HE) and other hyperammonemic disorders. Such elevation has been implicated in some of the deleterious effects of ammonia on the central nervous system (CNS). Recent studies have shown that glutamine results in the induction of the mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT) in cultured astrocytes. We examined whether glutamine shows similar effects in cultured neurons. Both cultured astrocytes and neurons were exposed to glutamine (6.5 mM) for 24 hr and the MPT was assessed by changes in cyclosporin A (CsA)‐sensitive inner mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨ~m~) using the potentiometric dye tetramethylrhodamine ethyl ester (TMRE). Glutamine significantly dissipated the ΔΨ~m~ in astrocytes as demonstrated by a decrease in mitochondrial TMRE fluorescence, a process that was blocked by CsA. On the other hand, treatment of cultured neurons with glutamine had no effect on the ΔΨ~m~. Dissipation of the ΔΨ~m~ in astrocytes by glutamine was blocked by treatment with 6‐diazo‐5‐oxo‐L‐norleucine (DON; 100 μM), suggesting that glutamine hydrolysis and the subsequent generation of ammonia, which has been shown previously to induce the MPT, might be involved in MPT induction by glutamine. These data indicate that astrocytes but not neurons are vulnerable to the toxic effects of glutamine. The selective induction of oxidative stress and the MPT by glutamine in astrocytes may partially explain the deleterious affects of glutamine on the CNS in the setting of hyperammonemia, as well as account for the predominant involvement of astrocytes in the pathogenesis of HE and other hyperammonemic conditions. © 2004 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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