Ethanol exposure inhibits the cytotoxic effect induced by gp120 in CHP100 human neuroblastoma cells
✍ Scribed by Michele Navarra; Caterina Romano; Tatiana Lorenzon; Domenicantonio Rotiroti; Gianfranco Di Renzo
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 216 KB
- Volume
- 65
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-4012
- DOI
- 10.1002/jnr.1161
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
The aim of present study was to investigate the acute effects of ethanol on cytotoxicity induced by HIV‐1 coat protein gp120 in CHP100 human neuroblastoma cell line. We demonstrate that ethanol, within a range of clinically relevant concentrations (15–90 mM) prevents cell death elicited by gp120 (10 pM) in a dose dependent manner. This protective action seems to be mediated by a reduction of free intracellular Ca^2+^ levels because ethanol, at concentrations ranging from 0.1–0.5%, is able to decrease gp120‐stimulated Ca^2+^ uptake up to 24%. Furthermore, our data show an involvement of NO/cGMP messenger system pathway, because ethanol is also able to reduce gp120‐stimulated NO release (up to 45%) and cyclic GMP accumulation (up to 73%). These findings suggest that the protective effect of ethanol against gp120‐induced cytotoxicity in CHP100 cells underlies a Ca^2+^‐activated, NO/cGMP‐dependent mechanism. J. Neurosci. Res. 65:354–361, 2001. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.