ZHANG Tao-tao, SU Xing-wen, Jiang Wei-jian, et al. Zuogui Pill Protects Rat Cerebellar Granule Neurons From Apoptosis Induced by Glutamate[J]. Chinese journal of experimental traditional medical formulae, 2003, (5): 15-18.
ZHANG Tao-tao, SU Xing-wen, Jiang Wei-jian, et al. Zuogui Pill Protects Rat Cerebellar Granule Neurons From Apoptosis Induced by Glutamate[J]. Chinese journal of experimental traditional medical formulae, 2003, (5): 15-18. DOI: 10.13422/j.cnki.syfjx.2003.05.009.
Zuogui Pill Protects Rat Cerebellar Granule Neurons From Apoptosis Induced by Glutamate
OBJECTIVE To study whether ZGP can prevent cerebellar granule neurons from apoptosis induced by glutamate and its possible molecular mechanisms. METHODS The neurons were stained with fluorescein diacetate to observe their survival rate or stained with Hoechst 33258 to analyze their nuclear morphology. Internucleosomal DNA fragmentation of neurons was analyzed with agarose gel electrophoresis. RESULTS ZGP could increase the survival rate of cultured CGNSs in the medium containing 300μmol·L -1 glutamate concentration-dependently
and could prevent the neuronal nuclei from shrinkage
condensation and cleavage and nuclear DNA fragmentation induced by glutamate. LY294002 suppressed the protective effect of ZGP
PD98059 was able to block the excitotoxin of glutamate. CONCLUTION ZGP protected rat CGNs from appoptosis induced by glutamate and this effect was postulated to dependent PI3-K/Akt signaling pathway.