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FGF2, NGF and IGF-1, but not BDNF, utilize a nitric oxide pathway to signal neurotrophic and neuroprotective effects against alcohol toxicity in cerebellar granule cell cultures

FGF2, NGF and IGF-1, but not BDNF, utilize a nitric oxide pathway to signal neurotrophic and neuroprotective effects against alcohol toxicity in cereb

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FGF2, NGF and IGF-1, but not BDNF, utilize a nitric oxide pathway to signal neurotrophic and neuroprotective effects against alcohol toxicity in cerebellar granule cell cultures   (Citations: 49)
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Neuronal death is a prominent neuropathological component of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Identification of molecular agents and pathways that can ameliorate alcohol-induced cell loss offers possible therapeutic strategies for FAS and potential insight into its pathogenesis. This study investigated the effects of growth factors on cellular survival in alcohol-exposed cerebellar granule cell (CGC) cultures and examined the role of the nitric oxide (NO)-cGMP-PKG (cGMP-dependent protein kinase) pathway in the cell survival-promoting effects of these growth factors. Primary CGC cultures were exposed to 0 or 400 mg/dl ethanol, accompanied by either no growth factor or 30 ng/ml fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2), nerve growth factor (NGF), insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) or epidermal growth factor (EGF). Viable neurons were quantified after 1 day of exposure. Two distinct types of cell survival-promoting effects of growth factors were detectable: (1) a neurotrophic effect, in which the growth factors diminished the background death of neurons that occurred in alcohol-free cultures; and (2) a neuroprotective effect, in which the growth factors diminished alcohol-induced cell death. The various growth factors differed markedly in their patterns of cell survival promotion. While BDNF and FGF-2 exerted both a neurotrophic and a neuroprotective effect, IGF-1 had only a neurotrophic effect and did not protect against alcohol toxicity, and NGF had only a neuroprotective effect and did not diminish background cell death. EGF had neither a neurotrophic nor a neuroprotective effect. In order to determine the role of the NO-cGMP-PKG pathway in the cell survival-promoting effects mediated by growth factors, cultures were exposed to one of several pharmacological inhibitors of the pathway, including NAME, LY83583 and PKG inhibitor. The cell survival-promoting effects of FGF-2, NGF and IGF-1 were all substantially reduced by each of the pathway inhibitors. In contrast, neither the neurotrophic nor the neuroprotective effects of BDNF were altered by any of the pathway inhibitors. Thus, growth factors differ in their patterns of neurotrophic and neuroprotective effects, and they differ in their reliance on the NO-cGMP-PKG pathway. While FGF-2, NGF and IGF-1 all signal their survival-promoting effects through the NO-cGMP-PKG pathway, BDNF does not rely upon this pathway for signal transduction in CGC cultures.
Journal: Developmental Brain Research - DEVELOP BRAIN RES , vol. 140, no. 1, pp. 15-28, 2003
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