中国神经再生研究(英文版) ›› 2012, Vol. 7 ›› Issue (28): 2176-2181.

• 原著:神经损伤修复保护与再生 • 上一篇    下一篇

抑制Homer-1b/c基因表达减轻神经元创伤性损伤后谷氨酸兴奋性毒性作用

  

  • 收稿日期:2012-06-06 修回日期:2012-09-24 出版日期:2012-10-05 发布日期:2012-10-05

Down-regulation of Homer1b/c expression protects cultured neurons after traumatic injury

Weidong Huang1, Xiaobin Liu1, Zhou Fei2, Yuelin Zhang1, Jun Yang1   

  1. 1 Department of Neurosurgery, Shaanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Xi’an 710068, Shaanxi Province, China 2 Department of Neurosurgery, Xijing Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University of Chinese PLA, Xi’an 710032, Shaanxi Province, China
  • Received:2012-06-06 Revised:2012-09-24 Online:2012-10-05 Published:2012-10-05
  • Contact: Weidong Huang, Department of Neurosurgery, Shaanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Xi’an 710068, Shaanxi Province, China huangwd73@sina.com
  • About author:Weidong Huang☆, Ph.D., Associate professor, De-partment of Neurosurgery, Shaanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Xi’an 710068, Shaanxi Province, China

Abstract:

Activation of metabotropic glutamate receptor 1a aggravates traumatic brain injury. The constitu-tively expressed protein Homer1b/c participates in delivering and anchoring metabotropic glutamate receptors in neurons. Here, we aimed to verify whether down-regulation of Homer1b/c by RNA in-terference could protect cultured rat cortical neurons from traumatic injury. We showed that 36 hours after transfection of Homer1b/c small interfering RNA, metabotropic glutamate receptor 1a was present only in the neuronal cytoplasm, but not in the dendrites. Calcium fluorescence intensity was also decreased significantly. Moreover, lactate dehydrogenase concentration was significantly decreased in Homer1b/c small interfering RNA-transfected cells compared with that in untrans-fected and control small interfering RNA-transfected cells 24 hours after traumatic neuronal injury. Our findings indicate that down-regulation of Homer1b/c could reduce metabotropic glutamate re-ceptor 1a transfer from the cell body to the dendrite, relieve calcium overload, and protect neurons from traumatic injury.

Key words: Homer, neuron, metabotropic glutamate receptor 1, RNA interference, calcium ion, lactate dehy-drogenase, neuroprotection, neural regeneration