PMID- 12147325 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20021028 LR - 20190701 IS - 0304-3940 (Print) IS - 0304-3940 (Linking) VI - 328 IP - 3 DP - 2002 Aug 16 TI - Excitotoxic injury induces production of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 in rat cortico-striatal slice cultures. PG - 277-80 AB - The effect of excitotoxic injury on the production of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) was examined in rat cortico-striatal slice cultures. Treatment with 50 microM N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) for 4 h, which caused severe damage in neurons, induced the production of MCP-1 in astrocytes. Production levels were markedly elevated immediately after the treatment, peaked at 4-8 h, and had decreased to nearly the basal level by 72 h. Since the treatment promoted the release of MCP-1 in the slice cultures, but not in the enriched astrocyte cultures, it is unlikely that NMDA directly acted on the astrocytes. These results suggest that information on neuronal injury induced by NMDA is transmitted to astrocytes to induce the production of MCP-1. Organotypic slice cultures are useful for investigating the inflammatory responses of astrocytes in the process of neuronal injury. FAU - Katayama, Takahiro AU - Katayama T AD - Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan. FAU - Minami, Masabumi AU - Minami M FAU - Nakamura, Mika AU - Nakamura M FAU - Ito, Misato AU - Ito M FAU - Katsuki, Hiroshi AU - Katsuki H FAU - Akaike, Akinori AU - Akaike A FAU - Satoh, Masamichi AU - Satoh M LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - Ireland TA - Neurosci Lett JT - Neuroscience letters JID - 7600130 RN - 0 (Chemokine CCL2) RN - 0 (Neurotoxins) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Astrocytes/metabolism MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Cerebral Cortex/*drug effects/*metabolism/pathology MH - Chemokine CCL2/*biosynthesis MH - Corpus Striatum/*drug effects/*metabolism/pathology MH - In Vitro Techniques MH - Neurons/pathology MH - Neurotoxins/*pharmacology MH - Rats MH - Rats, Wistar MH - Time Factors EDAT- 2002/07/31 10:00 MHDA- 2002/10/29 04:00 CRDT- 2002/07/31 10:00 PHST- 2002/07/31 10:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2002/10/29 04:00 [medline] PHST- 2002/07/31 10:00 [entrez] AID - S0304394002005505 [pii] AID - 10.1016/s0304-3940(02)00550-5 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Neurosci Lett. 2002 Aug 16;328(3):277-80. doi: 10.1016/s0304-3940(02)00550-5.