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1State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 294 Tai-yuan Road, Shanghai 200031, PR China.
Abstract:
The effect of huperzine A (HupA) on oxygen-glucose deprivation (OGD)-induced injury was investigated in the rat pheochromocytoma cell line PC12. OGD for 3 h and reoxygenation for 24 h triggered apoptosis characterized by chromatin condensation, nucleus fragmentation and DNA laddering. The temporal profile of c-jun, p53, bcl-2 and bax mRNA after OGD indicated that these genes played important roles in apoptosis. Pre-incubation of the cells for 2 h with 1 microM HupA significantly attenuated apoptosis. The same treatment also reduced the up-regulation of c-jun and bax as well as the down-regulation of bcl-2. These data suggest the ability of HupA to attenuate apoptosis induced by OGD may result from its capability to alter the expression of apoptosis-related genes.
