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ArticleCell stress & chaperones2013

Induction of heat shock proteins in cerebral cortical cultures by celastrol.

Ari M Chow, Derek W F Tang, Asad Hanif, Ian R Brown

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Article in Cell stress & chaperones, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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20 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Heat Shock Proteins in Alzheimer's Disease: Role and Targeting.International journal of molecular sciences · 2018
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  16. Alcohol stress, membranes, and chaperones.Cell stress & chaperones · 2014
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  19. Heat shock protein 70 in Alzheimer's disease.BioMed research international · 2014
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ari M ChowCentre for the Neurobiology of Stress, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, ON M1C 1A4, Canada.
Derek W F Tang
Asad Hanif
Ian R Brown
University of Toronto · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are 'protein misfolding disorders' of the mature nervous system that are characterized by the accumulation of protein aggregates and selective cell loss. Different brain regions are impacted, with Alzheimer's affecting cells in the cerebral cortex, Parkinson's targeting dopaminergic cells in the substantia nigra and ALS causing degeneration of cells in the spinal cord. These diseases differ widely in frequency in the human population. Alzheimer's is more frequent than Parkinson's and ALS. Heat shock proteins (Hsps) are 'protein repair agents' that provide a line of defense against misfolded, aggregation-prone proteins. We have suggested that differing levels of constitutively expressed Hsps (Hsc70 and Hsp27) in neural cell populations confer a variable buffering capacity against 'protein misfolding disorders' that correlates with the relative frequencies of these neurodegenerative diseases. The high relative frequency of Alzheimer's may due to low levels of Hsc70 and Hsp27 in affected cell populations that results in a reduced defense capacity against protein misfolding. Here, we demonstrate that celastrol, but not classical heat shock treatment, is effective in inducing a set of neuroprotective Hsps in cultures derived from cerebral cortices, including Hsp70, Hsp27 and Hsp32. This set of Hsps is induced by celastrol at 'days in vitro' (DIV) 13 when cultured cortical cells reached maturity. The inducibility of a set of neuroprotective Hsps in mature cortical cultures at DIV13 suggests that celastrol is a potential agent to counter Alzheimer's disease, a neurodegenerative 'protein misfolding disorder' of the adult brain that targets cells in the cerebral cortex.

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AnimalsBlotting, WesternCells, CulturedCerebral CortexHeat-Shock ProteinsHeme Oxygenase-1HSP27 Heat-Shock ProteinsHSP70 Heat-Shock ProteinsPentacyclic TriterpenesPotassium Channel BlockersRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyTemperatureTriterpenescelastrolHeat-Shock ProteinsHeme Oxygenase-1HMOX1 protein, humanHSP27 Heat-Shock ProteinsHSP70 Heat-Shock ProteinsPentacyclic TriterpenesPotassium Channel BlockersTriterpenes

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PMID22865541
PMCPMC3581628
OpenAlexW2055607326

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