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ArticleScientific reports2015

Hsp60 response in experimental and human temporal lobe epilepsy.

Antonella Marino Gammazza, Roberto Colangeli, Gergely Orban, Massimo Pierucci, Giancarlo Di Gennaro, Margherita Lo Bello, Alfredo D'Aniello, Fabio Bucchieri, Cristoforo Pomara, Mario Valentino and 7 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2015. 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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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Antonella Marino Gammazza1] Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy [2] Euro-Mediterranean Institute of Science and Technology, Palermo, Italy.
Roberto ColangeliDepartment of Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
Gergely Orban1] Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy [2] Euro-Mediterranean Institute of Science and Technology, Palermo, Italy [3] Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
Massimo Pierucci1] Euro-Mediterranean Institute of Science and Technology, Palermo, Italy [2] Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
Giancarlo Di GennaroNEUROMED, IRCCS, Pozzilli, Italy.
Margherita Lo BelloDepartment of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
Alfredo D'AnielloNEUROMED, IRCCS, Pozzilli, Italy.
Fabio Bucchieri1] Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy [2] Euro-Mediterranean Institute of Science and Technology, Palermo, Italy.
Cristoforo Pomara1] Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta, Msida, Malta [2] Department of Forensic Pathology, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy.
Mario ValentinoDepartment of Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
Richard MuscatDepartment of Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
Arcangelo BenignoDepartment of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
Giovanni ZummoDepartment of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
Everly Conway de MacarioDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland at Baltimore; and IMET, Columbus Center, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Francesco Cappello1] Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy [2] Euro-Mediterranean Institute of Science and Technology, Palermo, Italy [3] Institute "Paolo Sotgiu" for Research in Quantitative and Quantum Psychiatry and Cardiology, University of Human Sciences and Technology (LUDES), Lugano, Switzerland.
Giuseppe Di Giovanni1] Euro-Mediterranean Institute of Science and Technology, Palermo, Italy [2] Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta, Msida, Malta [3] Neuroscience Division, School of Bioscience, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
Alberto J L Macario1] Euro-Mediterranean Institute of Science and Technology, Palermo, Italy [2] Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland at Baltimore; and IMET, Columbus Center, Baltimore, MD, USA.
University of Palermo · ITUniversity of Malta · MTIstituto Euro Mediterraneo di Scienza e Tecnologia · ITIstituto Neurologico Mediterraneo · ITUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The mitochondrial chaperonin Hsp60 is a ubiquitous molecule with multiple roles, constitutively expressed and inducible by oxidative stress. In the brain, Hsp60 is widely distributed and has been implicated in neurological disorders, including epilepsy. A role for mitochondria and oxidative stress has been proposed in epileptogenesis of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Here, we investigated the involvement of Hsp60 in TLE using animal and human samples. Hsp60 immunoreactivity in the hippocampus, measured by Western blotting and immunohistochemistry, was increased in a rat model of TLE. Hsp60 was also increased in the hippocampal dentate gyrus neurons somata and neuropil and hippocampus proper (CA3, CA1) of the epileptic rats. We also determined the circulating levels of Hsp60 in epileptic animals and TLE patients using ELISA. The epileptic rats showed circulating levels of Hsp60 higher than controls. Likewise, plasma post-seizure Hsp60 levels in patients were higher than before the seizure and those of controls. These results demonstrate that Hsp60 is increased in both animals and patients with TLE in affected tissues, and in plasma in response to epileptic seizures, and point to it as biomarker of hippocampal stress potentially useful for diagnosis and patient management.

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AdultAnimalsChaperonin 60Dentate GyrusEpilepsy, Temporal LobeFemaleHippocampusHumansImmunohistochemistryMaleMiddle AgedRatsYoung AdultChaperonin 60

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PMCPMC4371150
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