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ArticleNeural regeneration research2018

Alpha-7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor agonist treatment in a rat model of Huntington's disease and involvement of heme oxygenase-1.

Laura Foucault-Fruchard, Claire Tronel, Sylvie Bodard, Zuhal Gulhan, Julie Busson, Sylvie Chalon, Daniel Antier

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Article in Neural regeneration research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Laura Foucault-FruchardUMR 1253, iBrain, Université de Tours, Inserm; CHRU de Tours, Hôpital Bretonneau, Tours, France.
Claire TronelUMR 1253, iBrain, Université de Tours, Inserm, Tours, France.
Sylvie BodardUMR 1253, iBrain, Université de Tours, Inserm, Tours, France.
Zuhal GulhanUMR 1253, iBrain, Université de Tours, Inserm, Tours, France.
Julie BussonUMR 1253, iBrain, Université de Tours, Inserm, Tours, France.
Sylvie ChalonUMR 1253, iBrain, Université de Tours, Inserm, Tours, France.
Daniel AntierUMR 1253, iBrain, Université de Tours, Inserm; CHRU de Tours, Hôpital Bretonneau, Tours, France.
Inserm · FRUniversité de Tours · FRCentre Hospitalier Universitaire de Tours · FR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neuroinflammation is a common element involved in the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases. We recently reported that repeated alpha-7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α7nAChR) activations by a potent agonist such as PHA 543613 in quinolinic acid-injured rats exhibited protective effects on neurons. To further investigate the underlying mechanism, we established rat models of early-stage Huntington's disease by injection of quinolinic acid into the right striatum and then intraperitoneally injected 12 mg/kg PHA 543613 or sterile water, twice a day during 4 days. Western blot assay results showed that the expression of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1), the key component of the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway, in the right striatum of rat models of Huntington's disease subjected to intraperitoneal injection of PHA 543613 for 4 days was significantly increased compared to the control rats receiving intraperitoneal injection of sterile water, and that the increase in HO-1 expression was independent of change in α7nAChR expression. These findings suggest that HO-1 expression is unrelated to α7nAChR density and the increase in HO-1 expression likely contributes to α7nAChR activation-related neuroprotective effect in early-stage Huntington's disease.

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alpha 7 nicotinic receptorcholinergic anti-inflammatory pathwayneurodegenerative diseaseneuroinflammationPHA 543613quinolinic acid

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