Chotosan enhances macrophage colony-stimulating factor mRNA expression in the ischemic rat brain and C6Bu-1 glioma cells

Ryosuke Obi, Michihisa Tohda, Qi Zhao, Nobuko Obi, Hitomi Hori, Yukihisa Murakami, Hirozo Goto, Yutaka Shimada, Hiroshi Ochiai, Kinzo Matsumoto*

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研究成果: ジャーナルへの寄稿学術論文査読

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Macrophage colony stimulating factor (M-CSF) is a cytokine which has been recently reported to have a neuroprotective effect on ischemic rat brain. In this study, we investigated the effect of chotosan, an oriental medicine, which has been clinically demonstrated to be effective for the treatment of vascular dementia, on MCSF gene expression in rats with permanent occlusion of bilateral common carotid arteries (P2VO) in vivo and in a C6Bu-1 glioma cell line in vitro. The expression level of M-CSF mRNA in the cerebral cortices of P2VO rats was significantly higher than that in the cerebral cortices of sham-operated animals. Repeated treatment of P2VO rats with chotosan (75 mg/kg per day) for 4 d after P2VO significantly increased the expression level of M-CSF mRNA in the cortex but it had no effect on the expression of β-actin, granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF), granulocyte/macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) mRNAs. Moreover, the present in vitro studies revealed that chotosan treatment (10-100 μg/ml) of C6Bu-1 glioma cells dose-dependently enhanced M-CSF mRNA expression without affecting the expression of G-CSF, GM-CSF, and inducible nitric oxide synthase mRNAs. The effect of chotosan was reversed by Ro 31-8220 (1 μM), a selective protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitor, but not by H-89 (10 μM), a selective protein kinase A (PKA) inhibitor. These findings suggest that the upregulatory effect of chotosan on M-CSF mRNA expression involves PKC and may play an important role in the antivascular dementia action of this formula.

本文言語英語
ページ(範囲)2250-2256
ページ数7
ジャーナルBiological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin
30
12
DOI
出版ステータス出版済み - 2007/12

ASJC Scopus 主題領域

  • 薬理学
  • 薬科学

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