Abstract:
:Abuse of the club drugs Methamphetamine (Meth) and Ecstasy (MDMA) is an international problem. The seriousness of this problem is the result of what appears to be programmed cell death (PCD) occurring within the brain following their use. This follow up study focused on determining which cell types, neurons and/or glial cells, were affected in the brains of drug-injected rats. Two proteolytic enzyme families involved in PCD, calpains and caspases, were previously shown to be activated and to degrade the brain cytoskeletal associated protein alphaII-spectrin. Using methods employed and confirmed in traumatic brain injury (TBI) studies, rat brain tissues were examined, 24 and 48 h after Meth and MDMA exposure, for the activation of calpain-1 and caspase-3, and their subsequent alphaII-spectrin cleavage breakdown products (SBDPs), SBDP145, and SBDP120, respectively. Based upon our previous studies we know that activated calpain-1 and caspase-3 were up-regulated after drug use as were the levels of their cleaved SBDPs, SBDP145, and SBDP120, respectively, which is indicative of PCD. Here we show that activated calpain-1 and caspase-3 increases could be localized to neurons in the cortex where the products of their cleaved targets were found to be concentrated, particularly, to the axonal regions. These findings support the hypothesis that calpains and caspases mediate PCD in cortical neurons following club drug abuse and, more importantly, appear to contribute to the neuropathology suffered by abusers.
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Acta Neuropatholjournal_title
Acta neuropathologicaauthors
Warren MW,Larner SF,Kobeissy FH,Brezing CA,Jeung JA,Hayes RL,Gold MS,Wang KKdoi
10.1007/s00401-007-0259-9subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2007-09-01 00:00:00pages
277-86issue
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1432-0533journal_volume
114pub_type
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