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Visualization of melatonin's multiple mitochondrial levels of protection against mitochondrial Ca(2+)-mediated permeability transition and beyond in rat brain astrocytes.

Abstract：

:Melatonin protects cells against various types of oxidative stress-induced apoptosis due primarily to its ability to effectively scavenge pathological and disease condition-augmented generation of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (mROS). Once produced, mROS indiscriminately damage mitochondrial components and more importantly they crucially activate directly the mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT), one of the critical mechanisms for initiating post mitochondrial apoptotic signaling. Whether or not melatonin targets directly the MPT, however, remains inconclusive, particularly during oxidative stress. This study, thus, investigated this possibility of an 'oxidation free Ca(2+) stress' in the presence of vitamin E after ionomycin exposure as a sole Ca(2+)-mediated MPT in order to exclude melatonin's primary antioxidative effects as well as Ca(2+)-mediated oxidative stress. The studies were carried out using cultured rat brain astrocytes RBA-1. With the application of laser scanning multiple fluorescence imaging microscopy, we visualized for the first time multiple mitochondrial protective effects provided by melatonin during Ca(2+) stress. First, melatonin, due to its primary antioxidative actions, completely prevented mCa(2+)-induced mROS formation during ionomycin exposure. Secondly, when melatonin(')s antioxidative effects were prevented due to the addition of vitamin E, melatonin significantly prevented mCa(2+)-mediated MPT and apoptosis suggesting its direct targeting of the MPT. Surprisingly, in the presence of cyclosporin A, a MPT inhibitor, melatonin reduced further mCa(2+)-mediated apoptosis during ionomycin exposure also suggesting its targeting beyond the MPT. As astrocytes are actively involve in regulating synaptic transmission and neurovascular coupling in the CNS, these multiple mitochondrial layers of protection provided by melatonin against mCa(2+)-and/or mROS-mediated apoptosis in astrocytes may be crucial for future therapeutic prevention and treatment of astrocyte-mediated neurodegenerative diseases in the CNS.

journal_name

J Pineal Res

journal_title

Journal of pineal research

authors

Jou MJ,Peng TI,Hsu LF,Jou SB,Reiter RJ,Yang CM,Chiao CC,Lin YF,Chen CC

doi

10.1111/j.1600-079X.2009.00721.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2010-01-01 00:00:00

pages

20-38

issue

eissn

0742-3098

issn

1600-079X

pii

JPI721

journal_volume

pub_type

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Visualization of melatonin's multiple mitochondrial levels of protection against mitochondrial Ca(2+)-mediated permeability transition and beyond in rat brain astrocytes.