Publication: Melatonin attenuates dexamethasone toxicity-induced oxidative stress, calpain and caspase activation in human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells
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2013-06-10
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18791220
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09600760
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Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Vol.138, (2013), 116-122
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Wilasinee Suwanjang, Andrey Y. Abramov, Piyarat Govitrapong, Banthit Chetsawang Melatonin attenuates dexamethasone toxicity-induced oxidative stress, calpain and caspase activation in human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells. Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Vol.138, (2013), 116-122. doi:10.1016/j.jsbmb.2013.04.008 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/31293
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Melatonin attenuates dexamethasone toxicity-induced oxidative stress, calpain and caspase activation in human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells
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Glucocorticoids (GCs) have a significant role in the adaptive response of the brain to stress. Increasing evidence has demonstrated that an increase of GC levels may induce neuronal cell death via apoptotic pathways. There is a correlation between over-production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and an elevation in cytosolic calcium that causes a subsequent increase in the calcium-dependent death-process activation in GC-induced toxicity. Consequently, melatonin, via its antioxidant activity, exhibits a neuroprotective effect against apoptosis induced by intracellular calcium overload. Therefore, in the present study, we explored the protective effect of melatonin in GC-induced toxicity in dopaminergic SH-SY5Y cells. Cellular treatment with the synthetic GCs, dexamethasone (DEX), resulted in a marked decrease in cell viability and in the level of the calpain-inhibitor protein, calpastatin. DEX-induced toxicity also caused an increase in ROS production and the activation of the calcium-dependent cysteine protease, calpain, along with an increase in caspase-3 activation. Pretreatment of the cells with melatonin substantially prevented the decrease in cell viability, over-production of ROS and the activation of calpain and caspase-3, and reversed the depletion in calpastatin levels. These results suggest that melatonin may exert its protective effects against the calpain- and caspase-dependent death process in DEX-induced neurotoxicity. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.