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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Neurochemistry Année : 2000

The triakontatetraneuropeptide (TTN) stimulates thymidine incorporation in rat astrocytes through peripheral-type benzodiazepine receptors.

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Astrocytes and astrocytoma cells actively express the diazepam-binding inhibitor (DBI) gene, suggesting that DBI-processing products may regulate glial cell activity. In the present study, we have investigated the possible effect of one of the DBI-derived peptides, the triakontatetraneuropeptide (TTN), on [(3)H]thymidine incorporation in cultured rat astrocytes. Reversed-phase HPLC analysis of incubation media indicated that TTN is the major form of DBI-derived peptides released by cultured astrocytes. At very low concentrations (10(-14)-10(-11) M), TTN induced a dose-dependent increase in [(3)H]thymidine incorporation, whereas at higher concentrations (10(-10)-10(-5) M) the effect of TTN gradually declined. In the same range of concentrations, the specific peripheral-type benzodiazepine receptor (PBR) agonist Ro 5-4864 mimicked the bell-shaped stimulatory effect of TTN on [(3)H]thymidine incorporation. The PBR antagonist PK11195 (10(-6) M) suppressed the stimulatory action of both TTN and Ro 5-4864 on [(3)H]thymidine incorporation, whereas the central-type benzodiazepine receptor antagonist flumazenil (10(-6) M) had no effect. The present study demonstrates that the endozepine TTN stimulates DNA synthesis in rat glial cells through activation of PBRs. These data strongly suggest that TTN exerts an autocrine/paracrine stimulatory effect on glial cell proliferation.
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hal-01962735 , version 1 (20-12-2018)

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M Gandolfo, C. Patte, Jérôme Leprince, J Régo, M Mensah-Nyagan, et al.. The triakontatetraneuropeptide (TTN) stimulates thymidine incorporation in rat astrocytes through peripheral-type benzodiazepine receptors.. Journal of Neurochemistry, 2000, 75 (2), pp.701-7. ⟨hal-01962735⟩
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