Aurintricarboxylic Acid Prevents NMDA‐Mediated Excitotoxicity: Evidence for Its Action as an NMDA Receptor Antagonist
- 1 July 1993
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Neurochemistry
- Vol. 61 (1) , 386-389
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-4159.1993.tb03585.x
Abstract
The effect of the endonuclease inhibitor aurintricarboxylic acid (ATA) versus NMDA-mediated delayed cell death was examined in an ex vivo chick retinal preparation. Transient exposure to 100 μM NMDA for 60 min followed by a 24-h recovery period resulted in a sevenfold increase in lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) release into the medium. ATA at 100 μM significantly reduced NMDA-mediated LDH release by 60%. In clarifying the mechanism of protection versus NMDA, ATA was found to inhibit several acute NMDA-mediated effects: ATA attenuated NMDA-mediated GABA release in a dose-dependent manner (IC50= 29.5 μM), prevented NMDA-stimulated cyclic GMP formation, and blocked NMDA-mediated 22Na+ influx. These acute inhibitory effects of ATA were overcome by increasing the NMDA concentration, which suggested a competitive interaction between NMDA and ATA. In a binding assay using membranes prepared from adult rat forebrain, ATA displaced the competitive NMDA receptor ligand [3H]CGS 19755 with an IC50 of 26.9 μM. Maximal displacement was 88% with 100 μM ATA. These studies demonstrate that ATA protected neurons from NMDA-mediated cell death upstream of endonuclease inhibition, i.e., by antagonizing NMDA receptor activity in a manner consistent with competitive antagonism.Keywords
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