Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on December 13, 2006
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/ncl458
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1 Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Past work has shown that neural precursor cells are predisposed to redox sensitive changes, and that oxidative stress plays a critical role in the acute and persistent changes that occur within the irradiated CNS. Irradiation leads to a marked rise in reactive oxygen species (ROS) that correlates with oxidative endpoints in vivo and reductions in neurogenesis. To better understand the impact of oxidative stress on neural precursor cells, and to determine if radiation-induced oxidative damage and precursor cell loss after irradiation could be reduced, a series of antioxidant compounds (EUK-134, EUK-163, EUK-172, EUK-189) were tested, three of which possess both superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase activities and one (EUK-163) whose only significant activity is SOD. Our results show that these SOD/catalase mimetics apparently increase the oxidation of a ROS-sensitive fluorescent indicator dye, particularly after short (12 h) treatments, but that longer treatments (24 h) decrease oxidation attributable to radiation-induced ROS. Similarly, other studies found that cells incubated with CuZnSOD showed some increase in intracellular ROS levels. Subsequent data suggested that the dye-oxidising capabilities of the EUK compounds were linked to differences in their catalase activity and, most likely, their ability to catalyse peroxidative pathways. In unirradiated mice, the EUK-134 analogue induced some decrease of proliferating precursor cells and immature neurons 48 h after radiation, an effect that may be attributable to cytotoxicity and/or inhibition of precursor proliferation. In irradiated mice, a single injection of EUK-134 was not found to be an effective radioprotector at acute times (48 h). The present results support continued development of our in vitro model as a tool for predicting certain in vivo responses, and suggest that in some biological systems the capability to scavenge superoxide but produce excess H2O2, as is known for CuZnSOD, may be potentially deleterious. Our results also show that the ability of catalase mimetics, like true catalases, to catalyse peroxidase reactions can complicate the interpretation of data obtained with certain fluorescent ROS-indicator dyes.
USING SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE/CATALASE MIMETICS TO MANIPULATE THE REDOX ENVIRONMENT OF NEURAL PRECURSOR CELLS
C. L. Limoli 1 *, E. Giedzinski 1, J. Baure 2, S. R. Doctrow 3, R. Rola 2, and J. R. Fike 2
2 Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
3 Proteome Systems, Inc.,Woburn, MA, USA
C. L. Limoli, E-mail: climoli{at}uci.edu
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