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Query: UMLS:C0917798 (cerebral ischemia)
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Fas antigen mRNA induction in the brain was examined using a transient global cerebral ischemia model in BALB/C mice. Northern blot analysis revealed little Fas antigen mRNA expression in the brains of sham-operated mice. A marked induction of Fas mRNA expression was detected in the brains of mice 6 h after 30 min of cerebral ischemia. These results suggest a possible apoptotic mechanism for cell death, mediated by the Fas antigen, in postischemic brain.
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PMID:Fas antigen mRNA induction in postischemic murine brain. 752 44

The expression of mRNA for the Fas antigen, a membrane-associated protein mediating apoptosis, was localized by in situ hybridization histochemistry in murine brains following 30 min of global cerebral ischemia. Six hours following the ischemia, many labeled cells were detected anew throughout the brain. The hybridization was seen in the small neural cells and in the cells along the walls of the ventricles and vessels, and became undetectable 24 h following the ischemia. These results suggest that the Fas antigen is expressed in the neuron, glia and periventricular cells of the post-ischemic brain.
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PMID:Localization of Fas antigen mRNA induced in postischemic murine forebrain by in situ hybridization. 875 Aug 74

Transcription factor c-Jun is proposed to control neuronal cell death and survival, but its activation by N-terminal phosphorylation and the underlying activity of the c-Jun N-terminal kinases (JNKs) remain to be elucidated in the adult mammalian brain. We generated a polyclonal antiserum that specifically recognizes c-Jun phosphorylated at its serine 73 (S73) residue after UV irradiation of 3T3 cells. Disruption of the c-jun locus in 3T3 cells abolished this reaction, and retransfection of the human c-jun at the c-jun-/- background restored it. The phospho-c-Jun antiserum was used to visualize N-terminally phosphorylated c-Jun in the adult rat brain with cellular resolution. Prolonged c-Jun S73 phosphorylation was detected in affected neurons up to 5 d after transient occlusion of medial cerebral artery or up to 50 d after transection of central nerve fiber tracts. After cerebral ischemia-reperfusion, phosphorylation of c-Jun was linked with induced expression of Fas-ligand (APO-1, CD95-ligand), whose gene is a putative c-Jun/AP-1 target, and with terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated biotinylated UTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) reactivity, a marker for apoptosis. After nerve fiber transection, however, lasting c-Jun phosphorylation occurred in axotomized neurons negative for Fas-ligand or TUNEL and regardless of degeneration or survival. In contrast to these lasting phosphorylation patterns, transient seizure activity by pentylenetetrazole provoked only a brief c-Jun phosphorylation and JNK activation. In extracts from ischemic or axotomized brain compartments, c-Jun phosphorylation correlated with enhanced long-term JNK activity, and in-gel kinase assays visualized proteins with sizes corresponding to JNK isoforms as the only c-Jun N-terminally phosphorylating enzymes. These results demonstrate that lasting c-Jun S73 phosphorylation and JNK activity are part of neuronal stress response after neurodegenerative disorders in the adult mammalian brain with Fas-ligand as a putative apoptotic effector.
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PMID:Lasting N-terminal phosphorylation of c-Jun and activation of c-Jun N-terminal kinases after neuronal injury. 965 Nov 96

Apoptosis is involved in the pathogenesis of cerebral ischemia. Previous studies have confirmed that the brain surrounding an intracerebral hematoma develops ischemia. We investigated the number and distribution of cells exhibiting DNA fragmentation with apoptotic morphology in the transient intracerebral mass lesion to determine whether apoptosis contributed to the lesion progress after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). Transient intracerebral mass was created by inflation of a microballoon for 10 min (group A) or 2 h (group B) in the caudoputamen in rats, and brains were examined 1, 3, 6, 24, and 48 h after microballoon deflation. The lesion volume was calculated using parallel coronal sections with cresyl violet staining. Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT)-mediated deoxyuridine (dUTP)-biotin nick end labeling (TUNEL) was used to detect cells undergoing DNA fragmentation. Immunohistochemistry for Fas antigen was also done to ascertain molecular mechanisms of apoptosis. Histological examination of hematoxylin and eosin-stained sections showed the typical appearance of neuronal necrosis in the caudoputaminal lesion. Lesion volume in the caudoputamen gradually increased as time advanced from 1 to 48 h. Cells stained heavily by TUNEL with apoptotic morphology were detected in the lesion, but not in the inner boundary zone of the lesion. The number of these cells significantly increased from 6 to 24 h in each experimental group (p < 0.05). The cells with positive immunoreactivity for Fas antigen was prominently observed in the lesion at 6 h. The distribution of apoptotic cells and the rapid increase in the number of apoptotic cells after 24 h propose that apoptotic cell death may contribute to lesion core formation but not to gradual development of the lesion.
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PMID:Temporal and spatial profile of apoptotic cell death in transient intracerebral mass lesion of the rat. 1009 59