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Query: UMLS:C0917798 (cerebral ischemia)
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Persistent activation of c-Jun N-terminal kinases (JNKs) and phosphorylation of c-Jun has been shown in various cell death paradigms. Inhibition of the JNK signal transduction pathway prevented neuronal cell death both in vitro and in vivo. In the present study, nuclear phospho-c-Jun immunoreactivity became apparent selectively in vulnerable hippocampal CA1 neurons at 24 h after transient global cerebral ischemia. A high constitutive expression of phospho-JNK1 was detected by immunoblot analysis of hippocampal extracts. Expression of JNK interacting protein-1 (JIP-1), which facilitates JNK signaling, remained unchanged in post-ischemic hippocampal neurons. By contrast, p53-activated gene 608 (PAG608), which promotes cell death in vitro, was strongly induced in post-ischemic CA1 neurons. Our data suggest that transcription factors p53 and phospho-c-Jun may contribute to programmed CA1 cell death following ischemia.
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PMID:Expression of cell death-associated phospho-c-Jun and p53-activated gene 608 in hippocampal CA1 neurons following global ischemia. 1058 7

It has been well documented that the activation of Akt1 and JNK pathways are involved in the neuronal cell death in cerebral ischemia. In this study, we describe a novel interaction between Akt1 and JNK interacting protein 1 (JIP-1). We first detected the interaction of Akt1 and JIP-1 in hippocampus at various time points of ischemia. In the basal state, JIP-1 bind to Akt1, MLK3 at maximum while JIP-1 binds to JNK3 at minimum. Ischemia stimulus decreased the Akt1-JIP-1 interaction and concomitantly increased association between JIP-1 and JNK3. While MLK3 binding to JIP-1 decreased, similar to Akt1-JIP-1 interaction during ischemia. These results indicated that Akt1 interaction with JIP-1 inhibited JIP-1-mediated potentiation of JNK activity by decreasing JIP-1 binding to specific JNK pathway kinases. Akt1 binding to JIP-1 acts as a regulatory gate preventing JNK activation, which is opened under conditions ischemia injury. Administration of antioxidant N-acetylcysteine (NAC) can obviously affected the level of MLK3, JNK3 and Akt1 binding to JIP-1 and JNK3 activation in the hippocampus at 15min ischemia. The findings suggest that Akt1 regulating JNK scaffold and then regulating JNK activation were closely associated with reactive oxygen species (ROS) during cerebral ischemia.
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PMID:Involvement of oxidative stress in the rapid Akt1 regulating a JNK scaffold during ischemia in rat hippocampus. 1617 50