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JOURNAL OF CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE
Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 103-115Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1582-4934.2012.01652.x
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Apoptosis; ARPE-19 cells; autophagy; caspases; HMA; L-DNase II; PARP-1
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- Collegio Ghislieri, Pavia, Italy
- Mexican goverment fellowship (CONACYT)
- Regione Lombardia, Italy [13810040]
- Retina France
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The pathogenesis of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) involves demise of the retinal pigment epithelium and death of photoreceptors. In this article, we investigated the response of human adult retinal pigmented epithelial (ARPE-19) cells to 5-(N,N-hexamethylene)amiloride (HMA), an inhibitor of Na+/H+ exchangers. We observed that ARPE-19 cells treated with HMA are unable to activate classical' apoptosis but they succeed to activate autophagy. In the first 2hrs of HMA exposure, autophagy is efficient in protecting cells from death. Thereafter, autophagy is impaired, as indicated by p62 accumulation, and this protective mechanism becomes the executioner of cell death. This switch in autophagy property as a function of time for a single stimulus is here shown for the first time. The activation of autophagy was observed, at a lesser extent, with etoposide, suggesting that this event might be a general response of ARPE cells to stress and the most important pathway involved in cell resistance to adverse conditions and toxic stimuli.
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