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JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY
Volume 121, Issue 3, Pages 329-342Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2012.07692.x
Keywords
adenosine; guanosine; hypoxia; inosine; neuron; purine nucleosides
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- Austrian FWF [P19578-B05, T421-B18]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [T 421] Funding Source: researchfish
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [T421, P19578] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
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Even a short blockade of oxygen flow in brain may lead to the inhibition of oxidative phosphorylation and depletion of cellular ATP, which results in profound deficiencies in cellular function. Following ischemia, dying, injured, and hypoxic cells release soluble purine-nucleotide and -nucleoside pools. Growing evidence suggests that purine nucleosides might act as trophic factors in the CNS and PNS. In addition to equilibrative nucleoside transporters (ENTs) regulating purine nucleoside concentrations intra- and extracellularly, specific extracellular receptor subtypes for these compounds are expressed on neurons, glia, and endothelial cells, mediating stunningly diverse effects. Such effects range from induction of cell differentiation, apoptosis, mitogenesis, and morphogenetic changes, to stimulation of synthesis and/or release of cytokines and neurotrophic factors under both physiological and pathological conditions. Multiple signaling pathways regulate the critical balance between cell death and survival in hypoxiaischemia. A convergent pathway for the regulation of multiple modalities involved in O2 sensing is the mitogen activated protein kinase (p42/44 MAPK) or (ERK1/2 extracellular signal-regulated kinases) pathway terminating in a variety of transcription factors, for example, hypoxia-inducible factor 1a. In this review, the coherence of purine nucleoside-related pathways and MAPK activation in the endogenous neuroprotective regulation of the nervous systems development and neuroplasticity under hypoxic stress will be discussed.
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