Abstract
The widely prescribed drug desferrioxamine is a known activator of the hypoxia-inducible transcription factor 1 (HIF-1) and the subsequent transcription of erythropoietin. In the brain, HIF-1 is a master switch of the transcriptional response to hypoxia, whereas erythropoietin is a potent neuroprotectant. The authors show that desferrioxamine dose-dependently and time-dependently induces tolerance against focal cerebral ischemia in rats and mice, and against oxygen-glucose deprivation in purified cortical neurons. Desferrioxamine induced HIF-1 DNA binding and transcription of erythropoietin in vivo, the temporal kinetics of which were congruent with tolerance induction. Desferrioxamine is a promising drug for the induction of tolerance in humans when ischemia can be anticipated.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 520-5 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - May 2002 |
Keywords
- Animals
- Cell Survival
- Cells, Cultured
- Cerebral Cortex
- Constriction
- Cycloheximide
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Deferoxamine
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Embryo, Mammalian
- Erythropoietin
- Gene Expression
- Glucose
- Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1
- Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit
- Iron Chelating Agents
- Ischemic Attack, Transient
- Male
- Middle Cerebral Artery
- Neurons
- Nuclear Proteins
- Oxygen
- Protein Synthesis Inhibitors
- Rats
- Rats, Wistar
- Reperfusion
- Thiazoles
- Thiazolidinediones
- Time Factors
- Transcription Factors
- Journal Article
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't