Desferrioxamine induces delayed tolerance against cerebral ischemia in vivo and in vitro

Konstantin Prass, Karsten Ruscher, Maria Karsch, Nikolay Isaev, Dirk Megow, Josef Priller, Anna Scharff, Ulrich Dirnagl, Andreas Meisel

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)520-5
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism
Volume22
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 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

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