Effect of CDP‐Choline on Hypocapnic Neurons in Culture
- 1 July 1986
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Neurochemistry
- Vol. 47 (1), 223-231
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-4159.1986.tb02853.x
Abstract
Neuronal cultures from chick embryo cerebral hemispheres were protected against a hypocapnic injury by adding to their growth medium 10(-6)M CDP-choline before or after the injury. The protection obtained with CDP-choline was analyzed by a morphometric analysis and showed that pretreatment of neuronal cultures with CDP-choline maintained the number of cell aggregates and of primary neuronal processes at control values after hypocapnic shock. Various experiments showed that the intact molecule was responsible for the protective action, since pretreatment with different concentrations of various nucleosides and nucleotides (up to 10(-5) M), choline, and phosphorylcholine was without protective effect. The addition of CDP-choline after the hypocapnic injury resulted in a protection of the cultures as shown by morphological observation. Incubation of neurons with radioactive choline showed that hypocapnia increased the incorporation of the label into phospholipids whereas the presence of CDP-choline reduced it. The de novo synthesis of choline was affected by neither hypocapnia nor CDP-choline treatment. The results indicate that CDP-choline may have the capacity to protect neurons under conditions of basic pH and that cellular proliferation may be stimulated by the compound.Keywords
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