Ceramide is involved in alcohol-induced neural proliferation****
Zhixin Wang
Tongxing Deng
Jiexin Deng
Jinbo Deng
Xiaoqun Gao
Yuanyuan Shi
Bin Liu
Zhanyou Ma
Haixiao Jin
摘要： Prenatal alcohol exposure, especial y during early pregnancy, can lead to fetal alcohol syndrome. The pharmacological and toxicological mechanisms of ethanol are related to the effects of ceramide. In this study, we established an alcohol exposure model in wild-type mice and in knockout mice for the key enzyme involved in ceramide metabolism, sphingomyelin synthase 2. This model received daily intragastric administration of 25%ethanol, and pups were used at postnatal days 0, 7, 14, 30 for experiments. Serology and immunofluorescence staining found that ethanol exposure dose-dependently reduced blood sphingomyelin levels in two genotypes of pups, and increased neural cel proliferation and the number of new neurons in the hippocampal dentate gyrus. Western blot analysis showed that the relative expression level of protein kinase C α increased in two notypes of pups after ethanol exposure. Compared with wild-type pups, the expression level of the important activator protein of the ceramide/ceramide-1-phosphate pathway, protein kinase Cα, was reduced in the hippocampus of sphingomyelin synthase 2 knockouts. Our findings il ustrate that ceramide is involved in alcohol-induced neural proliferation in the hippocampal dentate gyrus of pups after prenatal ethanol exposure, and the mechanism may be associated with increased pression of protein kinase Cαactivating the ceramide/ceramide-1-phosphate pathway.
机标关键词：protein kinase Cdentate gyrusearly pregnancykey enzyme
资助基金：the Technological Project of Science and Technology Department of Henan Province in China, (No.122102310205)the National Natural Science Foundation of China, (No.30771140,31070952, U1204311)
论文发表日期：2013-01-01
在线出版日期：2025-08-15（本平台首次上网日期，不代表文献的发表时间）
页数：12( 2178-2189 )