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Serine racemase deletion protects against cerebral ischemia and excitotoxicity.

Abstract
D-Serine, formed from L-serine by serine racemase (SR), is a physiologic coagonist at NMDA receptors. Using mice with targeted deletion of SR, we demonstrate a role for D-serine in NMDA receptor-mediated neurotoxicity and stroke. Brain cultures of SR-deleted mice display markedly diminished nitric oxide (NO) formation and neurotoxicity. In intact SR knock-out mice, NO formation and nitrosylation of NO targets are substantially reduced. Infarct volume following middle cerebral artery occlusion is dramatically diminished in several regions of the brains of SR mutant mice despite evidence of increased NMDA receptor number and sensitivity.
AuthorsAsif K Mustafa, Abdullah S Ahmad, Emil Zeynalov, Sadia K Gazi, Gautam Sikka, Jeffrey T Ehmsen, Roxanne K Barrow, Joseph T Coyle, Solomon H Snyder, Sylvain Doré
JournalThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience (J Neurosci) Vol. 30 Issue 4 Pg. 1413-6 (Jan 27 2010) ISSN: 1529-2401 [Electronic] United States
PMID20107067 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural)
Chemical References
  • Neurotoxins
  • Nitro Compounds
  • Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate
  • Nitric Oxide
  • Serine
  • Nitric Oxide Synthase Type I
  • Racemases and Epimerases
  • serine racemase
Topics
  • Animals
  • Brain (blood supply, enzymology, physiopathology)
  • Brain Infarction (enzymology, genetics, therapy)
  • Brain Ischemia (enzymology, genetics, therapy)
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Cytoprotection (genetics)
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Down-Regulation (genetics)
  • Gene Deletion
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic (genetics)
  • Genetic Therapy (methods)
  • Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery (enzymology, genetics, therapy)
  • Isomerism
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Mice, Knockout
  • Neurotoxins (metabolism)
  • Nitric Oxide (metabolism)
  • Nitric Oxide Synthase Type I (genetics)
  • Nitro Compounds (metabolism)
  • Racemases and Epimerases (genetics)
  • Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate (agonists, metabolism)
  • Serine (metabolism)

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