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Fluoxetine Prevents A?(1-42)-Induced Toxicity via a Paracrine Signaling Mediated
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; Tascedda F
; Merlo S
; Benatti C
; Spampinato SF
; Munafò A
; Leggio GM
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; Brunello N
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Front Pharmacol
2016[]; 7
(ä): 389
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Selective reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), such as fluoxetine and sertraline,
increase circulating Transforming-Growth-Factor-?1 (TGF-?1) levels in depressed
patients, and are currently studied for their neuroprotective properties in
Alzheimer's disease. TGF-?1 is an anti-inflammatory cytokine that exerts
neuroprotective effects against ?-amyloid (A?)-induced neurodegeneration. In the
present work, the SSRI, fluoxetine, was tested for the ability to protect
cortical neurons against 1 ?M oligomeric A?(1-42)-induced toxicity. At
therapeutic concentrations (100 nM-1 ?M), fluoxetine significantly prevented
A?-induced toxicity in mixed glia-neuronal cultures, but not in pure neuronal
cultures. Though to a lesser extent, also sertraline was neuroprotective in mixed
cultures, whereas serotonin (10 nM-10 ?M) did not mimick fluoxetine effects.
Glia-conditioned medium collected from astrocytes challenged with fluoxetine
protected pure cortical neurons against A? toxicity. The effect was lost in the
presence of a neutralizing antibody against TGF-?1 in the conditioned medium, or
when the specific inhibitor of type-1 TGF-?1 receptor, SB431542, was added to
pure neuronal cultures. Accordingly, a 24 h treatment of cortical astrocytes with
fluoxetine promoted the release of active TGF-?1 in the culture media through the
conversion of latent TGF-?1 to mature TGF-?1. Unlike fluoxetine, both serotonin
and sertraline did not stimulate the astrocyte release of active TGF-?1. We
conclude that fluoxetine is neuroprotective against A? toxicity via a paracrine
signaling mediated by TGF-?1, which does not result from a simplistic SERT
blockade.