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2018 ; 24
(ä): 495-508
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Protective effect of magnesium acetyltaurate and taurine against NMDA-induced
retinal damage involves reduced nitrosative stress
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Jafri AJA
; Agarwal R
; Iezhitsa I
; Agarwal P
; Spasov A
; Ozerov A
; Ismail NM
Mol Vis
2018[]; 24
(ä): 495-508
PMID30090013
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PURPOSE: Retinal nitrosative stress associated with altered expression of nitric
oxide synthases (NOS) plays an important role in excitotoxic retinal ganglion
cell loss in glaucoma. The present study evaluated the effects of magnesium
acetyltaurate (MgAT) on changes induced by N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) in the
retinal expression of three NOS isoforms, retinal 3-nitrotyrosine (3-NT) levels,
and the extent of retinal cell apoptosis in rats. Effects of MgAT with taurine
(TAU) alone were compared to understand the benefits of a combined salt of Mg and
TAU. METHODS: Excitotoxic retinal injury was induced with intravitreal injection
of NMDA in Sprague-Dawley rats. All treatments were given as pre-, co-, and
post-treatment with NMDA. Seven days post-injection, the retinas were processed
for measurement of the expression of NOS isoforms using immunostaining and
enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), retinal 3-NT content using ELISA,
retinal histopathological changes using hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining, and
retinal cell apoptosis using terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP
nick end-labeling (TUNEL) staining. RESULTS: As observed on immunohistochemistry,
the treatment with NMDA caused a 4.53-fold increase in retinal nNOS expression
compared to the PBS-treated rats (p<0.001). Among the MgAT-treated groups, only
the pretreatment group showed significantly lower nNOS expression than the
NMDA-treated group with a 2.00-fold reduction (p<0.001). Among the TAU-treated
groups, the pre- and cotreatment groups showed 1.84- and 1.71-fold reduction in
nNOS expression compared to the NMDA-treated group (p<0.001), respectively, but
remained higher compared to the PBS-treated group (p<0.01). Similarly, iNOS
expression in the NMDA-treated group was significantly greater than that for the
PBS-treated group (2.68-fold; p<0.001). All MgAT treatment groups showed
significantly lower iNOS expression than the NMDA-treated groups (3.58-, 1.51-,
and 1.65-folds, respectively). However, in the MgAT co- and post-treatment
groups, iNOS expression was significantly greater than in the PBS-treated group
(1.77- and 1.62-folds, respectively). Pretreatment with MgAT caused 1.77-fold
lower iNOS expression compared to pretreatment with TAU (p<0.05). In contrast,
eNOS expression was 1.63-fold higher in the PBS-treated group than in the
NMDA-treated group (p<0.001). Among all treatment groups, only pretreatment with
MgAT caused restoration of retinal eNOS expression with a 1.39-fold difference
from the NMDA-treated group (p<0.05). eNOS expression in the MgAT pretreatment
group was also 1.34-fold higher than in the TAU pretreatment group (p<0.05). The
retinal NOS expression as measured with ELISA was in accordance with that
estimated with immunohistochemistry. Accordingly, among the MgAT treatment
groups, only the pretreated group showed 1.47-fold lower retinal 3-NT than the
NMDA-treated group, and the difference was significant (p<0.001). The H&E-stained
retinal sections in all treatment groups showed statistically significantly
greater numbers of retinal cell nuclei than the NMDA-treated group in the inner
retina. However, the ganglion cell layer thickness in the TAU pretreatment group
remained 1.23-fold lower than that in the MgAT pretreatment group (p<0.05). In
line with this observation, the number of apoptotic cells as observed after TUNEL
staining was 1.69-fold higher after pretreatment with TAU compared to
pretreatment with MgAT (p<0.01). CONCLUSIONS: MgAT and TAU, particularly with
pretreatment, reduce retinal cell apoptosis by reducing retinal nitrosative
stress. Pretreatment with MgAT caused greater improvement in NMDA-induced changes
in iNOS and eNOS expression and retinal 3-NT levels than pretreatment with TAU.
The greater reduction in retinal nitrosative stress after pretreatment with MgAT
was associated with lower retinal cell apoptosis and greater preservation of the
ganglion cell layer thickness compared to pretreatment with TAU.