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1 From the Sumitomo Pharmaceuticals Research Center, Osaka Japan; and the 2 Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
Abstract
PURPOSE. To investigate the neuroprotective effects of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) against potassium cyanide (KCN)–induced retinal damage.
METHODS. Rats were injected intravitreally with iodinated BDNF. Two days later, eyeballs were dissected into various parts, and the level of radioactivity in each part was measured. Retinal damage was induced by incubating rat eyeballs with 5 mM KCN. BDNF was injected intravitreally 2 days before KCN treatment, and subsequent morphometric analysis was carried out to evaluate the retinal cell damage. To elucidate the mechanisms of BDNF’s neuroprotective effects, the intravitreal concentrations of amino acids and the expression of calretinin were investigated.
RESULTS. Intravitreally injected BDNF was distributed evenly throughout the eyes, and the incorporation of iodinated BDNF into the retina was three times higher than in other ocular tissues. Immunohistochemical analysis demonstrated that exogenous BDNF diffused throughout the retina and was especially concentrated in the inner (INL) and outer nuclear layer. Morphometric analysis showed that the number of INL cells of the posterior area, 880 µm from the optic nerve head, was 190 ± 4 with KCN treatment and 284 ± 9 in control animals. Cell death appeared to be necrotic. When eyes injected with either phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) or BDNF were subjected to treatment with KCN, the number of INL cells was 186 ± 5 in the PBS-treated controls and 253 ± 8 in eyes treated with BDNF. Also, BDNF increased the number of calretinin-positive cells in the INL and reduced the KCN-induced elevation of intravitreal glutamate levels.
CONCLUSIONS. BDNF injected intravitreally reaches the retina and attenuates the INL cell death caused by KCN-induced metabolic insult. The neuroprotective effects of BDNF are partly ascribed to the upregulation of a calcium-binding protein and the attenuation of glutamate release into the vitreous body.
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