Cytotoxic activity induced by the alkaloid extract from Ipomoea carnea on primary murine mixed glial cultures

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The prolonged consumption of Ipomoea carnea produces neurologic symptoms in animals and a typical histological lesion, cytoplasmic vacuolization, especially in neurons. The toxic principles of I. carnea are the alkaloids swainsonine and calystegines B1, B2, B3 and C1. In this study, primary brain cultures from newborn mouse containing mixed glial cells were utilized. These cells were exposed to Ipomoea extracts containing between 0 and 250 μM swainsonine for 48 h. Morphological changes were investigated through Phase Contrast microscopy and Rosenfeld's staining. The extract induced cytoplasmic vacuolization in astrocytes and microglia in a dose dependent manner, being more evident when cultures were exposed to 250 μM of swainsonine. In addition, acridine orange staining evidenced an increase in the number of lysosomes in both microglia and astrocytes cells. Consistent with this, scanning electron microscopy also showed that both types of cells presented morphological characteristics of cell activation. Ultrastructurally, cells showed vacuoles filled with amorphous material and surrounded by a single membrane and also multilayer membranes. Taken together, these findings suggest that swainsonine along with calystegines, are probably responsible for the activation of glial cells due to a possible lysosomal dysfunction and therefore intracellular storage. Our results demonstrate that this in vitro glial cell model is a very good alternative to in vivo studies that require several weeks of animal intoxication to observe similar neurotoxic effects.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:188

Enthalten in:

Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology - 188(2020) vom: 27. Dez., Seite 134-141

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cholich, Luciana Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Pistán, María Elena [VerfasserIn]
Torres, Ana María [VerfasserIn]
Ortega, Hugo Héctor [VerfasserIn]
Gardner, Dale R [VerfasserIn]
Bustillo, Soledad [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

127414-86-2
Alkaloids
Astrocytes
Calystegine B1
Cytotoxicity
In vitro
Ipomoea carnea
Journal Article
Lysosomal storage disease
Microglia
Nortropanes
Plant Extracts
RSY4RK37KQ
Solanaceous Alkaloids
Swainsonine
Tropanes

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Date Completed 19.11.2020

Date Revised 19.11.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.toxicon.2020.10.019

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM316602981