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Authors: Müller, Thomas¹; Przuntek, Horst¹; Rieks, Meike¹; Mackowiak, Anita¹

Source: Neurological Research, Volume 30, Number 4, May 2008 , pp. 417-419(3)

Abstract:

Long-term administration of the monoamine oxidase (MAO)-B inhibitor selegiline may reduce neuronal death based on preclinical findings and reduce progression of chronic neurodegeneration due to outcomes of long-term clinical trials in patients with Parkinson's disease. Additional modes of action of this compound are immune system modulating and neurotrophic properties. We investigated the impact of simultaneous selegiline and cisplatin administration on the degree of cisplatin-induced cell death in SH-SY 5Y human neuroblastoma cells. We found a significantly reduced cell death rate after 50 and 74 hours after 2 hours lasting cisplatin exposure of SH-SY 5Y cells with additional selegiline treatment in comparison with cultures without selegiline. No previous incubation of cell cultures with selegiline was necessary to achieve this neuroprotective effect. We suggest that the neuroprotective effect of selegiline is predominantly associated with neurotrophic actions but not MAO-B inhibition, because SH-SY 5Y human neuroblastoma cells only contain MAO-A. Clinically, our findings support an early start of long-term treatment with selegiline in view of the various neurotoxin hypotheses and mechanisms of neuronal death in chronic neurodegenerative disorders.

Keywords: SELEGILINE; NEURONAL DEATH; NEURODEGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTION

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1179/016164107X251619

Affiliations: 1: Department of Neurology, St Josef Hospital, University of Bochum, Gudrunstr. 56, 44791 Bochum, Germany

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Selegiline reduces cisplatin-induced neuronal death in neuroblastoma cells