Only tetracaine and not other local anaesthetics induce apoptosis in rat cortical astrocytes
- Authors
- Lee, Won Young; Park, Chang Joo; Shin, Teo Jeon; Yum, Kwang Won; Yoon, Tae Gyoon; Seo, Kwang Suk; Kim, Hyun Jeong
- Issue Date
- Nov-2009
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCI LTD
- Keywords
- anaesthetics local, tetracaine; complications, neurological; toxicity, local anaesthetics
- Citation
- BRITISH JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA, v.103, no.5, pp.719 - 725
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- BRITISH JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA
- Volume
- 103
- Number
- 5
- Start Page
- 719
- End Page
- 725
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/175957
- DOI
- 10.1093/bja/aep237
- ISSN
- 0007-0912
- Abstract
- Background
The potential risks of neurotoxicity due to local anaesthetics after regional anaesthesia have been suggested recently. To evaluate the neurotoxicity of commonly used local anaesthetics, primary cultured rat cortical astrocytes were treated with lidocaine, ropivacaine, bupivacaine, levobupivacaine, and tetracaine.
Methods
Cell death after local anaesthetic treatment was evaluated with a lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) assay. To examine the mechanisms of cell death, reactive oxygen species (ROS) measurement and western blots of poly-ADP ribose polymerase (PARP), procaspase-3, and mitogen-activated protein kinases family members were performed.
Results
Of the local anaesthetics, which were applied at <1 mM for 18 h, only tetracaine significantly increased LDH leakage (P<0.05) and cell death in a dose- and time-dependent manner. Hoechst 33258–propidium iodide staining and western blots with PARP and procaspase-3 antibodies suggested that tetracaine induced apoptosis. ROS levels increased 2-fold at 30 min after tetracaine treatment compared with the control and then decreased. The antioxidants, N-acetylcysteine and trolox, markedly inhibited tetracaine-induced apoptosis.
Conclusions
Tetracaine induced apoptosis through ROS generation. Further studies focusing on the neurotoxicity of tetracaine are needed.
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