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Medical AI Inquiry: You was designed to assist in medical decision-making based on the provided user questions. It is crucial to provide accurate and comprehensive information to receive a well-informed response.  Labels: OBJECTIVE, METHODS, RESULTS. Meshes: Animals, Apoptosis, Caspase 1, Caspase Inhibitors, Corpus Striatum, DNA Fragmentation, Oligopeptides, Quinolinic Acid, Rats, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Tumor Suppressor Protein p53.
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Does caspase-1 inhibitor Ac-YVAD-CHO attenuate quinolinic acid-induced increases in p53 and apoptosis in rat striatum? Context: To study the effects of the caspase-1 inhibitor Ac-YVAD-CHO on quinolinic acid (QA)-induced apoptosis. Rats were pre-treated with intrastriatal infusion of Ac-YVAD-CHO (2-8 microg) before intrastriatal injection of QA (60 nmol). Striatal total proteins, genomic DNA, and nuclear proteins were isolated. The effects of Ac-YVAD-CHO on QA-induced caspase-1 activity, internucleosomal DNA fragmentation, IkappaB-alpha degradation, NF-kappaB, and AP-1 activation, and increases in p53 protein levels were measured with enzyme assays, agarose gel electrophoresis, electrophoresis mobility shift assays, and Western blot analysis. Pre-treatment with Ac-YVAD-CHO inhibited QA-induced internucleosomal DNA fragmentation. Ac-YVAD-CHO inhibited QA-induced increases in caspase-1 activity and p53 protein levels, but had no effect on QA-induced IkappaB-alpha degradation, NF-kappaB or AP-1 activation.
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Caspase-1 is involved in QA-induced p53 upregulation but not IkappaB-alpha degradation. Inhibition of caspase-1 attenuates QA-induced apoptosis in rat striatum. Final Decision: yes