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  • Title: Inhibitor of nuclear factor-Kappa B activation attenuates venular constriction, leukocyte rolling-adhesion and microvessel rupture induced by ethanol in intact rat brain microcirculation: relation to ethanol-induced brain injury.
    Author: Altura BM, Gebrewold A.
    Journal: Neurosci Lett; 2002 Dec 06; 334(1):21-4. PubMed ID: 12431766.
    Abstract:
    The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that acute, local administration of a specific inhibitor of nuclear factor-Kappa B activation (which prevents rapid proteolysis of IKB-alpha) will attenuate cerebral (cortical) venular constrictions, leukocyte-endothelial wall interactions and postcapillary damage induced by medium to high concentrations of ethanol in the intact rat brain. Perivascular or i.p. administration of ethanol (100, 250 mg/dl) to the intact rat brain resulted in concentration-dependent venular vasospasm, rolling and adherence of leukocytes to venular walls and rupture of postcapillary venules with focal hemorrhages. Superfusion of the in-situ brain with N(alpha)-L-tosyl-L-phenylalanine chloromethyl ketone (TPCK), a specific inhibitor of IKB-alpha proteolysis, attenuated greatly the spasmogenic, leukocyte rolling-endothelial cell adhesion and postcapillary hemorrhages induced by ethanol. These new data suggest that inhibition of alcohol-inducible degradation of IKB-alpha by TPKC can prevent much of the adverse microvascular actions of ethanol in the intact rat brain. Moreover, these new in-situ results suggest that activation of nuclear factor-Kappa B seems to play a major modulatory role in the adverse cerebral vascular actions of concentrations of alcohol found in the blood of alcohol-intoxicated subjects and human stroke victims.
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