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  • Title: Running exercise- and antidepressant-induced increases in growth and survival-associated signaling molecules are IGF-dependent.
    Author: Chen MJ, Russo-Neustadt AA.
    Journal: Growth Factors; 2007 Apr; 25(2):118-31. PubMed ID: 17852404.
    Abstract:
    It is known that physical exercise increases hippocampal brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) mRNA and protein, as well as the expression of several pro-survival signaling proteins and that many of these effects depend on the uptake of peripheral insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) into the CNS. Because treatment with antidepressants has similar effects upon neurotrophin expression, we investigated whether antidepressant-induced BDNF changes also depend on IGF-1 uptake, as well as whether IGF-1 plays a role in the exercise/antidepressant-induced expression of molecules associated with plasticity/growth (GAP-43, SCG-10) and the intracellular activation of molecules associated with neuronal survival (Akt, ERK1/2). We evaluated the effects of a well known monoamine oxidase inhibitor, tranylcypromine, on BDNF mRNA and protein levels and phospho-Akt and phospho-ERK1/2 immunoreactivity, both with and without systemic blockade of IGF-1 uptake through the use of an antiserum raised against IGF-1. Anti-IGF-1 reversed the increase in BDNF mRNA and protein elicited by exercise as well as tranylcypromine. Exercise also significantly enhanced transcription of axon growth protein, GAP-43, an effect that was also evidenced to be IGF-1-dependent. The combination of exercise-plus-tranylcypromine also increased several cell survival signaling measures, but the BDNF changes associated with the combination treatment appeared to be independent of IGF-1 uptake. Together, these results indicate that the uptake of peripheral IGF-1 in the CNS is essential for antidepressant- as well as exercise-induced enhancement in hippocampal BDNF expression and thus, enhanced hippocampal neuronal survival and plasticity.
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