ER-stress caused by accumulated intracistanal granules activates autophagy through a different signal pathway from unfolded protein response in exocrine pancreas cells of rats exposed to fluoride

In rat exocrine pancreas cells, fluoride treatment causes autophagy resulting from intracisternal granule accumulation. Excessive autophagy might promote a type of programmed cell death different from apoptosis. To clarify how fluoride-induced autophagy and subsequent cell death occurs, we investiga...

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Veröffentlicht in:Archives of toxicology 2009-02, Vol.83 (2), p.151-159
Hauptverfasser: Ito, Mie, Nakagawa, Hiroshi, Okada, Toshiya, Miyazaki, Syuichi, Matsuo, Saburo
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Zusammenfassung:In rat exocrine pancreas cells, fluoride treatment causes autophagy resulting from intracisternal granule accumulation. Excessive autophagy might promote a type of programmed cell death different from apoptosis. To clarify how fluoride-induced autophagy and subsequent cell death occurs, we investigated morphological and biochemical changes in exocrine pancreas cells of rats subcutaneously injected with NaF saline solution at 20 mg/kg dose twice daily for 4 days. Intracisternal granule, excessive autophagy and ribosomal degranulation were observed in fluoride-exposed cells, occasionally with necrotic changes. Fluoride-induced rER-stress increased eIF-2α phosphorylation and CHOP expression, but did not affect GRP78. Spliced XBP-1 expression was decreased in damaged cells. These findings indicate that rER-stress by intracisternal granule accumulation lead to autophagy in exocrine pancreas cells without UPR, suggesting that signal process of autophagy differs from that of UPR-apoptosis. It is likely that intense degranulation is a turning point that damaged cells change over from autophagy, cell-protective process, to cell-death process.
ISSN:0340-5761
1432-0738
DOI:10.1007/s00204-008-0341-7