Molecular changes evoked by the beta-lactam antibiotic ceftriaxone across rodent models of substance use disorder and neurological disease
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Ceftriaxone is a beta-lactam antibiotic that increases the expression of the major glutamate transporter, GLT-1. As such, ceftriaxone ameliorates symptoms across multiple rodent models of neurological diseases and substance use disorders. However, the mechanism behind GLT-1 upregulation is unknown. The present review synthesizes this literature in order to identify commonalities in molecular changes. We find that ceftriaxone (200 mg/kg for at least two days) consistently restores GLT-1 expression in multiple rodent models of neurological disease, especially when GLT-1 is decreased in the disease model. The same dose given to healthy/drug-naive rodents does not reliably upregulate GLT-1 in any brain region except the hippocampus. Increased GLT-1 expression does not consistently arise from transcriptional regulation, and is likely to be due to trafficking changes. In addition to altered transporter expression, ceftriaxone ameliorates neuropathologies (e.g. tau, amyloid beta, cell death) and aberrant protein expression associated with a number of neurological disease models. Taken together, these results indicate that ceftriaxone remains a strong candidate for treatment of multiple disorders in the clinic.
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“It has been elucidated that CFT, a beta-lactam antibiotic, can selectively induce the GLT1 gene expression in astrocytes as shown in our study (Smaga et al. 2020).”
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- Authors
- Smaga, I., Fierro, D., Mesa, J., Filip, M., & Knackstedt, L. A.
- Affiliations
- Maj Institute of Pharmacology (PL)
- University of Florida (US)
- Corresponding author
- Knackstedt, Lori A
- Venue
- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-08
- Volume
- 115
- Pages
- 116-130
- ISSN
- 0149-7634 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7483567
- OpenAlex
- W3032088217
- Cited by
- 69
- References
- 109
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 1.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (DA033436)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Biochemistry › Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
- Keywords
- ceftriaxone, beta-lactam antibiotics, GLT-1, glutamate transporters, substance use disorders, neurological disease models, glutamate homeostasis, transporter trafficking, tau pathology, amyloid-beta, neuronal cell death, hippocampus, drug repurposing
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Anti-Bacterial Agents, Ceftriaxone, Rodentia, Amyloid beta-Peptides, Glutamic Acid, Substance-Related Disorders, Excitatory Amino Acid Transporter 2
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