Ethanol alters calcium signaling in axonal growth cones.
Ethanol alters calcium signaling in axonal growth cones.
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乙醇改变轴突生长锥中的钙信号传导。
DOI:
10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.05.042
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发表时间:
2011
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影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Lindsley,TA
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作者:
Mah,SJ;Fleck,MW;Lindsley,TA
Calcium (Ca2+) channels are sensitive to ethanol and Ca2+signaling is a critical regulator of axonal growth and guidance. Effects of acute and chronic exposure to ethanol (22, 43, or 87 mM) on voltage-gated Ca2+channels (VGCCs) in whole cells, and KCl-induced Ca2+transients in axonal growth cones, were examined using dissociated hippocampal cultures. Whole-cell patch-clamp analysis in neurons with newly-formed axons (Stage 3) revealed that rapidly inactivating, low-voltage activated (LVA) and non-inactivating, high-voltage activated (HVA) currents were both inhibited in a dose-dependent manner by acute ethanol, with relatively greater inhibition of HVA currents. When assessed by Fluo-4-AM imaging, baseline fluorescence and Ca2+response to ethanol in Stage 3 neurons was similar compared to neurons without axons, but peak Ca2+transient amplitudes in response to bath-applied KCl were greater in Stage 3 neurons and were decreased by acute ethanol. The amplitude of Ca2+transients elicited specifically in axonal growth cones by focal application of KCl was also inhibited by acute exposure to moderate-to-high concentrations of ethanol (43 or 87 mM), whereas a lower concentration (22 mM) had no effect. When 43 or 87 mM ethanol was present continuously in the medium, KCl-evoked Ca2+transient amplitudes were also reduced in growth cones. In contrast, Ca2+transients were increased by continuous exposure to 22 mM ethanol. Visualization using a fluorescent dihydropyridine analog revealed that neurons continuously exposed to ethanol expressed increased amounts of L-type Ca2+channels, with greater increases in axonal growth cones than cell bodies. Thus, acute ethanol reduces Ca2+current and KCl-induced Ca2+responses in whole cells and axonal growth cones, respectively, and chronic exposure is also generally inhibitory despite apparent up-regulation of L-type channel expression. These results are consistent with a role for altered growth cone Ca2+signaling in abnormal neuromorphogenesis associated with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.