Thermal stress and neural function: adaptive mechanisms in insect model systems
Thermal stress and neural function: adaptive mechanisms in insect model systems
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jtherbio.2004.08.073
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发表时间:
2004-10-01
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2.7
通讯作者:
Robertson, RM
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Robertson, RM
Neural circuit function is vulnerable to hyperthermic failure but can be protected by stress pretreatments, such as exposure to a brief, sub-lethal high temperature (heat shock, HS), by increasing the time to failure and decreasing the time to recover.Insects provide excellent model systems to investigate potential mechanisms underlying thermotolerant operation.Induced thermotolerance is mediated by increased expression of heat shock proteins, HSPs, notably HSP70. Enhanced expression of HSP70 by increasing the gene dosage does not improve HS-induced thermotolerance of larval locomotion or locomotor central pattern generation in Drosophila.Prior stress down-regulates neuronal K+ currents and this is associated with adaptive increases in the duration of action potentials.Hyperthermic failure and recovery of the ventilatory central pattern generator in locusts is tightly correlated with a catastrophic increase in extracellular K+ concentration and its subsequent restoration.These, and other data, suggest that neural circuit function can be protected by a stress-induced upregulation of HSPs that stabilize the cytoskeleton and preserve the operation of important membrane proteins such as ion channels, receptors and the Na+/K+-ATPase. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.