Increased free intracellular Ca2+ by toxic agents: an index of potential neurotoxicity?
Increased free intracellular Ca2+ by toxic agents: an index of potential neurotoxicity?
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有毒物质增加细胞内游离 Ca2:潜在神经毒性的指标?
DOI:
10.1016/0165-6147(88)90025-9
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发表时间:
1988
影响因子:
13.8
通讯作者:
Bondy,SC
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作者:
Komulainen,H;Bondy,SC
In hormone or neurotransmitter signalling processes, Ca2+ may act both as a messenger by means of voltage-dependent influx through the plasma membrane, and as a second messenger (ie released from intracellular stores by specific mediators) in neural tissue’* 2. Results from several experiments suggest that cellular Ca2 metabolism may be a target for the action of neurotoxic agents. Using the acetoxymethyl ester of fura-(a fluorescent Ca2+ indicator), it has recently been shown that several known neurotoxic agents (methyl mercury, triethyl lead, triethyl tin, trimethyl tin, chlordecone) cause a prolonged elevation in synaptosomal concentration of intracellular free Cazt ([Ca2’] J in vitro3# 4. Effects were specific in the sense that less toxic or non-neurotoxic analogs (dimethyl tin, methyl tin, mirex) at the same concentration range did not affect the Ca2+ level. Such a good correlation between neurotoxic potency and [Ca2+] i raises the question whether increased [Ca2+], and neurotoxicity might be causally related. Moreover, might increased [Ca2+], in vitro be used to predict neurotoxicity? Toxins may interfere with Ca2+ metabolism by two different mechanisms: by hitting critical sites in the machinery that regulates [Ca*‘] i or by stimulating nerve cells excessively, thereby causin an increase in the rate of Ca2 Q entry. The former type of effect is unlikely to be specifically receptor mediated; most chemicals that interfere with [Ca2+] i probably act on cellular Ca2+-regulating processes. In the ktter case, specific receptors associated with ion channels are likely be involved. Agents stimulating receptors of excitatory amino acids (partlcularly NMDA receptors5) might exemplify this type of neurotoxicipiO. N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA (in cultured spinal cord neurons 4) and kainic acid and glutamate (in cerebellar granule cell culture”) have been shown to increase [Ca2+]Elevation of i [‘Ca2+] i has several implications. Extra free Ca2+ within the cell can be expected to be active in stimulation of intracellular Ca2+-dependent rekitions, such as spontaneous release of neurotransmitters12, phosphorylation of proteins13 and activity of proteases14. On the other hand, a chronic elevation of [Ca2Q activates compensate 7