Pharmacological characterization of Na+ influx via voltage-gated Na+ channels in spinal cord astrocytes.
Pharmacological characterization of Na+ influx via voltage-gated Na+ channels in spinal cord astrocytes.
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脊髓星形胶质细胞中通过电压门控钠离子通道钠离子流入的药理学特征。
DOI:
10.1152/jn.1997.78.6.3249
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发表时间:
1997
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影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
Waxman,SG
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作者:
Rose,CR;Ransom,BR;Waxman,SG
Rose, Christine R., Bruce R. Ransom, and Stephan G. Waxman.Pharmacological characterization of Na+influx via voltage-gated Na+channels in spinal cord astrocytes.J. Neurophysiol.78: 3249–3258, 1997. Spinal cord astrocytes display a high density of voltage-gated Na+channels. To study the contribution of Na+influx via these channels to Na+homeostasis in cultured spinal cord astrocytes, we measured intracellular Na+concentration ([Na+]i) with the fluorescent dye sodium-binding benzofuran isophthalate. Stellate and nonstellate astrocytes, which display Na+currents with different properties, were differentiated. Baseline [Na+]iwas 8.5 mM in these cells and was not altered by 100 μM tetrodotoxin (TTX). Inhibition of Na+channel inactivation by veratridine (100 μM) evoked a [Na+]iincrease of 47.1 mM in 44% of stellate and 9.7 mM in 64% of nonstellate astrocytes. About 30% of cells reacted to veratridine with a [Na+]idecrease of ∼2 mM. Qualitatively similar [Na+]ichanges were caused by aconitine. The effects of veratridine were blocked by TTX, amplified by (α-)scorpion toxin and usually were readily reversible. Veratridine-induced [Na+]iincreases were reduced upon membrane depolarization with elevated extracellular [K+]. Recovery to baseline [Na+]iwas unaltered during blocking of K+channels with 4-aminopyridine. [Na+]iincreases evoked by the ionotropic non-N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor agonist kainate were not altered by TTX. Our results indicate that influx of Na+via voltage- gated Na+channels is not a prerequisite for glial Na+,K+-ATPase activity in spinal cord astrocytes at rest nor does it seem to be involved in [Na+]iincreases evoked by kainate. During pharmacological inhibition of Na+channel inactivation, however, Na+channels can serve as prominent pathways of Na+influx and mediate large perturbations in [Na+]i, suggesting that Na+channel inactivation plays an important functional role in these cells.
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影响因子:
2.5
作者:
C. Thio;S. Waxman;H. Sontheimer
通讯作者:
H. Sontheimer
影响因子:
2.5
作者:
SONTHEIMER, H;WAXMAN, SG
通讯作者:
WAXMAN, SG
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.87.24.9833
发表时间:
1990-12-01
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
SONTHEIMER, H;MINTURN, JE;RANSOM, BR
通讯作者:
RANSOM, BR
影响因子:
64.8
作者:
G. Romey;M. Lazdunski
通讯作者:
M. Lazdunski
DOI:
10.1113/jphysiol.1997.sp021951
发表时间:
1997
期刊:
The Journal of physiology
影响因子:
--
作者:
Rose,CR;Ransom,BR
通讯作者:
Ransom,BR