MOBILIZATION OF DANTROLENE-SENSITIVE INTRACELLULAR CALCIUM POOLS IS INVOLVED IN THE CYTOTOXICITY INDUCED BY QUISQUALATE AND N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE BUT NOT BY 2-AMINO-3-(3-HYDROXY-5-METHYLISOXAZOL-4-YL)PROPIONATE AND KAINATE IN CULTURED CEREBRAL CORTICAL-NEURONS
MOBILIZATION OF DANTROLENE-SENSITIVE INTRACELLULAR CALCIUM POOLS IS INVOLVED IN THE CYTOTOXICITY INDUCED BY QUISQUALATE AND N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE BUT NOT BY 2-AMINO-3-(3-HYDROXY-5-METHYLISOXAZOL-4-YL)PROPIONATE AND KAINATE IN CULTURED CEREBRAL CORTICAL-NEURONS
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.89.7.2590
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发表时间:
1992-04-01
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
SCHOUSBOE, A
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作者:
FRANDSEN, A;SCHOUSBOE, A
By using primary cultures of cerebral cortical neurons, it has been demonstrated that the antihyperthermia drug dantrolene protects against cytotoxicity induced by the excitatory amino acids quisqualate (QA) and N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), whereas no effect was observed on cell damage mediated by kainate (KA) or 2-amino-3-(3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazol-4-yl)propionate (AMPA). In parallel it was shown that KA and AMPA increased the concentration of intracellular free calcium ([Ca2+]i) mainly by influx, whereas the increase in [Ca2+]i stimulated by NMDA and QA predominantly was caused by release of Ca2+ from intracellular stores, which for NMDA seemed to be mediated at least partly by Ca2+ influx. In accordance with the effects on cytotoxicity, dantrolene blocked the increase in [Ca2+]i elicited by QA and NMDA leaving the increase induced by KA and AMPA unaffected. The finding that 2-amino-3-[3-(carboxymethoxy)-5-methylisoxazol-4-yl]propionate, which regarding toxicity is a selective KA antagonist, only reduced the KA-stimulated increase in [Ca2+]i by 30% may suggest that the elevation of [Ca2+]i is not the only element in KA-induced cytotoxicity. On the other hand, the present study underlines the importance of Ca2+ for cytotoxicity induced by some excitatory amino acids (glutamate, NMDA, and QA) and supports the current proposal that multiple mechanisms are operating, even concerning calcium homeostasis. Because excitatory amino acid-induced cytotoxicity is thought to be involved in neuropathological conditions such as ischemia, it is possible that dantrolene might be of therapeutic interest.