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Hough RA, McClellan AD. Spinal cord injury significantly alters the properties of reticulospinal neurons: delayed repolarization mediated by potassium channels. J Neurophysiol 2023; 130:1265-1281. [PMID: 37820016 PMCID: PMC10994645 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00251.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2023] [Revised: 09/21/2023] [Accepted: 10/10/2023] [Indexed: 10/13/2023] Open
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After rostral spinal cord injury (SCI) of lampreys, the descending axons of injured (axotomized) reticulospinal (RS) neurons regenerate and locomotor function gradually recovers. Our previous studies indicated that relative to uninjured lamprey RS neurons, injured RS neurons display several dramatic changes in their biophysical properties, called the "injury phenotype." In the present study, at the onset of applied depolarizing current pulses for membrane potentials below as well as above threshold for action potentials (APs), injured RS neurons displayed a transient depolarization consisting of an initial depolarizing component followed by a delayed repolarizing component. In contrast, for uninjured neurons the transient depolarization was mostly only evident at suprathreshold voltages when APs were blocked. For injured RS neurons, the delayed repolarizing component resisted depolarization to threshold and made these neurons less excitable than uninjured RS neurons. After block of voltage-gated sodium and calcium channels for injured RS neurons, the transient depolarization was still present. After a further block of voltage-gated potassium channels, the delayed repolarizing component was abolished or significantly reduced, with little or no effect on the initial depolarizing component. Voltage-clamp experiments indicated that the delayed repolarizing component was due to a noninactivating outward-rectifying potassium channel whose conductance (gK) was significantly larger for injured RS neurons compared to that for uninjured neurons. Thus, SCI results in an increase in gK and other changes in the biophysical properties of injured lamprey RS neurons that lead to a reduction in excitability, which is proposed to create an intracellular environment that supports axonal regeneration.NEW & NOTEWORTHY After spinal cord injury (SCI), lamprey reticulospinal (RS) neurons responded to subthreshold depolarizing current pulses with a transient depolarization, which included an initial depolarization that was due to passive channels followed by a delayed repolarization that was mediated by voltage-gated potassium channels. The conductance of these channels (gK) was significantly increased for RS neurons after SCI and contributed to a reduction in excitability, which is expected to provide supportive conditions for subsequent axonal regeneration.
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- Ryan A Hough
- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States
- Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States
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Urrutia PJ, González-Billault C. A Role for Second Messengers in Axodendritic Neuronal Polarity. J Neurosci 2023; 43:2037-2052. [PMID: 36948585 PMCID: PMC10039749 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1065-19.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2019] [Revised: 02/07/2023] [Accepted: 02/10/2023] [Indexed: 03/24/2023] Open
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Neuronal polarization is a complex molecular process regulated by intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms. Nerve cells integrate multiple extracellular cues to generate intracellular messengers that ultimately control cell morphology, metabolism, and gene expression. Therefore, second messengers' local concentration and temporal regulation are crucial elements for acquiring a polarized morphology in neurons. This review article summarizes the main findings and current understanding of how Ca2+, IP3, cAMP, cGMP, and hydrogen peroxide control different aspects of neuronal polarization, and highlights questions that still need to be resolved to fully understand the fascinating cellular processes involved in axodendritic polarization.
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- Pamela J Urrutia
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile 7800003
- School of Medical Technology, Faculty of Medicine and Science, Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago, Chile 7510157
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile 7800003
- Department of Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile 8380453
- Geroscience Center for Brain Health and Metabolism, Santiago, Chile 7800003
- Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, California 94945
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Alshawaf AJ, Alnassar SA, Al-Mohanna FA. The interplay of intracellular calcium and zinc ions in response to electric field stimulation in primary rat cortical neurons in vitro. Front Cell Neurosci 2023; 17:1118335. [PMID: 37180947 PMCID: PMC10174245 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2023.1118335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2022] [Accepted: 04/10/2023] [Indexed: 05/16/2023] Open
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Recent pharmacological studies demonstrate a role for zinc (Zn2+) in shaping intracellular calcium (Ca2+) dynamics and vice versa in excitable cells including neurons and cardiomyocytes. Herein, we sought to examine the dynamic of intracellular release of Ca2+ and Zn2+ upon modifying excitability of primary rat cortical neurons using electric field stimulation (EFS) in vitro. We show that exposure to EFS with an intensity of 7.69 V/cm induces transient membrane hyperpolarization together with transient elevations in the cytosolic levels of Ca2+ and Zn2+ ions. The EFS-induced hyperpolarization was inhibited by prior treatment of cells with the K+ channel opener diazoxide. Chemical hyperpolarization had no apparent effect on either Ca2+ or Zn2+. The source of EFS-induced rise in Ca2+ and Zn2+ seemed to be intracellular, and that the dynamic inferred of an interplay between Ca2+ and Zn2+ ions, whereby the removal of extracellular Ca2+ augmented the release of intracellular Ca2+ and Zn2+ and caused a stronger and more sustained hyperpolarization. We demonstrate that Zn2+ is released from intracellular vesicles located in the soma, with major co-localizations in the lysosomes and endoplasmic reticulum. These studies further support the use of EFS as a tool to interrogate the kinetics of intracellular ions in response to changing membrane potential in vitro.
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- Abdullah J. Alshawaf
- Department of Physiological Sciences, College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Cell Biology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Cell Biology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Cell Biology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- *Correspondence: Futwan A. Al-Mohanna,
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Manos T, Diaz-Pier S, Tass PA. Long-Term Desynchronization by Coordinated Reset Stimulation in a Neural Network Model With Synaptic and Structural Plasticity. Front Physiol 2021; 12:716556. [PMID: 34566681 PMCID: PMC8455881 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2021.716556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2021] [Accepted: 08/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Several brain disorders are characterized by abnormal neuronal synchronization. To specifically counteract abnormal neuronal synchrony and, hence, related symptoms, coordinated reset (CR) stimulation was computationally developed. In principle, successive epochs of synchronizing and desynchronizing stimulation may reversibly move neural networks with plastic synapses back and forth between stable regimes with synchronized and desynchronized firing. Computationally derived predictions have been verified in pre-clinical and clinical studies, paving the way for novel therapies. However, as yet, computational models were not able to reproduce the clinically observed increase of desynchronizing effects of regularly administered CR stimulation intermingled by long stimulation-free epochs. We show that this clinically important phenomenon can be computationally reproduced by taking into account structural plasticity (SP), a mechanism that deletes or generates synapses in order to homeostatically adapt the firing rates of neurons to a set point-like target firing rate in the course of days to months. If we assume that CR stimulation favorably reduces the target firing rate of SP, the desynchronizing effects of CR stimulation increase after long stimulation-free epochs, in accordance with clinically observed phenomena. Our study highlights the pivotal role of stimulation- and dosing-induced modulation of homeostatic set points in therapeutic processes.
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- Thanos Manos
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany.,Medical Faculty, Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.,Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modélisation, CNRS, UMR 8089, CY Cergy Paris Université, Cergy-Pontoise Cedex, France
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- Simulation & Data Lab Neuroscience, Institute for Advanced Simulation, Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, JARA, Jülich, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
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Butz M, van Ooyen A. A simple rule for dendritic spine and axonal bouton formation can account for cortical reorganization after focal retinal lesions. PLoS Comput Biol 2013; 9:e1003259. [PMID: 24130472 PMCID: PMC3794906 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2013] [Accepted: 08/08/2013] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Lasting alterations in sensory input trigger massive structural and functional adaptations in cortical networks. The principles governing these experience-dependent changes are, however, poorly understood. Here, we examine whether a simple rule based on the neurons' need for homeostasis in electrical activity may serve as driving force for cortical reorganization. According to this rule, a neuron creates new spines and boutons when its level of electrical activity is below a homeostatic set-point and decreases the number of spines and boutons when its activity exceeds this set-point. In addition, neurons need a minimum level of activity to form spines and boutons. Spine and bouton formation depends solely on the neuron's own activity level, and synapses are formed by merging spines and boutons independently of activity. Using a novel computational model, we show that this simple growth rule produces neuron and network changes as observed in the visual cortex after focal retinal lesions. In the model, as in the cortex, the turnover of dendritic spines was increased strongest in the center of the lesion projection zone, while axonal boutons displayed a marked overshoot followed by pruning. Moreover, the decrease in external input was compensated for by the formation of new horizontal connections, which caused a retinotopic remapping. Homeostatic regulation may provide a unifying framework for understanding cortical reorganization, including network repair in degenerative diseases or following focal stroke. The adult brain is less hard-wired than traditionally thought. About ten percent of synapses in the mature visual cortex is continually replaced by new ones (structural plasticity). This percentage greatly increases after lasting changes in visual input. Due to the topographically organized nerve connections from the retina in the eye to the primary visual cortex in the brain, a small circumscribed lesion in the retina leads to a defined area in the cortex that is deprived of input. Recent experimental studies have revealed that axonal sprouting and dendritic spine turnover are massively increased in and around the cortical area that is deprived of input. However, the driving forces for this structural plasticity remain unclear. Using a novel computational model, we examine whether the need for activity homeostasis of individual neurons may drive cortical reorganization after lasting changes in input activity. We show that homeostatic growth rules indeed give rise to structural and functional reorganization of neuronal networks similar to the cortical reorganization observed experimentally. Understanding the principles of structural plasticity may eventually lead to novel treatment strategies for stimulating functional reorganization after brain damage and neurodegeneration.
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- Markus Butz
- Simulation Lab Neuroscience - Bernstein Facility for Simulation and Database Technology, Institute for Advanced Simulation, Jülich Aachen Research Alliance, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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Morona R, González A. Pattern of calbindin-D28k and calretinin immunoreactivity in the brain of Xenopus laevis during embryonic and larval development. J Comp Neurol 2013; 521:79-108. [PMID: 22678695 DOI: 10.1002/cne.23163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2012] [Revised: 05/07/2012] [Accepted: 06/01/2012] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The present study represents a detailed spatiotemporal analysis of the localization of calbindin-D28k (CB) and calretinin (CR) immunoreactive structures in the brain of Xenopus laevis throughout development, conducted with the aim to correlate the onset of the immunoreactivity with the development of compartmentalization of distinct subdivisions recently identified in the brain of adult amphibians and primarily highlighted when analyzed within a segmental paradigm. CR and CB are expressed early in the brain and showed a progressively increasing expression throughout development, although transient expression in some neuronal subpopulations was also noted. Common and distinct characteristics in Xenopus, as compared with reported features during development in the brain of mammals, were observed. The development of specific regions in the forebrain such as the olfactory bulbs, the components of the basal ganglia and the amygdaloid complex, the alar and basal hypothalamic regions, and the distinct diencephalic neuromeres could be analyzed on the basis of the distinct expression of CB and CR in subregions. Similarly, the compartments of the mesencephalon and the main rhombencephalic regions, including the cerebellum, were differently highlighted by their specific content in CB and CR throughout development. Our results show the usefulness of the analysis of the distribution of these proteins as a tool in neuroanatomy to interpret developmental aspects of many brain regions.
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- Ruth Morona
- Department of Cell Biology, University Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Xu F, Farkas S, Kortbeek S, Zhang FX, Chen L, Zamponi GW, Syed NI. Mercury-induced toxicity of rat cortical neurons is mediated through N-Methyl-D-Aspartate receptors. Mol Brain 2012; 5:30. [PMID: 22980357 PMCID: PMC3462706 DOI: 10.1186/1756-6606-5-30] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2012] [Accepted: 09/11/2012] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Mercury is a well-known neurotoxin implicated in a wide range of neurological or psychiatric disorders including autism spectrum disorders, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, depression, mood disorders and tremor. Mercury-induced neuronal degeneration is thought to invoke glutamate-mediated excitotoxicity, however, the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we examine the effects of various mercury concentrations (including pathological levels present in human plasma or cerebrospinal fluid) on cultured, rat cortical neurons. RESULTS We found that inorganic mercuric chloride (HgCl₂--at 0.025 to 25 μM) not only caused neuronal degeneration but also perturbed neuronal excitability. Whole-cell patch-clamp recordings of pyramidal neurons revealed that HgCl₂ not only enhanced the amplitude and frequency of synaptic, inward currents, but also increased spontaneous synaptic potentials followed by sustained membrane depolarization. HgCl₂ also triggered sustained, 2-5 fold rises in intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca²⁺]i). The observed increases in neuronal activity and [Ca²⁺]i were substantially reduced by the application of MK 801, a non-competitive antagonist of N-Methyl-D-Aspartate (NMDA) receptors. Importantly, our study further shows that a pre incubation or co-application of MK 801 prevents HgCl₂-induced reduction of cell viability and a disruption of β-tubulin. CONCLUSIONS Collectively, our data show that HgCl₂-induced toxic effects on central neurons are triggered by an over-activation of NMDA receptors, leading to cytoskeleton instability.
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- Fenglian Xu
- Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Joven A, Morona R, Moreno N, González A. Regional distribution of calretinin and calbindin-D28k expression in the brain of the urodele amphibian Pleurodeles waltl during embryonic and larval development. Brain Struct Funct 2012; 218:969-1003. [PMID: 22843286 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-012-0442-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2012] [Accepted: 07/07/2012] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The sequence of appearance of calretinin and calbindin-D28k immunoreactive (CRir and CBir, respectively) cells and fibers has been studied in the brain of the urodele amphibian Pleurodeles waltl. Embryonic, larval and juvenile stages were studied. The early expression and the dynamics of the distribution of CBir and CRir structures have been used as markers for developmental aspects of distinct neuronal populations, highlighting the accurate extent of many regions in the developing brain, not observed on the basis of cytoarchitecture alone. CR and, to a lesser extent, CB are expressed early in the central nervous system and show a progressively increasing expression from the embryonic stages throughout the larval life and, in general, the labeled structures in the developing brain retain their ability to express these proteins in the adult brain. The onset of CRir cells primarily served to follow the development of the olfactory bulbs, subpallium, thalamus, alar hypothalamus, mesencephalic tegmentum, and distinct cell populations in the rhombencephalic reticular formation. CBir cells highlighted the development of, among others, the pallidum, hypothalamus, dorsal habenula, midbrain tegmentum, cerebellum, and central gray of the rostral rhombencephalon. However, it was the relative and mostly segregated distribution of both proteins in distinct cell populations which evidenced the developing regionalization of the brain. The results have shown the usefulness in neuroanatomy of the analysis during development of the onset of CBir and CRir structures, but the comparison with previous data has shown extensive variability across vertebrate classes. Therefore, one should be cautious when comparing possible homologue structures across species only on the basis of the expression of these proteins, due to the variation of the content of calcium-binding proteins observed in well-established homologous regions in the brain of different vertebrates.
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- Alberto Joven
- Departamento de Biología Celular, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Pathfinding by growing axons in the developing or regenerating nervous system is guided by gradients of molecular guidance cues. The neuronal growth cone, located at the ends of axons, uses surface receptors to sense these cues and to transduce guidance information to cellular machinery that mediates growth and turning responses. Cytoplasmic Ca2+ signals have key roles in regulating this motility. Global growth cone Ca2+ signals can regulate cytoskeletal elements and membrane dynamics to control elongation, whereas Ca2+ signals localized to one side of the growth cone can cause asymmetric activation of effector enzymes to steer the growth cone. Modulating Ca2+ levels in the growth cone might overcome inhibitory signals that normally prevent regeneration in the central nervous system.
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- John Henley
- Division of Neurobiology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3200, USA
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Starowicz K, Przewłocka B. The role of melanocortins and their receptors in inflammatory processes, nerve regeneration and nociception. Life Sci 2003; 73:823-47. [PMID: 12798410 DOI: 10.1016/s0024-3205(03)00349-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The melanocortins are a family of bioactive peptides derived from proopiomelanocortin. Those peptides, included among hormones and comprising ACTH, alpha-MSH, beta-MSH and gamma-MSH, are best known mainly for their physiological effects, such as the control of skin pigmentation by alpha-MSH, and ACTH effects on pigmentation and steroidogenesis. Melanocortins are released in various sites in the central nervous system and in peripheral tissues, and participate in the regulation of multiple physiological functions. They are involved in grooming behavior, food intake and thermoregulation processes, and can also modulate the response of the immune system in inflammatory states. Research of the past decade provided evidence that melanocortins could elicit their diverse biological effects by binding to a distinct family of G protein-coupled receptors with seven transmembrane domains. To date, five melanocortin receptor genes have been cloned and characterized. Those receptors differ in their tissue distribution and in their ability to recognize various melanocortins. These advances have opened up new horizons for exploring the significance of melanocortins, their ligands and their receptors for a variety of important physiological functions. We reviewed the origin of MSH peptides, the function and distribution of melanocortin receptors and their endogenous and exogenous ligands and the role of melanocortins and their receptors in inflammatory processes, nerve regeneration and nociception. Moreover, we analyzed their interaction with opioid peptides and finally, we discussed the postulated role of the melanocortin system in pain transmission at the spinal cord level.
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- Katarzyna Starowicz
- International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology UNESCO/PAN, 4 Ks. Trojdena Street, 02-109 Warsaw, Poland
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Yasuda H, Terada M, Maeda K, Kogawa S, Sanada M, Haneda M, Kashiwagi A, Kikkawa R. Diabetic neuropathy and nerve regeneration. Prog Neurobiol 2003; 69:229-85. [PMID: 12757748 DOI: 10.1016/s0301-0082(03)00034-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 180] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Diabetic neuropathy is the most common peripheral neuropathy in western countries. Although every effort has been made to clarify the pathogenic mechanism of diabetic neuropathy, thereby devising its ideal therapeutic drugs, neither convinced hypotheses nor unequivocally effective drugs have been established. In view of the pathologic basis for the treatment of diabetic neuropathy, it is important to enhance nerve regeneration as well as prevent nerve degeneration. Nerve regeneration or sprouting in diabetes may occur not only in the nerve trunk but also in the dermis and around dorsal root ganglion neurons, thereby being implicated in the generation of pain sensation. Thus, inadequate nerve regeneration unequivocally contributes to the pathophysiologic mechanism of diabetic neuropathy. In this context, the research on nerve regeneration in diabetes should be more accelerated. Indeed, nerve regenerative capacity has been shown to be decreased in diabetic patients as well as in diabetic animals. Disturbed nerve regeneration in diabetes has been ascribed at least in part to all or some of decreased levels of neurotrophic factors, decreased expression of their receptors, altered cellular signal pathways and/or abnormal expression of cell adhesion molecules, although the mechanisms of their changes remain almost unclear. In addition to their steady-state changes in diabetes, nerve injury induces injury-specific changes in individual neurotrophic factors, their receptors and their intracellular signal pathways, which are closely linked with altered neuronal function, varying from neuronal survival and neurite extension/nerve regeneration to apoptosis. Although it is essential to clarify those changes for understanding the mechanism of disturbed nerve regeneration in diabetes, very few data are now available. Rationally accepted replacement therapy with neurotrophic factors has not provided any success in treating diabetic neuropathy. Aside from adverse effects of those factors, more rigorous consideration for their delivery system may be needed for any possible success. Although conventional therapeutic drugs like aldose reductase (AR) inhibitors and vasodilators have been shown to enhance nerve regeneration, their efficacy should be strictly evaluated with respect to nerve regenerative capacity. For this purpose, especially clinically, skin biopsy, by which cutaneous nerve pathology including nerve regeneration can be morphometrically evaluated, might be a safe and useful examination.
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- Hitoshi Yasuda
- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta, Otsu, Japan.
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Torreano PJ, Cohan CS. Calcium and voltage dependent inactivation of sodium and calcium currents limits calcium influx in Helisoma neurons. JOURNAL OF NEUROBIOLOGY 2003; 54:439-56. [PMID: 12532396 DOI: 10.1002/neu.10155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The control of free intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) is necessary for cell survival because of the ubiquitous and essential role this second messenger plays in regulating numerous intracellular processes. Calcium regulation in neurons is especially vigorous because of the large calcium influx that occurs through voltage-gated channels during membrane depolarization. In this study we examined changes in ionic currents that can limit calcium influx into neurons during electrical activity. We found that the [Ca2+]i in electrically stimulated Helisoma B4 neurons initially increased to a peak and then relaxed to lower concentrations in tandem with a decline in the action potential peak voltage. The decline in [Ca2+]i and the peak action potential voltage in this sodium and calcium driven neuron was found to be a dual manifestation of I(Na) and I(Ca) inactivation. I(Na) and I(Ca) both displayed voltage dependent inactivation. Additionally, I(Na) and I(Ca) progressively inactivated at [Ca2+]i above 200 nM, concentrations readily attained in electrically stimulated B4 neurons. Calcium and voltage dependent I(Na) and I(Ca) inactivation were found to reduce calcium influx during continuous electrical stimulation by decreasing both the magnitude of I(Ca) that could be activated and the percent of the available I(Ca) that would be activated due to the diminished peak action potential voltage. Calculations based on data herein suggest that the voltage and calcium dependent I(Na) and I(Ca) inactivation that occurs during continuous electrical stimulation dramatically reduces calcium influx in this sodium and calcium driven neuron and thus limits the increase in [Ca2+]i.
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- Paul J Torreano
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University at Buffalo School of Medicine, Buffalo, New York 14214, USA
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Ulfig N. The Functional Organization of the Developing Human Brain in Relation to Motor Deficits, Cognitive Impairment and Psychotic States. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2003. [DOI: 10.1159/000071024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Schwab Y, Mouton J, Chasserot-Golaz S, Marty I, Maulet Y, Jover E. Calcium-dependent translocation of synaptotagmin to the plasma membrane in the dendrites of developing neurones. BRAIN RESEARCH. MOLECULAR BRAIN RESEARCH 2001; 96:1-13. [PMID: 11731003 DOI: 10.1016/s0169-328x(01)00244-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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In neurones, the morphological complexity of the dendritic tree requires regulated growth and the appropriate targeting of membrane components. Accurate delivery of specific supplies depends on the translocation and fusion of transport vesicles. Vesicle SNAREs (soluble N-ethylmaleimide sensitive factor attachment protein receptors) and target membrane SNAREs play a central role in the correct execution of fusion events, and mediate interactions with molecules that endow the system with appropriate regulation. Synaptotagmins, a family of Ca(2+)-sensor proteins that includes neurone-specific members involved in regulating neurotransmitter exocytosis, are among the molecules that can tune the fusion mechanism. Using immunocytochemistry, confocal and electron microscopy, the localisation of synaptotagmin I in the dendrites of cultured rat hypothalamic neurones was demonstrated. Synaptotagmin labelling is concentrated at dendritic branch points, and in microprocesses. Following depolarisation, the N-terminal domain of synaptotagmin was detected at the extracellular surface of the dendritic plasma membrane. The insertion of synaptotagmin in the plasma membrane was elicited by L-type Ca(2+) channel activation and by mobilisation of the internal ryanodine-sensitive Ca(2+)stores. Furthermore, the localisation of L-type Ca(2+) channels and of ryanodine receptors, relative to the localisation of synaptotagmin in dendrites, suggests that both Ca(2+) entry and intracellular Ca(2+) stores may contribute to the fusion of dendritic transport vesicles with the membrane. Fusion is likely to involve SNAP-25 and syntaxin 1 as both proteins were also identified in dendrites. Taken together these results suggest a putative regulatory role of synaptotagmins in the membrane fusion events that contribute to shaping the dendritic tree during development.
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- Y Schwab
- UMR-CNRS 7519, Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie Cellulaire et Intégrée, Université Louis Pasteur, 21, rue René Descartes, F-67084, Cedex, Strasbourg, France
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Catsicas M, Allcorn S, Mobbs P. Early activation of Ca(2+)-permeable AMPA receptors reduces neurite outgrowth in embryonic chick retinal neurons. JOURNAL OF NEUROBIOLOGY 2001; 49:200-11. [PMID: 11745658 DOI: 10.1002/neu.1075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Calcium entry through Ca(2+)-permeable AMPA/kainate receptors may activate signaling cascades controlling neuronal development. Using the fluorescent Ca(2+)-indicator Calcium Green 1-AM we showed that the application of kainate or AMPA produced an increase of intracellular [Ca(2+)] in embryonic chick retina from day 6 (E6) onwards. This Ca(2+) increase is due to entry through AMPA-preferring receptors, because it was blocked by the AMPA receptor antagonist GYKI 52466 but not by the N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA) receptor antagonist AP5, the voltage-gated Ca(2+) channel blockers diltiazem or nifedipine, or by the substitution of Na+ for choline in the extracellular solution to prevent the depolarizing action of kainate and AMPA. In dissociated E8 retinal cultures, application of glutamate, kainate, or AMPA reduced the number of neurites arising from these cells. The effect of kainate was prevented by the AMPA/kainate receptor antagonist CNQX and by GYKI 52466 but not by AP5, indicating that the reduction in neurite outgrowth resulted from the activation of AMPA receptors. Blocking Ca(2+) influx through L-type voltage-gated Ca(2+) channels with diltiazem and nifedipine prevented the effect of 10-100 microM kainate but not that of 500 microM kainate. In addition, joro spider toxin-3, a blocker of Ca(2+)-conducting AMPA receptors, prevented the effect of all doses of kainate. Neither GABA, which is depolarizing at this age in the retina, nor the activation of metabotropic glutamate receptors with tACPD mimicked the effects of AMPA receptor activation. Calcium entry via AMPA receptor channels themselves may therefore be important in the regulation of neurite outgrowth in developing chick retinal cells.
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- M Catsicas
- Department of Physiology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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Ulfig N, Szabo A, Bohl J. Effect of fetal hydrocephalus on the distribution patterns of calcium-binding proteins in the human occipital cortex. Pediatr Neurosurg 2001; 34:20-32. [PMID: 11275783 DOI: 10.1159/000055988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Neuronal pathology in the cerebral cortex (CC) of fetal hydrocephalus brains is quite subtle when applying routine Nissl staining. This study is aimed at investigating alterations of interneurons which can be immunolabelled by antibodies against the calcium-binding proteins calretinin (CR), calbindin (CB) and parvalbumin (PV). The subplate (SP) subjacent to the cortex anlage is included as this transient zone plays a pivotal role in the establishment of cortical connections. Nine occipital lobes from cases of fetal hydrocephalus and 9 controls were categorized according to age: 21-25 weeks of gestation (group 1) and 32-36 weeks (group 2). No differences in the distribution, number and morphology of CR-immunoreactive (ir) neurons are seen when comparing hydrocephalic with control brains of group 1. In severely altered hydrocephalic brains of group 2, the distribution and number of CR-, PV- and CB-ir nerve cells are not altered; however, they appear shrunken and processes are less immunolabelled. In extremely altered tissue PV-, CB-ir neurons cannot be detected, whereas the number of CR-ir somata is not reduced. The data indicate that subpopulations of interneurons of the CC may be differentially damaged. The alterations observed in the SP may implicate a possible impairment of transient neuronal circuitries that are essential for the development of cortical connections. On the whole, these neuronal alterations may account for residual deficits observed after shunting.
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- N Ulfig
- Neuroembryonic Research Laboratory, Department of Anatomy, University of Rostock, Germany.
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Doherty P, Williams G, Williams EJ. CAMs and axonal growth: a critical evaluation of the role of calcium and the MAPK cascade. Mol Cell Neurosci 2000; 16:283-95. [PMID: 11085868 DOI: 10.1006/mcne.2000.0907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Calcium has long been recognized as a key player in the control of axonal growth and guidance. Recent studies lend support to this pivotal role by showing that local changes in calcium can directly induce the formation of filopodia in vivo and turn a growth cone in vitro. Under normal growth conditions, the L1 adhesion molecule has now been shown to induce local rather than global changes in calcium in growth cones, and this suggests that cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) use localized calcium transients to stimulate axonal growth and guidance. A number of recent reports have demonstrated that the neurite outgrowth response stimulated by L1 and other adhesion molecules (NCAM, N-cadherin, laminin) also depends in part upon the integrity of the MAPK cascade in cells. In this review we consider the recent data and suggest that calcium and the MAPK cascade might be required for very distinct growth cone functions. Finally, we will consider the contentious issue of how the above CAMs activate signaling cascades in growth cones and review the recently available data that support the hypothesis that at least one of these CAMs (N-cadherin) might promote growth cone motility by directly interacting with the FGFR in growth cones.
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- P Doherty
- Molecular Neurobiology Group, MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London, United Kingdom.
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Archer FR, Doherty P, Collins D, Bolsover SR. CAMs and FGF cause a local submembrane calcium signal promoting axon outgrowth without a rise in bulk calcium concentration. Eur J Neurosci 1999; 11:3565-73. [PMID: 10564364 DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00773.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Binding of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and cell adhesion molecules to the nerve cell membrane promotes axon outgrowth. This response can be blocked by antagonists of voltage-gated calcium channels, yet no change of cytosolic calcium concentration in the growth cone can be detected upon binding of the growth factor bFGF or the cell adhesion molecule L1. Using barium as a charge carrier, we show that bFGF and L1 open a calcium influx pathway in growth cones of rat sensory neurons without changing the membrane voltage. L1 does not activate influx in cells expressing a dominant negative mutant of the fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) tyrosine kinase. FGFR-activated influx is blocked by specific antagonists of L- and N-type voltage-gated calcium channels and by an inhibitor of diacylglycerol lipase. We propose that both L1 and bFGF act via the FGFR to generate polyunsaturated fatty acids which in turn cause calcium channels to flicker open and shut. Short-lived domains of raised calcium at the cytosolic mouth of open channels activate axon outgrowth without raising bulk cytosolic calcium concentration. In confirmation of this model, the rapidly-acting calcium buffer BAPTA is significantly more effective at blocking FGF-induced axon outgrowth when compared with the slower buffer EGTA. Generation of short-lived calcium domains may provide a crucial mechanism for axon guidance during development and for promoting regeneration of damaged axons.
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- F R Archer
- Department of Physiology, University College London, UK
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Effect of long-term depolarization on the morphological characteristics of rat pheochromocytoma cells. NEUROPHYSIOLOGY+ 1999. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02515050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Komuro H, Rakic P. Orchestration of neuronal migration by activity of ion channels, neurotransmitter receptors, and intracellular Ca2+ fluctuations. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1998. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4695(199810)37:1<110::aid-neu9>3.0.co;2-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 182] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Starikova AM, Chvanov MA, Pogorelaya NC, Kostyuk PG. Nifedipine-induced morphological differentiation of rat pheochromocytoma cells. Neuroscience 1998; 86:611-7. [PMID: 9881873 DOI: 10.1016/s0306-4522(98)00033-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Extension of neuronal processes is fundamental for the establishment of the intricate network of the nervous system. The rat PC12 pheochromocytoma cell line is a well-known model system for the study of neuronal differentiation. In the present study the effect of a high-voltage-activated calcium channel blocker, nifedipine, on the cell differentiation was investigated. In cells cultured in a modified medium containing nifedipine (at 2.5 microM or 5.0 microM) a decrease of mitotic activity took place on the third day of culturing. An increase of total length and number of processes occurred on the fifth day. A higher concentration of nifedipine (10.0 microM) considerably suppressed vital functions of the cells. Retraction of processes together with blocking of proliferation activity was observed. In parallel with these changes, a reduction of [Ca2+]i from 100 +/- 6 nM to 50 +/- 2 nM was detected on the second day of cultivation in 2.5 microM and 5.0 microM nifedipine containing medium. At 10.0 microM concentration of nifedipine in the medium a decrease in [Ca2+]i was observed on the first day only (to 76 +/- 8 nM); then the level of free calcium concentration rose dramatically. The data obtained allow us to suggest that the decrease of [Ca2+]i during first two days of PC12 cells culturing in a nifedipine-containing medium could be a factor which stimulated their morphological differentiation.
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- A M Starikova
- Department of General Physiology, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Kiev, Ukraine
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Tarasenko AN, Isaev DS, Eremin AV, Kostyuk PG. Developmental changes in the expression of low-voltage-activated Ca2+ channels in rat visual cortical neurones. J Physiol 1998; 509 ( Pt 2):385-94. [PMID: 9575288 PMCID: PMC2230963 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1998.385bn.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/1997] [Accepted: 02/11/1998] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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1. The functional properties of low-voltage-activated (LVA) Ca2+ channels were studied in pyramidal neurones from different rat visual cortical layers in order to investigate changes in their properties during early postnatal development. Ca2+ currents were recorded in brain slices using the whole-cell patch-clamp technique in rats from three age groups: 2, 3 and 12 days old (postnatal day (P) 2, P3 and P12). 2. It was demonstrated that LVA Ca2+ currents are present in neurones from superficial (I-II) and deep (V-VI) visual cortex layers of P2 and P3 rats. No LVA Ca2+ currents were observed in neurones from the middle (III-IV) layers of these rats. The LVA Ca2+ currents observed in P2 and P3 neurones from both superficial and deep layers could be completely blocked by nifedipine (100 microM) and were insensitive to Ni2+ (25 microM). 3. The density of LVA Ca2+ currents decreased rapidly during the early stages of postnatal development, while the density of high-voltage-activated (HVA) Ca2+ currents progressively increased up to the twelfth postnatal day. No LVA Ca2+ currents were found in P12 neurones from any of the layers. Only HVA Ca2+ currents with high sensitivity to F- applied through the patch pipette were observed. 4. The kinetics of LVA Ca2+ currents could be well approximated by the m2h Hodgkin-Huxley equation with an inactivation time constant of 24 +/- 6 ms. The steady-state inactivation curve fitted by a Boltzmann function had the following parameters: membrane potential at half-inactivation, -86.9 mV; steepness coefficient,3.4 mV. 5. It is concluded that, in visual cortical neurones, LVA Ca2+ channels are expressed only in the neurones of deep and superficial layers over a short period during the earliest postnatal stages. These channels are nifedipine sensitive and similar in functional properties to those in the laterodorsal (LD) thalamic nucleus. However, the cortical neurones do not express another ('slow') type of LVA Ca2+ channel, which is permanently present in LD thalamic neurones after the second postnatal week, indicating that the developmental time course of cortical and thalamic cells is different.
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- A N Tarasenko
- Department of General Physiology of the Nervous System, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, National Academy of Sciences, Bogomoletz Street 4, Kiev-24, 252024 Ukraine
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During development, growth cones navigate to their targets via numerous interactions with molecular guidance cues, yet the mechanisms of how growth cones translate guidance information into navigational decisions are poorly understood. We have examined the role of intracellular Ca2+ in laminin (LN)-mediated growth cone navigation in vitro, using chick dorsal root ganglion neurons. Subsequent to contacting LN-coated beads with filopodia, growth cones displayed a series of stereotypic changes in behavior, including turning toward LN-coated beads and a phase of increased rates of outgrowth after a pause at LN-coated beads. A pharmacological approach indicated that LN-mediated growth cone turning required an influx of extracellular Ca2+, likely in filopodia with LN contact, and activation of calmodulin (CaM). Surprisingly, fluorescent Ca2+ imaging revealed no LN-induced rise in intracellular Ca2+ in filopodia attached to their parent growth cone. However, isolation of filopodia by laser-assisted transection unmasked a rapid, LN-specific rise in intracellular Ca2+ (+73 +/- 11 nM). Additionally, a second, sustained rise in intracellular Ca2+ (+62 +/- 8 nM) occurred in growth cones, with a distinct delay 28 +/- 3 min after growth cone filopodia contacted LN-coated beads. This delayed, sustained Ca2+ signal paralleled the phase of increased rates of outgrowth, and both events were sensitive to the inhibition of Ca2+/CaM-dependent protein kinase II (CaM-kinase II) with 2 microM KN-62. We propose that LN-mediated growth cone guidance can be attributed, in part, to two temporally and functionally distinct Ca2+ signals linked by a signaling cascade composed of CaM and CaM-kinase II.
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Jiang M, Swann JW. Expression of calretinin in diverse neuronal populations during development of rat hippocampus. Neuroscience 1997; 81:1137-54. [PMID: 9330374 DOI: 10.1016/s0306-4522(97)00231-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The prenatal and postnatal expression of calretinin was studied in hippocampus of the rat using immunohistochemical procedures. Calretinin was detected as early as embryonic day 15 in the primordial hippocampus where calretinin-containing neurons and fibres were localized to the primitive plexiform layer. Upon emergence of the hippocampal plate (the prospective stratum pyramidale), large numbers of immunopositive multipolar cells were observed in the marginal zone. Fewer cells with fusiform cell bodies were observed bordering the hippocampal plate and subplate. During the perinatal period (embryonic day 20 to postnatal day 0), large numbers of immunoreactive pyramidal-like neurons were observed at the margin of the hippocampal plate with the subplate. At this same time, many calretinin-containing neurons with irregularly shaped dendrites were observed in stratum radiatum. Soon after birth (postnatal day 3), the calretinin immunoreactivity of both these later cell types rapidly declined and a new population of calretinin-immunopositive cells emerged, the Cajal-Retzius cells of stratum lacunosum-moleculare and the dentate gyrus. The Cajal-Retzius cells rapidly matured but disappeared by the second postnatal week. During the second postnatal week, calretinin interneurons of the adult hippocampal formation began to appear. Their immunoreactivity increased by postnatal day 15, when the number of calretinin-immunopositive interneurons in area CA1 and stratum radiatum of CA3 exceeded that of the adult. At this time, the soma and proximal dendrites of many calretinin interneurons were found to contact each other. The frequency of such cellular appositions decreased in adulthood. The results presented here show that calretinin immunohistochemistry can be very useful in recording the development of subpopulations of hippocampal neurons that are present during distinct embryonic and postnatal periods. Although some neuronal types may exist only briefly during hippocampal development, others appear to express calretinin transiently during restricted phases of neuronal differentiation. Surprisingly, this includes some hippocampal pyramidal cells. However, even as the adult pattern of immunostaining emerges in week 2, morphological refinement of interneurons continues to take place, which eventually leads to the population of calretinin-containing interneurons of the mature hippocampus.
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- M Jiang
- Cain Foundation Laboratories, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Torreano PJ, Cohan CS. Electrically induced changes in Ca2+ inHelisoma neurons: Regional and neuron-specific differences and implications for neurite outgrowth. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1997. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4695(199702)32:2<150::aid-neu2>3.0.co;2-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Amato A, Al-Mohanna FA, Bolsover S. Spatial organization of calcium dynamics in growth cones of sensory neurones. BRAIN RESEARCH. DEVELOPMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH 1996; 92:101-10. [PMID: 8861728 DOI: 10.1016/0165-3806(95)00211-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The concentration of calcium ions in the cytosol ([Ca2+]i) has a dominant influence on neuronal development. A [Ca2+]i rise can, depending on the amplitude and location, promote outgrowth or dramatically inhibit it. We have used the fluorescent calcium indicators Fura-2 and Fura-2 dextran to measure [Ca2+]i dynamics in sensory neurones from the adult rat. [Ca2+]i was low and uniform in advancing growth cones, even during specific behaviours such as protrusion, filling and consolidation. A brief train of action potentials caused [Ca2+]i to rise at the extreme leading edge of the growth cone. [Ca2+]i changes in more proximal regions of the growth cone were much smaller. This spatially organized [Ca2+]i change, which may result from a concentration of calcium channels at the growth cone leading edge, is likely to function in spontaneously active regenerating axons in vivo to specifically activate calcium-dependent processes at the growth cone tip.
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- A Amato
- Department of Physiology, University College London, London, UK
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Vyatchenko-Karpinskii SV, Pogorelaya NK, Tokhtuev AE, Sedova MB. Effect of verapamil on morphological differentiation and low-threshold calcium current of murine neuroblastoma cells. NEUROPHYSIOLOGY+ 1996. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01053335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Williams EJ, Mittal B, Walsh FS, Doherty P. FGF inhibits neurite outgrowth over monolayers of astrocytes and fibroblasts expressing transfected cell adhesion molecules. J Cell Sci 1995; 108 ( Pt 11):3523-30. [PMID: 8586663 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.108.11.3523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We have cultured cerebellar neurons on monolayers of cortical astrocytes in control medium or medium containing recombinant basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF). FGF was found to inhibit neurite outgrowth, with a significant effect seen at 0.5 ng/ml and a maximal effect at 10 ng/ml. FGF increased the production of arachidonic acid (AA) in cerebellar neurons, and when added directly to cultures or generated endogenously via activation of phospholipase A2 using melittin, this second messenger could mimic the inhibitory effect of FGF. FGF and AA could also specifically inhibit neurite outgrowth stimulated by three cell adhesion molecules (NCAM, N-cadherin and L1) expressed in transfected fibroblasts, or in the case of L1 bound to a tissue culture substratum. These data demonstrate that, in certain cellular contexts, FGF can act as an inhibitory cue for axonal growth and that arachidonic acid is the second messenger responsible for this activity. We discuss the possibility that arachidonic acid inhibits neurite outgrowth by desensitising the second messenger pathway underlying neuronal responsiveness to cell adhesion molecules.
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- E J Williams
- Department of Experimental Pathology, UMDS, Guy's Hospital, London, UK
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Zimprich F, Torok K, Bolsover SR. Nuclear calmodulin responds rapidly to calcium influx at the plasmalemma. Cell Calcium 1995; 17:233-8. [PMID: 7621535 DOI: 10.1016/0143-4160(95)90038-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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We have studied the rate and extent of calcium binding to calmodulin in neuronal cytosol and nucleus during brief calcium influx across the plasmalemma. Rat sensory neurones were whole-cell patch clamped using a pipette containing a fluorescent analogue of calmodulin that reports when it has bound calcium. Cytosolic and nuclear signals were separated using a confocal microscope. Plasmalemmal calcium influx during a one second depolarization that activated L type calcium channels caused large fractions of calmodulin in both the cytosol and nucleus to bind calcium. Thus, contrary to previous predictions, nuclear processes that require the calcium:calmodulin complex will be activated readily by even brief cell stimulation.
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- F Zimprich
- Department of Physiology, University College London, UK
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Hol EM, Gispen WH, Bär PR. ACTH-related peptides: receptors and signal transduction systems involved in their neurotrophic and neuroprotective actions. Peptides 1995; 16:979-93. [PMID: 7479345 DOI: 10.1016/0196-9781(95)00017-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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ACTH-related peptides are promising neurotrophic and neuroprotective agents, as demonstrated in many in vivo and in vitro studies. They accelerate nerve repair after injury, improving both sensor and motor function. Furthermore, ACTH-related peptides have neuroprotective properties against cisplatin- and taxol-induced neurotoxicity, they improve neuronal function in animals with neuropathy due to experimental diabetes, and they prevent degeneration of myelinated axons in rats suffering from experimental allergic neuritis, a model of peripheral demyelinating neuropathy. Studies in neuronal cultures have corroborated these clinical observations and serve to investigate the mechanism of action of the ACTH-related peptide effects. This paper reviews both in vitro and in vivo effects and emphasizes the mechanism of action. Recent data on melanotrophic receptors and signal transduction systems will be discussed in this context.
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- E M Hol
- Department of Neurology, Rudolf Magnus Institute for Neurosciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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Graf RA, Cooke IM. Outgrowth morphology and intracellular calcium of crustacean neurons displaying distinct morphologies in primary culture. JOURNAL OF NEUROBIOLOGY 1994; 25:1558-69. [PMID: 7861119 DOI: 10.1002/neu.480251208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Peptide-secreting neurons from crustacean X-organ regenerating in defined culture possess different ionic current profiles correlated with two distinct morphological types, veiling and branching; voltage-dependent Ca2+ current is prominent in neurons consistently extending large veils, but is small in neurons that repetitively branch. Intracellular free calcium levels ([Ca2+]i) have been implicated in the regulation of neurite outgrowth underlying the establishment of distinct morphologies. Here, basal [Ca2+]i was measured by fura-2 fluorescence ratio imaging from these morphologically distinct neurons and compared. Both morphological types can extend out processes over a [Ca2+]i range (approximately 50 to 300 nM) that is much greater than that reported for neurons of other phyla. Application of high K+ saline led to increases in [Ca2+]i in soma, neurite, and lamellipodium of veiling neurons. Increases were greater for veiling than branching neurons. These observations were consistent with the previous voltage clamp data for calcium currents. Media altered to perturb [Ca2+]i were used to assess the role of [Ca2+]i in veiling or branching outgrowth programs. Outgrowth of veiling cells was arrested by addition of 100 microM Cd2+, a calcium channel blocker. Outgrowth resumed following brief exposures to Cd2+. Branching neurons were unaffected by Cd2+. Cd2+ at lower levels (10 microM) had no effect on outgrowth of either neuronal type, whereas at higher levels (1 mM), outgrowth of both types was arrested. Reduction of extracellular sodium to 0.001 of normal concentration stopped veiling outgrowth, but branching outgrowth continued, although it was less robust. Addition of tetrodotoxin (1 microM) did not alter outgrowth of either neuronal type relative to controls. Thus, peptidergic neurons of differing intrinsic morphologies maintain similar basal [Ca2+]i levels under identical culture conditions, yet show differing sensitivities to manipulations influencing [Ca2+]i with respect to regenerative outgrowth, but not its form.
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- R A Graf
- Békésy Laboratory of Neurobiology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu 96822
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Hol EM, Verhage M, Gispen WH, Bär PR. The role of calcium and cAMP in the mechanism of action of two melanocortins: alpha MSH and the ACTH4-9 analogue Org 2766. Brain Res 1994; 662:109-16. [PMID: 7859062 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(94)90802-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Melanocortins accelerate functional recovery after nerve crush and enhance neurite outgrowth in vitro. To get more insight in the mechanism of action of melanocortins, we studied the effects of two neurotrophic peptides: alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha MSH) and an adrenocorticotropin4-9 analogue Org 2766 on second messengers in cultures of spinal cord (SC), dorsal root ganglion (DRG) and Schwann cells. alpha MSH (10 microM) enhanced the forskolin-induced cAMP production in SC- (45%) and in DRG-cells (35%). Org 2766 (1 microM) induced an increase in cAMP only in SC-cells (39%). The peptides did not affect the cAMP levels in Schwann cells. Neither peptide evoked significant changes in the intracellular free calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) in batch-measurements of all cell types, however, Ca(2+)-imaging revealed an infrequent occurrence of large [Ca2+]i-elevations in individual SC-neurons. The results indicate that SC- and DRG-cells are targets for both peptides, while Schwann cells are not or exploit different pathways. We observed for alpha MSH that cAMP production always coincides with outgrowth stimulation, whereas for Org 2766 cAMP production and outgrowth stimulation appear not causally related. These differences in second messenger stimulation could be explained by receptor heterogeneity. We suggest that alpha MSH and Org 2766 act through different receptors, each with its own signalling pathways.
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- E M Hol
- Department of Neurology, Rudolf Magnus Institute for Neurosciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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Jian X, Hidaka H, Schmidt JT. Kinase requirement for retinal growth cone motility. JOURNAL OF NEUROBIOLOGY 1994; 25:1310-28. [PMID: 7815061 DOI: 10.1002/neu.480251011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Since cytoplasmic Ca2+ levels are reported to regulate neurite elongation, we tested whether calcium-activated kinases might be necessary for growth cone motility and neurite elongation in explant cultures of goldfish retina. Kinase inhibitors and activators were locally applied by micropipette to retinal growth cones and the responses were observed via phase-contrast videomicroscopy. In some cases, growth rates were also quantified over several hours after general application in the medium. The selective inhibitors of protein kinase C, calphostin C (0.1-1 microM) and chelerythrin (up to 50 microM), caused no obvious changes in growth cones or neurite elongation, and activators of PKC (phorbols, arachidonic acid, and diacylglycerol) also were generally without effects, although phorbols slowed the growth rate. Inhibitors of protein kinase A and tyrosine kinases also produced no obvious effects. The calmodulin antagonists, calmidazolium (0.1 microM), trifluoperazine (100 microM), and CGS9343B (50 microM), however, caused a reversible growth cone arrest with loss of filopodia and lamellipodia. The growth cone became a club-shaped swelling which sometimes moved a short distance back the shaft, leaving evacuated filaments at points of strong filopodial attachments. A similar reversible growth cone arrest occurred with the general kinase inhibitors: H7 at 200 but not at 100 microM, and staurosporine at 100 but not 10 nM, suggesting possible involvement of a calmodulin-dependent kinase (camK) rather than PKC. The selective inhibitor of camKII, KN-62 (tested up to 50 microM), produced no effects, but the specific myosin light-chain kinase (MLCK) inhibitors ML-7 (3-5 microM) and ML-9 (5-10 microM) reversibly reproduced the effect, suggesting that MLCK rather than camKII is necessary for growth cone motility. The MLCK inhibitors' effects both on growth cone morphology and on F-actin filaments (rhodamine-phalloidin staining) were similar to those caused by cytochalasin D (5 microM), and are discussed in light of findings that inhibiting MLCK disrupts actin filaments in astrocytes and fibroblasts.
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- X Jian
- Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York at Albany 12222
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Harper SJ, Bolsover SR, Walsh FS, Doherty P. Neurite outgrowth stimulated by L1 requires calcium influx into neurons but is not associated with changes in steady state levels of calcium in growth cones. CELL ADHESION AND COMMUNICATION 1994; 2:441-53. [PMID: 7842257 DOI: 10.3109/15419069409004454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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L1, NCAM and N-cadherin are cell adhesion molecules (CAMs), present on neuronal growth cones, which promote cell-contact dependent axonal growth by activating a second messenger pathway in neurons that requires calcium influx through L- and N-type calcium channels. In the present study we show that two of these CAMs, (L1 and N-cadherin) can stimulate neurite regeneration from axotomised adult dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons cultured in vitro and that this response can be fully inhibited by agents that block or negate the effect of calcium influx into the neurons. However although the response required calcium influx into neurons, it was not associated with an increase in the steady state levels of calcium in neuronal growth cones. These results suggest that small localised changes, or increases in the rate of calcium cycling, in growth cones and/or filopodia, are more important for regulating axonal growth than changes in the steady-state level of calcium.
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- S J Harper
- Dept. Experimental Pathology, UMDS, Guys Hospital, London
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Zimprich F, Gailey M, Bolsover SR. Biphasic effect of calcium on neurite outgrowth in neuroblastoma and cerebellar granule cells. BRAIN RESEARCH. DEVELOPMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH 1994; 80:7-12. [PMID: 7955362 DOI: 10.1016/0165-3806(94)90083-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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We have examined the effect of cytosolic calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) on neurite outgrowth in two neuronal cells, cerebellar granule cells and N1E-115 neuroblastoma cells. The set point [Ca2+]i in unstimulated cells bathed in normal extracellular medium was 37 nM and 108 nM, respectively. When we altered extracellular calcium concentration to cause small excursions of [Ca2+]i either above or below the set point, neurite outgrowth from granule cells declined. Thus granule cells show the bell-shaped dependence of neurite outgrowth on [Ca2+]i characteristic of sensory and other neurones [Dev. Brain Res., 70 (1992) 287-290; The Axon, Oxford University Press, New York, 1994]. In contrast, neurite outgrowth from N1E-115 cells increased monotonically as [Ca2+]i was reduced. This result, which is consistent with results obtained by studying individual growth cones [J. Neurosci., 9 (1989) 4007-4020], implies that these transformed cells are aberrant in having no bell-shaped dependence of neurite outgrowth on [Ca2+]i. In both cell types an increase of [Ca2+]i above the set point reduced neurite outgrowth. However, this decline did not persist as [Ca2+]i was set to increasingly high levels by increasing extracellular calcium. Rather, in both cell types, an increase of extracellular calcium above 6.9 mM produced a second, increasing phase of neurite outgrowth.
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- F Zimprich
- Department of Physiology, University College London, UK
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Paschen W, Dux E, Djuricic B. Developmental changes in the extent of RNA editing of glutamate receptor subunit GluR5 in rat brain. Neurosci Lett 1994; 174:109-12. [PMID: 7970143 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(94)90131-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The extent of RNA editing of the glutamate receptor subunit GluR5 mRNA was evaluated in the cortex, hippocampus and cerebellum of embryonic rat brains, aged 19 days, and adult brains, aged 2-3 months. RNA was isolated and transcribed into cDNA, which was used as template for amplifying a PCR product across the edited region of the GluR5 subunit. Quantification of editing was performed by restriction digest of PCR products with BbvI and image analysis of bands obtained after electrophoresis. The extent of editing was significantly lower in the embryonic state as compared to the adult state. These differences were most pronounced in the cerebellum where the extent of editing amounted to 27 +/- 8% and 78 +/- 2% in the embryonic and adult state, respectively (P < 0.001). Since expression of GluR5 is relatively high in brain areas of neuronal differentiation and synapse formation it is concluded that un-edited GluR5 may play a role in the development of the nervous system.
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- W Paschen
- Max-Planck-Institute for Neurological Research, Department of Experimental Neurology, Köln, FRG
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Fields RD, Nelson PG. Resonant activation of calcium signal transduction in neurons. JOURNAL OF NEUROBIOLOGY 1994; 25:281-93. [PMID: 8195791 DOI: 10.1002/neu.480250308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The relevant parameters of calcium fluxes mediating activation of immediate-early genes and the collapse of growth cones in mouse DRG neurons in response to action potentials delivered in different temporal patterns were measured in a multicompartment cell culture preparation using digital fluorescence videomicroscopy. Growth cone collapse was produced by trains of action potentials causing a large rise in [Ca2+]i, but after chronic exposure to patterned stimulation growth cones regenerated and became insensitive to the stimulus-induced increase in [Ca2+]i. Calcium reached similar peak concentrations, but the [Ca2+]i increased more slowly than in naive growth cones (time constant of 6.0 s versus 1.4 s in naive growth cones). Semiquantitative PCR measurements of gene expression showed that pulsed stimulation delivered at 1-min intervals for 30 min induced expression of c-fos, but the same total number of action potentials delivered at 2-min intervals failed to induce c-fos expression, even though this stimulus induces a larger peak [Ca2+]i than the effective stimulus pattern. The experiments suggest that the kinetics of calcium fluxes produced by different patterns of stimulation, and changes in the kinetics of calcium flux in neurons under different states of activation, are critical in determining the effects of action potentials on growth cone motility or expression of IE genes during development of neuronal circuits. We propose that differences in kinetics of individual reactions in the stimulus-response pathway may lead to resonance of activation in the neuron, such that certain processes will be selectively activated by particular temporal patterns of stimulation.
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- R D Fields
- Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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al-Mohanna FA, Caddy KW, Bolsover SR. The nucleus is insulated from large cytosolic calcium ion changes. Nature 1994; 367:745-50. [PMID: 7993399 DOI: 10.1038/367745a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 216] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Extracellular events regulate functions in the cell nucleus by means of calcium ions acting through effector enzymes. Recently, the traditional view of the nuclear pore as freely permeable to small ions has been questioned as a result of reports that nuclear calcium can be regulated independently of cytosolic calcium. We have used confocal microscopy of fluorescent Ca2+ indicators to investigate the Ca2+ dynamics between cytosol and nucleus in neurons. We find that a previously reported amplification of Ca2+ changes in the nucleus is a measurement artefact. Small changes of cytosolic Ca2+ cause equally rapid changes in nuclear Ca2+, consistent with the free diffusion of Ca2+ through nuclear pores. In contrast, large cytosolic Ca2+ increases (above 300 nM) are attenuated in the nucleus. Our results show the nuclear envelope shapes but does not block the passage of Ca2+ signals from cytosol to nucleus.
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Berger B, Alvarez C. Neurochemical development of the hippocampal region in the fetal rhesus monkey. II. Immunocytochemistry of peptides, calcium-binding proteins, DARPP-32, and monoamine innervation in the entorhinal cortex by the end of gestation. Hippocampus 1994; 4:85-114. [PMID: 7914799 DOI: 10.1002/hipo.450040111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Material for the study came from one 126 day-old rhesus monkey fetus and two 3 day-old neonates. The immunocytochemical detection of somatostatin, neurotensin (NT), parvalbumin, calbindin D-28K, DARPP-32 as well as tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), dopamine-beta-hydroxylase and serotonin (5-HT), was carried out on serial cryostat sections of the entorhinal cortex. The authors reported in a previous paper the precocious differentiation of the entorhinal cortex in rhesus monkey fetuses and featured the conspicuous expression of calbindin D-28K, somatostatin, neurotensin, and the monoaminergic innervation during the first half of gestation. The present study shows distinct temporal profiles of neurochemical development during the second half of gestation: the dense neuropeptidergic innervation remained a constant feature; the three aminergic systems gradually increased in density; parvalbumin, unlike calbindin D-28K, was primarily expressed during the last quarter of gestation. Three other prominent features of the last quarter of gestation are illustrated: the refinement of the modular neurochemical organization of the lamina principalis externa, the delayed chemoanatomical development of the rhinal sulcus area, and the establishment of a distinct rostrocaudal pattern of neurochemical distribution. In correspondence with the cluster-like organization of the lamina principalis externa, the authors observed in the olfactory, rostral, and intermediate fields of the neonate monkey entorhinal cortex, a particular subset of pyramidal-shaped neurons: located in layer III, they were characterized by fasciculated apical dendrites ascending between the cellular islands of the discontinuous layer II and the coexpression of calbindin D-28K and DARPP-32. Besides, most of the other chemical systems displayed a distinct, area-specific, patchy distribution, except for the homogeneously distributed noradrenergic innervation. In the olfactory and rostral fields, TH positive dopaminergic fibers accumulated on the neuronal islands of layers II-III, and parvalbumin labeled fibers on those of layer III, whereas patches of 5-HT and NT-like reactive terminals were segregated between the cellular islands, overlapping the DARPP-32/calbindin D-28 K labeled dendritic bundles. At the opposite, in the intermediate field, 5-HT positive terminals overlapped the cellular islands of layer II and thin fascicles of dopaminergic fibers ran in the inter island spaces. The somatostatin-LIR innervation was apparently too dense to reveal a patchy distribution that existed at earlier developmental stages. In the caudal field, the patchy pattern was replaced by a predominant bilaminar type of distribution of NT, 5-HT, and TH-like positive afferents.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- B Berger
- INSERM U106, Hôpital Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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Kater SB, Shibata A. The unique and shared properties of neuronal growth cones that enable navigation and specific pathfinding. JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY, PARIS 1994; 88:155-63. [PMID: 7833858 DOI: 10.1016/0928-4257(94)90001-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The neuronal growth cone has as one of its primary functions the role of guiding the elongating neurite to its appropriate target. The events during pathfinding require that the neuronal growth cone responds to particular molecules in the environment by making appropriate changes in the behavior of the growth cone. This paper discusses the role of intracellular calcium as a signalling system mediating these responses. The specific roles of the growth cone filopodia in acting as antennae in advance of the motile growth cone are discussed in the context of calcium mediated pathfinding events.
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- S B Kater
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Colorado State University, Ft Collins 80523
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van Veen MP, van Pelt J. Dynamic mechanisms of neuronal outgrowth. PROGRESS IN BRAIN RESEARCH 1994; 102:95-108. [PMID: 7800835 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6123(08)60534-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- M P van Veen
- Graduate School of Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Kater SB, Davenport RW, Guthrie PB. Filopodia as detectors of environmental cues: signal integration through changes in growth cone calcium levels. PROGRESS IN BRAIN RESEARCH 1994; 102:49-60. [PMID: 7800832 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6123(08)60531-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- S B Kater
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins 80523
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Smith RA, Jiang ZG. Neuronal modulation and plasticity in vitro. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 1994; 153:233-96. [PMID: 8045703 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(08)62192-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- R A Smith
- Department of Anatomy, University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Fields RD, Guthrie PB, Russell JT, Kater SB, Malhotra BS, Nelson PG. Accommodation of mouse DRG growth cones to electrically induced collapse: kinetic analysis of calcium transients and set-point theory. JOURNAL OF NEUROBIOLOGY 1993; 24:1080-98. [PMID: 8409969 DOI: 10.1002/neu.480240807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Electrical stimulation causes growth cones of mouse dorsal root ganglion neurons to collapse. During chronic stimulation, however, growth cones resume motility. In addition, these growth cones are now resistant to the collapsing effects of subsequent stimulation, a process we term accommodation. We compared the kinetics of electrically induced Ca2+ transients in naive and accommodated growth cones in order to determine whether the accommodation process results from a change in the Ca2+ transient, or a change in the Ca2+ sensitivity of the growth cones. Three kinetics were determined: (1) the initial increase to peak Ca2+ levels produced by 10 Hz stimulation; (2) recovery from peak Ca2+ levels during stimulus trains lasting 15 min; and (3) clearing of Ca2+ from growth cones after terminating the stimulus. These kinetics were analyzed using single exponential fits to changes in fura-2 fluorescence ratios. The electrically evoked increase in Ca2+ was significantly slower in accommodated growth cones (tau = 6.0 s) compared to naive growth cones (tau = 1.4 s). Despite the slower increase of [Ca2+]i in accommodated growth cones, peak [Ca2+]i was similar to that reached in naive growth cones, and the steady-state Ca2+ level was significantly elevated after chronic stimulation. Thus, accommodated growth cones maintained outgrowth at [Ca2+]i that caused collapse initially. Time course experiments show that accommodation is a slow process (t 1/2 = about 3 h). Accommodation did not induce measurable changes in the rates of Ca2+ homeostasis during or after stimulus trains. The kinetics of Ca2+ recovery during (tau = 90 s) and after 15 min of stimulation (tau = 8.5 s) was not significantly different in accommodated versus naive growth cones. Rates of 45Ca2+ efflux were also similar in both types of growth cones. These results suggest two regulatory processes contributing to growth cone motility during chronic stimulation: (1) recovery of [Ca2+]i to levels permissive to neurite outgrowth, and (2) an increase in the range of optimal [Ca2+]i for growth cone motility. These adaptive responses of mammalian growth cones to chronic stimulation could be involved in the modulation of CNS development by electrical activity of neurons.
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- R D Fields
- Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, National Institute of Health, NICHD, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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