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Burman RJ, Diviney T, Călin A, Gothard G, Jouhanneau JSM, Poulet JFA, Sen A, Akerman CJ. Optogenetic Determination of Dynamic and Cell-Type-Specific Inhibitory Reversal Potentials. J Neurosci 2024; 44:e1392232024. [PMID: 38604778 PMCID: PMC11097265 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1392-23.2024] [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: 07/24/2023] [Revised: 03/31/2024] [Accepted: 04/03/2024] [Indexed: 04/13/2024] Open
Abstract
The reversal potential refers to the membrane potential at which the net current flow through a channel reverses direction. The reversal potential is determined by transmembrane ion gradients and, in turn, determines how the channel's activity will affect the membrane potential. Traditional investigation into the reversal potential of inhibitory ligand-gated ion channels (EInh) has relied upon the activation of endogenous receptors, such as the GABA-A receptor (GABAAR). There are, however, challenges associated with activating endogenous receptors, including agonist delivery, isolating channel responses, and the effects of receptor saturation and desensitization. Here, we demonstrate the utility of using a light-gated anion channel, stGtACR2, to probe EInh in the rodent brain. Using mice of both sexes, we demonstrate that the properties of this optically activated channel make it a suitable proxy for studying GABAAR receptor-mediated inhibition. We validate this agonist-independent optogenetic strategy in vitro and in vivo and further show how it can accurately capture differences in EInh dynamics following manipulations of endogenous ion fluxes. This allows us to explore distinct resting EInh differences across genetically defined neuronal subpopulations. Using this approach to challenge ion homeostasis mechanisms in neurons, we uncover cell-specific EInh dynamics that are supported by the differential expression of endogenous ion handling mechanisms. Our findings therefore establish an effective optical strategy for revealing novel aspects of inhibitory reversal potentials and thereby expand the repertoire of optogenetics.
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- Richard J Burman
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QT, United Kingdom
- Oxford Epilepsy Research Group, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QT, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QT, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QT, United Kingdom
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- Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin 13125, Germany
- Neuroscience Research Center, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin 10117, Germany
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- Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin 13125, Germany
- Neuroscience Research Center, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin 10117, Germany
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- Oxford Epilepsy Research Group, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QT, United Kingdom
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Liou JY, Smith EH, Bateman LM, Bruce SL, McKhann GM, Goodman RR, Emerson RG, Schevon CA, Abbott LF. A model for focal seizure onset, propagation, evolution, and progression. eLife 2020; 9:50927. [PMID: 32202494 PMCID: PMC7089769 DOI: 10.7554/elife.50927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2019] [Accepted: 03/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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We developed a neural network model that can account for major elements common to human focal seizures. These include the tonic-clonic transition, slow advance of clinical semiology and corresponding seizure territory expansion, widespread EEG synchronization, and slowing of the ictal rhythm as the seizure approaches termination. These were reproduced by incorporating usage-dependent exhaustion of inhibition in an adaptive neural network that receives global feedback inhibition in addition to local recurrent projections. Our model proposes mechanisms that may underline common EEG seizure onset patterns and status epilepticus, and postulates a role for synaptic plasticity in the emergence of epileptic foci. Complex patterns of seizure activity and bi-stable seizure end-points arise when stochastic noise is included. With the rapid advancement of clinical and experimental tools, we believe that this model can provide a roadmap and potentially an in silico testbed for future explorations of seizure mechanisms and clinical therapies.
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- Jyun-You Liou
- Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, United States.,Department of Anesthesiology, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, United States.,Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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- Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, United States
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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- Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, United States.,Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, United States
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Juknevičienė M, Balnytė I, Valančiūtė A, Lesauskaitė V, Stanevičiūtė J, Curkūnavičiūtė R, Stakišaitis D. Valproic Acid Inhibits NA-K-2CL Cotransporter RNA Expression in Male But Not in Female Rat Thymocytes. Dose Response 2019; 17:1559325819852444. [PMID: 31210756 PMCID: PMC6545653 DOI: 10.1177/1559325819852444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2019] [Revised: 04/12/2019] [Accepted: 04/23/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Objective The NKCC1 is a recognized tumorigenesis marker as it is important for tumor cell proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis, and tumor progression. The study aim was to investigate the effect of sodium valproate (VPA) on thymus NKCC1 RNA expression. Material and Methods Wistar rats, age 4 to 5 weeks, were investigated in the control and VPA-treated male and female gonad-intact and castrated groups. The treatment duration with VPA 300 mg/kg/d was 4 weeks. Rat thymus was weighted; its lobe was taken for the expression of NKCC1 RNA determined by the real-time polymerase chain reaction method. Results The RNA expression of the Slc12a2 gene was found to be significantly higher in the gonad-intact male control compared with the gonad-intact female control (P = .04). There was a gender-related VPA treatment effect on NKCC1 RNA expression in thymus: The Slc12a2 gene RNA expression level was found to be decreased in VPA-treated gonad-intact males (P = .015), and no significant VPA effects were found in the castrated males and in the gonad-intact and castrated females compared with the respective controls (P > .05). Conclusions The study showed a gender-related difference in the NKCC1 RNA expression in rat thymus. The VPA decreases the NKCC1 expression in the thymus only in gonad-intact male rats. The NKCC1 RNA expression downregulation by VPA could be important for further VPA pharmacological studies in oncology.
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- Milda Juknevičienė
- Department of Histology and Embryology, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Department of Histology and Embryology, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Department of Histology and Embryology, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Institute of Cardiology of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Department of Histology and Embryology, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Department of Histology and Embryology, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Department of Histology and Embryology, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania.,Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, National Cancer Institute, Vilnius, Lithuania
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Menzikov S. Biochemical properties of the sensitivity to GABA Aergic ligands, Cl -/HCO 3--ATPase isolated from fish (Cyprinus carpio) olfactory mucosa and brain. FISH PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY 2018; 44:583-597. [PMID: 29218440 DOI: 10.1007/s10695-017-0455-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2017] [Accepted: 11/30/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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This paper presents a comparative study of the roles of Cl- and HCO3- in the functioning of the GABAAR-associated Cl-/HCO3--ATPase of the plasma membranes of the olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) and mature brain neurons (MBNs) of fish. The ATPase activity of OSNs and its dephosphorylation were increased twofold by Cl-(15-30 mmol l-1), whereas the enzyme from MBNs was not significantly affected by Cl-. By contrast, HCO3-(15-30 mmol l-1) significantly activated the MBN enzyme and its dephosphorylation, but had no effect on the OSN ATPase. The maximum ATPase activity and protein dephosphorylation was observed in the presence of both Cl-(15 mmol l-1)/HCO3-(27 mmol l-1) and these activities were inhibited in the presence of picrotoxin (100 μmol l-1), bumetanide (150 μmol l-1), and DIDS (1000 μmol l-1). SDS-PAGE revealed that ATPases purified from the neuronal membrane have a subunit with molecular mass of ~ 56 kDa that binds [3H]muscimol and [3H]flunitrazepam. Direct phosphorylation of the enzymes in the presence of ATP-γ-32P and Mg2+, as well as Cl-/HCO3- sensitive dephosphorylation, is also associated with this 56 kDa peptide. Both preparations also showed one subunit with molecular mass 56 kDa that was immunoreactive with GABAAR β3 subunit. The use of a fluorescent dye for Cl- demonstrated that HCO3-(27 mmol l-1) causes a twofold increase in Cl- influx into proteoliposomes containing reconstituted ATPases from MBNs, but HCO3- had no effect on the reconstituted enzyme from OSNs. These data are the first to demonstrate a differential effect of Cl- and HCO3- in the regulation of the Cl-/HCO3--ATPases functioning in neurons with different specializations.
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- Sergey Menzikov
- Department Russian Academy of Science, Institute of General Pathology and Pathophysiology, 8, Baltiyskaya st., Moscow, Russia, 125315.
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Computational model of interictal discharges triggered by interneurons. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0185752. [PMID: 28977038 PMCID: PMC5627938 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2017] [Accepted: 09/19/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Interictal discharges (IIDs) are abnormal waveforms registered in the periods before or between seizures. IIDs that are initiated by GABAergic interneurons have not been mathematically modeled yet. In the present study, a mathematical model that describes the mechanisms of these discharges is proposed. The model is based on the experimental recordings of IIDs in pyramidal neurons of the rat entorhinal cortex and estimations of synaptic conductances during IIDs. IIDs were induced in cortico-hippocampal slices by applying an extracellular solution with 4-aminopyridine, high potassium, and low magnesium concentrations. Two different types of IIDs initiated by interneurons were observed. The first type of IID (IID1) was pure GABAergic. The second type of IID (IID2) was induced by GABAergic excitation and maintained by recurrent interactions of both GABA- and glutamatergic neuronal populations. The model employed the conductance-based refractory density (CBRD) approach, which accurately approximates the firing rate of a population of similar Hodgkin-Huxley-like neurons. The model of coupled excitatory and inhibitory populations includes AMPA, NMDA, and GABA-receptor-mediated synapses and gap junctions. These neurons receive both arbitrary deterministic input and individual colored Gaussian noise. Both types of IIDs were successfully reproduced in the model by setting two different depolarized levels for GABA-mediated current reversal potential. It was revealed that short-term synaptic depression is a crucial factor in ceasing each of the discharges, and it also determines their durations and frequencies.
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Yelhekar TD, Druzin M, Johansson S. Contribution of Resting Conductance, GABA A-Receptor Mediated Miniature Synaptic Currents and Neurosteroid to Chloride Homeostasis in Central Neurons. eNeuro 2017; 4:ENEURO.0019-17.2017. [PMID: 28374007 PMCID: PMC5362935 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0019-17.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2017] [Revised: 02/27/2017] [Accepted: 03/12/2017] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Maintenance of a low intraneuronal Cl- concentration, [Cl-]i, is critical for inhibition in the CNS. Here, the contribution of passive, conductive Cl- flux to recovery of [Cl-]i after a high load was analyzed in mature central neurons from rat. A novel method for quantifying the resting Cl- conductance, important for [Cl-]i recovery, was developed and the possible contribution of GABAA and glycine receptors and of ClC-2 channels to this conductance was analyzed. The hypothesis that spontaneous, action potential-independent release of GABA is important for [Cl-]i recovery was tested. [Cl-]i was examined by gramicidin-perforated patch recordings in medial preoptic neurons. Cells were loaded with Cl- by combining GABA or glycine application with a depolarized voltage, and the time course of [Cl-]i was followed by measurements of the Cl- equilibrium potential, as obtained from the current recorded during voltage ramps combined with GABA or glycine application. The results show that passive Cl- flux contributes significantly, in the same order of magnitude as does K+-Cl- cotransporter 2 (KCC2), to [Cl-]i recovery and that Cl- conductance accounts for ∼ 6% of the total resting conductance. A major fraction of this resting Cl- conductance is picrotoxin (PTX)-sensitive and likely due to open GABAA receptors, but ClC-2 channels do not contribute. The results also show that when the decay of GABAA receptor-mediated miniature postsynaptic currents (minis) is slowed by the neurosteroid allopregnanolone, such minis may significantly quicken [Cl-]i recovery, suggesting a possible steroid-regulated role for minis in the control of Cl- homeostasis.
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- Tushar D Yelhekar
- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University , Umeå, SE-901 87, Sweden
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- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University , Umeå, SE-901 87, Sweden
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- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University , Umeå, SE-901 87, Sweden
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Ludwig A, Rivera C, Uvarov P. A noninvasive optical approach for assessing chloride extrusion activity of the K-Cl cotransporter KCC2 in neuronal cells. BMC Neurosci 2017; 18:23. [PMID: 28143398 PMCID: PMC5286847 DOI: 10.1186/s12868-017-0336-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2016] [Accepted: 01/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Cation-chloride cotransporters (CCCs) are indispensable for maintaining chloride homeostasis in multiple cell types, but K-Cl cotransporter KCC2 is the only CCC member with an exclusively neuronal expression in mammals. KCC2 is critical for rendering fast hyperpolarizing responses of ionotropic γ-aminobutyric acid and glycine receptors in adult neurons, for neuronal migration in the developing central nervous system, and for the formation and maintenance of small dendritic protrusions-dendritic spines. Deficit in KCC2 expression and/or activity is associated with epilepsy and neuropathic pain, and effective strategies are required to search for novel drugs augmenting KCC2 function. RESULTS We revised current methods to develop a noninvasive optical approach for assessing KCC2 transport activity using a previously characterized genetically encoded chloride sensor. Our protocol directly assesses dynamics of KCC2-mediated chloride efflux and allows measuring genuine KCC2 activity with good spatial and temporal resolution. As a proof of concept, we used this approach to compare transport activities of the two known KCC2 splice isoforms, KCC2a and KCC2b, in mouse neuronal Neuro-2a cells. CONCLUSIONS Our noninvasive optical protocol proved to be efficient for assessment of furosemide-sensitive chloride fluxes. Transport activities of the N-terminal splice isoforms KCC2a and KCC2b obtained by the novel approach matched to those reported previously using standard methods for measuring chloride fluxes.
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- Anastasia Ludwig
- Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- École Normale Supérieure, Institut de Biologie de l’ENS (IBENS), INSERM U1024, CNRS 8197, Paris, France
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- Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- INSERM U901, Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée (INMED), Marseille, France
- UMR S901, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
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- Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Biosciences and Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Buchin A, Chizhov A, Huberfeld G, Miles R, Gutkin BS. Reduced Efficacy of the KCC2 Cotransporter Promotes Epileptic Oscillations in a Subiculum Network Model. J Neurosci 2016; 36:11619-11633. [PMID: 27852771 PMCID: PMC6231544 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.4228-15.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2015] [Revised: 08/04/2016] [Accepted: 08/07/2016] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Pharmacoresistant epilepsy is a chronic neurological condition in which a basal brain hyperexcitability results in paroxysmal hypersynchronous neuronal discharges. Human temporal lobe epilepsy has been associated with dysfunction or loss of the potassium-chloride cotransporter KCC2 in a subset of pyramidal cells in the subiculum, a key structure generating epileptic activities. KCC2 regulates intraneuronal chloride and extracellular potassium levels by extruding both ions. Absence of effective KCC2 may alter the dynamics of chloride and potassium levels during repeated activation of GABAergic synapses due to interneuron activity. In turn, such GABAergic stress may itself affect Cl- regulation. Such changes in ionic homeostasis may switch GABAergic signaling from inhibitory to excitatory in affected pyramidal cells and also increase neuronal excitability. Possibly these changes contribute to periodic bursting in pyramidal cells, an essential component in the onset of ictal epileptic events. We tested this hypothesis with a computational model of a subicular network with realistic connectivity. The pyramidal cell model explicitly incorporated the cotransporter KCC2 and its effects on the internal/external chloride and potassium levels. Our network model suggested the loss of KCC2 in a critical number of pyramidal cells increased external potassium and intracellular chloride concentrations leading to seizure-like field potential oscillations. These oscillations included transient discharges leading to ictal-like field events with frequency spectra as in vitro Restoration of KCC2 function suppressed seizure activity and thus may present a useful therapeutic option. These simulations therefore suggest that reduced KCC2 cotransporter activity alone may underlie the generation of ictal discharges. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Ion regulation in the brain is a major determinant of neural excitability. Intracellular chloride in neurons, a partial determinant of the resting potential and the inhibitory reversal potentials, is regulated together with extracellular potassium via kation chloride cotransporters. During temporal lobe epilepsy, the homeostatic regulation of intracellular chloride is impaired in pyramidal cells, yet how this dysregulation may lead to seizures has not been explored. Using a realistic neural network model describing ion mechanisms, we show that chloride homeostasis pathology provokes seizure activity analogous to recordings from epileptogenic brain tissue. We show that there is a critical percentage of pathological cells required for seizure initiation. Our model predicts that restoration of the chloride homeostasis in pyramidal cells could be a viable antiepileptic strategy.
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- Anatoly Buchin
- École normale supérieure, Paris Sciences et Lettres University, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Institute national de la santé et de la recherche médicale U960, Group for Neural Theory, 75005 Paris, France,
- Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg 195251, Russia
- National Research University Higher School of Economics, Center for Cognition and Decision Making, Moscow 109316, Russia
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- Ioffe Institute, Computational Physics Laboratory, St. Petersburg 194021, Russia
- Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 194223, Russia
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- Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hôpital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Neurophysiology Department, 75013 Paris, France
- Institute national de la santé et de la recherche médicale U1129 "Infantile Epilepsies and Brain Plasticity," Paris Descartes University, Pôle de recherche et d'enseignement supérieur Sorbonne Paris Cité, 75015 Paris, France, and
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- Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière, Cortex et Epilepsie Group, 75013 Paris, France
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- École normale supérieure, Paris Sciences et Lettres University, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Institute national de la santé et de la recherche médicale U960, Group for Neural Theory, 75005 Paris, France
- National Research University Higher School of Economics, Center for Cognition and Decision Making, Moscow 109316, Russia
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Wu H, Che X, Tang J, Ma F, Pan K, Zhao M, Shao A, Wu Q, Zhang J, Hong Y. The K(+)-Cl(-) Cotransporter KCC2 and Chloride Homeostasis: Potential Therapeutic Target in Acute Central Nervous System Injury. Mol Neurobiol 2016; 53:2141-51. [PMID: 25941074 DOI: 10.1007/s12035-015-9162-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2014] [Accepted: 03/26/2015] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
The K(+)-Cl(-) cotransporter-2 (KCC2) is a well-known member of the electroneutral cation-chloride cotransporters with a restricted expression pattern to neurons. This transmembrane protein mediates the efflux of Cl(-) out of neurons and exerts a critical role in inhibitory γ-aminobutyric acidergic (GABAergic) and glycinergic neurotransmission. Moreover, KCC2 participates in the regulation of various physiological processes of neurons, including cell migration, dendritic outgrowth, spine morphology, and dendritic synaptogenesis. It is important to note that down-regulation of KCC2 is associated with the pathogenesis of multiple neurological diseases, which is of particular relevance to acute central nervous system (CNS) injury. In this review, we aim to survey the pathogenic significance of KCC2 down-regulation under the condition of acute CNS injuries. We propose that further elucidation of the molecular mechanisms regarding KCC2 down-regulation after acute CNS injuries is necessary because of potential promising avenues for prevention and treatment of acute CNS injury.
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- Haijian Wu
- Department of Neurosurgery, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 88 Jiefang Road, Hangzhou, 310009, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 88 Jiefang Road, Hangzhou, 310009, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 88 Jiefang Road, Hangzhou, 310009, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 88 Jiefang Road, Hangzhou, 310009, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 88 Jiefang Road, Hangzhou, 310009, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 88 Jiefang Road, Hangzhou, 310009, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 88 Jiefang Road, Hangzhou, 310009, Zhejiang, China.
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Gigout S, Deisz R, Dehnicke C, Turak B, Devaux B, Pumain R, Louvel J. Role of gap junctions on synchronization in human neocortical networks. Brain Res 2016; 1637:14-21. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2016.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2015] [Revised: 01/30/2016] [Accepted: 02/02/2016] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Kang SK, Johnston MV, Kadam SD. Acute TrkB inhibition rescues phenobarbital-resistant seizures in a mouse model of neonatal ischemia. Eur J Neurosci 2015; 42:2792-804. [PMID: 26452067 PMCID: PMC4715496 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2015] [Revised: 09/17/2015] [Accepted: 09/29/2015] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Neonatal seizures are commonly associated with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. Phenobarbital (PB) resistance is common and poses a serious challenge in clinical management. Using a newly characterized neonatal mouse model of ischemic seizures, this study investigated a novel strategy for rescuing PB resistance. A small-molecule TrkB antagonist, ANA12, used to selectively and transiently block post-ischemic BDNF-TrkB signaling in vivo, determined whether rescuing TrkB-mediated post-ischemic degradation of the K(+)-Cl(-) co-transporter (KCC2) rescued PB-resistant seizures. The anti-seizure efficacy of ANA12 + PB was quantified by (i) electrographic seizure burden using acute continuous video-electroencephalograms and (ii) post-treatment expression levels of KCC2 and NKCC1 using Western blot analysis in postnatal day (P)7 and P10 CD1 pups with unilateral carotid ligation. ANA12 significantly rescued PB-resistant seizures at P7 and improved PB efficacy at P10. A single dose of ANA12 + PB prevented the post-ischemic degradation of KCC2 for up to 24 h. As anticipated, ANA12 by itself had no anti-seizure properties and was unable to prevent KCC2 degradation at 24 h without follow-on PB. This indicates that unsubdued seizures can independently lead to KCC2 degradation via non-TrkB-dependent pathways. This study, for the first time as a proof-of-concept, reports the potential therapeutic value of KCC2 modulation for the management of PB-resistant seizures in neonates. Future investigations are required to establish the mechanistic link between ANA12 and the prevention of KCC2 degradation.
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- S K Kang
- Neuroscience Laboratory, Hugo Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, 716 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Neuroscience Laboratory, Hugo Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, 716 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Neuroscience Laboratory, Hugo Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, 716 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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Kang SK, Markowitz GJ, Kim ST, Johnston MV, Kadam SD. Age- and sex-dependent susceptibility to phenobarbital-resistant neonatal seizures: role of chloride co-transporters. Front Cell Neurosci 2015; 9:173. [PMID: 26029047 PMCID: PMC4429249 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2015.00173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2014] [Accepted: 04/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Ischemia in the immature brain is an important cause of neonatal seizures. Temporal evolution of acquired neonatal seizures and their response to anticonvulsants are of great interest, given the unreliability of the clinical correlates and poor efficacy of first-line anti-seizure drugs. The expression and function of the electroneutral chloride co-transporters KCC2 and NKCC1 influence the anti-seizure efficacy of GABAA-agonists. To investigate ischemia-induced seizure susceptibility and efficacy of the GABAA-agonist phenobarbital (PB), with NKCC1 antagonist bumetanide (BTN) as an adjunct treatment, we utilized permanent unilateral carotid-ligation to produce acute ischemic-seizures in post-natal day 7, 10, and 12 CD1 mice. Immediate post-ligation video-electroencephalograms (EEGs) quantitatively evaluated baseline and post-treatment seizure burdens. Brains were examined for stroke-injury and western blot analyses to evaluate the expression of KCC2 and NKCC1. Severity of acute ischemic seizures post-ligation was highest at P7. PB was an efficacious anti-seizure agent at P10 and P12, but not at P7. BTN failed as an adjunct, at all ages tested and significantly blunted PB-efficacy at P10. Significant acute post-ischemic downregulation of KCC2 was detected at all ages. At P7, males displayed higher age-dependent seizure susceptibility, associated with a significant developmental lag in their KCC2 expression. This study established a novel neonatal mouse model of PB-resistant seizures that demonstrates age/sex-dependent susceptibility. The age-dependent profile of KCC2 expression and its post-insult downregulation may underlie the PB-resistance reported in this model. Blocking NKCC1 with low-dose BTN following PB treatment failed to improve PB-efficacy.
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- Seok Kyu Kang
- Neuroscience Laboratory, Hugo Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Neuroscience Laboratory, Hugo Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Neuroscience Laboratory, Hugo Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Neuroscience Laboratory, Hugo Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger Baltimore, MD, USA ; Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, MD, USA ; Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Neuroscience Laboratory, Hugo Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger Baltimore, MD, USA ; Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, MD, USA
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Silbert BI, Heaton AE, Cash RFH, James I, Dunne JW, Lawn ND, Silbert PL, Mastaglia FL, Thickbroom GW. Evidence for an excitatory GABAA response in human motor cortex in idiopathic generalised epilepsy. Seizure 2015; 26:36-42. [PMID: 25799900 DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2015.01.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2014] [Revised: 12/28/2014] [Accepted: 01/23/2015] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Impaired GABAergic inhibition has been implicated in the pathophysiology of epilepsy. The possibility of a paradoxical excitatory effect of GABA in epilepsy has been suggested, but has not been investigated in vivo. We investigated pre- and post-synaptic GABAergic mechanisms in patients with idiopathic generalised epilepsy (IGE). METHOD In 10 patients and 12 control subjects we explored short- and long-interval intracortical inhibition (SICI, LICI; post-synaptic GABAA and GABAB-mediated respectively) and long-interval intracortical facilitation (LICF; pre-synaptic disinhibition) using transcranial magnetic stimulation. RESULTS While post-synaptic GABAB-mediated inhibition was unchanged in IGE (p=0.09), LICF was reduced compared to controls (controls: 141±17% of baseline; untreated patients: 107±12%, p=0.2; treated patients: 79±10%, p=0.003). GABAA-mediated inhibition was reduced in untreated patients (response amplitude 56±4% of baseline vs. 26±6% in controls, p=0.004) and normalised with treatment (37±12%, p=0.5 vs. controls). When measured during LICI, GABAA-mediated inhibition became excitatory in untreated IGE (response amplitude 120±10% of baseline, p=0.017), but not in treated patients. CONCLUSION Pre- and post-synaptic GABA-mediated inhibitory mechanisms are altered in IGE. The findings lend in vivo support to evidence from experimental models and in vitro studies of human epileptic brain tissue that GABA may have a paradoxical excitatory role in ictogenesis.
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- Benjamin I Silbert
- Western Australian Neuroscience Research Institute, University of Western Australia, 4th Floor, A Block, QEII Medical Centre, Verdun Street, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia 6009, Australia
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- Western Australian Neuroscience Research Institute, University of Western Australia, 4th Floor, A Block, QEII Medical Centre, Verdun Street, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia 6009, Australia
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- Western Australian Neuroscience Research Institute, University of Western Australia, 4th Floor, A Block, QEII Medical Centre, Verdun Street, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia 6009, Australia; Division of Brain, Imaging and Behaviour - Systems Neuroscience, Toronto Western Research Institute, University Health Network, 339 Bathurst Street, MP14-324, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2S8, Canada
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- Centre for Clinical Immunology and Biomedical Statistics, Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Murdoch University, Building 390, Discovery Way, Murdoch, Perth, Western Australia 6150, Australia
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- Department of Neurology, Royal Perth Hospital, Level 8, A Block, GPO Box X2213, Perth, Western Australia 6001, Australia
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- Department of Neurology, Royal Perth Hospital, Level 8, A Block, GPO Box X2213, Perth, Western Australia 6001, Australia
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- Department of Neurology, Royal Perth Hospital, Level 8, A Block, GPO Box X2213, Perth, Western Australia 6001, Australia
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- Western Australian Neuroscience Research Institute, University of Western Australia, 4th Floor, A Block, QEII Medical Centre, Verdun Street, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia 6009, Australia
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- Western Australian Neuroscience Research Institute, University of Western Australia, 4th Floor, A Block, QEII Medical Centre, Verdun Street, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia 6009, Australia.
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Gigout S, Wierschke S, Dehnicke C, Deisz RA. Different pharmacology of N-desmethylclozapine at human and rat M2 and M 4 mAChRs in neocortex. Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol 2015; 388:487-96. [PMID: 25592256 DOI: 10.1007/s00210-014-1080-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2014] [Accepted: 12/10/2014] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Cholinergic transmission plays a pivotal role in learning, memory and cognition, and disturbances of cholinergic transmission have been implicated in neurological disorders including Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy and schizophrenia. Pharmacological alleviation of these diseases by drugs including N-desmethylclozapine (NDMC), promising in animal models, often fails in patients. We therefore compared the effects of NDMC on glutamatergic and GABAergic transmission in slices from rat and human neocortex. We used carbachol (CCh; an established agonist at metabotropic muscarinic acetylcholine (ACh) receptors (mAChRs)) as a reference. Standard electrophysiological methods including intracellular and field potential recordings were used. In the rat neocortex, NDMC prevented the CCh-induced decrease of GABAA and GABAB receptor-mediated responses but not the CCh-induced increase of the paired-pulse depression. NDMC reduced neither the amplitude of the excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSP) nor antagonized the CCh-induced depression of EPSP. In the human neocortex, however, NDMC failed to prevent CCh-induced decrease of the GABAB responses and directly reduced the amplitude of EPSP. These data suggest distinct effects of NDMC in rat and human at M2 and M4 mAChRs underlying presynaptic modulation of GABA and glutamate release, respectively. In particular, NDMC might be a M2 mAChR antagonist in the rat but has no activity at this receptor in human neocortex. However, NDMC has an agonistic effect at M4 mAChR in the human but no such effect in the rat neocortex. The present study confirms that pharmacology at mAChRs can differ between species and emphasizes the need of studies in human tissue.
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- S Gigout
- Centre for Anatomy, Institute for Cell Biology and Neurobiology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Philippstrasse, 12, 10115, Berlin, Germany
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Inhibition of brain swelling after ischemia-reperfusion by β-adrenergic antagonists: correlation with increased K+ and decreased Ca2+ concentrations in extracellular fluid. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2014; 2014:873590. [PMID: 25478577 PMCID: PMC4247955 DOI: 10.1155/2014/873590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2014] [Revised: 09/03/2014] [Accepted: 09/10/2014] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Infarct size and brain edema following ischemia/reperfusion are reduced by inhibitors of the Na+, K+, 2Cl−, and water cotransporter NKCC1 and by β1-adrenoceptor antagonists. NKCC1 is a secondary active transporter, mainly localized in astrocytes, driven by transmembrane Na+/K+ gradients generated by the Na+,K+-ATPase. The astrocytic Na+,K+-ATPase is stimulated by small increases in extracellular K+ concentration and by the β-adrenergic agonist isoproterenol. Larger K+ increases, as occurring during ischemia, also stimulate NKCC1, creating cell swelling. This study showed no edema after 3 hr medial cerebral artery occlusion but pronounced edema after 8 hr reperfusion. The edema was abolished by inhibitors of specifically β1-adrenergic pathways, indicating failure of K+-mediated, but not β1-adrenoceptor-mediated, stimulation of Na+,K+-ATPase/NKCC1 transport during reoxygenation. Ninety percent reduction of extracellular Ca2+ concentration occurs in ischemia. Ca2+ omission abolished K+ uptake in normoxic cultures of astrocytes after addition of 5 mM KCl. A large decrease in ouabain potency on K+ uptake in cultured astrocytes was also demonstrated in Ca2+-depleted media, and endogenous ouabains are needed for astrocytic K+ uptake. Thus, among the ionic changes induced by ischemia, the decrease in extracellular Ca2+ causes failure of the high-K+-stimulated Na+,K+-ATPase/NKCC1 ion/water uptake, making β1-adrenergic activation the only stimulus and its inhibition effective against edema.
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Ko MC, Lee MC, Amstislavskaya TG, Tikhonova MA, Yang YL, Lu KT. Inhibition of NKCC1 attenuated hippocampal LTP formation and inhibitory avoidance in rat. PLoS One 2014; 9:e106692. [PMID: 25369049 PMCID: PMC4219661 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2014] [Accepted: 08/08/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The loop diuretic bumetanide (Bumex) is thought to have antiepileptic properties via modulate GABAA mediated signaling through their antagonism of cation-chloride cotransporters. Given that loop diuretics may act as antiepileptic drugs that modulate GABAergic signaling, we sought to investigate whether they also affect hippocampal function. The current study was performed to evaluate the possible role of NKCC1 on the hippocampal function. Brain slice extracellular recording, inhibitory avoidance, and western blot were applied in this study. Results showed that hippocampal Long-term potentiation was attenuated by suprafusion of NKCC1 inhibitor bumetanide, in a dose dependent manner. Sequent experiment result showed that Intravenous injection of bumetanide (15.2 mg/kg) 30 min prior to the training session blocked inhibitory avoidance learning significantly. Subsequent control experiment's results excluded the possible non-specific effect of bumetanide on avoidance learning. We also found the phosphorylation of hippocampal MAPK was attenuated after bumetanide administration. These results suggested that hippocampal NKCC1 may via MAPK signaling cascade to possess its function.
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- Meng Chang Ko
- Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Laboratory of Biological Psychiatry, State Research Institute of Physiology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAMS, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Laboratory of Biological Psychiatry, State Research Institute of Physiology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAMS, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Department of Biochemical Science and Technology, National Chia-Yi University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan
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- Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Hertz L, Xu J, Chen Y, Gibbs ME, Du T, Hertz L, Xu J, Chen Y, Gibbs ME, Du T. Antagonists of the Vasopressin V1 Receptor and of the β(1)-Adrenoceptor Inhibit Cytotoxic Brain Edema in Stroke by Effects on Astrocytes - but the Mechanisms Differ. Curr Neuropharmacol 2014; 12:308-23. [PMID: 25342939 PMCID: PMC4207071 DOI: 10.2174/1570159x12666140828222723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2014] [Revised: 06/13/2014] [Accepted: 06/20/2014] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Brain edema is a serious complication in ischemic stroke because even relatively small changes in brain volume can compromise cerebral blood flow or result in compression of vital brain structures on account of the fixed volume of the rigid skull. Literature data indicate that administration of either antagonists of the V1 vasopressin (AVP) receptor or the β1-adrenergic receptor are able to reduce edema or infarct size when administered after the onset of ischemia, a key advantage for possible clinical use. The present review discusses possible mechanisms, focusing on the role of NKCC1, an astrocytic cotransporter of Na(+), K(+), 2Cl(-) and water and its activation by highly increased extracellular K(+) concentrations in the development of cytotoxic cell swelling. However, it also mentions that due to a 3/2 ratio between Na(+) release and K(+) uptake by the Na(+),K(+)-ATPase driving NKCC1 brain extracellular fluid can become hypertonic, which may facilitate water entry across the blood-brain barrier, essential for development of edema. It shows that brain edema does not develop until during reperfusion, which can be explained by lack of metabolic energy during ischemia. V1 antagonists are likely to protect against cytotoxic edema formation by inhibiting AVP enhancement of NKCC1-mediated uptake of ions and water, whereas β1-adrenergic antagonists prevent edema formation because β1-adrenergic stimulation alone is responsible for stimulation of the Na(+),K(+)-ATPase driving NKCC1, first and foremost due to decrease in extracellular Ca(2+) concentration. Inhibition of NKCC1 also has adverse effects, e.g. on memory and the treatment should probably be of shortest possible duration.
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- Leif Hertz
- Laboratory of Brain Metabolic Diseases, Institute of Metabolic Disease Research and Drug Development, China Medical University, P.R. China
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- Laboratory of Brain Metabolic Diseases, Institute of Metabolic Disease Research and Drug Development, China Medical University, P.R. China
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- Henry M. Jackson Foundation 6720A Rockledge Dr #100, Bethesda MD 20817, USA
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- Drug Discovery Biology, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Laboratory of Brain Metabolic Diseases, Institute of Metabolic Disease Research and Drug Development, China Medical University, P.R. China
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- Laboratory of Brain Metabolic Diseases, Institute of Metabolic Disease Research and Drug Development, China Medical University, P.R. China
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- Laboratory of Brain Metabolic Diseases, Institute of Metabolic Disease Research and Drug Development, China Medical University, P.R. China
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- Henry M. Jackson Foundation 6720A Rockledge Dr #100, Bethesda MD 20817, USA
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- Drug Discovery Biology, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Laboratory of Brain Metabolic Diseases, Institute of Metabolic Disease Research and Drug Development, China Medical University, P.R. China
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Deisz RA, Wierschke S, Schneider UC, Dehnicke C. Effects of VU0240551, a novel KCC2 antagonist, and DIDS on chloride homeostasis of neocortical neurons from rats and humans. Neuroscience 2014; 277:831-41. [PMID: 25086309 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.07.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2013] [Revised: 06/30/2014] [Accepted: 07/01/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The normal function of GABAA receptor-mediated inhibition is governed by several factors, including release of GABA, subunit composition and density of the receptors and in particular by the appropriate ionic gradient. In the human epileptogenic neocortex an impaired chloride (Cl(-)) gradient has been proposed, due to decreases of potassium-coupled chloride transport (KCC2) and voltage-gated Cl(-) channels (ClC). Regarding sodium- and potassium-coupled Cl(-) transport (NKCC1) both up- and downregulations have been proposed. We investigated changes of Cl(-) homeostasis of human and rat neocortical neurons (layer 2/3) with intracellular recordings and iontophoretic Cl(-) loading employing selective compounds. After cessation of iontophoresis, the IPSPA amplitudes of rat neurons recovered with a time constant (τrec) of 6.5s (n=21). In human neurons, τrec averaged 17.8s (n=36; 23 resections). Application of the novel KCC2 blocker VU0240551 (1 μM) caused in rat neurons a reversible prolongation of τrec from 5.7 to 8.1s (n=11), corresponding to a VU0240551-sensitive Cl(-) transport rate (1/Δτrec) of 0.0504s(-1). In human neurons, τrec increased on application of 1μM VU0240551, on average from 15.1 to 20.3s (n=17). The human neurons comprised two subgroups with different τrec when segregated according to a border given by the mean+2s.d. of rat neurons. In one group, τrec averaged 8.7s (n=6) and reversibly increased to 14.6s in the presence of 1μM VU0240551, corresponding to a Cl(-) transport rate of 0.0504s(-1). The other group had an average τrec of 18.5s which increased in the presence of 1μM VU0240551 to 23.3s (n=11), indicating a much smaller rate (0.0151s(-1)). Addition of DIDS, a presumed blocker of anion exchanger (AE), increased the τrec of rat neurons from 7.5 to 8.8s (n=6) corresponding to a DIDS-sensitive rate of 0.0185s(-1). In human neurons, DIDS increased τrec from 23.3 to 50.7s (n=7), corresponding to a DIDS-sensitive rate of 0.0200s(-1). These data suggest a greatly reduced KCC2-mediated transport rate in most of the human neurons. The two subgroups observed in human tissue indicate a considerable variability of Cl(-) transport within a given tissue from almost normal to greatly impeded, predominated by a decline of KCC2 whereas AE is unaltered.
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- R A Deisz
- Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Centre for Anatomy, Institute for Cell Biology and Neurobiology, Berlin, Germany.
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- Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Centre for Anatomy, Institute for Cell Biology and Neurobiology, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Neurosurgery, Berlin, Germany
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- Epilepsie-Zentrum Berlin-Brandenburg, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge, Berlin, Germany
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Hertz L, Peng L, Song D. Ammonia, like K(+), stimulates the Na(+), K(+), 2 Cl(-) cotransporter NKCC1 and the Na(+),K(+)-ATPase and interacts with endogenous ouabain in astrocytes. Neurochem Res 2014; 40:241-57. [PMID: 24929663 DOI: 10.1007/s11064-014-1352-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2014] [Revised: 05/31/2014] [Accepted: 06/03/2014] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Brain edema during hepatic encephalopathy or acute liver failure as well as following brain ischemia has a multifactorial etiology, but it is a dangerous and occasionally life-threatening complication because the brain is enclosed in the rigid skull. During ischemia the extracellular K(+) concentration increases to very high levels, which when energy becomes available during reperfusion stimulate NKCC1, a cotransporter driven by the transmembrane ion gradients established by the Na(+),K(+)-ATPase and accumulating Na(+), K(+) and 2 Cl(-) together with water. This induces pronounced astrocytic swelling under pathologic conditions, but NKCC1 is probably also activated, although to a lesser extent, during normal brain function. Redistribution of ions and water between extra- and intracellular phases does not create brain edema, which in addition requires uptake across the blood-brain barrier. During hepatic encephalopathy and acute liver failure a crucial factor is the close resemblance between K(+) and NH4(+) in their effects not only on NKCC1 and Na(+),K(+)-ATPase but also on Na(+),K(+)-ATPase-induced signaling by endogenous ouabains. These in turn activate production of ROS and nitrosactive agents which slowly sensitize NKCC1, explaining why cell swelling and brain edema generally are delayed under hyperammonemic conditions, although very high ammonia concentrations can cause immediate NKCC1 activation.
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- Leif Hertz
- Laboratory of Brain Metabolic Diseases, Institute of Metabolic Disease Research and Drug Development, China Medical University, No. 92 Beier Road, Heping District, Shenyang, People's Republic of China
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Sharp JW, Ross-Inta CM, Baccelli I, Payne JA, Rudell JB, Gietzen DW. Effects of essential amino acid deficiency: down-regulation of KCC2 and the GABAA receptor; disinhibition in the anterior piriform cortex. J Neurochem 2013; 127:520-30. [PMID: 24024616 PMCID: PMC3858386 DOI: 10.1111/jnc.12403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2013] [Revised: 08/14/2013] [Accepted: 08/15/2013] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The anterior piriform cortex (APC) is activated by, and is the brain area most sensitive to, essential (indispensable) amino acid (IAA) deficiency. The APC is required for the rapid (20 min) behavioral rejection of IAA deficient diets and increased foraging, both crucial adaptive functions supporting IAA homeostasis in omnivores. The biochemical mechanisms signaling IAA deficiency in the APC block initiation of translation in protein synthesis via uncharged tRNA and the general amino acid control kinase, general control nonderepressing kinase 2. Yet, how inhibition of protein synthesis activates the APC is unknown. The neuronal K(+) Cl(-) cotransporter, neural potassium chloride co-transporter (KCC2), and GABAA receptors are essential inhibitory elements in the APC with short plasmalemmal half-lives that maintain control in this highly excitable circuitry. After a single IAA deficient meal both proteins were reduced (vs. basal diet controls) in western blots of APC (but not neocortex or cerebellum) and in immunohistochemistry of APC. Furthermore, electrophysiological analyses support loss of inhibitory elements such as the GABAA receptor in this model. As the crucial inhibitory function of the GABAA receptor depends on KCC2 and the Cl(-) transmembrane gradient it establishes, these results suggest that loss of such inhibitory elements contributes to disinhibition of the APC in IAA deficiency. The circuitry of the anterior piriform cortex (APC) is finely balanced between excitatory (glutamate, +) and inhibitory (GABA, -) transmission. GABAA receptors use Cl(-), requiring the neural potassium chloride co-transporter (KCC2). Both are rapidly turning-over proteins, dependent on protein synthesis for repletion. In IAA (indispensable amino acid) deficiency, within 20 min, blockade of protein synthesis prevents restoration of these inhibitors; they are diminished; disinhibition ensues. GCN2 = general control non-derepressing kinase 2, eIF2α = α-subunit of the eukaryotic initiation factor 2.
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- James W. Sharp
- Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis CA 95616, USA, Voice +530-752-1174, Fax +530-752-7690
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- Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis CA 95616, USA, Voice +530-752-1174, Fax +530-752-7690
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- Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis CA 95616, USA, Voice +530-752-1174, Fax +530-752-7690
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- Physiology and Membrane Biology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA, Voice +1 530 752 3336, FAX +1 530 752 5423
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- Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis CA 95616, USA, Voice +530-752-1174, Fax +530-752-7690
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- Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis CA 95616, USA, Voice +530-752-1174, Fax +530-752-7690
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Dai H, Song D, Xu J, Li B, Hertz L, Peng L. Ammonia-induced Na,K-ATPase/ouabain-mediated EGF receptor transactivation, MAPK/ERK and PI3K/AKT signaling and ROS formation cause astrocyte swelling. Neurochem Int 2013; 63:610-25. [PMID: 24044899 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuint.2013.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2013] [Revised: 08/30/2013] [Accepted: 09/03/2013] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Ammonia toxicity is clinically important and biologically poorly understood. We reported previously that 3mM ammonia chloride (ammonia), a relevant concentration for hepatic encephalopathy studies, increases production of endogenous ouabain and activity of Na,K-ATPase in astrocytes. In addition, ammonia-induced upregulation of gene expression of α2 isoform of Na,K-ATPase in astrocytes could be inhibited by AG1478, an inhibitor of the EGF receptor (EGFR), and by PP1, an inhibitor of Src, but not by GM6001, an inhibitor of metalloproteinase and shedding of growth factor, suggesting the involvement of endogenous ouabain-induced EGF receptor transactivation. In the present cell culture study, we investigated ammonia effects on phosphorylation of EGF receptor and its intracellular signal pathway towards MAPK/ERK1/2 and PI3K/AKT; interaction between EGF receptor, α1, and α2 isoforms of Na,K-ATPase, Src, ERK1/2, AKT and caveolin-1; and relevance of these signal pathways for ammonia-induced cell swelling, leading to brain edema, an often fatal complication of ammonia toxicity. We found that (i) ammonia increases EGF receptor phosphorylation at EGFR(845) and EGFR(1068); (ii) ammonia-induced ERK1/2 and AKT phosphorylation depends on the activity of EGF receptor and Src, but not on metalloproteinase; (iii) AKT phosphorylation occurs upstream of ERK1/2 phosphorylation; (iv) ammonia stimulates association between the α1 Na,K-ATPase isoform, Src, EGF receptor, ERK1/2, AKT and caveolin-1; (v) ammonia-induced ROS production might occur later than EGFR transactivation; (vi) both ammonia induced ERK phosphorylation and ROS production can be abolished by canrenone, an inhibitor of ouabain, and (vii) ammonia-induced cell swelling depends on signaling via the Na,K-ATPase/ouabain/Src/EGF receptor/PI3K-AKT/ERK1/2, but in response to 3mM ammonia it does not appear until after 12h. Based on literature data it is suggested that the delayed appearance of the ammonia-induced swelling at this concentration reflects required ouabain-induced oxidative damage of the ion and water cotransporter NKCC1. This information may provide new therapeutic targets for treatment of hyperammonic brain disorders.
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- Hongliang Dai
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, China Medical University, Shenyang, PR China
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, China Medical University, Shenyang, PR China
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, China Medical University, Shenyang, PR China
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, China Medical University, Shenyang, PR China
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, China Medical University, Shenyang, PR China
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, China Medical University, Shenyang, PR China.
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Hertz L, Xu J, Song D, Yan E, Gu L, Peng L. Astrocytic and neuronal accumulation of elevated extracellular K(+) with a 2/3 K(+)/Na(+) flux ratio-consequences for energy metabolism, osmolarity and higher brain function. Front Comput Neurosci 2013; 7:114. [PMID: 23986689 PMCID: PMC3749512 DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2013.00114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2013] [Accepted: 07/26/2013] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Brain excitation increases neuronal Na+ concentration by 2 major mechanisms: (i) Na+ influx caused by glutamatergic synaptic activity; and (ii) action-potential-mediated depolarization by Na+ influx followed by repolarizating K+ efflux, increasing extracellular K+ concentration. This review deals mainly with the latter and it concludes that clearance of extracellular K+ is initially mainly effectuated by Na+,K+-ATPase-mediated K+ uptake into astrocytes, at K+ concentrations above ~10 mM aided by uptake of Na+,K+ and 2 Cl− by the cotransporter NKCC1. Since operation of the astrocytic Na+,K+-ATPase requires K+-dependent glycogenolysis for stimulation of the intracellular ATPase site, it ceases after normalization of extracellular K+ concentration. This allows K+ release via the inward rectifying K+ channel Kir4.1, perhaps after trans-astrocytic connexin- and/or pannexin-mediated K+ transfer, which would be a key candidate for determination by synchronization-based computational analysis and may have signaling effects. Spatially dispersed K+ release would have little effect on extracellular K+ concentration and allow K+ accumulation by the less powerful neuronal Na+,K+-ATPase, which is not stimulated by increases in extracellular K+. Since the Na+,K+-ATPase exchanges 3 Na+ with 2 K+, it creates extracellular hypertonicity and cell shrinkage. Hypertonicity stimulates NKCC1, which, aided by β-adrenergic stimulation of the Na+,K+-ATPase, causes regulatory volume increase, furosemide-inhibited undershoot in [K+]e and perhaps facilitation of the termination of slow neuronal hyperpolarization (sAHP), with behavioral consequences. The ion transport processes involved minimize ionic disequilibria caused by the asymmetric Na+,K+-ATPase fluxes.
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- Leif Hertz
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, China Medical University Shenyang, China
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Hertz L, Song D, Xu J, Du T, Gu L, Peng L. When can AQP4 assist transporter-mediated K⁺ uptake? ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013; 142:87-9. [PMID: 23752330 PMCID: PMC3691449 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.201310977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Xu J, Song D, Xue Z, Gu L, Hertz L, Peng L. Requirement of Glycogenolysis for Uptake of Increased Extracellular K+ in Astrocytes: Potential Implications for K+ Homeostasis and Glycogen Usage in Brain. Neurochem Res 2012; 38:472-85. [DOI: 10.1007/s11064-012-0938-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2012] [Revised: 11/09/2012] [Accepted: 11/20/2012] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Bertollini C, Murana E, Mosca L, D'Erme M, Scala F, Francioso A, Catalano M, Limatola C, Bregestovski P, Di Angelantonio S, Ragozzino D. Transient increase in neuronal chloride concentration by neuroactive aminoacids released from glioma cells. Front Mol Neurosci 2012. [PMID: 23189038 PMCID: PMC3505843 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2012.00100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Neuronal chloride concentration ([Cl−]i) is known to be dynamically modulated and alterations in Cl− homeostasis may occur in the brain at physiological and pathological conditions, being also likely involved in glioma-related seizures. However, the mechanism leading to changes in neuronal [Cl−]i during glioma invasion are still unclear. To characterize the potential effect of glioma released soluble factors on neuronal [Cl−]i, we used genetically encoded CFP/YFP-based ratiometric Cl-(apical) Sensor transiently expressed in cultured hippocampal neurons. Exposition of neurons to glioma conditioned medium (GCM) caused rapid and transient elevation of [Cl−]i, resulting in the increase of fluorescence ratio, which was strongly reduced by blockers of ionotropic glutamate receptors APV and NBQX. Furthermore, in HEK cells expressing GluR1-AMPA receptors, GCM activated ionic currents with efficacy similar to those caused by glutamate, supporting the notion that GCM contains glutamate or glutamatergic agonists, which cause neuronal depolarization, activation of NMDA and AMPA/KA receptors leading to elevation of [Cl−]i. Chromatographic analysis of the GCM showed that it contained several aminoacids, including glutamate, whose release from glioma cells did not occur via the most common glial mechanisms of transport, or in response to hypoosmotic stress. GCM also contained glycine, whose action contrasted the glutamate effect. Indeed, strychnine application significantly increased GCM-induced depolarization and [Cl−]i rise. GCM-evoked [Cl−]i elevation was not inhibited by antagonists of Cl− transporters and significantly reduced in the presence of anion channels blocker NPPB, suggesting that Cl− selective channels are a major route for GCM-induced Cl− influx. Altogether, these data show that glioma released aminoacids may dynamically alter Cl− equilibrium in surrounding neurons, deeply interfering with their inhibitory balance, likely leading to physiological and pathological consequences.
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- Cristina Bertollini
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Sapienza University of Rome Rome, Italy
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Gigout S, Wierschke S, Lehmann TN, Horn P, Dehnicke C, Deisz R. Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor-mediated effects in slices from human epileptogenic cortex. Neuroscience 2012; 223:399-411. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.07.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2012] [Revised: 07/11/2012] [Accepted: 07/24/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Transition to seizure: ictal discharge is preceded by exhausted presynaptic GABA release in the hippocampal CA3 region. J Neurosci 2012; 32:2499-512. [PMID: 22396423 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.4247-11.2012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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How the brain transitions into a seizure is poorly understood. Recurrent seizure-like events (SLEs) in low-Mg2+/ high-K+ perfusate were measured in the CA3 region of the intact mouse hippocampus. The SLE was divided into a "preictal phase," which abruptly turns into a higher frequency "ictal" phase. Blockade of GABA(A) receptors shortened the preictal phase, abolished interictal bursts, and attenuated the slow preictal depolarization, with no effect on the ictal duration, whereas SLEs were blocked by glutamate receptor blockade. In CA3 pyramidal cells and stratum oriens non-fast-spiking and fast-spiking interneurons, recurrent GABAergic IPSCs predominated interictally and during the early preictal phase, synchronous with extracellularly measured recurrent field potentials (FPs). These IPSCs then decreased to zero or reversed polarity by the onset of the higher-frequency ictus. However, postsynaptic muscimol-evoked GABA(A) responses remained intact. Simultaneously, EPSCs synchronous with the FPs markedly increased to a maximum at the ictal onset. The reversal potential of the compound postsynaptic currents (combined simultaneous EPSCs and IPSCs) became markedly depolarized during the preictal phase, whereas the muscimol-evoked GABA(A) reversal potential remained unchanged. During the late preictal phase, interneuronal excitability was high, but IPSCs, evoked by local stimulation, or osmotically by hypertonic sucrose application, were diminished, disappearing at the ictal onset. We conclude that the interictal and early preictal states are dominated by GABAergic activity, with the onset of the ictus heralded by exhaustion of presynaptic release of GABA, and unopposed increased glutamatergic responses.
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Krystal AD, Sutherland J, Hochman DW. Loop diuretics have anxiolytic effects in rat models of conditioned anxiety. PLoS One 2012; 7:e35417. [PMID: 22514741 PMCID: PMC3325958 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2012] [Accepted: 03/15/2012] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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A number of antiepileptic medications that modulate GABA(A) mediated synaptic transmission are anxiolytic. The loop diuretics furosemide (Lasix) and bumetanide (Bumex) are thought to have antiepileptic properties. These drugs also modulate GABA(A) mediated signalling through their antagonism of cation-chloride cotransporters. Given that loop diuretics may act as antiepileptic drugs that modulate GABAergic signalling, we sought to investigate whether they also mediate anxiolytic effects. Here we report the first investigation of the anxiolytic effects of these drugs in rat models of anxiety. Furosemide and bumetanide were tested in adult rats for their anxiolytic effects using four standard anxiety models: 1) contextual fear conditioning; 2) fear-potentiated startle; 3) elevated plus maze, and 4) open-field test. Furosemide and bumetanide significantly reduced conditioned anxiety in the contextual fear-conditioning and fear-potentiated startle models. At the tested doses, neither compound had significant anxiolytic effects on unconditioned anxiety in the elevated plus maze and open-field test models. These observations suggest that loop diuretics elicit significant anxiolytic effects in rat models of conditioned anxiety. Since loop diuretics are antagonists of the NKCC1 and KCC2 cotransporters, these results implicate the cation-chloride cotransport system as possible molecular mechanism involved in anxiety, and as novel pharmacological target for the development of anxiolytics. In view of these findings, and since furosemide and bumetanide are safe and well tolerated drugs, the clinical potential of loop diuretics for treating some types of anxiety disorders deserves further investigation.
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- Andrew D. Krystal
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, and NeuroInvestigations Inc., Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
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- Departments of Surgery (Surgical Sciences) and Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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