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  • 1
    ISSN: 1460-9568
    Quelle: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Thema: Medizin
    Notizen: Astrocytes express a variety of metabotropic receptors and their activation leads to a biphasic Ca2+ response due to Ca2+ release from intracellular stores and subsequent capacitative Ca2+ entry. We performed Ca2+ imaging with Fura-2 on cultured mouse astrocytes and showed that extracellular zinc reversibly blocks the capacitative Ca2+ entry following application of the metabotropic ligands ATP, glutamate and endothelin-1. Zinc blocked the plateau phase of the ligand-triggered Ca2+ responses. When ligands were repetitively applied in the presence of zinc the calcium responses progressively decayed and even disappeared, indicating that capacitative Ca2+ entry is required to refill the stores. Zinc inhibited the capacitative Ca2+ entry with a Ki of ≈ 6 µm, which is well within the physiological concentration range of zinc found in the brain. Application of the reducing agent DTT prevented the blocking effect by zinc ions but not the inhibition elicited by the nonphysiological metal ions Gd3+ and La3+, indicating that zinc has a distinct binding site. To monitor the capacitative Ca2+ entry in astrocytes in situ and to determine the effect of zinc on this pathway we utilized X-rhod-1 imaging in hippocampal slices of a transgenic mouse line with green fluorescent astrocytes. Zinc affected the repetitive metabotropic Ca2+ response in the following fashion: (i) after depleting stores in Ca2+-free solution, re-addition of Ca2+ led to an influx of Ca2+ via a zinc-sensitive Ca2+ entry route; (ii) with repetitive application of metabotropic ligands, Ca2+ responses became smaller and even disappeared in the presence of zinc. We conclude that zinc, which is coreleased from glutamatergic synaptic vesicles upon neuronal activity, has a major impact on shaping the astrocytic calcium responses.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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  • 2
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
    Springer
    Pflügers Archiv 405 (1985), S. S163 
    ISSN: 1432-2013
    Schlagwort(e): Phlorizin ; Methyl alpha-d-glucoside ; Vesicles
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Medizin
    Notizen: Abstract A variety of techniques have been used to study the sodium-coupled hexose transporter in epithelia formed by LLC-PK1 cells. The expression of the transporter is affected by the density and age of the culture and by the concentration of glucose in the growth medium. Sodium-coupled hexose transport appears as the epithelium becomes confluent and increases further as the epithelium matures. The increased transport is associated with increased transport in apical plasma membrane vesicles. Epithelia grown in medium containing 5 mM glucose express more transporters than epithelia grown in medium containing 25 mM glucose. The increase in transport is not the result of an extracellular signal that is generated as a consequence of the concentration of glucose. The response to different hexoses that are or are not transported on the carrier indicates that it is the metabolism of glucose that acts as the signal for expression of more or fewer transporters. The results are compared to similar studies of the effects of substrate concentration on expression of transporters in cultured fibroblasts and the intestines in situ.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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  • 3
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
    Springer
    The journal of membrane biology 70 (1982), S. 37-45 
    ISSN: 1432-1424
    Schlagwort(e): coupled transport ; glucose transport ; phlorizin binding ; brush border membrane ; proximal tubule ; vesicles
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Chemie und Pharmazie
    Notizen: Summary The properties of two sodium-dependentd-glucose transporters previously identified in renal proximal tubule brush border membrane (BBM) vesicles are studied. The low-affinity system, found in BBM vesicles from the outer cortex (early proximal tubule), is shown to be associated with the high-affinity phlorizin binding site typically found in renal BBM preparations. The high-affinity system, found in BBM vesicles from the outer medulla (late proximal tubule), is almost two orders of magnitude less sensitive to inhibition by phlorizin and is apparently not associated with high-affinity phlorizin binding. The sodium/g;ucose stoichiometry of the outer medullary transporter is found to be 2∶1 by two independent methods. Previous measurements have established that the stoichiometry of the outer cortical system is 1∶1. It is suggested that this arrangement of transporters in series along the proximal tubule enables the kidney to reabsorb glucose from the urine in an energy-efficient fashion. The bulk of the glucose load is reabsorbed early in the proximal tubule at an energetic cost of one Na+ per glucose molecule. Then in the late proximal tubule a larger coupling ratio and hence a larger driving force is employed to reabsorb the last traces of glucose from the urine.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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  • 4
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
    Springer
    The journal of membrane biology 16 (1974), S. 237-256 
    ISSN: 1432-1424
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Chemie und Pharmazie
    Notizen: Summary A proteolipidic toxin, prymnesin, when added to the aqueous solutions around thin lipid membranes causes a marked increase in membrane conductance. The toxin-treated membrane is cation-permselective. The extent of cation permselectivity is dependent upon ionic strength of the aqueous solutions in a fashion similar to the dependence of cation permselectivity of a cation exchanger containing about 100mm of fixed negative sites. Dose-response relationship studies reveal a linear relation between log prymnesin concentration and log membrane conductance. The slope of the curve is around 3 if the toxin is applied to one side of the membrane and is around 7 if the toxin is applied to both sides of the membrane. The membrane treated with toxin on one side only is clearly asymmetric in its properties. These characteristics are expressed by an asymmetric current-voltage relationship, and by asymmetric sensitivity of membrane conductance to pH and to salt concentration. The conductance of the toxin-treated membrane is inversely proportional to temperature. It is suggested that aggregates of toxin moieties assemble in the membrane to form negatively charged aqueous pores. There is roughly a good correlation between the increase in membrane conductance and the increase in membrane permeability to urea if both were attributed to the formation of aqueous channels in the membrane.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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  • 5
    Digitale Medien
    Digitale Medien
    New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal of Cellular Physiology 159 (1994), S. 573-581 
    ISSN: 0021-9541
    Schlagwort(e): Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Quelle: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Medizin
    Notizen: Exposure to hypotonic stress produces a transient increase in cell volume followed by a regulatory volume decrease (RVD) in both THP-1 and HL-60 cells. In contrast, cells exposed to hypotonic stress in a high K/low Na Hanks' solution not only failed to volume regulate, but displayed a secondary swelling. Thus, while an outward K gradient was required ful KVD, the secondary swelling indicated that hypotonic stress increased permeability in the absence of a negative membrane potential. The K channel blocker quinine (1-4 mM) blocked RVD in both cell types. Gramicidin's ability to overcome the quinine block of RVD indicated that RVD is mediated by a quinine-sensitive cation transport mechanism that is independent of the swelling-induced anion transport mechanism. Barium (1-4 mM), another K channel blocker, slowed the rate of RVD, while 4-aminopyridine, charybdotoxin, tetraethylammonium chloride, tetrabutylammonium chloride, and gadolinium had no effect on RVD. Furthermore, RVD was not mediated by calcium-activated conductances, since it occurred normally in Ca-free medium, in medium containing cadmium, and in BAPTA-loaded cells. Gramicidin produced little or no volume change in isotonic medium, suggesting that basal C1 permeability of both THP-1 and HL-60 cells is low. However, swelling induced an anion efflux pathway that is permeable to both chloride and bromide, but is impermeable to methanesulfonate and glutamate. The anion channel blocker 3,5-diiodosalicylic acid (DISA) antagonized RVD in both cell types. In conclusion, RVD in THP-1 and HL-60 cells is mediated by independent anion and cation transport mechanisms that involve both a DISA-sensitive anion pathway and a quinine-inhibitable K efflux pathway, neither of which requires increases in intra-cellular calcium to be activated. © 1994 wiley-Liss, Inc.
    Zusätzliches Material: 10 Ill.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
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