Stelmashook EV, Weih M, Zorov D, Victorov I, Dirnagl U, Isaev N. Short-term block of Na+/K+-ATPase in neuro-glial cell cultures of cerebellum induces glutamate dependent damage of granule cells.
FEBS Lett 1999;
456:41-4. [PMID:
10452526 DOI:
10.1016/s0014-5793(99)00922-9]
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Abstract
Granule cells in a dissociated neuro-glial cell culture of cerebellum when exposed to ouabain (10(-3) M) for 25 min apparently swell, increase their [Ca2+]i with obvious depolarization of the mitochondrial membrane. In 3 h after ouabain was omitted from the solution, 62 +/- 3% of granule cells had pycnotic nuclei. The supplement of a solution with competitive specific antagonist of NMDA receptors, L-2-amino-7-phosphonoheptanoate (10(-4) M, APH) together with ouabain prevented cells from swelling, mitochondrial deenergization, neuronal death and increase of [Ca2+]i. These data suggest that cellular Na+/K+-ATPase inactivation in neuro-glial cell cultures of cerebellum leads to glutamate (Glu) accumulation, hyperstimulation of glutamate receptors, higher Ca2+ and Na+ influxes into the cells through the channels activated by Glu. This process leads to cell swelling, mitochondrial deenergization and death of granule cells. Possibly, the decrease of Na+/K+-ATPase activity in brain cells can lead to the onset of at least some chronic neurological disorders.
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