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Carretero VJ, Liccardi N, Tejedor MA, de Pascual R, Campano JH, Hernández-Guijo JM. Lead exerts a depression of neurotransmitter release through a blockade of voltage dependent calcium channels in chromaffin cells. Toxicology 2024; 505:153809. [PMID: 38648961 DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2024.153809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2024] [Revised: 04/08/2024] [Accepted: 04/17/2024] [Indexed: 04/25/2024]
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The present work, using chromaffin cells of bovine adrenal medullae (BCCs), aims to describe what type of ionic current alterations induced by lead (Pb2+) underlies its effects reported on synaptic transmission. We observed that the acute application of Pb2+ lead to a drastic depression of neurotransmitters release in a concentration-dependent manner when the cells were stimulated with both K+ or acetylcholine, with an IC50 of 119,57 μM and of 5,19 μM, respectively. This effect was fully recovered after washout. Pb2+ also blocked calcium channels of BCCs in a time- and concentration-dependent manner with an IC50 of 6,87 μM. This blockade was partially reversed upon washout. This compound inhibited the calcium current at all test potentials and shows a shift of the I-V curve to more negative values of about 8 mV. The sodium current was not blocked by acute application of high Pb2+ concentrations. Voltage-dependent potassium current was also shortly affected by high Pb2+. Nevertheless, the calcium- and voltage-dependent potassium current was drastically depressed in a dose-dependent manner, with an IC50 of 24,49 μM. This blockade was related to the prevention of Ca2+ influx through voltage-dependent calcium channels coupled to Ca2+-activated K+-channels (BK) instead a direct linking to these channels. Under current-clamp conditions, BCCs exhibit a resting potential of -52.7 mV, firing spontaneous APs (1-2 spikes/s) generated by the opening of Na+ and Ca2+-channels, and terminated by the activation of K+ channels. In spite of the effect on ionic channels exerted by Pb2+, we found that Pb2+ didn't alter cellular excitability, no modification of the membrane potential, and no effect on action potential firing. Taken together, these results point to a neurotoxic action evoked by Pb2+ that is associated with changes in neurotransmitter release by blocking the ionic currents responsible for the calcium influx.
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- Victoria Jiménez Carretero
- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutic, Facultad de Medicina, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid, Av. Arzobispo Morcillo 4, Madrid 28029, Spain
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutic, Facultad de Medicina, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid, Av. Arzobispo Morcillo 4, Madrid 28029, Spain
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutic, Facultad de Medicina, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid, Av. Arzobispo Morcillo 4, Madrid 28029, Spain
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutic, Facultad de Medicina, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid, Av. Arzobispo Morcillo 4, Madrid 28029, Spain
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutic, Facultad de Medicina, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid, Av. Arzobispo Morcillo 4, Madrid 28029, Spain
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutic, Facultad de Medicina, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid, Av. Arzobispo Morcillo 4, Madrid 28029, Spain; Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research, IRYCIS, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Ctra. de Colmenar Viejo, Km. 9,100, Madrid 28029, Spain.
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Artalejo AR, Arribas-Blázquez M, Barahona MV, Llorente-Sáez C, Olivos-Oré LA. María Teresa Miras Portugal: a pioneer in the study of purinoceptors in chromaffin cells. Purinergic Signal 2024; 20:109-113. [PMID: 36941507 PMCID: PMC10997576 DOI: 10.1007/s11302-023-09934-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2023] [Accepted: 03/09/2023] [Indexed: 03/23/2023] Open
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María Teresa Miras Portugal devoted most of her scientific life to the study of purinergic signalling. In an important part of her work, she used a model system: the chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla. It was in these cells that she identified diadenosine polyphosphates, from which she proceeded to the study of adrenomedullary purinome: nucleotide synthesis and degradation, adenosine transport, nucleotide uptake into chromaffin granules, exocytotic release of nucleotides and autocrine regulation of chromaffin cell function via purinoceptors. This short review will focus on the current state of knowledge of the purinoceptors of adrenal chromaffin cells, a subject to which María Teresa made seminal contributions and which she continued to study until the end of her scientific life.
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- Antonio R Artalejo
- Departament of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avda. Puerta de Hierro s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain.
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- Departament of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avda. Puerta de Hierro s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- Departament of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avda. Puerta de Hierro s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- Departament of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avda. Puerta de Hierro s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- Departament of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avda. Puerta de Hierro s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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Guérineau NC. Adaptive remodeling of the stimulus-secretion coupling: Lessons from the 'stressed' adrenal medulla. Vitam Horm 2023; 124:221-295. [PMID: 38408800 DOI: 10.1016/bs.vh.2023.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/28/2024]
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Stress is part of our daily lives and good health in the modern world is offset by unhealthy lifestyle factors, including the deleterious consequences of stress and associated pathologies. Repeated and/or prolonged stress may disrupt the body homeostasis and thus threatens our lives. Adaptive processes that allow the organism to adapt to new environmental conditions and maintain its homeostasis are therefore crucial. The adrenal glands are major endocrine/neuroendocrine organs involved in the adaptive response of the body facing stressful situations. Upon stress episodes and in response to activation of the sympathetic nervous system, the first adrenal cells to be activated are the neuroendocrine chromaffin cells located in the medullary tissue of the adrenal gland. By releasing catecholamines (mainly epinephrine and to a lesser extent norepinephrine), adrenal chromaffin cells actively contribute to the development of adaptive mechanisms, in particular targeting the cardiovascular system and leading to appropriate adjustments of blood pressure and heart rate, as well as energy metabolism. Specifically, this chapter covers the current knowledge as to how the adrenal medullary tissue remodels in response to stress episodes, with special attention paid to chromaffin cell stimulus-secretion coupling. Adrenal stimulus-secretion coupling encompasses various elements taking place at both the molecular/cellular and tissular levels. Here, I focus on stress-driven changes in catecholamine biosynthesis, chromaffin cell excitability, synaptic neurotransmission and gap junctional communication. These signaling pathways undergo a collective and finely-tuned remodeling, contributing to appropriate catecholamine secretion and maintenance of body homeostasis in response to stress.
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- Nathalie C Guérineau
- Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Montpellier, CNRS, INSERM, Montpellier, France.
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Fernández A, Martínez-Ramírez C, Gómez A, de Diego AMG, Gandía L, Casarejos MJ, García AG. Mitochondrial dysfunction in chromaffin cells from the R6/1 mouse model of Huntington's disease: Impact on exocytosis and calcium current regulation. Neurobiol Dis 2023; 179:106046. [PMID: 36806818 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2023.106046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2022] [Revised: 02/08/2023] [Accepted: 02/15/2023] [Indexed: 02/21/2023] Open
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From a pathogenic perspective, Huntington's disease (HD) is being considered as a synaptopathy. As such, alterations in brain neurotransmitter release occur. As the activity of the sympathoadrenal axis is centrally controlled, deficits in the exocytotic release of catecholamine release may also occur. In fact, in chromaffin cells (CCs) of the adrenal medulla of the R6/1 model of HD, decrease of secretion and altered kinetics of the exocytotic fusion pore have been reported. Those alterations could be linked to mitochondrial deficits occurring in peripheral CCs, similar to those described in brain mitochondria. Here we have inquired about alterations in mitochondrial structure and function and their impact on exocytosis and calcium channel currents (ICa). We have monitored various parameters linked to those events, in wild type (WT) and the R6/1 mouse model of HD at a pre-disease stage (2 months age, 2 m), and when motor deficits are present (7 months age, 7 m). In isolated CCs from 7 m and in the adrenal medulla of R6/1 mice, we found the following alterations (with respect 7 m WT mice): (i) augmented fragmented mitochondria and oxidative stress with increased oxidized glutathione; (ii) decreased basal and maximal respiration; (iii) diminution of ATP cell levels; (iv) mitochondrial depolarization; (v) drastic decrease of catecholamine release with poorer potentiation by protonophore FCCP; (vi) decreased ICa inhibition by FCCP; and (vii) lesser potentiation by BayK8644 of ICa and smaller prolongation of current deactivation. Of note was the fact several of these alterations were already manifested in CCs from 2 m R6/1 mice at pre-disease stages. Based on those results, a plausible hypothesis can be raised in the sense that altered mitochondrial function seems to be an early primary event in HD pathogenesis. This is in line with an increasing number of mitochondrial, metabolic, and inflammatory alterations being recently reported in various HD peripheral tissues.
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- Ana Fernández
- Instituto Teófilo Hernando, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Departamento de Farmacología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Fundación Teófilo Hernando, Parque científico de Madrid, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Teófilo Hernando, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Departamento de Farmacología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Fundación Teófilo Hernando, Parque científico de Madrid, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain
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- Servicio de Neurobiología, IRYCIS, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Teófilo Hernando, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Departamento de Farmacología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Teófilo Hernando, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Departamento de Farmacología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Fundación Teófilo Hernando, Parque científico de Madrid, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain
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- Servicio de Neurobiología, IRYCIS, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Teófilo Hernando, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Departamento de Farmacología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Fundación Teófilo Hernando, Parque científico de Madrid, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain.
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Santo-Domingo J, Álvarez-Illera P, Montenegro P, Fonteriz RI, Montero M, Álvarez J. Measurements of Calcium in Chromaffin Cell Organelles Using Targeted Aequorins. Methods Mol Biol 2023; 2565:153-177. [PMID: 36205893 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2671-9_11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The molecular mechanisms that mediate and regulate calcium (Ca2+) fluxes through the membranes of intracellular organelles play a key role in the generation and shaping of the local and global cytosolic Ca2+ signals triggering the process of regulated exocytosis in chromaffin cells. Beyond that role, intraorganellar Ca2+ homeostasis also regulates organelle-specific processes such as oxidative phosphorylation in mitochondria, maturation of secretory granules, or stress in the endoplasmic reticulum. In this chapter, we describe current methods to study mitochondrial, endoplasmic reticulum, and secretory vesicle calcium homeostasis in living chromaffin cells using engineered targeted aequorins.
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- Jaime Santo-Domingo
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Fisiología, Facultad de Medicina, Unidad de Excelencia Instituto de Biología y Genética Molecular (IBGM), Universidad de Valladolid and CSIC, Valladolid, Spain.
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Fisiología, Facultad de Medicina, Unidad de Excelencia Instituto de Biología y Genética Molecular (IBGM), Universidad de Valladolid and CSIC, Valladolid, Spain
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- Pharmacology Unit, Department of Physical Medicine and Pharmacology, Medical School, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Fisiología, Facultad de Medicina, Unidad de Excelencia Instituto de Biología y Genética Molecular (IBGM), Universidad de Valladolid and CSIC, Valladolid, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Fisiología, Facultad de Medicina, Unidad de Excelencia Instituto de Biología y Genética Molecular (IBGM), Universidad de Valladolid and CSIC, Valladolid, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Fisiología, Facultad de Medicina, Unidad de Excelencia Instituto de Biología y Genética Molecular (IBGM), Universidad de Valladolid and CSIC, Valladolid, Spain
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Alejandre-García T, Segura-Chama P, Parada-Parra OJ, Millán-Aldaco D, Hernández-Cruz A. Calcium Imaging and Amperometric Recording in Cultured Chromaffin Cells and Adrenal Slices from Normotensive, Wistar Kyoto Rats and Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats. Methods Mol Biol 2023; 2565:129-151. [PMID: 36205892 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2671-9_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) is a model widely used to investigate the causal mechanisms of essential hypertension. The enhanced catecholamine (CA) release reported in adrenal glands from adult SHRs raised considerable interest for its possible implication in the genesis of hypertension. The use of powerful techniques such as calcium imaging, electrophysiology, and single-cell amperometry to monitor in real time the key steps in CA secretion has allowed a better understanding of the role of chromaffin cells (CC) in the pathophysiology of hypertension, although several questions remain. Additionally, the implementation of these techniques in preparations in situ, such as the acute adrenal gland slice, which maintains the microenvironment, cell-to-cell communication, and anatomical structure similar to that of the intact adrenal gland, yields data that may have even greater physiological relevance. Here, we describe the procedures to measure the blood pressure of rats in a noninvasive manner, how to obtain primary cultures of adrenal chromaffin cells and acute adrenal slices, and how to perform amperometric recordings and intracellular calcium imaging in these preparations.
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- Cátedras CONACyT, Laboratorio de Fisiología Celular, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de La Fuente Muniz, México City, Mexico
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- Departamento Neurociencia Cognitiva, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City, Mexico
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- Departamento Neurociencia Cognitiva, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City, Mexico
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- Departamento Neurociencia Cognitiva, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City, Mexico.
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Omar-Hmeadi M, Liu L, Echeverry S, Barg S. Quantification of Secretory Granule Exocytosis by TIRF Imaging and Capacitance Measurements. Methods Mol Biol 2023; 2565:179-186. [PMID: 36205894 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2671-9_12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Hormones and neurotransmitters are released from (neuro)endocrine cells by regulated exocytosis of secretory granules. During exocytosis, the granule membrane fuses with the plasma membrane, which allows release of the stored content into the bloodstream or the surrounding tissue. Here, we give a detailed description of two complementary methods to observe and quantify exocytosis in single cells: high-resolution TIRF microscopy and patch-clamp capacitance recordings. Precise stimulation of exocytosis is achieved by local pressure application or voltage-clamp depolarizations. While the chapter is focused on insulin-secreting cells as an accessible and disease-relevant model system, the methodology is applicable to a wide variety of secretory cells including chromaffin and PC12 cells.
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- Medical Cell Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Medical Cell Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
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Bademosi AT, Meunier FA. Unveiling the Nanoscale Dynamics of the Exocytic Machinery in Chromaffin Cells with Single-Molecule Imaging. Methods Mol Biol 2023; 2565:311-327. [PMID: 36205903 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2671-9_21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Neuronal and hormonal communication relies on the exocytic fusion of vesicles containing neurotransmitters and hormones with the plasma membrane. This process is tightly regulated by key protein-protein and protein-lipid interactions and culminates in the soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptor (SNARE) complex formation and zippering that promotes vesicular fusion. Located on both sides of the vesicle and the plasma membrane, the zippering of the SNARE complex acts to overcome the energy barrier afforded by the repulsive electrostatic force stemming from apposing two negatively charged phospholipid membranes. Another component opposing the timely organization of the fusion machinery is thermal Brownian energy that tends to homogenize all cellular molecules by constantly switching their motions and directions through short-lived molecular interactions. Much less is known of the mechanisms counteracting these chaotic forces, allowing seamless cellular functions such as exocytic fusion. Super-resolution microscopy techniques such as single-molecule imaging have proven useful to start uncovering these nanoscale mechanisms. Here, we used single-particle tracking photoactivatable localization microscopy (sptPALM) to track syntaxin-1-mEos, a SNARE protein located on the plasma membrane of cultured bovine chromaffin cells. We demonstrate that syntaxin-1-mEos undergoes dramatic change in its mobility in response to secretagogue stimulation leading to increased nanoclustering. These nanoclusters are transient in nature and likely to provide docked vesicles with a molecular environment conducive to exocytic fusion.
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- Adekunle T Bademosi
- Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research (CJCADR), Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), The University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
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- Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research (CJCADR), Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), The University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
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Tomagra G, Franchino C, Carbone E, Marcantoni A, Pasquarelli A, Picollo F, Carabelli V. Methodologies for Detecting Quantal Exocytosis in Adrenal Chromaffin Cells Through Diamond-Based MEAs. Methods Mol Biol 2023; 2565:213-221. [PMID: 36205897 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2671-9_15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Diamond-based multiarray sensors are suitable to detect in real-time exocytosis and action potentials from cultured, spontaneously firing chromaffin cells, primary hippocampal neurons, and midbrain dopaminergic neurons. Here, we focus on how amperometric measurements of catecholamine release are performed on micrographitic diamond multiarrays (μG-D-MEAs) with high temporal and spatial resolution by 16 electrodes simultaneously.
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- Giulia Tomagra
- Department of Drug Science and Technology and "NIS" Inter-departmental Centre, University of Torino, Turin, Italy.
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- Department of Drug Science and Technology, University of Torino, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Drug Science and Technology and "NIS" Inter-departmental Centre, University of Torino, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Drug Science and Technology and "NIS" Inter-departmental Centre, University of Torino, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Physics and "NIS" Inter-departmental Centre, University of Torino, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Drug Science and Technology and "NIS" Inter-departmental Centre, University of Torino, Turin, Italy
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Seward EP, Wykes RC. Membrane Capacitance Measurements of Stimulus-Evoked Exocytosis in Adrenal Chromaffin Cells. Methods Mol Biol 2023; 2565:187-202. [PMID: 36205895 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2671-9_13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Research using membrane capacitance (Cm) measurements in adrenal chromaffin cells has transformed our understanding of the molecular mechanisms controlling regulated exocytosis. This is in part due to the exquisite temporal resolution of the technique, and the possibility of combining quantification of exo-/endocytosis at the whole-cell level, with the ability to simultaneously monitor and control the calcium signals triggering vesicle fusion. In this regard, experiments performed with Cm measurements complement amperometry experiments that give a measure of secreted transmitter and the behavior of the fusion pore, and fluorescent microscopy studies used to monitor vesicle and protein dynamics in imaged regions of the cell. In this chapter, we provide a detailed account of the methodology used to perform whole-cell patch clamp measurements of Cm in combination with voltage-clamp recordings of voltage-gated calcium channels to quantify stimulus-secretion coupling in chromaffin cells. Stimulus protocols developed for investigation of functionally distinct releasable vesicle pools are also described.
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
- Nanomedicine Lab, Faculty of Biology Medicine & Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Cano-Abad MF, López MG. Cytotoxicity Models in Chromaffin Cells to Evaluate Neuroprotective Compounds. Methods Mol Biol 2023; 2565:361-370. [PMID: 36205906 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2671-9_24] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Primary cultures of bovine chromaffin cells are considered a good model to evaluate potential neuroprotective compounds for two major reasons: (i) they share many common features to neurons as they synthesize, store, and release neurotransmitters; they are excitable cells that express voltage-dependent calcium, potassium, and sodium channels; they express different neuronal receptor subtypes; and (ii) they can be easily cultured in high quantities from adult animals; as adult para-neurons, they can be used to reproduce different neurodegenerative-like cytotoxicity models. In this chapter, we describe protocols to mimic calcium overload (veratridine and thapsigargin) and oxidative stress (rotenone plus oligomycin-A and 6-hydroxydopamine) to evaluate potential neuroprotective compounds.
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- María F Cano-Abad
- Instituto Teófilo Hernando. Departamento de Farmacología. Facultad de Medicina. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Instituto de investigación Sanitaria Hospital de la Princesa, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Teófilo Hernando. Departamento de Farmacología. Facultad de Medicina. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Instituto de investigación Sanitaria Hospital de la Princesa, Madrid, Spain.
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Villanueva J, Giménez-Molina Y, Gutiérrez LM. Confocal Microscopy Studies of F-Actin Cytoskeleton Distribution and Dynamics Using Fluorescent LifeAct Constructs in Bovine Adrenal Chromaffin Cells. Methods Mol Biol 2023; 2565:297-309. [PMID: 36205902 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2671-9_20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Cultured bovine chromaffin cells have been characterized as a successful model to study changes in the cytoskeleton during the secretory process. In this sense, the distribution and dynamics of the F-actin cytoskeleton can be studied by confocal microscopy using appropriate molecular tools such as LifeAct, a peptide that stains the structures of F-actin. In this work, we describe some methodological protocols making possible to study, under controlled stimulus conditions, the local dynamic changes of F-actin in the cortical zone and also to detect the simultaneous displacements of chromaffin granules and organelles in active zones.
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- José Villanueva
- Instituto de Neurociencias, Centro Mixto CSIC-Universidad Miguel Hernández, Alicante, Spain.
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- Instituto de Neurociencias, Centro Mixto CSIC-Universidad Miguel Hernández, Alicante, Spain
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- Instituto de Neurociencias, Centro Mixto CSIC-Universidad Miguel Hernández, Alicante, Spain
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González-Jamett A, Maldifassi MC, Cárdenas AM. Isolation and Purification of Chromaffin Granules from Adrenal Glands and Cultured Neuroendocrine Cells. Methods Mol Biol 2023; 2565:283-296. [PMID: 36205901 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2671-9_19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Chromaffin granules isolated from adrenal glands constitute a powerful experimental tool to the study of secretory vesicle components and their participation in fusion and docking processes, vesicle aggregation, and interactions with cytosolic components. Although it is possible to isolate and purify chromaffin granules from adrenal glands of different species, bovine adrenal glands are the most used tissue source due to its easy handling and the large amount of granules that can be obtained from this tissue. In this chapter, we describe an easy-to-use and short-term protocol for efficiently obtaining highly purified chromaffin granules from bovine adrenal medulla. We additionally include protocols to isolate granules from cultured bovine chromaffin cells and PC12 cells, as well as a section to obtain chromaffin granules from mouse adrenal glands.
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- Arlek González-Jamett
- Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia de Valparaíso, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile
- Escuela de Química y Farmacia, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia de Valparaíso, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia de Valparaíso, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile.
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Baraibar AM, de Pascual R, Rodriguez Angulo HO, Mijares A, Hernández-Guijo JM. Pro-arrhythmogenic effects of Trypanosoma cruzi conditioned medium proteins in a model of bovine chromaffin cells. Parasitology 2021; 148:1612-1623. [PMID: 34384512 PMCID: PMC11010060 DOI: 10.1017/s003118202100130x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2021] [Revised: 07/07/2021] [Accepted: 07/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Asymptomatic sudden death is the principal cause of mortality in Chagas disease. There is little information about molecular mechanisms involved in the pathophysiology of malignant arrhythmias in Chagasic patients. Previous studies have involved Trypanosoma cruzi secretion proteins in the genesis of arrhythmias ex vivo, but the molecular mechanisms involved are still unresolved. Thus, the aim was to determine the effect of these secreted proteins on the cellular excitability throughout to test its effects on catecholamine secretion, sodium-, calcium-, and potassium-conductance and action potential (AP) firing. Conditioned medium was obtained from the co-culture of T. cruzi and Vero cells (African green monkey kidney cells) and ultra-filtered for concentrating immunogenic high molecular weight parasite proteins. Chromaffin cells were assessed with the parasite and Vero cells control medium. Parasite-secreted proteins induce catecholamine secretion in a dose-dependent manner. Additionally, T. cruzi conditioned medium induced depression of both calcium conductance and calcium and voltage-dependent potassium current. Interestingly, this fact was related to the abolishment of the hyperpolarization phase of the AP produced by the parasite medium. Taken together, these results suggest that T. cruzi proteins may be involved in the genesis of pro-arrhythmic conditions that could influence the appearance of malignant arrhythmias in Chagasic patients.
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- A. M. Baraibar
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, 4-158 Jackson Hall, 321 Church St s.e., Minneapolis, MN55455, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutic, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Av. Arzobispo Morcillo 4, 28029Madrid, Spain
- Institute ‘Teófilo Hernando’, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Av. Arzobispo Morcillo 4, 28029Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Fisiología de Parásitos, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela
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- Laboratorio de Fisiología de Parásitos, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutic, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Av. Arzobispo Morcillo 4, 28029Madrid, Spain
- Institute ‘Teófilo Hernando’, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Av. Arzobispo Morcillo 4, 28029Madrid, Spain
- IRYCIS, School of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Av. Arzobispo Morcillo 4, 28029Madrid, Spain
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Vamecq J, Pigny P. Emerging considerations on mitochondrial and cytosolic metabolic features in SDH-deficient cancer cells. Mol Genet Metab Rep 2021; 26:100721. [PMID: 33552913 PMCID: PMC7859288 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymgmr.2021.100721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2020] [Revised: 01/22/2021] [Accepted: 01/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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- Joseph Vamecq
- Inserm, Univ. Lille EA 7364 RADEME, CHU Lille, HMNO, CBP, Lille, France
- Corresponding authors.
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- Univ. Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille-HMNO, UMR-S1277 CANTHER, F-59000 Lille, France
- Corresponding authors.
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The release from cells of signaling molecules through the controlled process of exocytosis involves multiple coordinated steps and is essential for the proper control of a multitude of biological pathways across the endocrine and nervous systems. However, these events are minute both temporally and in terms of the minute amounts of neurotransmitters, hormones, growth factors, and peptides released from single vesicles during exocytosis. It is therefore difficult to measure the kinetics of single exocytosis events in real time. One noninvasive method of measuring the release of molecules from cells is carbon-fiber amperometry. In this chapter, we will describe how we undertake such measurements from both single cells and in live tissue, how the subsequent data are analyzed, and how we interpret these results in terms of their relevant physiology.
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Thahouly T, Tanguy E, Raherindratsara J, Bader MF, Chasserot-Golaz S, Gasman S, Vitale N. Bovine Chromaffin Cells: Culture and Fluorescence Assay for Secretion. Methods Mol Biol 2021; 2233:169-79. [PMID: 33222134 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1044-2_11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Over the last four decades, chromaffin cells originating from the adrenal medulla have been probably one of the most popular cell models to study neurosecretion at the molecular level. Accordingly, numerous seminal discoveries in the field, including the characterization of role of the cytoskeleton, fusogenic lipids, and soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitivefactor attachment protein receptor (SNARE) proteins, have been made using this model. In this chapter, we describe a standard method currently used to isolate and culture bovine chromaffin cells, and we illustrate a catecholamine secretion assay based on the successive transformation of adrenaline into adrenochrome and adrenolutine for fluorescence measurements. We also provide some guidelines for efficient cell recovery and for the use of this assay in the laboratory.
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Kameneva P, Kastriti ME, Adameyko I. Neuronal lineages derived from the nerve-associated Schwann cell precursors. Cell Mol Life Sci 2021; 78:513-529. [PMID: 32748156 PMCID: PMC7873084 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-020-03609-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2020] [Revised: 05/18/2020] [Accepted: 07/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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For a long time, neurogenic placodes and migratory neural crest cells were considered the immediate sources building neurons of peripheral nervous system. Recently, a number of discoveries revealed the existence of another progenitor type-a nerve-associated multipotent Schwann cell precursors (SCPs) building enteric and parasympathetic neurons as well as neuroendocrine chromaffin cells. SCPs are neural crest-derived and are similar to the crest cells by their markers and differentiation potential. Such similarities, but also considerable differences, raise many questions pertaining to the medical side, fundamental developmental biology and evolution. Here, we discuss the genesis of Schwann cell precursors, their role in building peripheral neural structures and ponder on their role in the origin in congenial diseases associated with peripheral nervous systems.
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- Polina Kameneva
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, 171 77, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, 171 77, Sweden
- Department of Molecular Neurosciences, Center for Brain Research, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, 1090, Austria
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, 171 77, Sweden.
- Department of Molecular Neurosciences, Center for Brain Research, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, 1090, Austria.
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Houy S, Martins JS, Mohrmann R, Sørensen JB. Measurements of Exocytosis by Capacitance Recordings and Calcium Uncaging in Mouse Adrenal Chromaffin Cells. Methods Mol Biol 2021; 2233:233-251. [PMID: 33222139 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1044-2_16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Fusion of vesicles with the plasma membrane and liberation of their contents is a multistep process involving several proteins. Correctly assigning the role of specific proteins and reactions in this cascade requires a measurement method with high temporal resolution. Patch-clamp recordings of cell membrane capacitance in combination with calcium measurements, calcium uncaging, and carbon-fiber amperometry allow for the accurate determination of vesicle pool sizes, their fusion kinetics, and their secreted oxidizable content. Here, we will describe this method in a model system for neurosecretion, the adrenal chromaffin cells, which secrete adrenaline.
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- Sébastien Houy
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen N, Denmark
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen N, Denmark
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- Institute for Physiology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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Kastriti ME, Kameneva P, Adameyko I. Stem cells, evolutionary aspects and pathology of the adrenal medulla: A new developmental paradigm. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2020; 518:110998. [PMID: 32818585 DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2020.110998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2020] [Revised: 07/20/2020] [Accepted: 08/17/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The mammalian adrenal gland is composed of two main components; the catecholaminergic neural crest-derived medulla, found in the center of the gland, and the mesoderm-derived cortex producing steroidogenic hormones. The medulla is composed of neuroendocrine chromaffin cells with oxygen-sensing properties and is dependent on tissue interactions with the overlying cortex, both during development and in adulthood. Other relevant organs include the Zuckerkandl organ containing extra-adrenal chromaffin cells, and carotid oxygen-sensing bodies containing glomus cells. Chromaffin and glomus cells reveal a number of important similarities and are derived from the multipotent nerve-associated descendants of the neural crest, or Schwann cell precursors. Abnormalities in complex developmental processes during differentiation of nerve-associated and other progenitors into chromaffin and oxygen-sensing populations may result in different subtypes of paraganglioma, neuroblastoma and pheochromocytoma. Here, we summarize recent findings explaining the development of chromaffin and oxygen-sensing cells, as well as the potential mechanisms driving neuroendocrine tumor initiation.
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- Maria Eleni Kastriti
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden; Department of Molecular Neurosciences, Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden; National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden; Department of Molecular Neurosciences, Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Department of Neuroimmunology, Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
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Ceridono M, Chasserot-Golaz S, Vitale N, Gasman S, Ory S. Measurements of Compensatory Endocytosis by Antibody Internalization and Quantification of Endocytic Vesicle Distribution in Adrenal Chromaffin Cells. Methods Mol Biol 2021; 2233:43-51. [PMID: 33222126 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1044-2_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Plasma membrane proteins are amenable to endocytosis assays since they are easily labeled by reagents applied in the extracellular medium. This has been widely exploited to study constitutive endocytosis or ligand-induced receptor endocytosis. Compensatory endocytosis is the mechanism by which components of secretory vesicles are retrieved after vesicle fusion with the plasma membrane in response to cell stimulation and a rise in intracellular calcium. Luminal membrane proteins from secretory vesicles are therefore transiently exposed at the plasma membrane. Here, we described an antibody-based method to monitor compensatory endocytosis in chromaffin cells and present an image-based analysis to quantify endocytic vesicles distribution.
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Bomfim GHS, Musial DC, Méndez-López I, Jurkiewicz A, Jurkiewicz NH, Padín JF, García AG. Chronic resveratrol consumption prevents hypertension development altering electrophysiological currents and Ca 2+ signaling in chromaffin cells from SHR rats. Cell Signal 2020; 76:109811. [PMID: 33075487 DOI: 10.1016/j.cellsig.2020.109811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2020] [Revised: 10/12/2020] [Accepted: 10/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Resveratrol (RESV) is one of the most abundant polyphenol-stilbene compounds found in red wine with well-established cardioprotective and antihypertensive effects. Hyperactivity of the sympathoadrenal axis seems to be one of the major contributing factors in the pathogenesis of human essential hypertension. Alterations in outward voltage-dependent potassium currents (IK) and inward voltage-dependent sodium (INa), calcium (ICa) and nicotinic (IACh) currents, CCs excitability, Ca2+ homeostasis, and catecholamine exocytosis were previously related to the hypertensive state. This raised the issue of whether in vivo long-term RESV treatment can directly act as a modulator of Ca2+ influx or a regulator of ion channel permeability in CCs. We monitored outward and inward currents, and cytosolic Ca2+ concentrations ([Ca2+]c) using different pharmacological approaches in CCs from normotensive (WKY) and hypertensive (SHR) animals chronically exposed to trans-RESV (50 mg/L/v.o, 28 days). The long-term RESV treatment prevented the increase of the systolic blood pressure (SBP) in SHR, without reversion of cardiac hypertrophy. We also found an increase of the outward IK, reduction in inward INa,ICa, and IACh, and the mitigation of [Ca2+]c overload in CCs from SHR at the end of RESV treatment. Our data revealed that electrophysiological alterations of the CCs and in its Ca2+ homeostasis are potential new targets related to the antihypertensive effects of long-term RESV treatment.
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Tsutsuki H, Kasamatsu S, Kunieda K, Ida T, Sawa T, Sasakawa N, Akaike T, Ihara H. 8-Nitro-cGMP modulates exocytosis in adrenal chromaffin cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2020; 526:225-230. [PMID: 32201073 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.03.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2020] [Accepted: 03/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Nitric oxide (NO)-mediated production of cyclic guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cGMP) is a crucial signaling pathway that controls a wide array of neuronal functions, including exocytotic neurotransmitter release. A novel nitrated derivative of cGMP, 8-nitro-cGMP, not only activates cGMP-dependent protein kinase (PKG), but also has membrane permeability and redox activity to produce superoxide and S-guanylated protein. To date, no studies have addressed the effects of 8-nitro-cGMP on exocytotic kinetics. Here, we aimed to assess the 8-nitro-cGMP-mediated modulation of the depolarization-evoked catecholamine release from bovine chromaffin cells. 8-Nitro-cGMP was produced in bovine chromaffin cells dependent on NO donor. Amperometric analysis revealed that 8-nitro-cGMP modulated the kinetic parameters of secretory spikes from chromaffin cells, particularly decreased the speed of individual spikes, resulting in a reduced amperometric spike height, slope β, and absolute value of slope γ. The modulatory effects were independent of the PKG signal and superoxide production. This is the first study to demonstrate that 8-nitro-cGMP modulates exocytosis and provide insights into a novel regulatory mechanism of exocytosis.
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- Hiroyasu Tsutsuki
- Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, 860-8556, Japan
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan
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- Departments of Environmental Medicine and Molecular Toxicology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, 980-8575, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, 860-8556, Japan
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- Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sophia University, Tokyo, 102-8554, Japan
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- Departments of Environmental Medicine and Molecular Toxicology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, 980-8575, Japan
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan.
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Villanueva J, Gimenez-Molina Y, Gutiérrez LM. Studies of the Secretory Machinery Dynamics by Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy in Bovine Adrenal Chromaffin Cells. Methods Mol Biol 2019; 1860:379-89. [PMID: 30317519 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8760-3_25] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Cultured bovine chromaffin cells have been tested as a successful neuroendocrine model to study the secretory process. Changes in the dynamics of the secretory vesicles and the exocytotic machinery microdomains could be studied in control and stimulated conditions using appropriate molecular tools such as fluorescent SNARE protein expression or fluorochrome vesicular labeling in these neuroendocrine cells. Since most of these changes occur in or near the plasma membrane, the use of the total internal reflection fluorescent microscopy (TIRFM) and the implement of particle motion analysis could be essential tools to study the structural and dynamic changes of secretory machinery related with its function in this exocytotic cell model.
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El Faitwri T, Huber K. Expression pattern of delta-like 1 homolog in developing sympathetic neurons and chromaffin cells. Gene Expr Patterns 2018; 30:49-54. [PMID: 30144579 DOI: 10.1016/j.gep.2018.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2018] [Revised: 08/21/2018] [Accepted: 08/21/2018] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Delta-like 1 homolog (DLK1) is a member of the epidermal growth factor (EGF)-like family and an atypical notch ligand that is widely expressed during early mammalian development with putative functions in the regulation of cell differentiation and proliferation. During later stages of development, DLK1 is downregulated and becomes increasingly restricted to specific cell types, including several types of endocrine cells. DLK1 has been linked to various tumors and associated with tumor stem cell features. Sympathoadrenal precursors are neural crest derived cells that give rise to either sympathetic neurons of the autonomic nervous system or the endocrine chromaffin cells located in the adrenal medulla or extraadrenal positions. As these cells are the putative cellular origin of neuroblastoma, one of the most common malignant tumors in early childhood, their molecular characterization is of high clinical importance. In this study we have examined the precise spatiotemporal expression of DLK1 in developing sympathoadrenal cells. We show that DLK1 mRNA is highly expressed in early sympathetic neuron progenitors and that its expression depends on the presence of Phox2B. DLK1 expression becomes quickly restricted to a small subpopulation of cells in sympathetic ganglia, while virtually all chromaffin cells in the adrenal medulla and the Organ of Zuckerkandl still express high levels of DLK1 at late gestational stages.
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- Tehani El Faitwri
- Institute of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Albert-Str. 17, 79104, Freiburg, Germany; Department of Histology and Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Benghazi University, Benghazi, Libya
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- Institute of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Albert-Str. 17, 79104, Freiburg, Germany; Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Route Albert-Gockel 1, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland.
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Félix-Martínez GJ, Gil A, Segura J, Villanueva J, Gutíerrez LM. Modeling the influence of co-localized intracellular calcium stores on the secretory response of bovine chromaffin cells. Comput Biol Med 2018; 100:165-175. [PMID: 30015013 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2018.06.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2018] [Revised: 06/26/2018] [Accepted: 06/27/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Catecholamines secretion from chromaffin cells is mediated by a Ca2+-dependent process in the submembrane space where the exocytotic machinery is located and high-Ca2+ microdomains (HCMDs) are formed by the coordinated activity of a functional triad composed of Ca2+ channels, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and mitochondria. It has been observed experimentally that subpopulations of cortical mitochondria and ER associate to secretory sites in bovine chromaffin cells. Here, we study the effect of the geometrical distribution of the co-localized cortical organelles both in the formation of HCMDs in the vicinity of Ca2+ channels and on the secretory activity of bovine chromaffin cells in response to a single voltage pulse. Our simulations indicate that co-localized organelles have a dual role in the formation of HCMDs, having, on the one hand, an amplification effect due to the Ca2+-induced Ca2+-release mechanism from the ER and, on the other, acting as physical barriers to Ca2+ diffusion. In addition, our simulations suggest that the increased levels of Ca2+ in the microdomain enhances the secretion of the vesicles co-localized to the Ca2+ channels. As a whole, our results support the idea that the functional triads formed by Ca2+ channels, subplasmalemma ER and mitochondria have a positive effect on the secretion of catecholamines in bovine chromaffin cells.
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- Gerardo J Félix-Martínez
- Depto. de Matemática Aplicada y Ciencias de la Computación, Universidad de Cantabria, 39005, Santander, Spain; Depto. de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 09340, Mexico City, Mexico.
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- Depto. de Matemática Aplicada y Ciencias de la Computación, Universidad de Cantabria, 39005, Santander, Spain.
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- Depto. de Matemáticas, Estadística y Computación, Universidad de Cantabria, 39005, Santander, Spain.
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- Instituto de Neurociencias, Centro Mixto Universidad Miguel Hernández-CSIC, Sant Joan d'Alacant, 03550, Alicante, Spain.
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- Instituto de Neurociencias, Centro Mixto Universidad Miguel Hernández-CSIC, Sant Joan d'Alacant, 03550, Alicante, Spain.
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Moog S, Houy S, Chevalier E, Ory S, Weryha G, Rame M, Klein M, Brunaud L, Gasman S, Cuny T. 18F-FDOPA PET/CT Uptake Parameters Correlate with Catecholamine Secretion in Human Pheochromocytomas. Neuroendocrinology 2018; 107:228-236. [PMID: 29949805 DOI: 10.1159/000491578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2018] [Accepted: 06/25/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND 18F-FDOPA positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) is a sensitive nuclear imaging technology for the diagnosis of pheochromocytomas (PHEO). However, its utility in determining predictive factors for the secretion of catecholamines remains poorly studied. METHODS Thirty-nine histologically confirmed PHEO were included in this retrospective single-center study. Patients underwent 18F-FDOPA PET/CT before surgery, with an evaluation of several uptake parameters (standardized uptake values [SUVmax and SUVmean] and the metabolic burden [MB] calculated as follows: MB = SUVmean × tumor volume) and measurement of plasma and/or urinary metanephrine (MN), normetanephrine (NM), and chromogranin A. Thirty-five patients were screened for germline mutations in the RET, SDHx, and VHL genes. Once resected, primary cultures of 5 PHEO were used for real-time measurement of catecholamine release by carbon fiber amperometry. RESULTS The MB of the PHEO positively correlated with 24-h urinary excretion of NM (r = 0.64, p < 0.0001), MN (r = 0.49, p = 0.002), combined MN and NM (r = 0.75, p < 0.0001), and eventually plasma free levels of NM (r = 0.55, p = 0.006). In the mutated patients (3 SDHD, 2 SDHB, 3 NF1, 1 VHL, and 3 RET), a similar correlation was observed between MB and 24-h urinary combined MN and NM (r = 0.86, p = 0.0012). For the first time, we demonstrate a positive correlation between the PHEO-to-liver SUVmax ratio and the mean number of secretory granule fusion events of the corresponding PHEO cells revealed by amperometric spikes (p = 0.01). CONCLUSION While the 18F-FDOPA PET/CT MB of PHEO strongly correlates with the concentration of MN, amperometric recordings suggest that 18F-FDOPA uptake could be enhanced by overactivity of catecholamine exocytosis.
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- Sophie Moog
- Department of Endocrinology, University Hospital of Nancy, Nancy, France
- Institut des Neurosciences Cellulaires et Intégratives (INCI), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) et Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Institut des Neurosciences Cellulaires et Intégratives (INCI), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) et Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital of Nancy, Nancy, France
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- Institut des Neurosciences Cellulaires et Intégratives (INCI), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) et Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Department of Endocrinology, University Hospital of Nancy, Nancy, France
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- Institut des Neurosciences Cellulaires et Intégratives (INCI), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) et Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Department of Endocrinology, University Hospital of Nancy, Nancy, France
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- Department of Endocrine Surgery, University Hospital of Nancy, Nancy, France
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- Institut des Neurosciences Cellulaires et Intégratives (INCI), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) et Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, INSERM, U1251, Marseille Medical Genetics and AP-HM, Department of Endocrinology, Hôpital de la Conception, Centre de Référence des Maladies Rares Hypophysaires HYPO, Marseille,
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Albillos A, McIntosh JM. Human nicotinic receptors in chromaffin cells: characterization and pharmacology. Pflugers Arch 2017; 470:21-27. [PMID: 29058146 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-017-2073-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2017] [Revised: 09/14/2017] [Accepted: 09/19/2017] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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During the last 10 years, we have been working on human chromaffin cells obtained from the adrenal gland of organ donors that suffered encephalic or cardiac death. We first electrophysiologically characterized the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) activated by acetylcholine, and their contribution to the exocytosis of chromaffin vesicles and release of catecholamines. We have shown that these cells possess an adrenergic phenotype. This phenotype may contribute to an increased expression of α7 nAChRs in these cells, allowing for recording of α7 nAChR currents, something that had previously not been achieved in non-human species. The use of α-conotoxins allowed us to characterize non-α7 nAChR subtypes and, together with molecular biology experiments, conclude that the predominant nAChR subtype in human chromaffin cells is α3β4* (asterisk indicates the posible presence of additional subunits). In addition, there is a minor population of αxβ2 nAChRs. Both α7 and non-α7 nAChR subtypes contribute to the exocytotic process. Exocytosis mediated by nAChRs could be as large in magnitude as that elicited by calcium entry through voltage-dependent calcium channels. Finally, we have also investigated the effect of nAChR-targeted tobacco cessation drugs on catecholamine release in chromaffin cells. We have concluded that at therapeutic concentrations, varenicline alone does not increase the frequency of action potentials evoked by ACh. However, varenicline in the presence of nicotine does increase this frequency, and thus, in the presence of both drugs, the probability of increased catecholamine release in human chromaffin cells is high.
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- Almudena Albillos
- Departamento de Farmacología y Terapéutica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Calle Arzobispo Morcillo 4, 28029, Madrid, Spain.
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- George E. Whalen Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.,Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.,Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Sabuncu AC, Stacey M, Craviso GL, Semenova N, Vernier PT, Leblanc N, Chatterjee I, Zaklit J. Dielectric properties of isolated adrenal chromaffin cells determined by microfluidic impedance spectroscopy. Bioelectrochemistry 2018; 119:84-91. [PMID: 28918192 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2017.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2017] [Revised: 09/01/2017] [Accepted: 09/04/2017] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Knowledge of the dielectric properties of biological cells plays an important role in numerical models aimed at understanding how high intensity ultrashort nanosecond electric pulses affect the plasma membrane and the membranes of intracellular organelles. To this end, using electrical impedance spectroscopy, the dielectric properties of isolated, neuroendocrine adrenal chromaffin cells were obtained. Measured impedance data of the cell suspension, acquired between 1kHz and 20MHz, were fit into a combination of constant phase element and Cole-Cole models from which the effect of electrode polarization was extracted. The dielectric spectrum of each cell suspension was fit into a Maxwell-Wagner mixture model and the Clausius-Mossotti factor was obtained. Lastly, to extract the cellular dielectric parameters, the cell dielectric data were fit into a granular cell model representative of a chromaffin cell, which was based on the inclusion of secretory granules in the cytoplasm. Chromaffin cell parameters determined from this study were the cell and secretory granule membrane specific capacitance (1.22 and 7.10μF/cm2, respectively), the cytoplasmic conductivity, which excludes and includes the effect of intracellular membranous structures (1.14 and 0.49S/m, respectively), and the secretory granule milieu conductivity (0.35S/m). These measurements will be crucial for incorporating into numerical models aimed at understanding the differential poration effect of nanosecond electric pulses on chromaffin cell membranes.
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de Los Rios C, Cano-Abad MF, Villarroya M, López MG. Chromaffin cells as a model to evaluate mechanisms of cell death and neuroprotective compounds. Pflugers Arch 2017; 470:187-198. [PMID: 28823085 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-017-2044-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2017] [Revised: 07/19/2017] [Accepted: 07/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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In this review, we show how chromaffin cells have contributed to evaluate neuroprotective compounds with diverse mechanisms of action. Chromaffin cells are considered paraneurons, as they share many common features with neurons: (i) they synthesize, store, and release neurotransmitters upon stimulation and (ii) they express voltage-dependent calcium, sodium, and potassium channels, in addition to a wide variety of receptors. All these characteristics, together with the fact that primary cultures from bovine adrenal glands or chromaffin cells from the tumor pheochromocytoma cell line PC12 are easy to culture, make them an ideal model to study neurotoxic mechanisms and neuroprotective drugs. In the first part of this review, we will analyze the different cytotoxicity models related to calcium dyshomeostasis and neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's or Parkinson's. Along the second part of the review, we describe how different classes of drugs have been evaluated in chromaffin cells to determine their neuroprotective profile in different neurodegenerative-related models.
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- Cristobal de Los Rios
- Instituto Teófilo Hernando, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.,Departamento de Farmacología y Terapéutica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.,Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria, Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Teófilo Hernando, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.,Departamento de Farmacología y Terapéutica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.,Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria, Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Teófilo Hernando, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. .,Departamento de Farmacología y Terapéutica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. .,Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria, Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
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Guérineau NC. Gap junction communication between chromaffin cells: the hidden face of adrenal stimulus-secretion coupling. Pflugers Arch 2018; 470:89-96. [PMID: 28735418 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-017-2032-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2017] [Revised: 07/07/2017] [Accepted: 07/10/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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From birth to death, catecholamine secretion undergoes continuous adjustments, allowing the organism to adapt to homeostasis changes. To cope with these stressful conditions, the neuroendocrine cells of the adrenal medulla play an immediate and crucial role. Chromaffin cell-driven catecholamine release is chiefly controlled by a neurogenic command that arises from the sympathetic nervous system, which releases acetylcholine at the splanchnic nerve terminal-chromaffin cell synapses. In addition to receiving several synaptic inputs individually, chromaffin cells are coupled by gap junctions. This raises interesting questions about the usefulness and the role of the gap junctional coupling within the chromaffin tissue, considering that secretory function is efficiently completed by the neurogenic pathway. The findings that gap junctions contribute to catecholamine secretion, both ex vivo and in vivo, provide some early answers, but their involvement in other cellular functions still remains unexplored. This review summarizes the molecular and physiological evidence that gap junctions can act either as an accelerator or a brake of stimulus-secretion coupling and discusses this functional plasticity in the context of specific needs in circulating catecholamine levels. It introduces the concept of gap junctions as sympathetic activity sensors and guardians of the functional integrity of the chromaffin tissue.
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Yokoyama T, Yamamoto Y, Saino T. Serotonin-mediated modulation of acetylcholine-induced intracellular calcium responses in chromaffin cells isolated from the rat adrenal medulla. Neurosci Lett 2017; 644:114-120. [PMID: 28237803 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2017.02.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2017] [Revised: 02/07/2017] [Accepted: 02/20/2017] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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We examined serotonin (5-HT)-mediated modulation of acetylcholine (ACh)-induced intracellular Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i) responses in rat adrenal chromaffin cells using calcium imaging. 5-HT did not induce any [Ca2+]i response in clustered chromaffin cells. However, the magnitude of ACh-induced [Ca2+]i increases in the same specimens was inhibited in the presence of 5-HT. ACh-induced [Ca2+]i increases in chromaffin cells were also inhibited by the 5-HT1A receptor agonist, 8-hydroxy-2-(dipropylamino) tetralin hydrobromide, but were not changed by the 5-HT1B, 5-HT2, or 5-HT3 receptor agonists, CP93129, α-methyl-5-HT, or 1-(m-chlorophenyl) biguanide, respectively. RT-PCR analysis detected the expression of all 5-HT receptor subtype mRNAs, except for 5-HT5 receptors, in extracts of the adrenal medulla. Immunohistochemistry revealed that immunoreactivity for 5-HT1A receptor was located in the chromaffin cells immunoreactive for the biosynthetic enzyme for noradrenaline, dopamine β-hydroxylase. These results suggest that 5-HT inhibits ACh-induced excitability in adrenal chromaffin cells via the 5-HT1A receptor in order to reduce catecholamine release during preganglionic sympathetic stimuli.
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- Takuya Yokoyama
- Department of Anatomy (Cell Biology), Iwate Medical University, Yahaba, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Veterinary Anatomy and Cell Biology, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka, Japan.
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- Department of Anatomy (Cell Biology), Iwate Medical University, Yahaba, Japan
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Neuroblastoma is a tumor arising in the peripheral sympathetic nervous system and is the most common cancer in childhood. Since most of the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying neuroblastoma onset and progression remain unknown, the generation of new in vivo models might be appropriate to better dissect the peripheral sympathetic nervous system development in both physiological and disease states. This review is focused on the use of zebrafish as a suitable and innovative model to study neuroblastoma development. Here, we briefly summarize the current knowledge about zebrafish peripheral sympathetic nervous system formation, focusing on key genes and cellular pathways that play a crucial role in the differentiation of sympathetic neurons during embryonic development. In addition, we include examples of how genetic changes known to be associated with aggressive neuroblastoma can mimic this malignancy in zebrafish. Thus, we note the value of the zebrafish model in the field of neuroblastoma research, showing how it can improve our current knowledge about genes and biological pathways that contribute to malignant transformation and progression during embryonic life.
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- Diana Corallo
- Neuroblastoma Laboratory, Pediatric Research Institute, Città della Speranza, 35127 Padua, Italy
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- Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences, (DISTAV), University of Genova, C.so Europa 26, 16132 Genoa, Italy
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- Unit of Cell and Developmental Biology, Department of Biology, University of Pisa, S.S.12 Abetone e Brennero 4, 56127 Pisa, Italy
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- Neuroblastoma Laboratory, Pediatric Research Institute, Città della Speranza, 35127 Padua, Italy
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- Neuroblastoma Laboratory, Pediatric Research Institute, Città della Speranza, 35127 Padua, Italy
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Lepoutre-Lussey C, Thibault C, Buffet A, Morin A, Badoual C, Bénit P, Rustin P, Ottolenghi C, Janin M, Castro-Vega LJ, Trapman J, Gimenez-Roqueplo AP, Favier J. From Nf1 to Sdhb knockout: Successes and failures in the quest for animal models of pheochromocytoma. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2016; 421:40-8. [PMID: 26123588 DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2015.06.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2015] [Revised: 06/02/2015] [Accepted: 06/02/2015] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas (PPGL) are rare neuroendocrine tumors characterized by a high frequency of hereditary forms. Based on transcriptome classification, PPGL can be classified in two different clusters. Cluster 1 tumors are caused by mutations in SDHx, VHL and FH genes and are characterized by a pseudohypoxic signature. Cluster 2 PPGL carry mutations in RET, NF1, MAX or TMEM127 genes and display an activation of the MAPK and mTOR signaling pathways. Many genetically engineered and allografted mouse models have been generated these past 30 years to investigate the mechanisms of PPGL tumorigenesis and test new therapeutic strategies. Among them, only Cluster 2-related models have been successful while no Cluster 1-related knockout mouse was so far reported to develop a PPGL. In this review, we present an overview of existing, successful or not, PPGL models, and a description of our own experience on the quest of Sdhb knockout mouse models of PPGL.
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- Charlotte Lepoutre-Lussey
- INSERM, UMR970, Paris-Cardiovascular Research Center, F-75015 Paris, France; Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté de Médecine, F-75006 Paris, France
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- INSERM, UMR970, Paris-Cardiovascular Research Center, F-75015 Paris, France; Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté de Médecine, F-75006 Paris, France
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- INSERM, UMR970, Paris-Cardiovascular Research Center, F-75015 Paris, France; Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté de Médecine, F-75006 Paris, France
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- INSERM, UMR970, Paris-Cardiovascular Research Center, F-75015 Paris, France; Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté de Médecine, F-75006 Paris, France
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- INSERM, UMR970, Paris-Cardiovascular Research Center, F-75015 Paris, France; Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté de Médecine, F-75006 Paris, France; Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Service d'anatomo-pathologie, F-75015 Paris, France
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- INSERM, UMR1141, Hôpital Robert Debré, F-75019 Paris, France; Université Paris 7, Faculté de Médecine Denis Diderot, Paris, France
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- INSERM, UMR1141, Hôpital Robert Debré, F-75019 Paris, France; Université Paris 7, Faculté de Médecine Denis Diderot, Paris, France
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- Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté de Médecine, F-75006 Paris, France; Metabolic Biochemistry, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France; INSERM, Unit 1124, Paris, France
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- Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté de Médecine, F-75006 Paris, France; Metabolic Biochemistry, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France; INSERM, Unit 1124, Paris, France
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- INSERM, UMR970, Paris-Cardiovascular Research Center, F-75015 Paris, France; Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté de Médecine, F-75006 Paris, France
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- Department of Pathology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- INSERM, UMR970, Paris-Cardiovascular Research Center, F-75015 Paris, France; Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté de Médecine, F-75006 Paris, France; Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Service de Génétique, F-75015 Paris, France
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- INSERM, UMR970, Paris-Cardiovascular Research Center, F-75015 Paris, France; Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté de Médecine, F-75006 Paris, France.
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Vestring S, Fernández-Morales JC, Méndez-López I, C Musial D, G de Diego AM, Padín JF, G García A. Tight mitochondrial control of calcium and exocytotic signals in chromaffin cells at embryonic life. Pflugers Arch 2015; 467:2589-601. [PMID: 26254593 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-015-1724-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2015] [Revised: 07/06/2015] [Accepted: 07/20/2015] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Calcium buffering by mitochondria plays a relevant physiological function in the regulation of Ca(2+) and exocytotic signals in mature chromaffin cells (CCs) from various adult mammals. Whether a similar or different role of mitochondrial Ca(2+) buffering is present in immature CCs at early life has not been explored. Here we present a comparative study in rat embryonic CCs and rat mother CCs, of various physiological parameters that are known to be affected by mitochondrial Ca(2+) buffering during cell activation. We found that the clearance of cytosolic Ca(2+) transients ([Ca(2+)]c) elicited by high K(+) was 7-fold faster in embryo CCs compared to mother CCs. This strongly suggests that at embryonic life, the mitochondria play a more significant role in the clearance of [Ca(2+)]c loads compared to adult life. Consistent with this view are the following results concerning the transient suppression of mitochondrial Ca(2+) buffering by protonophore FCCP, in embryonic CCs compared to mother CCs: (i) faster and greater inactivation of inward calcium currents, (ii) higher K(+)-elicited [Ca(2+)]c transients with 25-fold faster clearance, (iii) higher increase of basal catecholamine release and (iv) higher potentiation of K(+)-evoked secretion. These pronounced differences could be explained by two additional features (embryo versus mother CCs): (a) slower recovery of mitochondrial resting membrane potential after the application of a transient FCCP pulse and (b) greater relative density of the mitochondria in the cytosol. This tighter control by the mitochondria of Ca(2+) and exocytotic signals may be relevant to secure a healthy catecholamine secretory response at early life.
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Podvin S, Bundey R, Toneff T, Ziegler M, Hook V. Profiles of secreted neuropeptides and catecholamines illustrate similarities and differences in response to stimulation by distinct secretagogues. Mol Cell Neurosci 2015; 68:177-85. [PMID: 26092702 DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2015.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2015] [Revised: 05/12/2015] [Accepted: 06/01/2015] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The goal of this study was to define profiles of secreted neuropeptide and catecholamine neurotransmitters that undergo co-release from sympathoadrenal chromaffin cells upon stimulation by distinct secretagogues. Chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla participate in the dynamic responses to stress, especially that of 'fight and flight', and, thus, analyses of the co-release of multiple neurotransmitters is necessary to gain knowledge of how the stress response regulates cell-cell communication among physiological systems. Results of this study demonstrated that six different secretagogues stimulated the co-release of the neuropeptides Met-enkephalin, galanin, NPY, and VIP with the catecholamines dopamine, norepinephrine, and epinephrine. Importantly, the quantitative profiles of the secreted neurotransmitters showed similarities and differences upon stimulation by the different secretagogues evaluated, composed of KCl depolarization, nicotine, carbachol, PACAP, bradykinin, and histamine. The rank-orders of the secreted profiles of the neurotransmitters were generally similar among these secretagogues, but differences in the secreted amounts of each neurotransmitter occurred with different secretagogues. Epinephrine among the catecholamines showed the highest level of secretion. (Met)enkephalin showed the largest levels of secretion compared to the other neuropeptides examined. Levels of secreted catecholamines were greater than that of the neuropeptides. These data support the hypothesis that profiles of secreted neuropeptide and catecholamine neurotransmitters show similarities and differences upon stimulation by distinct secretagogues. These results illustrate the co-release of concerted neurotransmitter profiles that participate in the stress response of the sympathoadrenal nervous system.
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- Sonia Podvin
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Univ. of Calif.-San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States
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- Dept. of Medicine, Univ. of Calif.-San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Univ. of Calif.-San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States
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- Dept. of Medicine, Univ. of Calif.-San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Univ. of Calif.-San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States; Dept. of Neuroscience and Dept. of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Univ. of Calif.-San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States.
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McAdam RL, Varga KT, Jiang Z, Young FB, Blandford V, McPherson PS, Gong LW, Sossin WS. The juxtamembrane region of synaptotagmin 1 interacts with dynamin 1 and regulates vesicle fission during compensatory endocytosis in endocrine cells. J Cell Sci 2015; 128:2229-35. [PMID: 25964652 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.161505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2014] [Accepted: 04/30/2015] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Synaptotagmin 1 (Syt1) is a synaptic vesicle protein that is important for the kinetics of both exocytosis and endocytosis, and is thus a candidate molecule to link these two processes. Although the tandem Ca(2+)-binding C2 domains of Syt1 have important roles in exocytosis and endocytosis, the function of the conserved juxtamembrane (jxm) linker region has yet to be determined. We now demonstrate that the jxm region of Syt1 interacts directly with the pleckstrin homology (PH) domain of the endocytic protein dynamin 1. By using cell-attached capacitance recordings with millisecond time resolution to monitor clathrin-mediated endocytosis of single vesicles in neuroendocrine chromaffin cells, we find that loss of this interaction prolongs the lifetime of the fission pore leading to defects in the dynamics of vesicle fission. These results indicate a previously undescribed interaction between two major regulatory proteins in the secretory vesicle cycle and that this interaction regulates endocytosis.
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- Robyn L McAdam
- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2B4, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2B4, Canada
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2B4, Canada
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2B4, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2B4, Canada
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Pérez-Rodríguez R, Oliván AM, Roncero C, Morón-Oset J, González MP, Oset-Gasque MJ. Glutamate triggers neurosecretion and apoptosis in bovine chromaffin cells through a mechanism involving NO production by neuronal NO synthase activation. Free Radic Biol Med 2014; 69:390-402. [PMID: 24486340 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2014.01.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2013] [Revised: 01/20/2014] [Accepted: 01/22/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Previous work from our group stated that nitric oxide (NO), via cytokines, induces apoptosis in chromaffin cells by a mechanism involving iNOS, nNOS, and NF-κB. In this paper the involvement of glutamate as a possible intracellular trigger of neurosecretion and NO-mediated apoptosis has been evaluated. We show that chromaffin cells express different ionotropic and metabotropic glutamate receptors, this exerting different effects on the regulation of basal and glutamate-induced catecholamine secretion, via NO/cGMP. In addition, we studied the effects of endogenously generated NO, both basal and glutamate-stimulated, on apoptosis of chromaffin cells. Our results show that glutamate agonists are able to induce cell death and apoptosis in bovine chromaffin cells, parallel to an increase in NO production. Such effects were reversed by NOS inhibitors and glutamate receptor antagonists. Under basal conditions, iNOS inhibitors did not have any effect on apoptosis, whereas nNOS inhibitors induced apoptosis, indicating a neuroprotective effect of constitutive nNOS-generated NO. In contrast, glutamate-induced apoptosis was strongly reversed by nNOS inhibitors and weakly by iNOS inhibitors, thus indicating nNOS involvement in glutamate-mediated apoptosis. These results were confirmed by the fact that nNOS expression, but not iNOS, is specifically activated by glutamate. Finally, our results suggest the participation of PKG, PKA, PKC, and MAPK pathways in glutamate-mediated nNOS activation in chromaffin cells and point out the involvement of both PKA and PKC signaling pathways in the apoptotic effect of glutamate.
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- R Pérez-Rodríguez
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Complutense University of Madrid, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Complutense University of Madrid, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Complutense University of Madrid, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Complutense University of Madrid, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Complutense University of Madrid, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Complutense University of Madrid, E-28040 Madrid, Spain.
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Lim JE, Porteus CS, Bernier NJ. Serotonin directly stimulates cortisol secretion from the interrenals in goldfish. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2013; 192:246-55. [PMID: 24013027 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2013] [Revised: 08/20/2013] [Accepted: 08/21/2013] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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While serotonin (5-HT) can stimulate the hypothalamic-pituitary-interrenal stress axis in fish, the specific site(s) of 5-HT action are poorly understood. In this study, goldfish (Carassius auratus) were injected intraperitoneally with either saline or the 5-HT1A/7 receptor agonist 8-OH-DPAT at a dose of 100 or 400 μg/kg body weight and sampled 1.5 and 8 h post-injection. Relative to unhandled controls, the saline and 100 μg/kg 8-OH-DPAT treatments elicited similar transient 5- to 7-fold increases in plasma cortisol and the 400 μg/kg 8-OH-DPAT dosage resulted in a sustained 16-fold increase in cortisol levels. Although the 5-HT1A receptor is expressed in the brain preoptic area (POA), the pituitary and the head kidney, neither the saline nor the 8-OH-DPAT treatments affected the mRNA abundance of POA corticotropin-releasing factor and pituitary pro-opiomelanocortin or plasma adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) levels. To assess the direct actions of 5-HT on cortisol secretion relative to those of ACTH, head kidney tissue were superfused with 10(-7)M 5-HT, ACTH or a combined 5-HT/ACTH treatment. Overall, the ACTH and 5-HT/ACTH treatments resulted in higher peak cortisol and total cortisol release than in the 5-HT treatment but the response time to peak cortisol release was shorter in the combined treatment than in either the 5-HT or ACTH alone treatments. Both 8-OH-DPAT and cisapride, a 5-HT4 receptor agonist, also stimulated cortisol release in vitro and their actions were reversed by selective 5-HT1A and 5-HT4 receptor antagonists, respectively. Finally, double-labeling with anti-tyrosine hydroxylase and anti-5-HT revealed that the chromaffin cells of the head kidney contain 5-HT. Thus, in goldfish, 5-HT can directly stimulate cortisol secretion from the interrenals via multiple 5-HT receptor subtypes and the chromaffin cells may be involved in the paracrine regulation of cortisol secretion via 5-HT.
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- Jan E Lim
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Noga BR, Pinzon A. Spontaneous and electrically-evoked catecholamine secretion from long-term cultures of bovine adrenal chromaffin cells. Brain Res 2013; 1529:209-22. [PMID: 23891791 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2013.07.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2013] [Revised: 07/03/2013] [Accepted: 07/18/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Catecholamine release was measured from bovine adrenal medullary chromaffin cell (CC) cultures maintained over a period of three months. Cells were plated over simple biocompatible cell platforms with electrical stimulation capability and at specified times transferred to an acrylic superfusion chamber designed to allow controlled flow of superfusate over the culture. Catecholamine release was measured from the superfusates using fast cyclic voltammetry before, during and after electrical stimulation of the cells. Immunocytochemical staining of CC cultures revealed that they were composed of epinephrine (EP) and/or norepinephrine (NE) type cells. Both spontaneous and evoked-release of catecholamines from CCs were observed throughout the testing period. EP predominated during spontaneous release, whereas NE was more prevalent during electrically-evoked release. Electrical stimulation for 20 s, increased total catecholamine release by 60-130% (measured over a period of 500 s) compared to that observed for an equivalent 20 s period of spontaneous release. Stimulus intensity was correlated with the amount of evoked release, up to a plateau which was observed near the highest intensities. Shorter intervals between stimulation trials did not significantly affect the initial amount of release, and the amount of evoked release was relatively stable over time and did not decrease significantly with age of the culture. The present study demonstrates long-term survival of CC cultures in vitro and describes a technique useful for rapid assessment of cell functionality and release properties of cultured monoaminergic cell types that later can be transplanted for neurotransmitter replacement following injury or disease.
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- Brian R Noga
- The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, 1095 NW 14th Terrace, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
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Gavello D, Fenoglio I, Fubini B, Cesano F, Premoselli F, Renna A, Carbone E, Carabelli V. Inhibition of catecholamine secretion by iron-rich and iron-deprived multiwalled carbon nanotubes in chromaffin cells. Neurotoxicology 2013; 39:84-94. [PMID: 23999117 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2013.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2013] [Revised: 07/23/2013] [Accepted: 08/21/2013] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The assay of the toxic effects of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) on human health is a stringent need in view of their expected increasing exploitation in industrial and biomedical applications. Most studies so far have been focused on lung toxicity, as the respiratory tract is the main entry of airborne particulate, but there is also recent evidence on the existence of toxic effects of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) on neuronal and neuroendocrine cells (Belyanskaya et al., 2009; Xu et al., 2009; Gavello et al., 2012). Commercial MWCNTs often contain large amounts of metals deriving from the catalyst used during their synthesis. Since metals, particularly iron, may contribute to the toxicity of MWCNTs, we compared here the effects of two short MWCNTs samples (<5μm length), differing only in their iron content (0.5 versus 0.05% w/w) on the secretory responses of neurotransmitters in mouse chromaffin cells. We found that both iron-rich (MWCNT+Fe) and iron-deprived (MWCNT-Fe) samples enter chromaffin cells after 24h exposure, even though incorporation was attenuated in the latter case (40% versus 78% of cells). As a consequence of MWCNT+Fe or MWCNT-Fe exposure (50-263μg/ml, 24h), catecholamine secretion of chromaffin cells is drastically impaired because of the decreased Ca(2+)-dependence of exocytosis, reduced size of ready-releasable pool and lowered rate of vesicle release. On the contrary, both MWCNTs were ineffective in changing the kinetics of neurotransmitter release of single chromaffin granules and their quantal content. Overall, our data indicate that both MWCNT samples dramatically impair secretion in chromaffin cells, thus uncovering a true depressive action of CNTs mainly associated to their structure and degree of aggregation. This cellular "loss-of-function" is only partially attenuated in iron-deprived samples, suggesting a minor role of iron impurities on MWCNTs toxicity in chromaffin cells exocytosis.
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Jeon Y, Baek WY, Chung SH, Shin N, Kim HR, Lee SA. Cultured human chromaffin cells grafted in spinal subarachnoid space relieves allodynia in a pain rat model. Korean J Anesthesiol 2011; 60:357-61. [PMID: 21716909 PMCID: PMC3110295 DOI: 10.4097/kjae.2011.60.5.357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2010] [Revised: 12/14/2010] [Accepted: 12/15/2010] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Background Implantation of xenogenic chromaffin cells into the spinal subarachnoid space can produce analgesia in neuropathic pain models. However, transplantation of xenogeneic chromaffin cell has a potential risk of viral or bacterial infections from animals to humans including encephalopathy due to prion transmission. The aim of this study was to investigate the possibility of developing a homogeneic source of therapeutic chromaffin cells. Methods Anti-allodynic effects of human chromaffin cells (HCCs) were evaluated in a neuropathic pain model in rats induced by chronic constriction injury of the sciatic nerve. HCCs encapsulated with alginate-poly-L-lysine-alginate were intrathecally implanted into rats (n = 10), while empty capsules were intrathecally implanted as a control (n = 8). Levels of norepinephrine from encapsulated HCCs before and after nicotinic stimulation were measured. We then perfomed a behavior test (cold allodynia) with acetone. In addition, to assess the potential contribution to pain reduction of opioid peptides released from the HCCs, all animals were injected with naloxone. Results The concentration of norepinephrine after nicotine stimulation was significantly increased compared to basal levels. Intrathecal implantation of encapsulated HCCs, significantly reduced cold allodynia as compared to rats receiving empty capsules (P < 0.05). Fifteen minutes after the injection of naloxone, cold allodynia significantly decreased in rats with HCCs (P < 0.05), while the degree of cold allodynia in control animals was unaltered. Conclusions From these results, it appears that HCCs have a possibility as an analgesic source for transplants delivering pain-reducing neuroactive substances.
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- Younghoon Jeon
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Dentistry, Daegu, Korea
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