Flunarizine blocks elevation of free cytosolic calcium in synaptosomes following sustained depolarization.
JOURNAL OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND METABOLISM(1993)
摘要
Gerbil cerebral cortical synaptosomes loaded with the fluorescent calcium probe FURA-2 were used to study depolarization-induced presynaptic cytosolic free calcium concentration, as an in vitro model of cerebral ischemia. The depolarization-induced increase in intrasynaptosomal cytosolic free calcium concentration is not sodium-dependent or sodium channel-dependent and may be due to an influx of extrasynaptosomal calcium resulting from a cadmium- and omega-conotoxin-sensitive, nickel-, nifedipine-, and nimodipine-insensitive voltage-regulated channel. The depolarization-induced increase in intrasynaptosomal free cytosolic calcium concentration is also inhibited by flunarizine, a calcium antagonist that has protective effects in animal models of cerebral anoxia and ischemia. Our results suggest that presynaptic calcium uptake following depolarization may be mediated in part by an N-type channel. Flunarizine may block presynaptic calcium accumulation, in part, by blocking this N-type channel; this blockade may be just one of several mechanisms by which flunarizine exerts protective effects following cerebral ischemia.
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DEPOLARIZATION,CALCIUM,FLUNARIZINE,SYNAPTOSOME,GERBIL
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