Publication Date:
1999-04-09
Description:
Neuronal death induced by activating N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors has been linked to Ca2+ and Na+ influx through associated channels. Whole-cell recording from cultured mouse cortical neurons revealed a NMDA-evoked outward current, INMDA-K, carried by K+ efflux at membrane potentials positive to -86 millivolts. Cortical neurons exposed to NMDA in medium containing reduced Na+ and Ca2+ (as found in ischemic brain tissue) lost substantial intracellular K+ and underwent apoptosis. Both K+ loss and apoptosis were attenuated by increasing extracellular K+, even when voltage-gated Ca2+ channels were blocked. Thus NMDA receptor-mediated K+ efflux may contribute to neuronal apoptosis after brain ischemia.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Yu, S P -- Yeh, C -- Strasser, U -- Tian, M -- Choi, D W -- NS 30337/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- NS 32636/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Apr 9;284(5412):336-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Center for the Study of Nervous System Injury and Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10195902" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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*Apoptosis
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Calcium/metabolism/pharmacology
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Calcium Channels/metabolism
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Cells, Cultured
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Cerebral Cortex/*cytology/metabolism
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Culture Techniques
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Glutamic Acid/metabolism
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Ion Channel Gating
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Ion Transport
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Membrane Potentials
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Mice
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N-Methylaspartate/pharmacology
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Neocortex/cytology/embryology/metabolism
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Neurons/*cytology/metabolism
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Patch-Clamp Techniques
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Potassium/*metabolism
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Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate/*metabolism
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Sodium/metabolism/pharmacology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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