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lifeskim:mentions | |
pubmed:issue |
21
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pubmed:dateCreated |
1986-9-17
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pubmed:abstractText |
The activation of human neutrophils by chemotactic peptides evokes a rapid change in membrane potential and an increase in cytoplasmic Ca2+ levels. These events are followed up to a minute later by detectable levels of microbicidal agents formed by the oxidative burst. Except for the latter, the sequence of events has remained unclear. We report here that a new fluorescent Ca2+ indicator developed by R. Tsien, Indo-1, has allowed us to resolve the temporal relationship between the rapid and transient cytoplasmic Ca2+ rise and the membrane potential change and to do so on very small samples by using a fluorescence-activated cell sorter. We have adapted a FACS 440 for simultaneous single cell membrane depolarization and cytoplasmic [Ca2+] detection in human neutrophils upon stimulation with formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (fMLP). A membrane potential probe, dipentyloxacarbocyanine, allows us to determine that the membrane potential change is fMLP dose-dependent and apparently biphasic. The depolarization is maximal 40 s after stimulation. In contrast, cytosolic [Ca2+], while fMLP-dose dependent, is maximal at 10 s and already decreasing rapidly when the cell has reached its lowest potential. It can be measured with Indo-1 which has a fluorescence emission (lambda ex = 357 nm) maximum at 485 nm when Ca2+-free and 405 nm when Ca2+-liganded. The ratio of these fluorescences may then be calibrated in terms of cytoplasmic Ca2+ levels. Thus, Ca2+ release into the cytoplasm becomes the earliest evidence of neutrophil stimulation by fMLP and occurs in close association with an apparent membrane hyperpolarization.
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pubmed:grant | |
pubmed:language |
eng
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pubmed:journal | |
pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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pubmed:chemical | |
pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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pubmed:month |
Jul
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pubmed:issn |
0021-9258
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pubmed:author | |
pubmed:issnType |
Print
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pubmed:day |
25
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pubmed:volume |
261
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pubmed:owner |
NLM
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pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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pubmed:pagination |
9710-3
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pubmed:dateRevised |
2007-11-14
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pubmed:meshHeading |
pubmed-meshheading:3755432-Calcium,
pubmed-meshheading:3755432-Cytoplasm,
pubmed-meshheading:3755432-Dose-Response Relationship, Drug,
pubmed-meshheading:3755432-Humans,
pubmed-meshheading:3755432-Indoles,
pubmed-meshheading:3755432-Membrane Potentials,
pubmed-meshheading:3755432-N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine,
pubmed-meshheading:3755432-Neutrophils,
pubmed-meshheading:3755432-Spectrometry, Fluorescence
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pubmed:year |
1986
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pubmed:articleTitle |
Simultaneous measurement of stimulus-induced changes in cytoplasmic Ca2+ and in membrane potential of human neutrophils.
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pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article,
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
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