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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-8-6
pubmed:abstractText
1. Embryonic rat ventral spinal cord neurons were dissociated at day 15 and grown on: (i) poly-D-lysine (PDL); (ii) a confluent monolayer of type I astrocytes; or (iii) PDL in astrocyte-conditioned medium (ACM) to examine the influence of astroglia on the regulation of GABAA receptor/Cl- channel properties. 2. Potentiometric oxonol dye recordings of intact cells indicated that embryonic neurons were uniformly depolarized by muscimol. The depolarizing effects disappeared in cells dissociated during the early postnatal period and recovered in culture for 24 h. Similar recordings using the calcium-imaging dye fura-2 AM revealed that GABA or muscimol triggered a sustained rise in cytosolic Ca2+ (Ca2+c ) in embryonic neurons that was dependent on extracellular Ca2+, blocked by bicuculline and nifedipine and sensitive to changes in extracellular chloride. The incidence and amplitude of the Ca2+ response decreased with time in vitro and was accelerated in neurons cultured on astrocytes compared with those on PDL. 3. Perforated patch-clamp recordings revealed that GABA depolarized neurons in a Cl--dependent and bicuculline-sensitive manner. Both the resting membrane potential and the GABA equilibrium potential became more hyperpolarized with time in vitro. 4. Astrocytes and ACM accelerated the transformation of GABAergic potential responses from depolarizing to hyperpolarizing. The change occurred over the first 4 days in co-culture or in ACM but took more than 2 weeks in neurons cultured on PDL alone. 5. The intrinsic, elementary properties of GABAA receptor/Cl- channels including open time and unitary conductance changed independently of the presence of astrocytes or ACM. Mean open time of the dominant kinetic component decreased and conductance increased with time in vitro. 6. In sum, astrocytes accelerate the developmental change in the Cl- ion gradient extrinsic to GABAA receptor/Cl- channels, which is critical for triggering Ca2+ entry, without influencing parallel changes in the intrinsic properties of the channels.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Bicuculline, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Calcium, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Calcium Channel Blockers, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Chloride Channels, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Chlorides, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Culture Media, Conditioned, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/GABA Agonists, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/GABA Antagonists, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Muscimol, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Nifedipine, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Receptors, GABA-A, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/gamma-Aminobutyric Acid
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0022-3751
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
509 ( Pt 3)
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
847-58
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
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