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Journal of Neuroscience, Vol 12, 1077-1085, Copyright © 1992 by Society for Neuroscience

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Pharmacological characterization of endothelin-stimulated phosphoinositide breakdown and cytosolic free Ca2+ rise in rat C6 glioma cells

WW Lin, JG Kiang and DM Chuang
Biological Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.

Because increasing evidence indicates that glial cells are a target of endothelin, we have characterized endothelin-induced phosphoinositide (PI) turnover and Ca2+ homeostasis in C6 glioma cells. Endothelin-1 (ET) increased formation of 3H-inositol phosphate (IP) from PI and elicited an increase in cytosolic free Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i) in rat C6 glioma. In the presence of Li+, the increase in 3H-inositol trisphosphate formation was rapid, reaching its peak at 5 min after stimulation. ET also elicited a rapid and sustained increase in [Ca2+]i in a dose- dependent manner (1-100 nM). The rank orders of efficacy for ET-related peptides in increasing [Ca2+]i were ET = ET-2 greater than sarafotoxin greater than ET-3. Both ET-mediated stimulation of IP formation and [Ca2+]i increase were largely inhibited in the absence of external Ca2+ but unaffected by the depletion of external Na+ and the presence of dihydropyridine derivatives or verapamil. Inorganic Ca2+ channel blockers Cd2+, La3+, and Mn2+ at 1 mM inhibited both responses induced by ET. Cross-desensitization and nonadditivity were observed for both events among ET-related peptides tested, but not between ET and ATP. Pretreatment of cells with pertussis toxin (PTX) attenuated the PI response to ET, but had no effect on ET-elicited [Ca2+]i increase. ET- induced Ca2+ mobilization (measured in Ca(2+)-free medium) was only transient and was inhibited by 8-(N,N-diethylamino)octyl-3,4,5- trimethoxybenzoate. Moreover, the intracellular Ca2+ pools mobilized by ET and ATP appeared to overlap, as indicated by their partial heterologous desensitization.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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