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Volume 17, Number 6,
Issue of March 15, 1997
pp. 1981-1992
Copyright ©1997 Society for Neuroscience
Mechanism Involved in Initiation and Propagation of
Receptor-Induced Intercellular Calcium Signaling in Cultured Rat
Astrocytes
Received Sept. 5, 1996; revised Nov. 21, 1996; accepted Dec. 23, 1996.
Laurent Venance,
Nephi Stella,
Jacques Glowinski, and
Christian Giaume
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche
Médicale, U114, Collège de France, 75231 Paris, Cedex 05, France
The mechanisms involved in the initiation and the propagation of
intercellular calcium signaling (calcium waves) were studied in
cultured rat astrocytes. The analysis of calcium waves, induced either
by mechanical stimulation or by focal application of ionomycin, indicated that initiation was dependent on the presence of external calcium. In addition, pharmacological experiments indicate that intercellular propagation required PLC activation, integrity of IP3-sensitive internal calcium stores, and functional gap
junctions. An extracellular action of ATP or glutamate and
participation of voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels were
tested by using enzymatic degradation, receptor antagonists, and
channel blockers, respectively. Because neither the speed of
propagation nor the extent of the calcium waves was affected by these
treatments, these alternate mechanisms were excluded from playing a
role in intercellular calcium signaling. Biochemical assays and focal
applications of several agonists (methoxamine, carbachol, glutamate) of
membrane receptors to neurotransmitters and peptides (endothelin 1)
demonstrated that their ability to trigger regenerative calcium waves
depended on phospholipase C activity and inositol phosphate production.
Thus, in rat astrocytes, initiation and propagation of calcium waves
involve a sequence of intra- and intercellular steps in which
phospholipase C, inositol trisphosphate, internal calcium stores, and
gap junction channels play a critical role. The identification of these
different events allows us to determine several targets at which the
level of long-range signaling in astrocytes may be controlled.
Key words:
intercellular calcium waves;
glial cells;
gap junctions;
phospholipase C;
IP3 receptors;
internal calcium stores;
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