Ca2+ clearance at growth cones produced by crayfish motor axons in an explant culture.

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  • Nidhi Rumpal
  • Gregory A Lnenicka
چکیده

Intracellular free Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) plays an important role in the regulation of growth cone (GC) motility; however, the mechanisms responsible for clearing Ca2+ from GCs have not been examined. We studied the Ca2+-clearance mechanisms in GCs produced by crayfish tonic and phasic motor axons by measuring the decay of [Ca2+]i after a high [K+] depolarizing pulse using fura-2AM. Tonic motor axons regenerating in explant cultures develop GCs with more rapid Ca2+ clearance than GCs from phasic axons. When Na/Ca exchange was blocked by replacing external Na+ with N-methyl-d-glucamine (NMG), [Ca2+]i decay was delayed in both tonic and phasic GCs. Tonic GCs appear to have higher Na/Ca exchange activity than phasic ones since reversal of Na/Ca exchange by lowering external Na+ caused a greater increase in [Ca2+]i for tonic than phasic GCs. Application of the mitochondrial inhibitors, Antimycin A1 (1 microM) and CCCP (10 microM), demonstrated that mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake/release was more prominent in phasic than tonic GCs. When both Na/Ca exchange and mitochondria were inhibited, the plasma membrane Ca2+ ATPase was effective in extruding Ca2+ from tonic, but not phasic GCs. We conclude that Na/Ca exchange plays a prominent role in extruding large Ca2+ loads from both tonic and phasic GCs. High Na/Ca exchange activity in tonic GCs contributes to the rapid decay of [Ca2+]i in these GCs; low rates of Ca2+ extrusion plus the release of Ca2+ from mitochondria prolongs the decay of [Ca2+]i in the phasic GCs.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of neurophysiology

دوره 89 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2003