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Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchanger 2 is neuroprotective by exporting Ca(2+) during a transient focal cerebral ischemia in the mouse
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- Issue Date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Citation
- Cell Calcium. 43 (2008) 482-491
- Keywords
- Animals ; Biological Transport ; Brain/physiopathology ; Calcium/*metabolism ; Cell Survival ; Cerebral Infarction/pathology ; Ischemic Attack, Transient/*metabolism/pathology/physiopathology ; Membrane Potentials ; Mice ; Mice, Knockout ; Neurons/pathology ; Neuroprotective Agents/metabolism ; Patch-Clamp Techniques ; Sodium-Calcium Exchanger/genetics/metabolism/*physiology
- Abstract
- Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchanger (NCX), by mediating Na(+) and Ca(2+) fluxes bi-directionally, assumes a role in controlling the Ca(2+) homeostasis in the ischemic brain. It has been suggested that the three isoforms of NCX (NCX1, 2 and 3) may be differentially involved in permanent cerebral ischemia. However, the role of NCX2 has not been defined in ischemic reperfusion injury after a transient focal cerebral ischemia. Furthermore, it is not known whether NCX2 imports or exports intracellular Ca(2+) ([Ca(2+)](i)) following ischemia and reperfusion. To define the role of NCX2 in ischemia and reperfusion, we examined mice lacking NCX2, in vivo and in vitro. After an in vitro ischemia, a significantly slower recovery in population spike amplitudes, a sustained elevation of [Ca(2+)](i) and an increased membrane depolarization were developed in the NCX2-deficient hippocampus. Moreover, a transient focal cerebral ischemia in vivo produced a larger infarction and more cell death in the NCX2-deficient mouse brain. In particular, in the wild type brain, NCX2-expressing neurons were largely spared from cell death after ischemia. Our results suggest that NCX2 exports Ca(2+) in ischemia and thus protects neuronal cells from death by reducing [Ca(2+)](i) in the adult mouse brain.
- ISSN
- 0143-4160 (Print)
- Language
- English
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- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=17884163
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https://hdl.handle.net/10371/68170
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