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Thrombin potentiates D-aspartate efflux from cultured astrocytes under conditions of K homeostasis disruption.

Authors: Vazquez-Juarez, E  Hernandez-Benitez, R  Lopez-Dominguez, A  Pasantes-Morales, H 
Citation: Vazquez-Juarez E, etal., J Neurochem. 2009 Oct 3.
RGD ID: 2313732
Pubmed: PMID:19799708   (View Abstract at PubMed)
DOI: DOI:10.1111/j.1471-4159.2009.06418.x   (Journal Full-text)

ABSTRACT Thrombin levels increase in brain during ischemia and hemorrhagic episodes, and may contribute to excitotoxic neural damage. This study examined the effect of thrombin on glutamate efflux from rat cortical cultured astrocytes using (3)H-D-aspartate as radiotracer. The glutamate efflux was initiated by addition of 100 mM K(+) plus 1 mM ouabain (K/O) to replicate extracellular and intracellular ionic changes that occur during cerebral ischemia. Upon exposure to K/O, astrocytes swelled slowly and progressively with no evidence of volume regulation. The K/O-induced swelling was inhibited by 65% with bumetanide and 25% with BaCl(2,) suggesting contribution of NKCC and Kir channels. K/O elicited (3)H-D-aspartate that consisted of two phases. The first transient component of the release corresponded to 13.5% of total (3)H-D-aspartate loaded. It was markedly reduced (61%) by the glutamate transporter blocker TBOA and weakly inhibited (21%) by the volume-sensitive anion channel blocker DCPIB. During the second sustained phase of release, cells lost 45% of loaded of (3)H-D-aspartate via a mechanism that was insensitive to TBOA but nearly completely suppressed by DCPIB. Thrombin (5 U/mL) had only marginal effects on the first phase but strongly potentiated (more than two-fold) (3)H-D-aspartate efflux in the second phase. The effect of thrombin effect was proportional to cell swelling and completely suppressed by DCPIB. Overall our data showed that under K/O swelling conditions, thrombin potently enhance glutamate release via volume-sensitive anion channel. Similar mechanisms may contribute to brain damage in neural pathologies which are associated with cell swelling, glutamate efflux and increased thrombin levels.

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