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Rescue of mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons in culture by low-level stimulation of voltage-gated sodium channels.

ABSTRACT: We used a model system in which dopaminergic (DA) neurons from embryonic rat mesencephalon undergo spontaneous and selective degeneration as they develop in culture. Here, we show that DA cell loss can be prevented efficiently by low concentrations of the Na+ channel agonist veratridine. The survival promoting effect of veratridine was reproduced by, but independent of, glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor. Neuroprotection by veratridine was exquisitely specific to DA neurons, short-lived after withdrawal, and abolished by tetrodotoxin, indicating that activation of voltage-gated Na+ channels was crucially involved. Calcium measurements showed that veratridine-induced Na+ influx was necessary to maintain intracellular Ca2+ within a neuroprotective range through the stimulation of low-voltage activated T-type calcium channels, a mechanism that was distinct from that elicited by high K+-evoked depolarization. Interestingly, increasing neuronal excitability by treatment with apamin, an inhibitor of Ca2+-activated K+ channels, or with ouabain, a blocker of the Na+/K+-ATPase pump, was also neuroprotective by a mechanism involving T-type calcium channel activation. These results support the idea that mesencephalic DA neurons depend primarily on excitatory input for their survival during development.

SUBMITTER: Salthun-Lassalle B

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6729237 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Rescue of mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons in culture by low-level stimulation of voltage-gated sodium channels.

Salthun-Lassalle Bénédicte B Hirsch Etienne C EC Wolfart Jakob J Ruberg Merle M Michel Patrick P PP

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20040601 26

We used a model system in which dopaminergic (DA) neurons from embryonic rat mesencephalon undergo spontaneous and selective degeneration as they develop in culture. Here, we show that DA cell loss can be prevented efficiently by low concentrations of the Na+ channel agonist veratridine. The survival promoting effect of veratridine was reproduced by, but independent of, glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor. Neuroprotection by veratridine was exquisitely specific to DA neurons, short-lived ...[more]

PMID: 15229240

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Rescue of mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons in culture by low-level stimulation of voltage-gated sodium channels.

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Rescue of mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons in culture by low-level stimulation of voltage-gated sodium channels.

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