In SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells, a rise in intracellular Ca2+ induced by muscarinic receptor activation causes depolarization likely through an increase in Na+ permeability.
Cautions against clinical extrapolation from cell lines; leaves open Ca2+-Na+ coupling in cardiac excitability.
The role of intracellular free Ca2+ in muscarinic-receptor linked depolarization of SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells has been determined by using the bisoxonol membrane potential probe DiBaC4-(3) and intracellular Ca2+ indicator fura-2 respectively. Carbachol and the Ca2+ ionophore, ionomycin, at concentrations which caused similar rises in intracellular Ca2+ increased the bisoxonol fluorescence (depolarization) to the same extent. The membrane potential responses, but not the changes in intracellular Ca2+, were dependent on extracellular Na+. Ionomycin depletion of intracellular Ca2+ with EGTA and ionomycin or loading the cells with a Ca2+ buffer, BAPTA, reduced the carbachol-induced depolarization. The results suggest that a rise in intracellular Ca2+ may cause depolarization through an increase in the Na+ permeability.
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Karl E.O. Åkerman (1989) studied this question.
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