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  • Title: A prototypic intracellular calcium antagonist, TMB-8, protects cultured cerebellar granule cells against the delayed, calcium-dependent component of glutamate neurotoxicity.
    Author: Malcolm CS, Ritchie L, Grieve A, Griffiths R.
    Journal: J Neurochem; 1996 Jun; 66(6):2350-60. PubMed ID: 8632157.
    Abstract:
    The effect(s) of a prototypic intracellular Ca2+ antagonist, 8-(N,N-diethylamino)octyl-3,4,5-trimethoxybenzoate (TMB-8), on glutamate-induced neurotoxicity was investigated in primary cultures of mouse cerebellar granule cells. Glutamate evoked an increase in cytosolic free-Ca2+ levels ([Ca2+]i) that was dependent on the extracellular concentration of Ca2+ ([Ca2+]o). In addition, this increase in [Ca2+]i correlated with a decrease in cell viability that was also dependent on [Ca2+]o. Glutamate-induced toxicity, quantified by 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) staining, was shown to comprise two distinct components, an "early" Na+/Cl(-)-dependent component observed within minutes of glutamate exposure, and a "delayed" Ca(2+)-dependent component (ED50 approximately 50 microM) that coincided with progressive degeneration of granule cells 4-24 h after a brief (5-15 min) exposure to 100 microM glutamate. Quantitative analysis of cell viability and morphological observations identify a "window" in which TMB-8 (at > 100 microM) protects granule cells from the Ca(2+)-dependent, but not the Na+/Cl(-) -dependent, component of glutamate-induced neurotoxic damage, and furthermore, where TMB-8 inhibits glutamate-evoked increases in [Ca2+]i. These findings suggest that Ca2+ release from a TMB-8-sensitive intracellular store may be a necessary step in the onset of glutamate-induced excitotoxicity in granule cells. However, these conclusions are compromised by additional observations that show that TMB-8 (1) exhibits intrinsic toxicity and (2) is able to reverse its initial inhibitory action on glutamate-evoked increases in [Ca2+]i and subsequently effect a pronounced time-dependent potentiation of glutamate responses. Dantrolene, another putative intracellular Ca2+ antagonist, was completely without effect in this system with regard to both glutamate-evoked increases in [Ca2+]i and glutamate-induced neurotoxicity.
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