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Lookup NU author(s): Fiona Riddoch, Sophie Rowbotham, Dr Anna Brown, Dr Chris RedfernORCiD, Dr Tim Cheek
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We have used single cell fluorescence imaging techniques to examine the role that ryanodine receptors play in the stimulus-induced Ca2+ responses of SH-SY5Y cells. The muscarinic agonist methacholine (1 mM) resulted in a Ca2+ signal in 95% of all cells. Caffeine (30 mM) however stimulated a Ca2+ signal in only 1-7% of N-type (neuroblastic) cells within any given field. The caffeine response was independent of extracellular Ca2+, regenerative in nature, and abolished in a use-dependent fashion by ryanodine. In caffeine-responsive cells, the magnitude of the methacholine-induced Ca2+ signal was inhibited by 75.07 ± 5.51% by pretreatment with caffeine and ryanodine, suggesting that the caffeine-sensitive store may act as a Ca2+ source after muscarinic stimulation. When these data were combined with equivalent data from non-caffeine-responsive cells, the degree of apparent inhibition was significantly reduced. In contrast, after store depletion by caffeine, the Ca2+ signal induced by 55 mM K+ was potentiated 2.5-fold in the presence of ryanodine, suggesting that the store may act a Ca2+ sink after depolarisation. We conclude that a caffeine- and ryanodine-sensitive store can act as a Ca2+ source and sink in SH-SY5Y cells, and that effects of the store can become obscured if data from caffeine-insensitive cells are not excluded. © 2005 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Author(s): Riddoch, F.C., Rowbotham, S.E., Brown, A.M., Redfern, C.P.F., Cheek, T.R.
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Cell Calcium
Year: 2005
Volume: 38
Issue: 2
Pages: 111-120
Print publication date: 01/08/2005
ISSN (print): 0143-4160
ISSN (electronic): 1532-1991
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ceca.2005.06.001
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceca.2005.06.001
PubMed id: 16095688
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