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Divergent Effects of Acute Depolarization on Somatostatin Release and Protein Synthesis in Cultured Fetal and Neonatal Rat Brain Cells
Author(s) -
De Los Frailes Maria Teresa,
Cacicedo Lucinda,
Lorenzo Maria Jesús,
SánchezFranco Franco
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of neurochemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.75
H-Index - 229
eISSN - 1471-4159
pISSN - 0022-3042
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-4159.1989.tb09176.x
Subject(s) - veratridine , depolarization , medicine , somatostatin , endocrinology , tetrodotoxin , protein biosynthesis , biology , membrane potential , channel blocker , chemistry , calcium , biophysics , biochemistry , sodium , sodium channel , organic chemistry
The influence of membrane depolarization on somatostatin secretion and protein synthesis by fetal and neonatal cerebrocortical neurons was studied. Cortical cells obtained by mechanical dispersion were maintained as monolayer cultures for 8 days. The ability of fetal cerebrocortical and hypothalamic cells to release immunoreactive somatostatin (IR‐SRIF) was confirmed. Total protein synthesis was determined by the incorporation of [ 3 H]phenylalanine into trichloroacetic acid‐precipitable proteins. To study the effect of acute depolarization on protein synthesis, cells were incubated for 30 min with [ 3 H]phenylalanine or [ 3 H]leucine and the depolarizing agent. In fetal cerebrocortical cells, potassium (30 and 56 m M ) decreased protein synthesis and RNA levels and increased IR‐SRIF release. Depolarization by veratridine, a sodium channel activator, induced a similar effect. The effect of veratridine on IR‐SRIF and protein synthesis was reversed by tetrodotoxin, a sodium channel blocker, or verapamil, a calcium channel blocker. These findings suggest that protein synthesis by cerebrocortical cells is decreased in fetal brain cells by membrane depolarization and is dependent on Na + and Ca 2+ entry into cells. In postnatal (day 7) cerebrocortical cells, depolarization induced by high potassium concentrations led to a concomitant increase in protein synthesis, RNA content, and somatostatin release. These findings indicate that depolarization of the cellular membrane is coupled to an increase in protein synthesis in neonatal, but not in fetal, dispersed brain cells.