title: Effect of potassium chloride on cytosolic calcium of brain synaptosomes of rats with chronic renal failure.
abstract: Norepinephrine (NE) release from brain synaptosomes is dependent in major part on an adequate rise in cytosolic calcium ([Ca2+]i). A smaller or a greater calcium signal (delta [Ca2+]i) or delta[Ca2+]i/basal [Ca2+]i ratio in response to stimuli may interfere with NE release from brain synaptosomes. In order to further evaluate the mechanism of reduced NE release from brain synaptosomes in chronic renal failure (CRF), we examined the changes in synaptosomal [Ca2+]i in response to KCl in normal, CRF, and normocalcemic, parathyroidectomized (PTX) CRF rats (CRF-PTX) and in CRF rats treated with verapamil (CRF-V). CRF rats displayed significantly (p less than 0.01) higher basal levels of [Ca2+]i and a higher delta[Ca2+]i and delta [Ca2+]i/basal [Ca2+]i ratio than in the other three groups of rats. These parameters were not different among normal, CRF-PTX and CRF-V rats. The data are consistent with the notion that the higher calcium signal and the higher ratio between signal and the basal [Ca2+]i in response to a stimulus in CRF are deleterious to synaptosomal function and are responsible, in part, for the reduced NE release by these structures in CRF.
authors.affiliation: Division of Nephrology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Koureta
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Smogorzewski
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Massry
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism*; D002118:Calcium / Q000097:blood / Q000378:metabolism*; D003404:Creatinine / Q000097:blood; D003600:Cytosol / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D009638:Norepinephrine / Q000378:metabolism; D016105:Parathyroidectomy; D010758:Phosphorus / Q000097:blood; D011189:Potassium Chloride / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013054:Spectrophotometry, Atomic; D013574:Synaptosomes / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D014700:Verapamil / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D010758:Phosphorus; D011189:Potassium Chloride; D003404:Creatinine; D014700:Verapamil; D002118:Calcium; D009638:Norepinephrine