title: ATP-evoked Ca2+ mobilisation and prostanoid release from astrocytes: P2-purinergic receptors linked to phosphoinositide hydrolysis.
abstract: Astrocyte cultures prelabelled with either [3H]inositol or 45Ca2+ were exposed to ATP and its hydrolysis products. ATP and ADP, but not AMP and adenosine, produced increases in the accumulation of intracellular 3H-labelled inositol phosphates (IP), efflux of 45Ca2+, and release of thromboxane A2 (TXA2). Whereas ATP-stimulated 3H-IP accumulation was unaffected, its ability to promote TXA2 release was markedly reduced by mepacrine, an inhibitor of phospholipase A2 (PLA2). ATP-evoked 3H-IP production was also spared following treatment with the cyclooxygenase inhibitor, indomethacin. We conclude that ATP-induced phosphoinositide (PPI) breakdown and 45 Ca2+ mobilisation occurred in parallel with, if not preceded, the release of TXA2. Following depletion of intracellular Ca2+ with a brief preexposure to ATP in the absence of extracellular Ca2+, the release of TXA2 in response to a subsequent ATP challenge was greatly reduced when compared with control. These results suggest that mobilisation of cytosolic Ca2+ may be the stimulus for PLA2 activation and, thus, TXA2 release. Stimulation of alpha 1-adrenoceptors also caused PPI breakdown and 45 Ca2+ efflux but not TXA2 release. The effects of ATP and noradrenaline (NA) on 3H-IP accumulation were additive, but their combined ability to increase 45Ca2+ efflux was not. Interestingly, in the presence of NA, ATP-stimulated TXA2 release was reduced. Our data provide evidence that functional P2-purinergic receptors are present on astrocytes and that ATP is the first physiologically relevant stimulus found to initiate prostanoid release from these cells.
authors.affiliation: Biology Department, Open University, Milton Keynes, England.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pearce
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Murphy
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jeremy
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Morrow
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dandona
mesh_terms: D000227:Adenine Nucleotides / Q000494:pharmacology; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D001253:Astrocytes / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D002132:Calcium Radioisotopes; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D003600:Cytosol / Q000378:metabolism; D006868:Hydrolysis; D007295:Inositol Phosphates / Q000378:metabolism*; D009638:Norepinephrine / Q000494:pharmacology; D010741:Phospholipases A / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism; D054467:Phospholipases A2; D011796:Quinacrine / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D011983:Receptors, Purinergic / Q000378:metabolism*; D013403:Sugar Phosphates / Q000378:metabolism*; D013928:Thromboxane A2 / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D000227:Adenine Nucleotides; D002132:Calcium Radioisotopes; D007295:Inositol Phosphates; D011983:Receptors, Purinergic; D013403:Sugar Phosphates; D013928:Thromboxane A2; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D010741:Phospholipases A; D054467:Phospholipases A2; D011796:Quinacrine; D002118:Calcium; D009638:Norepinephrine