Slow diffusion of Ca2+ in the rat's hippocampus.
Ca2+-sensitive microelectrodes, attached to CaCl2-containing micropipettes, were inserted into the dorsal hippocampus of rats under urethane. When Ca2+ was released iontophoretically, the amplitude and time course of the resultant increase in extracellular ca2+ concentration could be fitted to a simple diffusion model, but the apparent diffusion coefficient of Ca2+ was only about 1/100 of its value in water, possibly because of reversible Ca/+ binding to hippocampal tissue. A further anomaly was a very low transport number (less than 0.01) for the release of Ca2+ from microelectrodes in vivo.
D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D004058:Diffusion; D004566:Electrodes; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000378:metabolism*; D008954:Models, Biological; D051381:Rats
D002118:Calcium