title: Contribution of Na+/Ca2+ exchanger to glucose-induced [Ca2+]i increase in rat pancreatic islets.
abstract: The present study was carried out to elucidate the role of the reverse mode of the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger in an increase in intracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) induced by a stimulatory concentration of glucose in rat pancreatic islets. The effects of KB-R7943, a selective inhibitor of reverse Na+/Ca2+ exchanger, on Na+o removal-induced [Ca2+]i changes were examined by a microfluorimetric method using fura-2 in perifused preparations of isolated rat pancreatic islets. Na+o removal induced a rapid increase in [Ca2+]i under 100 or 5 mM K+ conditions, respectively. The increases in [Ca2+]i induced by Na+o removal were inhibited by KB-R7943. The net amount of the [Ca2+]i increases during Na+o removal (Delta[Ca2+]i), obtained by subtracting the KB-R7943-independent Delta[Ca2+]i in the presence of KB-R7943 from Delta[Ca2+]i in the absence of KB-R7943, was significantly increased when extracellular K+ was raised. Increasing the external glucose concentration from 3 to 20 mM caused a biphasic increase in [Ca2+]i, which exhibited a transient increase (first phase) followed by a sustained increase (second phase) in [Ca2+]i. KB-R7943 (10 microM) partially inhibited the second phase of the [Ca2+]i increase rather than the first phase. These results suggest that the increase in [Ca2+]i induced by Na+o removal may be enhanced when plasma membrane is depolarized, and consequently, Ca2+ influx through the reverse Na+/Ca2+ exchanger may partially contribute to the glucose-induced [Ca2+]i dynamics in rat pancreatic islet cells.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Physiology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0818, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yoshihashi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Habara
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000502:physiology*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D005947:Glucose / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007515:Islets of Langerhans / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D008564:Membrane Potentials; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D019831:Sodium-Calcium Exchanger / Q000502:physiology*; D013890:Thiourea / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: C101670:2-(2-(4-(4-nitrobenzyloxy)phenyl)ethyl)isothiourea methanesulfonate; D019831:Sodium-Calcium Exchanger; D013890:Thiourea; D005947:Glucose; D002118:Calcium