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Ionic and acid-base regulation of neurons and glia during seizures.

Abstract
Much evidence shows that glia regulates the cation and anion content of brain interstitial space. In rats the pH and bicarbonate (HCO3-) concentration of neurons and glia were derived from carbon 14-labeled HCO3- and dimethyloxazolidinedione uptake into brain and cerebrospinal fluid. Acetazolamide increases the total CO2 concentration in neurons and decreases the pH and HCO3- concentration in glia. Inhibition of glial carbonic anhydrase (CA) reduces conversion of neuronally derived CO2 to HCO3-, glial pH is lowered, and neuronal CO2 accumulates. CA therefore has an essential role in regulating pH in neurons, glia, and interstitial fluid. In audiogenic seizure mice, glial CA activity is increased and glial anion transport is reduced. As the mice age, seizure susceptibility, the increased CA activity, and the defect in anion transport disappear concurrently. The enhanced CA activity in the glial cells of these mice is an adaptive mechanism to overcome the defect in anion transport that results from a deficiency of HCO3- -dependent and Na+- and K+ -dependent adenosine triphosphatase. Pentylenetetrazol stimulates neurons in neonatal rats, but after 10 days of age, when glia is present, it too is stimulated and the seizures are attenuated. Cobalt implantation in the cortex of rats also induces a glial response that ameliorates the focal seizures produced by this procedure.
AuthorsD M Woodbury, F L Engstrom, H S White, C F Chen, J W Kemp, S Y Chow
JournalAnnals of neurology (Ann Neurol) Vol. 16 Suppl Pg. S135-44 ( 1984) ISSN: 0364-5134 [Print] United States
PMID6150682 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)
Chemical References
  • Anion Transport Proteins
  • Bicarbonates
  • Chlorides
  • Ion Channels
  • Cobalt
  • Adenosine Triphosphatases
  • anion-sensitive ATPases
  • Carbonic Anhydrases
  • Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase
  • Pentylenetetrazole
Topics
  • Acid-Base Equilibrium
  • Adenosine Triphosphatases (physiology)
  • Animals
  • Anion Transport Proteins
  • Bicarbonates (cerebrospinal fluid)
  • Carbonic Anhydrases (physiology)
  • Cerebral Cortex (physiopathology)
  • Chlorides (cerebrospinal fluid)
  • Cobalt (toxicity)
  • Epilepsy (chemically induced, physiopathology)
  • Extracellular Space (physiology)
  • Humans
  • Ion Channels (physiology)
  • Neuroglia (physiology)
  • Neurons (physiology)
  • Pentylenetetrazole (toxicity)
  • Seizures (chemically induced)
  • Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase (physiology)

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