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Localized membrane depolarizations and localized calcium influx during electric field-guided neurite growth.

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Bedlack, RS; Wei, M; Loew, LM
Published in: Neuron
September 1992

Our study explores the mechanisms behind neurite galvanotropism. Using phase, differential interference contrast and ratiometric fluorescence microscopy, we reveal four responses of N1E-115 mouse neuroblastoma cells to 0.1-1.0 mV/microns uniform DC electric fields: cathode-directed neurite initiation and elongation, cathode-biased growth cone filopodial protrusions, transient cathode-localized calcium increases, and persistent cathode-localized membrane depolarizations. These newly demonstrated events are temporally and spatially correlated, suggesting that they are causally related. The calcium increases are prevented by calcium channel blockers and by the removal of extracellular calcium. We therefore propose that the observed field-induced membrane depolarizations activate voltage-dependent calcium channels, resulting in cathode-localized calcium influx. This, in turn, may initiate the observed cathode-biased growth cone filopodial protrusions, followed by the cathode-directed neurite elongation.

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Neuron

DOI

ISSN

0896-6273

Publication Date

September 1992

Volume

9

Issue

3

Start / End Page

393 / 403

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Tumor Cells, Cultured
  • Tissue Distribution
  • Pyridinium Compounds
  • Osmolar Concentration
  • Neurology & Neurosurgery
  • Neurites
  • Microscopy, Interference
  • Membrane Potentials
  • Intracellular Membranes
  • Electrophysiology
 

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Bedlack, R. S., Wei, M., & Loew, L. M. (1992). Localized membrane depolarizations and localized calcium influx during electric field-guided neurite growth. Neuron, 9(3), 393–403. https://doi.org/10.1016/0896-6273(92)90178-g
Bedlack, R. S., M. Wei, and L. M. Loew. “Localized membrane depolarizations and localized calcium influx during electric field-guided neurite growth.Neuron 9, no. 3 (September 1992): 393–403. https://doi.org/10.1016/0896-6273(92)90178-g.
Bedlack, R. S., et al. “Localized membrane depolarizations and localized calcium influx during electric field-guided neurite growth.Neuron, vol. 9, no. 3, Sept. 1992, pp. 393–403. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/0896-6273(92)90178-g.
Journal cover image

Published In

Neuron

DOI

ISSN

0896-6273

Publication Date

September 1992

Volume

9

Issue

3

Start / End Page

393 / 403

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Tumor Cells, Cultured
  • Tissue Distribution
  • Pyridinium Compounds
  • Osmolar Concentration
  • Neurology & Neurosurgery
  • Neurites
  • Microscopy, Interference
  • Membrane Potentials
  • Intracellular Membranes
  • Electrophysiology