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NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING
Volume 36, Issue 10, Pages 2838-2849Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2015.06.012
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Sodium calcium exchanger; NCX; Lymnaea stagnalis; Aging; Slow afterhyperpolarization; Cerebral giant cells
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During aging, the Ca2+-sensitive slow afterhyperpolarization (sAHP) of hippocampal neurons is known to increase in duration. This change has also been observed in the serotonergic cerebral giant cells (CGCs) of the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis, but has yet to be characterized. In this article, we confirm that there is a reduction in firing rate, an increase in the duration of the sAHP, and an alteration in the strength and speed of spike frequency adaptation in the CGCs during aging, a finding that is compatible with an increase in the sAHP current. We go on to show that age-related changes in the kinetics of spike frequency adaptation are consistent with a reduction in Ca2+ clearance from the cell, which we confirm with Ca2+ imaging and pharmacological manipulation of the sodium calcium exchanger. These experiments suggest that the sodium calcium exchanger may be switching to a reverse-mode configuration in the CGCs during aging. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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