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JOURNAL OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND METABOLISM
Volume 31, Issue 4, Pages 1073-1084Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2010.183
Keywords
brain slice; CA1; oxygen-glucose deprivation; spreading depression; zinc; ZnT3
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- NIH [NS051288, T32HL007736, DK073446]
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Spreading depression (SD) involves coordinated depolarizations of neurons and glia that propagate through the brain tissue. Repetitive SD-like events are common following human ischemic strokes, and are believed to contribute to the enlargement of infarct volume. Accumulation of Zn2+ is also implicated in ischemic neuronal injury. Synaptic glutamate release contributes to SD propagation, and because Zn2+ is costored with glutamate in some synaptic vesicles, we examined whether Zn2+ is released by SD and may therefore provide a significant source of Zn2+ in the postischemic period. Spreading depression-like events were generated in acutely prepared murine hippocampal slices by deprivation of oxygen and glucose (OGD), and Zn2+ release was detected extracellularly by a Zn2+-selective indicator FluoZin-3. Deprivation of oxygen and glucose-SD produced large FluoZin-3 increases that propagated with the event, and signals were abolished in tissues from ZnT3 knockout animals lacking synaptic Zn2+. Synaptic Zn2+ release was also maintained with repetitive SDs generated by microinjections of KCl under normoxic conditions. Intracellular Zn2+ accumulation in CA1 neurons, assessed using microinjection of FluoZin-3, showed significant increases following SD that was attributed to synaptic Zn2+ release. These results suggest that Zn2+ is released during SDs and could provide a significant source of Zn2+ that contributes to neurodegeneration in the postischemic period. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism (2011) 31, 1073-1084; doi: 10.1038/jcbfm.2010.183; published online 27 October 2010
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