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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 21, Issue 6, Pages 1648-1658Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04006.x
Keywords
anion channel; cell swelling; cultured neuron; regulatory volume decrease
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Because persistent swelling causes cell damage and often results in cell death, volume regulation is an important physiological function in both neuronal and non-neuronal cells. Brain cell swelling has been observed not only in various pathological conditions but also during physiological synaptic transmissions. Volume-sensitive anion channels have been reported to play an important role in the regulatory volume decrease occurring after osmotic swelling in many cell types. In this study, using a two-photon laser scanning microscope and patch-clamp techniques, we found that mouse cortical neurons in primary culture exhibit regulatory volume decrease after transient swelling and activation of Cl- currents during exposure to a hypotonic solution. The regulatory volume decrease was inhibited by Cl- channel blockers or K+ channel blockers. Swelling-activated Cl- currents exhibited outward rectification, time-dependent inactivation at large positive potentials, a low-field anion permeability sequence, an intermediate unitary conductance and sensitivity to known blockers of volume-sensitive Cl- channels. Thus, it is concluded that the activity of the volume-sensitive outwardly rectifying Cl- channel plays a role in the control of cell volume in cortical neurons.
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