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NEUROREPORT
Volume 11, Issue 17, Pages 3725-3729Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200011270-00027
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ageing; Ca2+ homeostasis; primary neuronal cultures
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Deficiencies of Ca2+ homeostasis are proposed to play an important role in neuronal ageing and/or neurodegeneration. The aim of this study was to investigate, in a defined neuronal population, primary cerebellar granule neuron culture, the time-dependent changes in Ca2+ homeostasis and compare them with data obtained in cerebellar brain slices from aged rats. In neurons aged in culture (DIV 23), a small decrease in the resting [Ca2+](i) was associated with a decrease in the maxima[ rate of [Ca2+](i) increase upon KCI-induced depolarization and in the amplitude of the [Ca2+](i) response, when compared with mature neurons (DIV 9). The most significant change of [Ca2+](i) signal parameters was a 50% decrease in the rate of [Ca2+](i) recovery after the stimulation. These results were similar to those obtained in aged brain slices, and indicate that primary neuronal cultures could serve as a model for studying the age-related changes in Ca2+ homeostasis. NeuroReport 11:3725-3729 (C) 2000 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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