期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS
卷 137, 期 2, 页码 299-303出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2004.02.028
关键词
mitochondria; isolation brain mitochondria; nitrogen decompression; synaptic; non-synaptic; total
资金
- NIA NIH HHS [AG10836, AG00264] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [NS048191, NS12333] Funding Source: Medline
Mitochondria are known to be localized in synaptic and non-synaptic compartments in the brain. Synaptoneurosomes, which contain high numbers of mitochondria, may act as a major contaminant of currently used isolation techniques. Currently, there is no method employed to successfully disrupt synaptoneurosomes and isolate both synaptic and non-synaptic mitochondria without structural or functional damage. A novel method is reported here for disruption of synaptoneurosomes and isolation of total brain mitochondria from synaptic and non-synaptic sources using a nitrogen decompression technique. Nitrogen gas was dissolved into crude mitochondrial preparations and maintained under constant, moderate pressure. After a short incubation, the pressure was released causing the nitrogen to come out of solution as growing bubbles, which ruptures cellular and synaptoneurosomal membranes. Mitochondria isolated using this rapid technique were bioenergetically competent and exhibited functional characteristics comparable to mitochondria isolated using traditional techniques. This nitrogen decompression technique will allow for further characterization of synaptic pools of mitochondria, which are almost exclusively neuronal in origin. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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