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NEUROCHEMISTRY INTERNATIONAL
卷 41, 期 2-3, 页码 87-93出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-0186(02)00028-1
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ammonia; hepatic encephalopathy; excitatory amino acids; taurine; efflux; potassium
Cerebrocortical minislices derived from control rats (control slices) and from rats with thioacetamide (TAA)-induced hepatic failure showing moderate hyperammonemia and symptoms of hepatic encephalopathy (HE) (HE slices), were incubated with physiological saline in the absence or presence of 5 mM ammonium acetate (ammonia), at potassium ion (K+) concentrations ranging from 5 to 15 mM. The efflux of endogenous aspartate (Asp), glutamate (Glu) and taurine (Tau) to the incubation medium was assayed by HPLC. At 5 mM K+, perfusion of control slices with ammonia did not affect Glu and slightly depressed Asp efflux. Raising K+ concentrations in the incubation medium to 7.5 led to inhibition of Glu and Asp efflux by ammonia and the inhibitory effect was further potentiated at 10 mM K+. The inhibition was also significant at 15 mM K+. This suggests that, depression of excitatory neurotransmission associated with acute hyperammonemia is more pronounced under conditions of intense neuronal activity than in the resting state. HE moderately increased the efflux of Glu and Asp, and the stimulatory effect of HE on Glu and Asp efflux showed virtually no variation upon changing K+ concentration up to 15 mM. Ammonia strongly, and HE moderately, increased Tau efflux at 5 mM K+. However, both the ammonia- and HE-dependent Tau efflux decreased with increasing K+ concentration in the medium and was no longer significant at 10 mM concentration, indicating that intense neuronal activity obliterates the neuroprotective functions of this amino acid triggered by hyperammonemia. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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