期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 21, 期 1, 页码 98-108出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.21-01-00098.2001
关键词
vitamin D; excitotoxicity; calcium channels; L-type; patch clamp; cell culture; hippocampus; calcitriol
资金
- NIA NIH HHS [R03 AG14189, R37 AG004542, P01 AG010836, T32 AG000242, AG10836, AG04542] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING [R37AG004542, P01AG010836, R01AG004542, R03AG014189] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Although vitamin D hormone (VDH; 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D-3), the active metabolite of vitamin D, is the major Ca2+-regulatory steroid hormone in the periphery, it is not known whether it also modulates Ca2+ homeostasis in brain neurons. Recently, chronic treatment with VDH was reported to protect brain neurons in both aging and animal models of stroke. However, it is unclear whether those actions were attributable to direct effects on brain cells or indirect effects mediated via peripheral pathways. VDH modulates L-type voltage-sensitive Ca2+ channels (L-VSCCs) in peripheral tissues, and an increase in L-VSCCs appears linked to both brain aging and neuronal vulnerability. Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that VDH has direct neuroprotective actions and, in parallel, targets L-VSCCs in hippocampal neurons. Primary rat hippocampal cultures, treated for several days with VDH, exhibited a U-shaped concentration-response curve for neuroprotection against excitotoxic insults: lower concentrations of VDH (1-100 nM) were protective, but higher, nonphysiological concentrations (500-1000 nM) were not. Parallel studies using patch-clamp techniques found a similar U-shaped curve in which L-VSCC current was reduced at lower VDH concentrations and increased at higher (500 nM) concentrations. Real-time PCR studies demonstrated that VDH monotonically downregulated mRNA expression for the alpha (1C) and alpha (1D) pore-forming subunits of L-VSCCs. However, 500 nM VDH also nonspecifically reduced a range of other mRNA species. Thus, these studies provide the first evidence of (1) direct neuroprotective actions of VDH at relatively low concentrations, and (2) selective downregulation of L-VSCC expression in brain neurons at the same, lower concentrations.
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