TY - GEN
T1 - The role of intracellular calcium in axonal injury
AU - Dastgheyb, R. M.
AU - Barbee, K. A.
AU - Gallo, G.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/12/2
Y1 - 2014/12/2
N2 - Increased levels of axonal calcium have been found after Traumatic Brain injury. Calcium can enter the cell from an extracellular source or be released from intracellular stores. Here, we investigate the importance of intracellular calcium in axonal pathology by chelating intracellular calcium and isolating components of the injury pathway such as membrane damage, calcium influx, mitochondrial injury, and increased oxidative stress. The findings were that chelating intracellular calcium with BAPTA-AM was neuroprotective after increasing membrane permeability with melittin, damaging mitochondria with CCCP, and increasing oxidative stress with TbHp. Chelating intracellular calcium was not neuroprotective after injuring cells by selectively increasing axonal calcium with A23187.
AB - Increased levels of axonal calcium have been found after Traumatic Brain injury. Calcium can enter the cell from an extracellular source or be released from intracellular stores. Here, we investigate the importance of intracellular calcium in axonal pathology by chelating intracellular calcium and isolating components of the injury pathway such as membrane damage, calcium influx, mitochondrial injury, and increased oxidative stress. The findings were that chelating intracellular calcium with BAPTA-AM was neuroprotective after increasing membrane permeability with melittin, damaging mitochondria with CCCP, and increasing oxidative stress with TbHp. Chelating intracellular calcium was not neuroprotective after injuring cells by selectively increasing axonal calcium with A23187.
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U2 - 10.1109/NEBEC.2014.6972768
DO - 10.1109/NEBEC.2014.6972768
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84940706106
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, NEBEC
BT - Proceedings - 2014 40th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, NEBEC 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 40th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, NEBEC 2014
Y2 - 25 April 2014 through 27 April 2014
ER -