Calcium homeostasis of isolated single cortical fibers of rat lens

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2300-2312

  Srivastava, Satish K ^a   Wang, Li Fei ^a   Ansari, Naseem H ^a   Bhatnagar, Aruni ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium homeostasis; Fiber cells; Globulization; Lens; Proteolysis

Indexed keywords

LEUPEPTIN; VERAPAMIL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; LENS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ANILINE COMPOUNDS; ANIMALS; BENZOFURANS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; FLUORESCENT DYES; HOMEOSTASIS; IMIDAZOLES; LENS CORTEX, CRYSTALLINE; LEUPEPTINS; NICKEL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; VERAPAMIL; XANTHENES; ZINC;

EID: 0030818435     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Acala J, Maisel H. Biochemistry of lens plasma membrane and cytoskeleton. In: Maisel H, ed. Ocular Lens: Structure, Function and Pathology. New York: Marcel Dekker; 1985:169-222.
2. Mathias RT, Rae JL. Transport properties of the lens. Am J Physiol. 1985;249:C181-C190.
3. Mathias RT, Rae JL, Baldo GJ. Physiological properties of the normal lens. Physiol Rev. 1997;77:21-50.
4. Duncan G, Jacob TJC. Influence of external calcium and glucose on internal total and ionized calcium in the rat lens. J Physiol. 1984;357:485-493.
5. Bettelheim FA, Qin C, Zigler JS. Calcium cataract: A model for optical anisotropy fluctuations. Exp Eye Res. 1995;60:153-157.
6. Bond J, Green C, Donaldson P, Kistler J. Liquification of cortical tissue in diabetic and galactosemic rat lenses defined by confocal laser scanning microscopy. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 1996;37:1557-1565.
7. Bhatnagar A, Ansari NH, Wang L-F, Khanna P, Wang C-S, Srivastava SK. Calcium-mediated disintegrative globulization of isolated ocular lens fibers mimic cataractogenesis. Exp Eye Res. 1995;61:303-310.
8. Wang L-F, Bhatnagar A, Ansari NH, Dhir P, Srivastava SK. Mechanism of calcium-induced disintegrative globulization of rat lens fiber cells. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 1996;37:915-922.
9. Bhatnagar A, Dhir P, Wang L-F, Lo W-K, Srivastava SK, Alterations in the light transmission through single lens fibers during calcium-mediated disintegrative globulization. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 1997;38:586-592.
10. 2+-measurements with visible wavelength indicators in isolated cardiac myocytes. Cell Calcium 1993;14:359-372.
11. Kao JPY, Harootunian AT, Tsien RY. Photochemically generated cytosolic calcium pulses and their detection by fluo-3. J Biol Chem. 1989;264:8179-8184.
12. Minta A, Kao JPY, Tsien RY. Fluorescent indicators for cytosolic calcium based rhodamine and fluorescein chromophores. J Biol Chem. 1989;264:8171-8176.
13. 2+ indicators with greatly improved fluorescence properties. J Biol Chem. 1985;260:3440-3450.
14. Regehr WG, Atluri PP. Calcium transients in cerebellar granule cell presynaptic terminals. Biophys J. 1995;68:2156-2170.
15. Swanson AA, Truesdale AW. Some enzymic properties of human lens esterase I. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 1974;13:466-468.
16. Ting HH, Crabbe MJ. Bovine lens aldehyde dehydrogenase. Kinetics and mechanism. Biochem J. 1983;215: 361-368.
17. Bassnett S, Kuszak JR, Reinisch L, Brown HG, Beebe DC. Intercellular communication between epithelial and fiber cells in the eye lens. J Cell Sci. 1994;107:799-811.
18. Bhatnagar A. Electrophysiological effects of 4-hydroxynonenal, an aldehydic product of lipid peroxidation, on isolated rat ventricular myocytes. Circ Res. 1995;76:293-304.
19. Li Q, Altschuld RA, Strokes BT. Quantitation of intracellular free calcium in single adult cardiomyocytes by fura-2 fluorescence microscopy: Calibration of fura-2 ratios. Biochem Biophys Res Comm. 1987;147:120-126.
20. McGuigan JA, Blatter LA. Sodium/calcium exchange in ventricular muscle. Experientia. 1987;43:1140-1145.
21. 2+. J Physiol. 1989;414:499-520.
22. Haugland RP. Handbook of Fluorescent Probes: Molecular Probes. 6th ed. Eugene, OR: Molecular Probes, Inc; 504-510.
23. Trosper TL, Philipson KD. Effects of divalent and trivalent cations on sodium-calcium exchange in cardiac sarcolemmal vesicles. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1983; 731:63-68.
24. Kimura J, Miyamae S, Noma A. Identification of sodium-calcium exchange current in single ventricular cells of guinea-pig. J Physiol. 1987;384:199-222.
25. Hightower KR. Cytotoxic effects of internal calcium on lens physiology: A review. Curr Eye Res. 1985;4:453-459.
26. Duncan G, Bushell AR. Ion analysis of human cataractous lenses. Exp Eye Res. 1975;20:233-230.
27. Marcantonio JM, Duncan G, Rink H. Calcium-induced opacification and loss of protein in the organ-cultured bovine lens. Exp Eye Res. 1986;42:617-630.
28. Sanderson J, Gandolfi SA, Duncan G. Calmodulin antagonists induce changes in lens permeability and transparency. Curr Eye Res. 1994;13:219-224.
29. Jacob TJC. A direct measurement of intracellular free calcium within the lens. Exp Eye Res. 1983;36:451-453.
30. Duncan G, Jacob TJC. Influence of external calcium and glucose on internal total and ionized calcium in rat lens. J Physiol. 1984;357:485-493.
31. Creighton MO, Trevithick JR, Mousa GY, et al. Globular bodies: A primary cause of the opacity in senile and diabetic posterior cortical subcapsular cataracts? Can J Ophthalmol. 1978;13:166-181.
32. Harding CV, Susan SR, Lo WK, Bobrow WFS, Maisel H, Chylack LT. The structure of human cataractous lens. In: Ocular Lens: Structure, Function and Pathology. New York: Marcel Dekker; 1985:367-404.
33. Trevithick JR, Robertson J, Mitton KP. Vitamin E and the eye. In: Packer L, Fuchs J, eds. Vitamin E in Health and Disease. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1993:873-928.
34. Cooper K, Gates P, Rae JL, Dewey J. Electrophysiology of cultured human lens epithelial cells. J Membr Biol. 1990;117:285-298.
35. Vaezy S, Clark JI, Clark JM. Quantitative analysis of the lens cell microstructure in selenite cataract using two-dimensional Fourier analysis. Exp Eye Res. 1995;60: 245-255.
36. Crow JM, Atkinson MM, Johnson RG. Micromolar levels of intracellular calcium reduce gap junction permeabilites in lens culture. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 1994;35:3332-3341.
37. Miller AG, Zampighi GA, Hall JE. Sincel-membrane and cell-to-cell permeability properties of dissociated embryonic chick lens cells. J Membr Biol. 1992;128:91-102.
38. Zhang JJ, Tacob TJC. Volume regulation in the bovine lens and cataract. The involvement of chloride channels. J Clin Invest. 1996;97:971-978.
39. Zhang JJ, Jacob TJC. ATP-activated chloride channel inhibited by an antibody to P glycoprotein. Am J Physiol. 1994;267:C1095-C1102.
40. Donaldson PJ, Dong Y, Roos M, Goodenough DA, Kistler J. Changes in lens connexin expression lead to increased gap junctional voltage dependence and conductance. Am J Physiol. 1995;269:C590-C600.
41. Fagerholm PP. The influence of calcium on lens fibers. Exp Eye Res. 1979;28:211-222.
42. Hightower KR, Reddy VN. Metabolic studies on calcium transport in mammalian lens. Curr Eye Res. 1981; 1:197-204.
43. Ruigrok TJ. The calcium paradox is most likely limited to muscle tissue. J Lab Clin Med. 1994;123:198-200.
44. Omachi A, Kleps RA, Henderson TO, Labotka RJ. Inhibition of calcium paradox in isolated rat hearts by high perfusate sucrose concentrations. Am J Physiol. 1994;266:H1729-H1237.
45. Galvan A, Louis CF. Calcium regulation by lens plasma membrane vesicles. Arch Biochem Biophys. 1988;264: 472-481.
46. Rae JL, Eisenberg RS, Mathias RT. The lens as a spherical syncytium. In: Srivastava SK, ed. Red Cell and Lens Metabolism. New York: Elsevier-North Holland; 1980: 277-292. Discussion; 316.
47. Delamere NA, Dean WL. Distribution of lens sodium-potassium adenosine triphosphatase. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 1993;34:2159-2163.
48. Herbette LG, vant Erve YMH, Rhodes DG. Interaction of 1,4 dihydropyridine calcium channel antagonists with biological membranes: Lipid bilayer portioning could occur before drug binding to receptors. J Mol Cell Cardiol. 1989;21:187-201.
49. +2Cl-cotransporter in lens fiber plasma membrane vesicles. Exp Eye Res. 1992;54:797-804.
50. Haas M. The Na-K-Cl cotransporters. Am J Physiol. 1994;267:C869-C885.
51. Pierce GN, Afzal N, Kroeger EA, et al. Cataract formation is prevented by administration of verapamil to diabetic rats. Endocrinology. 1989;125:730-735.
52. Shearer TR, David LL, Anderson RS, Azuma M. Review of selenite cataract. Curr Eye Res. 1992;11:357-369.
53. Shearer TR, Azuma, M, David LL, Murachi T. Amelioration of cataracts and proteolysis in cultured lens by cysteine protease inhibitor E64. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 1991:32:533-540.