Electrophysiological characterization of Na+ currents in acutely isolated human hippocampal dentate granule cells

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 509, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 139-150

  Reckziegel, G ^a,b   Beck, H ^a   Schramm, J ^a   Elger, C E ^a   Urban, B W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SAXITOXIN; SODIUM ION; TETRODOTOXIN; CARBAMAZEPINE; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DENTATE GYRUS; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPSY; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM CURRENT; TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; BRAIN SURGERY; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DENTATE GRANULE CELL; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HALF-ACTIVATION VOLTAGE; HALF-INACTIVATION VOLTAGE; HODGKIN HUXLEY EQUATION; HUMAN TISSUE; LOW TEMPERATURE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROELECTRODES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SAXITOXIN; SODIUM CHANNELS; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 0032523753     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1998.139bo.x     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. ARMSTRONG, C. M. & GILLY, W. F. (1992). Access resistance and space clamp problems associated with whole-cell patch clamping. Methods in Enzymology 207, 100-122.
2. BARRY, P. H. & LYNCH, J. W. (1991). Liquid junction potentials and small cell effects in patch-clamp analysis. Journal of Membrane Biology 121, 101-117.
3. BECK, H., CLUSMANN, H., KRAL, T., SCHRAMM, J., HEINEMANN, U. & ELGER, C. E. (1997a). Potassium currents in acutely isolated human hippocampal dentate granule cells. Journal of Physiology 498, 73-85.
4. 2+ currents in acutely isolated human hippocampal granule cells. Journal of Neurophysiology 77, 1526-1537.
5. BEZANILLA, F. & ARMSTRONG, C. M. (1977). Inactivation of the sodium channel. I. Sodium current experiments. Journal of General Physiology 70, 549-566.
6. BRODIE, C., BRODY, M. & SAMPSON, S. R. (1989). Characterization of the relation between sodium channels and electrical activity in cultured rat skeletal myotubes: regulatory aspects. Brain Research 488, 186-194.
7. + channels underlies the activity-dependent attenuation of dendritic action potentials in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons. Journal of Neuroscience 17, 6512-6521.
8. CUMMINS, T. R., XIA, V. & HADDAD, G. G. (1994). Functional properties of rat and human neocortical voltage-sensitive sodium currents. Journal of Neurophysiology 71, 1052-1064.
9. DARGENT, B. & COURAUD, F. (1990). Down-regulation of voltage-dependent sodium channels initiated by sodium influx in developing neurons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 87, 5907-5911.
10. DUFF, H. J., OFFORD, J., WEST, J. & CATTERALL, W. A. (1992). Class I and IV antiarrhythmic drugs and cytosolic calcium regulate mRNA encoding the sodium channel α subunit in rat cardiac muscle. Molecular Pharmacology 42, 570-574.
11. FRENCH, R. J. & HORN, R. (1983). Sodium channel gating: models, mimics, and modifiers. Annual Review of Biophysics and Bioengineering 12, 319-356.
12. GASTALDI, M., BARTOLOMEI, F., MASSACRIER, A., PLANELLS, R., ROBAGLIA-SCHLUPP, A. & CAU, P. (1997). Increase in mRNAs encoding neonatal II and III sodium channel α-isoforms during kainate-induced seizures in adult rat hippocampus. Brain Research. Molecular Brain Research 44, 179-190.
13. GONOI, T. & HILLE, B. (1987). Gating of Na channels: Inactivation modifiers discriminate among models. Journal of General Physiology 89, 253-274.
14. HAMILL, O. P., MARTY, A., NEHER, E., SAKMANN, B. & SIGWORTH, F. J. (1981). Improved patch-clamp techniques for high-resolution current recording from cells and cell-free membrane patches. Pflügers Archiv 391, 85-100.
15. HILLE, B. (1992). Ionic Channels of Excitable Membranes, 2nd edn. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, USA.
16. HODGKIN, A. L. & HUXLEY, A. F. (1952). A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve. Journal of Physiology 117, 500-544.
17. + conductances in rat neocortical neurons: appearance of a slowly inactivating component. Journal of Neurophysiology 59, 778-795.
18. ISOKAWA, M., AVANZINI, G., FINCH, D. M., BABB, T. L. & LEVESQUE, M. F. (1991). Physiologic properties of human dentate granule cells in slices prepared from epileptic patients. Epilepsy Research 9, 242-250.
19. ISOKAWA, M., LEVESQUE, M. F., BABB, T. L. & ENGEL, J. JR (1993). Single mossy fibre axonal systems of human dentate granule cells studied in hippocampal slices from patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. Journal of Neuroscience 13, 1511-1522.
20. JUNG, H. Y., MICKUS, T. & SPRUSTON, N. (1997). Prolonged sodium channel inactivation contributes to dendritic action potential attenuation in hippocampal pyramidal neurons. Journal of Neuroscience 17, 6639-6646.
21. KANEDA, M., OYAMA, Y., IKEMOTO, Y. & AKAIKE, N. (1989). Blockade of the voltage-dependent sodium current in isolated rat hippocampal neurons by tetrodotoxin and lidocaine. Brain Research 484, 348-351.
22. LOMBARDO, A. J., KUZNIECKY, R., POWERS, R. E. & BROWN, G. B. (1996). Altered brain sodium channel transcript levels in human epilepsy. Brain Research. Molecular Brain Research 35, 84-90.
23. MACDONALD, R. L. & KELLY, K. M. (1995). Antiepileptic drug mechanisms of action. Epilepsia 36, suppl. 2, S2-S12.
24. MARGERISON, J. H. & CORSELLIS, J. A. N. (1966). A clinical, electroencephalographic and neuropathological study of the brain in epilepsy, with particular reference to the temporal lobes. Brain Research 89, 499-530.
25. NEHER, E. (1995). Voltage offsets in patch-clamp experiments. In Single-Channel Recording, 2nd edn, pp. 147-153. Plenum Press, New York.
26. OFFORD, J. & CATTERALL, W. A. (1989). Electrical activity, cAMP, and cytosolic calcium regulate mRNA encoding sodium channel a subunits in rat muscle cells. Neuron 2, 1447-1452.
27. + channels. Physiological Reviews 71, 1047-1080.
28. PRESS, W. H., TEUKOLSKY, S. A., VETTERLING, W. T. & FLANNERY, B. P. (1994). Numerical Recipes in C: the Art of Scientific Computing, 2nd edn. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
29. SAH, P., GIBB, A. J. & GAGE, P. W. (1988). The sodium current underlying action potentials in guinea pig hippocampal CA1 neurons. Journal of General Physiology 91, 373-398.
30. + channels induced by phenytoin in brains of genetically seizure-susceptible (El) and control (ddY) mice. Neuroscience 62, 803-811.
31. SATIN, J., LIMBERIS, J. T., KYLE, J. W., ROGART, R. B. & FOZZARD, H. A. (1994). The saxitoxin/tetrodotoxin binding site on cloned rat brain IIa Na channels in the transmembrane electric field. Biophysical Journal 67, 1007-1014.
32. SCHNEIDER, M., PRÖBSTLE, T., HOMBACH, V., HANNEKUM, A. & RÜDEL, R. (1994). Characterization of the sodium currents in isolated human cardiocytes. Pflügers Archiv 428, 84-90.
33. SCHOLZ, A., REID, G., VOGEL, W. & BOSTOCK, H. (1993). Ion channels in human axons. Journal of Neurophysiology 70, 1274-1279.
34. STEINHÄUSER, C., TENNIGKEIT, M., MATTHIES, H. & GÜNDEL, J (1990). Properties of the fast sodium channels in pyramidal neurones isolated from the CA1 and CA3 areas of the hippocampus of postnatal rats. Pflügers Archiv 415, 756-761.
35. UPTON, N. (1994). Mechanisms of action of new antiepileptic drugs: rational design and serendipitous findings. Trends in Pharmacological Sciences 15, 456-463.
36. WANG, D. W. JR, GEORGE, A. L. & BENNETT, P. B. (1996). Comparison of heterologously expressed human cardiac and skeletal muscle sodium channels. Biophysical Journal 70, 238-245.
37. + channel α subunits in a somatic cell line. Neuron 8, 59-70.
38. WILLIAMSON, A., SPENCER, D. D. & SHEPHERD, G. M. (1993). Comparison between the membrane and synaptic properties of human and rodent dentate granule cells. Brain Research 622, 194-202.
39. WOLF, H. K., CAMPOS, M. G., ZENTNER, J., HUFNAGEL, A., SCHRAMM, J., ELGER, C. E. & WIESTLER, O. D. (1993). Surgical pathology of temporal lobe epilepsy. Experience with 216 cases. Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology 52, 499-506.
40. WYLLIE, E. (ed.) (1993). Intracranial EEG and localization studies. In Treatment of Epilepsy: Principle and Practice, pp. 1023-1038. Lee and Febinger, Philadelphia, USA.