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T Hijioka, RL Rosenberg, JJ Lemasters and RG Thurman
Laboratory of Hepatobiology and Toxicology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599.
Kupffer cells, the resident hepatic macrophages, are activated by calcium, but conclusive evidence that they contain voltage-dependent calcium channels has not been presented previously. In this study, the cytosolic free calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) of cultured Kupffer cells was measured with the fluorescent Ca2+ indicator fura-2. Partial replacement of extracellular Na+ by K+ caused an increase in [Ca2+]i in a concentration-dependent manner (half-maximal effect at 81 mM K+), presumably due to membrane depolarization. At 65 mM K+, where there were minimal changes in [Ca2+]i, addition of the dihydropyridine-type calcium channel agonist BAY K 8644 (1 microM) caused a large increase in [Ca2+]i. Overall, the effect of BAY K 8644 (1 microM) was to shift the concentration-response curve for K+ to the left (half-maximal effect at 61 mM K+). Under depolarizing conditions (65 mM K+), BAY K 8644 increased [Ca2+]i in a concentration-dependent manner (half- maximal effect at approximately 400 nM BAY K 8644). Moreover, the dihydropyridine-type calcium channel blocker nitrendipine inhibited the BAY K 8644-induced increase in [Ca2+]i in a concentration-dependent manner (half-maximal inhibition with about 25 nM nitrendipine). When extracellular Ca2+ was omitted from the incubation medium, the increases in [Ca2+]i due to BAY K 8644 were prevented completely. In addition, an intracellular Ca2+ antagonist, 8-(N,N-diethylamino)-octyl- 3,4,5-trimethoxybenzoate hydrochloride (200 microM), did not inhibit the BAY K 8644-sensitive, voltage-dependent increase in [Ca2+]i. Thus, these data collectively indicate that BAY K 8644 causes a transmembrane Ca2+ influx in Kupffer cells in a voltage-dependent manner, providing the first direct evidence that Kupffer cells contain L-type voltage- dependent Ca2+ channels.
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