scholarly journals Adaptation and facilitation in the barnacle photoreceptor.

1976 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Hanani ◽  
P Hillman
Keyword(s):  
Calcium Concentration ◽  
Light Adaptation ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Low Calcium ◽  
Channel Blocking ◽  
Time Courses ◽  
Ion Channel Blocking ◽  
Conditioning Intensity ◽  
Internal Calcium ◽  
External Calcium

The barnacle photoreceptor sensitivity may either decrease (light adaptation) or increase (facilitation) after exposure to a conditioning light. The balance between adaptation and facilitation is influenced by at least three factors: initial sensitivity state of the cell, external calcium concentration, and conditioning intensity. Cells of very high sensitivity show mainly adaptation, which appears only for higher conditioning intensities and is suppressed in low-calcium media. Less sensitive cells, or those whose sensitivity is reduced by injury or metabolic decay, exhibit facilitation, expecially in low-calcium media and at intermediate conditioning intensities. Both phenomena show recovery time-courses of seconds-to-minutes. Models are proposed which relate light adaptation, as previously suggested, to increased internal calcium concentration, and facilitation either to decreased internal calcium concentration or to decreased activation "affinity" of ion-channel-blocking sites.

The Effect of Changed Extracellular Calcium and Sodium Concentration on the Electroretinogram of the Crayfish Retina

1980 ◽  
Vol 35 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 308-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Stieve ◽  
I. Claßen-Linke
Keyword(s):  
Dark Adaptation ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Calcium Concentration ◽  
Light Adaptation ◽  
Sodium Concentration ◽  
Strong Increase ◽  
Calcium Stores ◽  
Half Time ◽  
Astacus Leptodactylus ◽  
External Calcium

Abstract The electroretinogram (ERG) of the isolated retina of the crayfish Astacus leptodactylus evoked by strong 10 ms light flashes at constant 5 min intervals was measured while the retina was continuously superfused with various salines which differed in Ca2+ -and Na+ -concentrations. The osmotic pressure of test- and reference-saline was adjusted to be identical by adding sucrose. Results: 1. Upon raising the calcium-concentration of the superfusate in the range of 20-150 mmol/l (constant Na+ -concentration: 208 mmol/l) the peak amplitude hmax and the half time of decay t2 of the ERG both decrease gradually up to about 50% in respect to the corresponding value in reference saline. 2. The recovery of the ERG due to dark adaptation following the “weakly light adapted state” is greatly diminished in high external [Ca2+]ex. 3. Lowering the external calcium-concentration (10 →1 mmol/l) causes a small increase in hmax and a strong increase of the half time of decay t2 (about 180%). Upon lowering the calcium concentration of the superfusate to about 1 nmol/l by 1 mmol/l of the calcium buffer EDTA, a slowly augmenting diminution of the ERG height hm SLX occurs. How­ever, a strong retardation of the falling phase of the ERG characterized by an increase in t2 occurs quickly. Even after 90 min stay in the low calcium saline the retina is still not inexcitable; hmax is 5 - 10% of the reference value. The diminution of hmax occurs about six-fold faster when the buffer concentration is raised to 10 mmol/l EDTA. 4. Additional lowering of the Na+ -concentration (208 →20.8 mmol/l) in a superfusate with a calcium concentration raised to 150 mmol/l causes a strong reduction of the ERG amplitude hmax to about 10%. 5. In a superfusate containing 1 nmol/l calcium such lowering of the sodium concentration (208 → 20.8 mmol/l) causes a diminution of the ERG height to about 40% and the shape of the ERG to become polyphasic; at least two maxima with different time to peak values are observed. Interpretation: 1. The similarity of effects, namely raising external calcium concentration and light adaptation on the one hand and lowering external calcium and dark adaptation on the other hand may indicate that the external calcium is acting on the adaptation mechanism of the photoreceptor cells, presumably by influencing the intracellular [Ca2+]. 2. The great tolerance of the retina against Ca2+ -deficiency in the superfusate might be effected by calcium stores in the retina which need high Ca2+ -buffer concentrations in the superfusate to become exhausted. 3. In contrast to the Limulus ventral nerve photoreceptor there does not seem to be an antagonis­ tic effect of sodium and calcium in the crayfish retina on the control of the light channels. 4. The crayfish receptor potential seems to be composed of at least two different processes. Lowering calcium-and lowering external sodium-concentration both diminish the height and change the time course of the two components to a different degree. This could be caused by in­ fluencing the state of adaptation and thereby making the two maxima separately visible.

Invariance of Stoichiometry of the Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium Pump at Physiological Calcium Concentrations – a Reevaluation

1985 ◽  
Vol 40 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 571-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilhelm Hasselbach ◽  
Andrea Migala
Keyword(s):  
Sarcoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Calcium Level ◽  
Calcium Concentration ◽  
Calcium Uptake ◽  
Atp Hydrolysis ◽  
Calcium Pump ◽  
Oxalate Precipitation ◽  
Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium ◽  
Internal Calcium ◽  
External Calcium

Abstract The decline of the transport ratio of the sarcoplasmic calcium pump observed in a recent study (A. results from the retardation of calcium oxalate precipitation at low calcium/protein ratios. The prevailing high internal calcium level supports a rapid calcium backflux and a compensatory ATP hydrolysis during net calcium uptake which reduces the transport ratio. Yet, the determined calcium back­ flux does not fully account for the decline of the transport ratio. A supposed modulation of the stoichiometry of the pump by external calcium (0.1 μм) is at variance with results of previous studies showing a constant transport ratio of two in the same calcium concentration range.

Single Photon-Evoked Events Of The Ventral Nerve Photoreceptor Cell Of Limulus Facilitation, Adaptation And Dependence Of Lowered External Calcium

1991 ◽  
Vol 46 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 461-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Stieve ◽  
H. Reuß ◽  
H. T. Hennig ◽  
J. Klomfaß
Keyword(s):  
Calcium Concentration ◽  
Calcium Release ◽  
Light Adaptation ◽  
Single Photon ◽  
Calcium Deficiency ◽  
Magnesium Concentration ◽  
Calcium Stores ◽  
Calcium Dependent ◽  
Ventral Nerve Photoreceptor ◽  
External Calcium

Bumps, the elementary excitatory events of the Limulus ventral nerve photo receptor following a weak flash of light were recorded under voltage clamp conditions. The statistical distribution of various bump parameters and their changes caused by weak conditioning pre-illumination are described, and the influence of lowered external Ca2+-concentration together with normal or raised Mg2+-concentration (15 °C).1) Weak conditioning pre-illumination causes desensitization: the bump current amplitude, bump duration , bump area (current-integral), and the bump latency are diminished, the more, the stronger the conditioning flash, i.e. the light adaptation. Very weak conditioning pre-illumination causes facilitation, expressed by an increase in number and size of the observed bumps. The average bump latency, however, is already shortened under these conditions.2) Lowering the external Ca2+-concentration from 10 mmol/l to 250 (µmol/1 has its primary effect on the dark -adapted photoreceptor (without substantially reducing the ability for light adaptation ). It causes the following average changes: the amplitudes, durations, current-integrals, and the latencies of current bumps are greatly enlarged and the number of bumps is raised.3) Raised magnesium concentration from 50 to 100 mmol/l can partially compensate for the lack of calcium ; however, it enhances the effect of calcium deficiency on the latency, i.e. it further enlarges the average latencies. The results can be explained on the basis of our model of bump generation by two assumptions.1) Lowering the external calcium concentration causes a decrease in the cytosolic Ca2+-level without substantially reducing the intracellular calcium stores from which the light-adapting calcium release is fed. The lowered cytosolic Ca2+-concentration induces an “extra” dark adaptation resulting in greater bumps and more bumps exceeding the threshold of recognition. The bump latency, however, which behaves differently from all other bump parameters, is determined by a separate calcium -dependent reaction where magnesium competes with calcium antagonistically. 2) Facilitation is due to cooperativity of transmitter binding in order to open the ion channels

scholarly journals Interactions of Calcium with Sodium and Potassium in Membrane Potentials of the Lobster Giant Axon

1960 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 609-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. J. Adelman ◽  
J. C. Dalton
Keyword(s):  
Time Course ◽  
Calcium Concentration ◽  
Giant Axon ◽  
Ion Concentration ◽  
Simultaneous Removal ◽  
Spike Amplitude ◽  
Low Sodium ◽  
Low Calcium ◽  
Sodium And Potassium ◽  
External Calcium

Experiments were performed on the lobster giant axon to determine the relation between intracellular spike amplitude and external calcium ion concentration. Action potential decline in low external calcium is greatly accelerated by simultaneous removal of external sodium ion. Correlation of the time course of spike decline in low calcium-low sodium solution with the time courses of spike decline in low calcium alone and in low sodium alone indicates that the effect of simultaneous removal of both ions is significantly greater than the sum of the individual effects. For a given time of treatment, spike amplitude was a function of external calcium concentration. While spike height is proportional to the log of the external calcium concentration over the range 2.5 to 50 millimolar, the proportionality constant is dependent upon the sodium concentration. Under the conditions of low external sodium (50 per cent reduction) the slope of the linear relationship between the spike height and the log of the external calcium concentration is about 5 times greater than in normal external sodium. Decreasing external calcium concentration and simultaneously increasing external potassium concentration produce a greater spike reduction than the arithmetic sum of spike reductions in low calcium alone and in high potassium alone. It is suggested that calcium interacts strongly with sodium and potassium in the spike-generating mechanism. A theoretical basis for these results is discussed.

scholarly journals Secretion and degradation of parathormone as a function of intracellular maturation of hormone pools

1979 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 521-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
JJ Morrissey ◽  
DV Cohn
Keyword(s):  
Cyclic Amp ◽  
Half Life ◽  
Calcium Concentration ◽  
Hormone Secretion ◽  
Ionized Calcium ◽  
Dibutyryl Cyclic Amp ◽  
Low Calcium ◽  
High Calcium ◽  
Parathormone Secretion

The biosynthesis, processing, and secretion of parthormone and the effect of calcium on these processes were measured in dispersed porcine parthyroid cells incubated with [(35)S]methionine. Proparathormone was detected at 10 min, the earliest time measured, and was rapidly and apparently quantitatively converted to parathormone. The half-life of the prohomormone pool was 15 min. Secretion of parathormone was detected by 20 min. In pulse-chase experiments there was a period between 20 and 40 min during which the wave of newly-synthesized parathormone was secreted. After 40 min during little additional radioactive hormone was secreted, but dibutyryl cyclic AMP, an agent that can mobilize stored parathormone, when added to the incubation mixtures enhanced radioactive parathormone secretion but only after 60 min, although it increased net hormone secretion as determined by radioimmunoassay to the same extent at all times studied. When the ionized calcium concentration of the medium was lowered, more radioactive hormone was secreted at all times but the effect was greatest on that hormone that was synthesized less than 60 min previously ; however, net hormone secretion in contrast to radioactive hormone was enhanced equally at all intervals. These data could mean that the refractoriness to secretion of parathormone 40-60 min of age was related to maturation of secretory container preparatory to storage. Low calcium (0.5 mM) stimulated hormone secretion up to fivefold compared to high calcium (3.0 mM) but did not affect synthesis of parathormone or proparathormne or conversion of the latter to hormone. During processing at least 70 percent of the intracellular parathormone was lost, presumably through proteolysis and this degradation was greater at high calcium. These data have been interpreted in light of the concept that two secretable pools of parathormone exist within the parathyroid.

scholarly journals Expressed Na channel clones differ in their sensitivity to external calcium concentration

1992 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Chahine ◽  
L.Q. Chen ◽  
R.G. Kallen ◽  
R.L. Barchi ◽  
R. Horn
Keyword(s):  
Calcium Concentration ◽  
Na Channel ◽  
External Calcium

scholarly journals Magnesium modulates parathyroid hormone secretion and upregulates parathyroid receptor expression at moderately low calcium concentration

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. E. Rodriguez-Ortiz ◽  
A. Canalejo ◽  
C. Herencia ◽  
J. M. Martinez-Moreno ◽  
A. Peralta-Ramirez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parathyroid Hormone ◽  
Calcium Concentration ◽  
Hormone Secretion ◽  
Receptor Expression ◽  
Low Calcium

The resting membrane potential of Drosophila melanogaster larval muscle depends strongly on external calcium concentration

2010 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob L. Krans ◽  
Karen D. Parfitt ◽  
Kristin D. Gawera ◽  
Patricia K. Rivlin ◽  
Ronald R. Hoy
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Membrane Potential ◽  
Calcium Concentration ◽  
Resting Membrane Potential ◽  
Larval Muscle ◽  
External Calcium
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