PMID: 9178034Apr 1, 1997Paper

Weaver mutant mouse cerebellar granule cells respond normally to chronic depolarization

International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience
A BjerregaardO S Jørgensen

Abstract

We studied the effects of chronic K(+)-induced membrane depolarization and treatment with N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) on cerebellar granule cells (CGCs) from weaver mutant mice and non-weaver litter-mates. The weaver mutation is a Gly-to-Ser substitution in a conserved region of the Girk2 G protein-coupled inward rectifying potassium channel [Patil N., Cox D. R., Bhat D., Faham M., Myers R. M. and Peterson A. S. (1995) Nature Genet. 11, 126-129] which induces early death of CGCs. The biochemical differentiation of CGCs was estimated as the rate of 2-deoxy-D-glucose accumulation and the expression of neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM). High (25 mM) K+ ion concentration or treatment with NMDA greatly promoted the biochemical differentiation of both weaver mutant and non-weaver litter-mate mouse CGCs. In contrast to the marked effect on biochemical differentiation in both weaver and non-weaver mice CGSs, chronic high K+ treatment only had limited effect on survival. The survival of weaver mutant mouse CGCs in medium containing 5 mM K+ ions was very low, only 20% of the plated cells surviving at 7 days after plating, as opposed to the 50% for non-weaver CGCs. Chronic high K+ treatment improved the relative survival of weaver muta...Continue Reading

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Mar 10, 2000·International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience·H S Mogensen, O S Jorgensen

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