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  • Molecular and kinetic characterization of histamine transport into adult rat cultured astrocytes
    Perdan-Pirkmajer, Katja ...
    Astrocytes have a key role in the clearance and inactivation of histamine in the adult central nervous system, but transporters which mediate histamine uptake into astrocytes have not been fully ... characterised. We therefore investigated the kinetic and molecular characteristics of histamine uptake into cultured adult rat astrocytes. š3Hđ -histamine was taken up by astrocytesin a temperature-, time- and concentration-dependent manner and was inhibited up to 60-70% by 1 mM ouabain or by substitution of NaCl with cholinechloride. Specific š3Hđ-histamine uptake, determined as the difference between transport at 37°C and 4°C, displayed saturation kinetics with the apparent Michaelis-Menten constant (Km) of 141 ?M and 101 ?M and the apparent maximal uptake rate (Vmax) of 22.5 pmol/min/mg protein and 17.8 pmol/min/mg protein, as estimated from the Woolf and the Eadie-Hofstee plots, respectively. Since our data suggested the presence of a carrier-operated histamine uptake system, we assessed the possible involvement of the organic cation transporters (OCT) 1, 2 and 3, which have been previously described to play a role in histamine transport in the central nervous system. Low level mRNA expression of all OCT isoforms was detected, but in contrast to rat braincortex homogenate, where OCT3 was the most prominently expressed OCT isoform, OCT2 mRNA was the predominant OCT species in cultured astrocytes. However, OCT inhibitors corticosterone and decynium 22 (D22) had no effect or only modestly reduced š3Hđ-histamine uptake. Thus, our data indicate that adult rat astrocytes possess an efficient high-capacity, low-affinity carrier-operated histamine uptake system, which does not seem to involve OCTs.
    Vir: Neurochemistry International. - ISSN 0197-0186 (Vol. 61, iss. 3, 2012, str. 415-422)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del
    Leto - 2012
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 29842137
    DOI

vir: Neurochemistry International. - ISSN 0197-0186 (Vol. 61, iss. 3, 2012, str. 415-422)
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