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Tight coupling of astrocyte energy metabolism to synaptic activity revealed by genetically encoded FRET nanosensors in hippocampal tissue

Ruminot, Iván ; Schmälzle, Jana ; Leyton, Belén ; Barros, L Felipe ; Deitmer, Joachim W

Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism, 2019-03, Vol.39 (3), p.513-523 [Periódico revisado por pares]

London, England: SAGE Publications

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  • Título:
    Tight coupling of astrocyte energy metabolism to synaptic activity revealed by genetically encoded FRET nanosensors in hippocampal tissue
  • Autor: Ruminot, Iván ; Schmälzle, Jana ; Leyton, Belén ; Barros, L Felipe ; Deitmer, Joachim W
  • Assuntos: Animals ; Astrocytes - metabolism ; Biosensing Techniques ; Energy Metabolism ; Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer ; Glucose - metabolism ; Hippocampus - metabolism ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Neurons - metabolism ; Original ; Potassium - metabolism ; Sodium-Bicarbonate Symporters - metabolism ; Synaptic Transmission
  • É parte de: Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism, 2019-03, Vol.39 (3), p.513-523
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  • Descrição: The potassium ion, K+, a neuronal signal that is released during excitatory synaptic activity, produces acute activation of glucose consumption in cultured astrocytes, a phenomenon mediated by the sodium bicarbonate cotransporter NBCe1 (SLC4A4). We have explored here the relevance of this mechanism in brain tissue by imaging the effect of neuronal activity on pH, glucose, pyruvate and lactate dynamics in hippocampal astrocytes using BCECF and FRET nanosensors. Electrical stimulation of Schaffer collaterals produced fast activation of glucose consumption in astrocytes with a parallel increase in intracellular pyruvate and biphasic changes in lactate. These responses were blocked by TTX and were absent in tissue slices prepared from NBCe1-KO mice. Direct depolarization of astrocytes with elevated extracellular K+ or Ba2+ mimicked the metabolic effects of electrical stimulation. We conclude that the glycolytic pathway of astrocytes in situ is acutely sensitive to neuronal activity, and that extracellular K+ and the NBCe1 cotransporter are involved in metabolic crosstalk between neurons and astrocytes. Glycolytic activation of astrocytes in response to neuronal K+ helps to provide an adequate supply of lactate, a metabolite that is released by astrocytes and which acts as neuronal fuel and an intercellular signal.
  • Editor: London, England: SAGE Publications
  • Idioma: Inglês

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