Clinical challenge. Osteomyelitis of the distal half of the metacarpus with associated involucrum and bone sequestrum formation |
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Authors: | TL Clippinger RA Bennett S Deem SM Newell |
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Affiliation: | Cell Biology Laboratory, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sugitani, Japan. kurosaki@ms.toyama-mpu.ac.jp |
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Abstract: | Treatment of cultured carrot cells with dibutyryl cAMP or forskolin resulted in the appreciable decrease in extracellular K+ concentration. This decrease was found to be transient and the concentration of the ion in the culture medium restored to the original level within few minutes. The cAMP-induced decrease in K+ level in the medium was almost completely inhibited when carrot cells were incubated in the presence of K+ channel blockers, CsCl and tetraethylammonium chloride. Appreciable amounts of 45Ca2+ were discharged from 45Ca2+-loaded inside-out vesicles of carrot plasma membrane by the stimulation with cAMP, however, the release of the ion was significantly inhibited in the presence of the K+ channel blockers. The release of 45Ca2+ from the vesicles was also observed when K+ current was evoked with an ionophore, valinomycin, even in the absence of cAMP. These results suggest that the gating of some of the inward K+ channels located at plasma membrane of cultured carrot cells is controlled by cytoplasmic concentration of cAMP and the inward K+ current across the plasma membrane induced by the nucleotide elicits Ca2+ influx into the cells possibly by the activation of voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels. |
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