After cellular attachment, AGEs have been shown to increase procoagulant activity, vascular permeability, adhesion molecule expression, and monocyte influx actions that may contribute to vascular injury [ 34].
(A ) Example traces showing Ca2+ influx during action potentials in the absence and presence of nimodipine.
For example, transient receptor potential (TRP) ion channels are activated in response to heat, cold, reactive chemicals, leading to cation influx and action potential generation (Basbaum et al., 2009; Dib-Hajj et al., 2010; Dubin and Patapoutian, 2010; Julius, 2013).
None of the prior membrane-targeting studies, however, had the temporal resolution to monitor non-equilibrium differences between membrane-bound and cytosolic GECI signals, nor did any investigate GECI signaling of calcium influx mediated by action potential/voltage-gated calcium channel activity.
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This is significantly higher than the peak of 1.5 µM obtained by extrapolating the predicted calcium obtained at varying levels of calcium indicators to the case of no added indicator, and is a consequence of the inability of indicators to exactly track calcium influx during the action potential.
The addition of nimodipine restricts Ca2+ influx during the action potential by ∼27%.
Neuronal communication depends on energetically demanding processes such as reversing the ion influxes involved in action potential generation and synaptic transmission, which require mitochondrial ATP production (Harris et al., 2012).
Additionally, calcium influx during a backpropagating action potential occurs continuously for a period on the order of a millisecond, rather than an instantaneous increase.
We found that Munc13-KD resulted in a 34% reduction in Ca2+ influx following a single action potential as compared to wild-type (WT) cells.
The acceleration is more clearly present at physiological temperature, we expect through reduced Ca2+ influx on a per action potential basis.
