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Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. 1991;11:1258-1265

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Arteriosclerosis and Thrombosis, Vol 11, 1258-1265, Copyright © 1991 by American Heart Association

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Local modulation of intracellular calcium levels near a single-cell wound in human endothelial monolayers

PD Drumheller and JA Hubbell
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin 78712- 1690.

An endothelial cell monolayer with a single mechanically lysed cell was used as a model to examine the extent, kinetics, and nature of local calcium mobilization in the neighborhood of a wound. Individual endothelial cells from confluent monolayers were mechanically lysed with a minutien needle coupled to a micromanipulator while producing no observable mechanical trauma to the neighboring cells. Changes in calcium levels in individual cells surrounding the wound site were monitored by epifluorescence microphotometry with the calcium-sensitive fluorophore indo-1. Individual cells adjacent to the wound site showed a substantial increase in their intracellular calcium levels, almost as high as the calcium levels attained by ionophore controls. The magnitude of intracellular calcium mobilization in confluent monolayers decreased with distance from the wound site, and those cells located at a radius greater than seven cells from the wound site showed no change in their calcium levels. Thus, lysis of a single cell resulted in calcium mobilization in approximately 200 neighboring cells. The time necessary for intracellular calcium to reach maximum levels also increased with distance from the wound site. Calcium mobilization was partly intracellular and was inhibited by disrupting cell-cell coupling or by increasing gap junction resistance by heptanol. This mobilization was greatly attenuated in subconfluent endothelial monolayers, and it was not observed in fibroblasts or smooth muscle cells; furthermore, the effect was defective in monolayers intentionally contaminated with smooth muscle cells. This study examines the extent and possible mechanisms of local endothelial activation near a microscopic endothelial wound.


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