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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Molecular mechanisms and functions of mitochondrial calcium transport in neurons

Rysted, Jacob Eugene 01 December 2018 (has links)
During neuronal activity mitochondria alter cytosolic Ca2+ signaling by buffering then releasing Ca2+ in the cytosol. This calcium transport by mitochondria affects the amplitude, duration, and spacial profile of the Ca2+ signal in the cytosol of neurons. This buffering by mitochondria has been shown to affect a variety of neuronal functions including: neurotransmission, gene expression, cell excitability, and cell death. Recently, researchers discovered that the protein CCDC109A (mitochondrial Ca2+ uniporter) was the protein responsible for mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake. Using a genetic knockout (KO) mouse model for the mitochondrial Ca2+ uniporter (MCU) my research investigated the role of MCU in neuronal function. In cultured central and peripheral neurons, MCU-KO significantly reduced mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake while significantly increasing the amplitude of the cytosolic Ca2+ signal amplitude. Behaviorally, MCU-KO mice show a small but significant impairment in memory tasks: fear conditioning and Barnes maze. Using a maximal electroshock seizure threshold model of in vivo seizure activity my research found that MCU-KO significantly increases the threshold for maximal seizure activity in mice and significantly reduces seizure severity. In addition to mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake, my research also investigated the mechanisms involved in mitochondrial Ca2+ extrusion. The protein SLC8B1 (SLC24A6, NCLX) is the putative transporter responsible for the Na+/Ca2+ exchange, mitochondrial calcium extrusion. Using genetic NCLX-KO mice, our research found that in neurons NCLX contributes to cytosolic Ca2+ extrusion, but does seem to directly affect mitochondrial Ca2+ extrusion.
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Characterization of Mitochondrial Calcium Uniporter in Barth Syndrome Models

Hartmann, Magnus 16 June 2020 (has links)
No description available.
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Especificidades teciduais e de sexo no transporte de Ca2+ por mitocôndrias isoladas = avaliações em condições que impedem a transição de permeabilidade = Tissue and sex especifities in the Ca2+ handling by isolated mitochondria: evaluations under conditions avoiding the permeability transition / Tissue and sex especifities in the Ca2+ handling by isolated mitochondria : evaluations under conditions avoiding the permeability transition

Chweih, Hanan, 1990- 27 August 2018 (has links)
Orientadores: Tiago Rezende Figueira, Roger Frigério Castilho / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T03:45:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Chweih_Hanan_M.pdf: 1684363 bytes, checksum: edae156378f90e7315bca30c16544071 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Algumas das características das mitocôndrias, incluindo as suas funções de transporte de Ca2+, podem apresentar dimorfismo sexual e especificidades teciduais. No entanto, as mensurações do transporte de Ca2+ em mitocôndrias isoladas estão sujeitas a artefatos secundários a abertura do poro de transição de permeabilidade mitocondrial (PTP) induzido pelo acúmulo excessivo de Ca2+ nesta organela. Neste estudo, o objetivo inicial foi avaliar se a inibição do PTP pela ciclosporina A (CsA) afeta a mensuração de diversas variáveis que descrevem o transporte de Ca2+por mitocôndrias isoladas de fígado de rato. Os resultados obtidos indicam que as concentrações de estado estável do Ca2+ externo a mitocôndria e as taxas deefluxo mitocondrial de Ca2+através de trocadores seletivos foram superestimados em até 4 vezes quando o PTP não foi inibido farmacologicamente pela CsA. O objetivo subsequente foi analisar o transporte de Ca2+ em mitocôndrias isoladas de fígado, de músculo esquelético, de coração e de cérebro de ratos machos e fêmeas sob condições experimentais específicas (i.e. meio de incubação contendo inibidores TPM, substratos energéticos ligados a NAD e níveis relevantes de Ca2+, Mg2+e Na+). Os dados indicaram que a taxa de influxo de Ca2+em mitocôndrias de fígado foi ~4 vezes superior a dos outros tecidos, as quais foram semelhantes entre si. Em contrapartida, as taxas de efluxo de Ca2+ apresentaram uma maior diversidade entre tecidos, especialmente na presença de Na+. Curiosamente, o efluxo de Ca2+na ausência de Na+foi significativamente mais elevado nas mitocôndrias cardíacas (~4nmol/mg/min) em relação às taxas observadas nos outros tecidos, contrariando a concepção de que o efluxo de Ca2+de mitocôndrias de coração é dependente, quase que exclusivamente, de um trocador que requer Na+. A especificidade em relação ao sexo só foi observada em dois índices relacionados a homeostase mitocondrial de Ca2+(i.e. cinética geral normalizada da captação de Ca2+ e a concentração de estado estável do Ca2+ externo a mitocôndria) em mitocôndrias isoladas de coração (mais lentos ou maiores na fêmea) e na respiração estimulada por ADP em mitocôndrias de fígado (~20% maior na fêmea). O presente estudo demonstrou a importância metodológica de se prevenir a abertura do PTP para a análise das propriedades e da variabilidade fisiológica do transporte de Ca2+por mitocôndrias isoladas. Adicionalmente, concluímos que sob as condições experimentais aqui utilizadas, o efluxo de Ca2+ mitocondrial apresenta grandes especificidades teciduais e que alguns achados desafiam conceitos estabelecidos em estudos anteriores sob condições arguivelmente menos controladas / Abstract: The characteristics of mitochondria, including their Ca2+ transport functions, may exhibit tissue specificity and sex dimorphism. Because the measurements of the Ca2+ handling by isolated mitochondria may be biased by dysfunction secondary to Ca2+-induced mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT) pore opening, this study evaluates the extent to which MPT inhibition by cyclosporine-A affects the measurement of Ca2+ transport in isolated rat liver mitochondria. The results indicate that the steady-state levels of external Ca2+ and the rates of mitochondrial Ca2+ efflux through the selective pathways can be overestimated by up to 4-fold if MPT pore opening is not prevented. Then, we analyzed the Ca2+ transport in isolated mitochondria from the liver, skeletal muscle, heart and brain of male and female rats under incubation conditions containing MPT inhibitors, NAD-linked substrates and relevant levels of free Ca2+, Mg2+ and Na+. Except for the liver mitochondria displaying values4-fold higher, the Ca2+ influx rates were similar among the other tissues. In contrast, the Ca2+ efflux rates exhibited more tissue diversity, especially in the presence of Na+. Interestingly, the Na+-independent Ca2+ efflux was highest in the heart mitochondria (~4 nmol/mg/min), thus challenging the view that heart mitochondrial Ca2+ efflux relies almost exclusively on a Na+-dependent pathway. Sex specificity was only observed in two kinetic indexes (i.e. the normalized overall kinetics of Ca2+ uptake and the steady-state levels of external Ca2+) of heart mitochondrial Ca2+ homeostasis (slower or higher in female)and in the ADP-stimulated respiration of liver mitochondria (~20% higher in females). The present study shows the methodological importance of preventing MPT when measuring the properties and the physiological variability of the Ca2+ handling by isolated mitochondria. Moreover, we conclude that mitochondrial Ca2+ efflux exhibits great tissue specificity under our conditions, which may challenge some concepts raised in previous studies that employed experimental conditions that are arguably not well controlled / Mestrado / Fisiopatologia Médica / Mestra em Ciências
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Characterizing the Role of the Mitochondrial Calcium Uniporter Channel in Vascular Endothelial Mechanotransduction

Patel, Akshar January 2022 (has links)
No description available.

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