Cytosolic Calcium Concentration Changes in Neuronal Cells Under Clinorotation and in Parabolic Flight Missions

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• 作者：Jens Hauslage ; Medea Abbrecht ; Lars Hanke…
• 关键词：Clinostat ; Simulated microgravity ; Neuroglioma cells ; Cytosolic calcium concentration ; Fluorescence ; Parabolic flights
• 刊名：Microgravity Science and Technology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：28
• 期：6
• 页码：633-638
• 全文大小：1,118 KB
• 刊物类别：Engineering
• 刊物主题：Extraterrestrial Physics and Space Sciences
  Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
  Classical Continuum Physics
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1875-0494
• 卷排序：28

文摘

All life on earth has been established under conditions of stable gravity of 1g. Nevertheless, in numerous experiments the direct gravity dependence of biological processes has been shown on all levels of organization, from single molecules to humans. To study the effects especially of microgravity on biological systems, a variety of platforms are available, from drop towers to the ISS. Due to the costs of these platforms and their limited availability, as an alternative, numerous simulators have been developed for so called “simulated” microgravity. A classical systems is a clinostat, basically rotating a sample around one axis, and by integration of the gravity vector for 360° arguing that thus the effects of gravity are depleted. Indeed, a variety of studies has shown that taking out the direction of gravity from a biological system often results in consequences similar to the exposure of the system to real microgravity. Nevertheless, the opposite has been shown, too, and as a consequence the relevance of clinostats in microgravity research is still under discussion. To get some more insight into this problem we have constructed a small fluorescence clinostat and have studied the effects of clinorotation on the cytosolic calcium concentration of neuroglioma cells. The results have been compared to experiments with identical cells in real microgravity, utilizing parabolic flight missions. Our results show that in case of a cell suspension used in a small florescence clinostat within a tube diameter of 2mm, the effects of clinorotation are comparable to those under real microgravity, both showing a significant increase in intracellular calcium concentration.