The suppressive effects of ketamine on intracellular calcium has been reported in a variety of cells although the mechanisms involved are not well understood. The aim of this work was to evaluate the ketamine effect on the mitochondrial Ca2+  accumulation and the cellular Ca  mobilization using FLUO4-AM and flow cytometry. The results showed that mitochondria from ketamine injected animals presented a lower ability to retain calcium at concentrations higher than 20 μM, as compared with controls (saline injected animals). In addition, ketamine showed a significant decreased KCl-induced intracellular calcium concentration. KCl increased calcium influx through cellular depolarization. According to the data presented herein, ketamine presents a clear inhibitory effect on cytosolic Ca2+  transport mechanisms, independently from their action on the calcium channel associated NMDA receptor.Fil: Bustamante, Jaunita. Universidad Abierta Interamericana. Facultad de Medicina. Centro de Altos Estudios en Ciencias de la Salud; ArgentinaFil: Czerniczyniec, Analia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Bioquímica y Medicina Molecular. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica. Instituto de Bioquímica y Medicina Molecular; ArgentinaFil: Lores Arnaiz, Silvia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Bioquímica y Medicina Molecular. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica. Instituto de Bioquímica y Medicina Molecular; Argentin

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ISSN 1667-5746ELECTRONICBIOCELL2016 40(1): 11-14*Address correspondence to: Juanita Bustamante,   juanab44@gmail.com  Received: October 30, 2015. Accepted: April 16, 2016Ketamine effect on intracellular and mitochondrial  calcium mobilization Juanita BUSTAMANTE1*, Analía CZERNICZYNIEC2, Silvia LORES-ARNAIZ21 Centro de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Humanas y de la Salud (CAECIHS), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Abierta Interamericana,   Buenos Aires, Argentina 2 Instituto de Bioquímica y Medicina Molecular, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ArgentinaABSTRACT: The suppressive effects of ketamine on intracellular calcium has been reported in a variety of cells although the mechanisms involved are not well understood. The aim of this work was to evaluate the ketamine effect on the mitochondrial Ca2+ accumulation and the cellular Ca2+ mobilization using FLUO4-AM and flow cytometry. The results showed that mitochondria from ketamine injected animals presented a lower ability to retain calcium at concentrations higher than 20 μM, as compared with controls (saline injected animals). In ad-dition, ketamine showed a significant decreased KCl-induced intracellular calcium concentration. KCl increased calcium influx through cellular depolarization. According to the data presented herein, ketamine presents a clear inhibitory effect on cytosolic Ca2+ transport mechanisms, independently from their action on the calcium channel associated NMDA receptor.The role of Ca2+ as a cell messenger is determinant in the regulation of neuronal metabolism, participating in neu-rotransmitter release, nerve excitability, cell differentiation and migration, synaptic plasticity, neurite growth, and neu-ronal apoptosis (Berridge, 1998; Blackstone and Sheng, 2002; Thomas et al. 1996). The versatility of Ca2+ as an intracellular messenger is derived from the fluctuations of cytosolic Ca2+ concentrations, most of which are generated by regulated openings of Ca2+ permeable channels present in the plasma membrane and in different organelles. Under physiological conditions in the neuron, electrical pulses or receptor-me-diated stimuli generate different Ca2+ signals with distinct spatial/temporal dimensions and subcellular localization. When the frequency and magnitude of these cytosolic calci-um signals are altered, the physiological functions of neurons will be inevitably affected (Abramov et al, 2004; Aley et al, 2006; Bano and Nicoreta, 2007). The loss of balance between plasma membrane Ca2+ influx and Ca2+ export leads to either a sustained or decreased cytosolic Ca2+ concentration, thus inducing alterations in the normal intracellular Ca2+ path-ways and in the mitochondrial function, being mitochondria important energy generators and Ca2+ signaling organelles.The N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor plays an important role in neuronal developmental processes (Malen-ka and Nicoll, 1993; Perez-Otaño et al, 2004), including pro-liferation, differentiation, synaptic plasticity, and regulation of intracellular Ca2+ levels in neurons (Dorsi et al, 2015; Ol-ney et al, 2001; Wei and Xei, 2009). Ketamine, an intravenous anesthetic, exerts its function as a non-competitive NMDA receptor antagonist. Some studies have shown that ketamine can affect neuronal functions and induce neuronal apopto-sis (Olney et al, 2001, 2002). However, the effects of the ket-amine on cell calcium transport and mitochondrial calcium Key words: calcium transport, hippocampal mitochondria, Vero cell culture.12accumulation and their evident consequences, such as the al-teration in the magnitude of the mitochondrial and cytosolic Ca2+ signaling, still remain unclear as well as the mechanisms involved in the possible benefits or toxicity of this drug. Expanding our knowledge of intracellular and mito-chondrial calcium signals will contribute to the understand-ing of mechanisms associated with neuronal loss in different physiopathological conditions. Mitochondrial Ca2+ import occurs mainly through the voltage dependent anion-selective channel (VDAC) (Carafoli, 2003). The Ca2+ transport across the inner mitochondrial membrane is mediated by the uni-porter (Carafoli, 2003), that mobilizes Ca2+ along the electro-chemical gradient due to the negative mitochondrial mem-brane potential (ΔΨm) of 180mV (Carafoli, 2003). Both the VDAC and the uniporter show Ca2+-dependent activation which is relevant for the homeostatic control of cytoplasmic [Ca2+]c (Carafoli, 2010; Bustamante and Lores-Arnaiz, 2010; Raluca et al, 2014). In the matrix, also, Ca2+ stimulates the Ca2+-sensitive mitochondrial dehydrogenases to increase the H+ extrusion, which is important for the maintenance of the driving force for Ca2+ uptake and ATP production (Carafoli, 2003, 2010; Bustamante and Lores-Arnaiz; Raluca et al, 2014). Using brain isolated mitochondria from ketamine-treat-ed animals and Vero cell cultures (a fibroblast-like kidney cell line) treated with ketamine as study subjects, this study attempted to analyze the effect of this drug on the mitochon-drial ability to accumulate calcium and on the cellular calci-um transport response. In order to monitoring mitochon-drial and cytosolic calcium mobilization, the calcium sensor fluorophore Fluo4AM was employed and the magnitude of the fluorescent signal was determined by flow cytometry. The ability of mitochondrial calcium accumulation was evaluated in hippocampal mitochondria from ketamine in-jected animals. Ketamine (40 mg/kg i.p) was given to male S-D pups (ca. 21 days old) for 3 consecutive days and then sacrificed 24 hours after the injection; untreated animals received saline for 3 consecutive days as well. Brains were quickly removed, and hippocampal mitochondria isolated by differential centrifugation and suspended in MSH with-out EDTA buffer: 0.23 M mannitol, 0.07 M sucrose, 5 mM HEPES pH 7.4. For Ca2+ uptake measurements, 2.5 µg of mitochondrial fraction was washed with MSH, and load-ed with 50 nM of an acetoxymethyl ester derivative of the green fluorescent indicator Fluo-4 (final concentration), in FIGURE 1. A. Ketamine effect on mitochondrial calcium accumulation. Isolated hippocampal mitochondria from saline injected animals (control) and ketamine injected animals (40 mg/kg i.p) for 3 consecutive days, and, an aliquot of mitochondria from untreated animals exposed to 50 mM H2O2 during 10 min (H2O2) were loaded with Fluo4AM, exposed to different external [Ca2+] from 5 to 100 μM and incubated at 37° C for 20 min before acquirement by the cytometer. Each value represents the mean ± SD for 3 independent experiments. Data showed significant differences between control and ketamine or H2O2 groups (*p< 0.05, Student’s t test for independent samples). B. Time dependent effect of ketamine on KCl-induced cell [Ca2+] mobilization. Untreated cultured Vero cells (1x106) (control) were exposed or PBS and 300 μM ketamine respectively for 24 hs, (ketamine) harvested, suspended in buffer with 1 mM [Ca2+], loaded with100 nM Fluo4AM at 37° C for 30 min and then exposed to 170 mM KCl. Kinetic Fluorescence was determined by measuring the fluorescence changes each minute, during 8 minutes, by flow cytometry. Data showed significant differences between control and ketamine groups in each time point (*p< 0.05, independent sample Student t test).Fig 1 Bustamante et alJUANITA BUSTAMANTE et al.13a reaction medium containing 1ml of MSH buffer (0.23 M mannitol, 0.07 M sucrose, 5 mM HEPES) supplemented with 5 mM malate, 5 mM glutamate and 1 mM phosphate. Mitochondrial samples were incubated with different CaCl2 concentrations in the range of 5-100 μM.  For Ca2+ depriva-tion experiments, CaCl2 was omitted and 0.1 mM EGTA was added. The samples were incubated for 30 min in a shaking water-bath (37° C) and immediately acquired by the cytome-ter. Hydrogen peroxide (50 mm) was added to mitochondri-al samples, and used as a criterion of damaged mitochondria with an impaired ability to acquire calcium. As shown in Fig. 1A, brain hippocampal mitochondria from saline injected animals (control trace) showed a higher and sustained Ca2+ fluorescent signal indicating an efficient ability to accumulate and retain Ca2+ up to the highest Ca2+ concentration (100 μM). The ketamine dose employed in this study, was low enough to avoid any systemic toxicity, and was chosen in accordance with earlier works (Huang et al, 2012; Ullah et al, 2012). In fact, the ability to acquire and retain Ca2+ from the extracellular medium was markedly decreased in mitochondria from ketamine exposed rats (ketamine trace) as compared with mitochondria from saline injected rats. Mitochondria treated with a high concentration of hy-drogen peroxide (50 mM) (H2O2 trace), showed the lowest fluorescence values indicating that oxidative-damaged mito-chondria were not able to accumulate and retain Ca2+. In-deed, Ca2+ uptake by H2O2-damaged mitochondria was only observed at the lowest calcium concentration (5 μM). Vero cell cultures were used to evaluate the ketamine effect on Ca2+ influx by determination of the time dependent effect of ketamine on KCl-induced calcium mobilization. Cells were cultured and treated with 300 μM ketamine for 24 h; control cells received PBS only. Both ketamine-treated and control cells were harvested (1x106) and suspended in 1 ml HEPES buffer (140 mM NaCl, 5 mM KCl, 1 mM MgCl2, 10 mM glucose and 10 mM Na-HEPES in presence of 1 mM Ca2+), loaded with 100 nM Fluo4AM at 37° C for 30 min and followed by 170 mM KCl. Immediately after depolarization, calcium mobilization from the extracellular buffer to the cy-toplasm was recorded by measuring fluorescence intensities every minute during as long as 8 minutes by flow cytometry in each sample. The evaluation of the ketamine effect on the relative cellular calcium transport is shown in Fig 1B. After 5 days of culture, ketamine in a dose of 300 μM had no effect on cell viability (data not shown), but presented a decreased Ca2+ influx after KCl incubation as observed in Fig 1B (ketamine). In fact, ketamine treated cells showed a lower fluorescence intensity under flow cytometry, as compared with the un-treated control cells. These data indicate that Ca2+ transport to the cytosol after cellular depolarization was inhibited by ketamine cell treatment. A fluorescence increase was ob-served for several seconds, followed by a slow decrease in both treated and untreated cells. The signal intensity was markedly decreased in ketamine treated cells showing a sta-tistically significant difference as compared with untreated cells. Our results may be correlated with those of Chen et al. (2005) who observed that ketamine induced a time-de-pendent reduction of the bradykinin-enhanced intracellular calcium concentrations in endothelial cells from the human umbilical vein. According to the data presented, ketamine presents an important inhibitory effect on cytosolic Ca2+ transport mechanisms independent of the calcium channel associated NMDA receptor.The two models proposed serve as suitable experimen-tal systems for the study of cellular and mitochondrial Ca2+ signals alterations induced by ketamine exposure, evaluating the responses by Fluo4AM and flow cytometry. In this study we could observe a clear inhibition of mitochondrial Ca2+ accumulation in ketamine injected animals compared with the evident Ca2+ accumulation in mitochondria from saline injected rats. Their ability to accumulate calcium was less af-fected than that of H2O2 damaged mitochondria where prob-ably many of the calcium transport systems are impaired. Finally, the effect of non-toxic ketamine concentrations in Vero cells, showed that ketamine may be involved in the in-hibition of different cell depolarizing mechanisms induced by KCl. 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