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Physiological and pathological potential of astroglial NMDA receptors
Džamba, Dávid ; Anděrová, Miroslava (advisor) ; Vyklický, Ladislav (referee) ; Paleček, Jiří (referee)
Cortical glial cells contain both ionotropic and metabotropic glutamate receptors. Despite several efforts, a comprehensive analysis of the entire family of glutamate receptors and their subunits present in glial cells is still missing. Here, we provide an overall picture of the gene expression of ionotropic (AMPA, kainate, NMDA) and the main metabotropic glutamate receptors in cortical glial cells isolated from GFAP/EGFP mice during ageing as well as before and after focal cerebral ischemia. Employing single-cell RT-qPCR, we detected the expression of genes encoding subunits of glutamate receptors in cortical GFAP/EGFP- positive (GFAP/EGFP+ ) glial cells. Most of the analyzed cells expressed mRNA for glutamate receptor subunits, the expression of which, in most cases, even increased after ischemic injury. Data analyses disclosed several classes of GFAP/EGFP+ glial cells with respect to glutamate receptors and revealed in what manner their expression correlates with the expression of glial markers prior to and after ischemia. Furthermore, we also examined the protein expression and functional significance of NMDA receptors in glial cells. Immunohistochemical analyses of all seven NMDA receptor subunits provided direct evidence that the GluN3A subunit is present in GFAP/EGFP+ glial cells and that...
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Měření membránového potenciálu u mutantních kmenů Saccharomyces cerevisiae deficientních v různých membránových transportérech
Džamba, Dávid ; Gášková, Dana (advisor) ; Krůšek, Jan (referee)
Potassium transport across the cell membrane is supposed to contribute to the maintenance of membrane potential. In this work, the diS-C3(3) assay was used to determine the contribution of three main potassium transporters of S. cerevisiae cells (Trk1p, Trk2p and Tok1p) to the membrane potential changes in three different growth phases. It was shown that deletions of these transporters cause hyperpolarisation of the cell membrane in exponential and early diauxic growth phases; no difference was detected in post-diauxic cells. Another contribution of this work is in a deeper study of the activity of ABC pumps which are crucial in multidrug resistance. It was proved that apart from Pdr5p and Snq2p pumps, there are also other active extrusion pumps (most likely Pdr10p and Pdr15p). It was also showed that pdr1, pdr3 mutant strain is not an equivalent of strain lacking the multidrug pumps Pdr5p, Snq2p and Yor1p. The results in this work indicate that dis-C3(3) probe is probably a substrate of other pumps such as Pdr15p. Study of these transporters with our method is thus very suitable and could provide detailed information about their kinetics and help in finding their inhibitors.
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