Effect of nortriptyline on intracellular Ca2+ handling and viability in canine renal tubular cells |
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Authors: | Cheng He-Hsiung Huang Chun-Jen Chen Wei-Chuan Chen I-Shu Liu Shiuh-Inn Hsu Shu-Shong Chang Hong-Tai Wang Jong-Khing Lu Yih-Chau Jan Chung-Ren |
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Affiliation: | Section of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan 710, ROC. |
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Abstract: | In Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, the effect of nortriptyline, an antidepressant, on intracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) was measured by using fura-2. Nortriptyline (> 10 microM) caused a rapid increase of [Ca2+]i in a concentration-dependent manner (EC50 = 75 microM). Nortriptyline-induced [Ca2+]i increase was prevented by 40% by removal of extracellular Ca2+ but was not altered by voltage-gated Ca2+ channel blockers. In Ca(2+)-free medium, thapsigargin, an inhibitor of the endoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase, caused a monophasic [Ca2+]i, increase, after which the increasing effect of nortriptyline on [Ca2+], was abolished; also, pretreatment with nortriptyline reduced a large portion of thapsigargin-induced [Ca2+]i increase. U73122, an inhibitor of phospholipase C, abolished ATP (but not nortriptyline)-induced [Ca2+]i increase. Overnight incubation with 10 microM nortriptyline decreased cell viability by 16%, and 50 microM nortriptyline killed all cells. Prechelation of cytosolic Ca2+ with BAPTA did not alter nortriptyline-induced cell death. These findings suggest that nortriptyline rapidly increased [Ca2+]i in renal tubular cells by stimulating both extracellular Ca2+ influx and intracellular Ca2+ release, and was cytotoxic at higher concentrations in a Ca(2+)-dissociated manner. |
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