Abstract
Brain pH is thought to be an influential factor in determining susceptibility to seizures. We compared the susceptibility of brain slices from carbonic anhydrase II (CA II)-deficient mice to epileptiform activity induced by low extracellular [Mg2+], with slices from normal littermates, both bathed in artificial cerebrospinal fluid at pH 7.3. In both entorhinal cortex and hippocampal field CA1, epileptiform activity started earlier in CA II-deficient slices. Raising extracellular [CO2] (20%; extracellular pH, 6.7) reversibly blocked the epileptiform activity in normal, but not in CA II-deficient, slices. The data, combined with previous in vivo findings showing an increased resistance of mutants to seizures, suggest the presence of in vivo anticonvulsant acidosis with long-term compensatory changes that lead to in vitro 'proconvulsant' behavior in CA II-deficient slices clamped at pH 7.3.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 143-146 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Neuroscience Letters |
Volume | 207 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 5 1996 |
Keywords
- Acidosis
- Carbonic anhydrase
- Entorhinal cortex
- Epilepsy
- Hippocampus
- N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Neuroscience