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Ca(2+)-ATPase and Mg(2+)-ATPase in Aplysia glial and interstitial cells: an EM cytochemical study
K Maggio, A Watrin, E Keicher, G Nicaise and ML Hernandez-Nicaise
Laboratoire de Cytologie Experimentale, Universite de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France.
The localization of Ca(2+)- and Mg(2+)-ATPases was determined in Aplysia central and peripheral nervous system, using an electron microscopic cytochemical method. The enzyme activity appeared localized to the membrane of glial granules (gliagrana), particularly in the peripheral nervous system of the esophagus, and on the plasma membrane of central glial cells adjacent to neuronal cell bodies. No calcium- and/or magnesium-ATPase activity was detectable on the plasma membrane of glial cells surrounding nerve axons in the pleuro-visceral connectives. These findings are discussed along two main lines: (a) the calcium-ATPase of the gliagrana coincides with a high intragranular calcium and/or proton concentration; and (b) the presence of a calcium- ATPase activity at the glio-neuronal interface around the neuronal cell bodies coincides with the use of calcium ions as charge carriers of the action potential, and its absence at the level of the axon with the concurrent functional use of sodium ions.
Volume 39,
Issue 12,
pp. 1645-1658,
12/01/1991
Copyright © 1991 by The Histochemical Society
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