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Spatial control of Ca2+ signaling by nicotinic acid adenine dinucleotide phosphate diffusion and gradients.

Intracellular Ca(2+) is able to control numerous cellular responses through complex spatiotemporal organization. Ca(2+) waves mediated by inositol trisphosphate or ryanodine receptors propagate by Ca(2+)-induced Ca(2+) release and therefore do not have an absolute requirement for a gradient in either inositol trisphosphate or cyclic ADP-ribose, respectively. In contrast, we report that although Ca(2+) increases induced by nicotinic acid adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NAADP) are amplified by Ca(2+)-induced Ca(2+) release locally, Ca(2+) waves mediated by NAADP have an absolute requirement for an NAADP gradient. If NAADP is increased such that its concentration is spatially uniform in one region of an egg, the Ca(2+) increase occurs simultaneously throughout this area, and only where there is diffusion out of this area to establish an NAADP gradient is there a Ca(2+) wave. A local increase in NAADP results in a Ca(2+) increase that spreads by NAADP diffusion. NAADP diffusion is restricted at low but not high concentrations of NAADP, indicating that NAADP diffusion is strongly influenced by binding to immobile and saturable sites, probably the NAADP receptor itself. Thus, the range of action of NAADP can be tuned by its concentration from that of a local messenger, like Ca(2+), to that of a global messenger, like IP(3) or cyclic ADP-ribose.

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[The structuro-functional state of the ischemic myocardium under the action of a terrilitin-nicotinic acid mixture in animal experiments].

Histochemical evidence of the activity and distribution of glycolysis redox enzymes, tissue respiration and terminal oxidation pattern (dehydrogenase of lactic, malic, succinic and isocitric acids, NAD-N- and NADPh-N-ase, cytochrome oxidase) as well as the levels of the major carbohydrates (glycogen, neutral aminopolysaccharides, glucose) were experimentally studied in the cardiomyocytes of myocardial necrotic, perinecrotic and intact areas in the control and in the experimental material under the administration of terrilitin-nicotinic acid mixture. It was stated that the use of aforementioned mixture contributed to the retention of enzymatic activity and optimal levels of energy formation in the cardiomyocytes of the marginal infarction zone and noticeably prevented the destructive involvement of the considered area as well as the impairment of functional activity of oscillating cardiomyocytes. Therefore, the application of the mixture improved the outcome prognosis in acute myocardial infarction.

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