Fig. 1. Memantine MCI is pH-dependent.
a MCI protocol at pH 7.2 with 100 μM memantine (left; Glu = glutamate; Mem = memantine); overlay of IControl and IMCI (middle; IMCI in red); point-by-point ratio, IMCI/IControl (right). Similar current trace formatting is used in following figures. b Charged and uncharged memantine; amount uncharged at pH 6.3, 7.2, and 9.0. c MCI protocol with 100 μM memantine, pH of all solutions = 9.0. d Min IMCI/Icontrol with 100 μM memantine, pH of all solutions = 7.2 or 9.0 (pH 7.2, 0.611 ± 0.046, n = 4; pH 9.0, 0.139 ± 0.007, n = 4) compared with two-sided t-test (t = 8.76, df = 6, p = 0.0001). e pH 9.0 jump protocol with 100 μM memantine. f pH 6.3 jump protocol with 100 μM memantine. g [Memantine]-MCI curves at pH 6.3 (jump protocol), 7.2, and 9.0 (jump protocol). Only two memantine concentrations were used at pH 6.3 (see text). Min IMCI/IControl values at 10 μM memantine (pH 7.2, n = 4; pH 9.0, n = 4) compared with two-sided t-test (t = 6.94, df = 6, p = 0.0004). Min IMCI/IControl values at 30 μM memantine (pH 7.2, n = 4; pH 9.0, n = 9) compared with two-sided t-test (t = 9.00, df = 11, p = 2.1*10-6). Min IMCI/IControl values at 100 μM memantine (pH 6.0, n = 5; pH 7.2, n = 4; pH 9.0, n = 4) compared with one-way ANOVA (F(2, 10) = 65.1, p = 1.9*10-6) and Tukey post-hoc test (pH 6.3 vs 7.2, p = 0.00071; pH 6.3 vs 9.0, p = 1.3*10-6; pH 7.2 vs 9.0, p = 0.00060). Min IMCI/IControl values at 300 μM memantine (pH 6.0, n = 4; pH 7.2, n = 4; pH 9.0, n = 4) compared with one-way ANOVA (F(2, 9) = 51.2, p = 1.2*10-5) and Tukey post-hoc test (pH 6.3 vs 7.2, p = 0.0082; pH 6.3 vs 9.0, p = 9.2*10-6; pH 7.2 vs 9.0, p = 0.00048). In a, c, e, f, color of lines above traces indicates solution pH (blue, pH 6.3; black, pH 7.2; magenta, pH 9.0; same color coding used in following figures). h Memantine MCI IC50s (pH 6.3 jump, 841 ± 5 μM, n = 5; pH 7.2, 71.0 ± 1.7 μM, n = 4; pH 9.0 jump, 8.77 ± 3.26 μM, n = 12) compared with one-way ANOVA (F(2,18) = 1.23*104, p < 1*10-15) and Tukey post-hoc test (pH 6.3 vs 7.2, p = 2.7*10-14; pH 6.3 vs 9.0, p = 2.7*10-14; pH 7.2 vs 9.0, p = 1.0*10-8). All figures: *p ≤ 0.05; **p ≤ 0.01; ***p ≤ 0.001; ****p ≤ 0.0001. In d, g, h, mean ± SEM is plotted. In all figure legends, n is the number of biologically independent cells.