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The role of inositol trisphosphate on ACh-induced outward currents in bullfrog saccular hair cells
- Source :
- Brain Research. 644:90-100
- Publication Year :
- 1994
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 1994.
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Abstract
- Acetylcholine (ACh) is considered as the most likely candidate for a neurotransmitter of the efferent synapse onto hair cell. In this paper, the nature of this cholinergic receptor mechanism on dissociated bullfrog saccular hair cell was examined by using whole cell recording and Ca 2+ sensitive fluorophotometric technique. Bothe ACh-induced current and the increase of [Ca 2+ ] i were observed in an oscillatory manner, and were the largest around the basal part of the cell where the efferent synapse is thought to make a contact with the membrane. The reversal potential of ACh-induced current indicated that ACh activated a K + conductance. The ACh-induced current was reversibly blocked by atropine, d-tubocurarine (dTC), apamin, tetraethylammonium (TEA) and quinine. Neither muscarine nor nicotine mimicked the ACh-induced current. When GTPĪ³S was injected into a hair cell, the first ACh application induced an outward current of transient kinetics, but in subsequent trials ACh-induced current lost its decay phase. Intracellularly injected d -myo-inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (InsP 3 ) generated outward currents. Intracellularly injected heparin suppressed ACh-induced currents, and lithium (Li + ) increased ACh-induced currents. These results indicate that ACh activates a receptor coupled with a guanine nucleotide binding protein (G-protein) which triggers metabolic cascades of InsP 3 and Ca 2+ leading to the activation of the Ca 2+ -activated K + channel.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Potassium Channels
Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate
Lithium
Biology
Apamin
chemistry.chemical_compound
Bullfrog
Internal medicine
Hair Cells, Auditory
medicine
Animals
Patch clamp
Saccule and Utricle
Inositol phosphate
Reversal potential
Egtazic Acid
Molecular Biology
chemistry.chemical_classification
Rana catesbeiana
Muscarine
Tetraethylammonium
Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
Heparin
General Neuroscience
Electric Conductivity
Parasympatholytics
Inositol trisphosphate
Acetylcholine
Endocrinology
Parasympathomimetics
chemistry
Guanosine 5'-O-(3-Thiotriphosphate)
Potassium
Biophysics
Calcium
Neurology (clinical)
Developmental Biology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00068993
- Volume :
- 644
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Brain Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5c5526f08092a048dd42f2bb1dae9eec