ISSN:
1573-6903
Keywords:
Acetylcholine receptors
;
nicotine
;
desensitization
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Medicine
Notes:
Abstract Nicotinic agonists stimulate22Na flux in rat pheochromocytoma PC12 cells. The stimulatory effect of carbamylcholine is maximal at 1 mM, while the stimulatory effect of nicotine and anatoxin maximize at the same level at 100 μM and 10 μM, respectively. The tertiary amines arecolone and isoarecolone have no effect on flux at 100 μM, while the methiodides at 100 μM stimulate flux to an extent similar to 1 mM carbamylcholine. Dihydro and alcohol analogues of isoarecolone methiodide have markedly smaller effects on flux. A preincubation for 2 to 20 min with carbamylcholine (2 mM), nicotine (300 μM), anatoxin (30 μM) or isoarecolone methiodide (100 μM) causes marked desensitization to a subsequent carbamylcholine-elicited stimulation of flux. d-Tubocurarine, mecamylamine, hexamethonium, and chlorisondamine inhibit carbamylcholine-elicited flux with IC50 values of 1.0, 0.8, 43, and 0.020 μM, respectively. Atropine has no effect at 1 μM, but reduces the response to carbamylcholine by 50% at 8.6 μM, presumably as a noncompetitive blocker. Other noncompetitive blockers of nicotinic acetylcholine-receptors, such as histrionicotoxins, gephyrotoxin, pumiliotoxin C, phencyclidine, bupivacaine and piperocaine, inhibit carbamylcholine-elicited stimulation of22Na flux with IC50 values from 0.3 to 1.8 μM. In contrast to d-tubocurarine, which inhibits carbamylcholine-elicited desensitization, and mecamylamine, which has no apparent effect on desensitization, chlorisondamine and certain noncompetitive blockers appear to enhance desensitization. The effects of agonists, antagonists and noncompetitive blockers at the neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor-channel of PC12 cells are compared to their effects on binding of [125I]α-bungarotoxin to agonist-recognition sites and of [3H]perhydrohistrionicotoxin to noncompetitive blocker sites of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor-channel of electric ray (Torpedo) electroplax membranes. There are marked differences in relative potencies for the two types of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor-channel.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00965571
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