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  • 1985-1989  (2)
  • Aconitine  (1)
  • gating current  (1)
  • 1
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    Gating current experiments on frog nodes of Ranvier treated withCentruroides sculpturatus toxins or aconitine (1987)
    Springer
    Pflügers Archiv 409 (1987), S. 381-393 
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    ISSN: 1432-2013
    Keywords: Myelinated nerve fibre ; Voltage clamp ; Gating currents ; Scorpion toxins ; Aconitine
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract (1) Gating currents were recorded from frog nodes of Ranvier treated either with toxins III or IV from the venom of the scorpionCentruroides sculpturatus or with the alkaloid toxin aconitine. (2) Toxins III or IV fromCentruroides sculpturatus (which drastically reduce the sodium permeabilityP Na and slightly shift its voltage dependence in the depolarizing direction) caused a small depolarizing shift of the relation between charge (Q on) and membrane potential (E) without affecting the maximum chargeQ on max. (3) On nodes treated with toxins III or IV fromCentruroides sculpturatus, a depolarizing conditioning pulse (which transiently shifts the descending branch of theI Na(E) curve by up to 60 mV in the hyperpolarizing direction) shifted the midpoint potential (Emid) of theQ on(E) curve by −17 mV and slightly increased the slope of the curve; it also decreasedQ on max markedly but had little effect onQ on measured with small depolarizing pulses. By contrast, massive treatment with aconitine (which irreversibly shifts sodium activation in the hyperpolarizing direction) irreversibly shifted the midpoint potential of theQ on(E) curve from −28.5 to −69 mV and significantly increasedQ on andQ off measured with small depolarizing pulses; concomitantly, the voltage dependence of the on time constant of the charge movement [τon(E)] was shifted by −44 mV. (4) The sodium currentI Na was exponential both in nodes treated with toxins III or IV ofCentruroides sculpturatus and subjected to a depolarizing conditioning pulse and in aconitine-treated nodes; in the latter,I Na started after a delay of 30–40 μs. The time constant of the sodium current, τon Na, was larger than the time constant of the charge movement, τon Q; the ratio τon Q/τon Na was 0.61 and 0.73 in the experiments withCentruroides sculpturatus toxins and aconitine, respectively. (5) The off time constant of the sodium current (τoff Na) was slightly increased in nodes treated withCentruroides sculpturatus toxins and subjected to a depolarizing conditioning pulse, whereas it was markedly increased in aconitine-treated nodes. With the former treatment, the off time constant of the charge movement (τoff Q) was unaffected but with aconitine treatment it was considerably increased although it remained smaller than τoff Na. Consequently, the ratio τoff Q/τoff Na (which is ≥1 in untreated nodes) became smaller than one, reaching values as low as 0.58 and 0.44 in the experiments withCentruroides sculpturatus toxins and aconitine, respectively. The small τoff Q/τoff Na ratio suggests that the channels remain open for an appreciable time after most of the gating charges have returned to their resting position. (6) The results obtained with aconitine resemble the findings on batrachotoxin-treated nodes (Dubois and Schneider 1985), except that in the latter the time constants τon Na and τoff Na of the sodium current are smaller than the corresponding time constants τon Q and τoff Q of the charge movement.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00583792
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  • 2
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    Effects of reagents modifying carboxyl groups on the gating current of the myelinated nerve fiber (1987)
    Springer
    The journal of membrane biology 100 (1987), S. 63-72 
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    ISSN: 1432-1424
    Keywords: voltage clamp ; node of Ranvier ; gating current ; chemical modification ; carboxyl groups
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Summary The effect of the carboxyl group activating reagent N-ethoxy-carbonyl-2-ethoxy-1,2-dihydroquinoline (EEDQ) on the gating current of the frog node of Ranvier was investigated. A 10-min treatment with 2mm EEDQ (in the presence or absence of 10mm ethylenediamine) irreversibly reduced the slope of the on charge-voltage relationQ on(E), shifted its midpoint potentialE mid in the positive direction and reduced the maximum chargeQ on max measured with strong depolarizing pulses. In six experiments, 2mm EEDQ + 10mm ethylenediamine increased the factork (a reciprocal measure of the slope of theQ on(E) curve) from 16 to 22 mV. In five experiments, 2mm EEDQ alone increasedk from 16 to 23 mV. In a single experiment, 5mm EEDQ + 10mm ethylene diamine increasedk from 17 to 31 mV. The reduction in slope suggests that EEDQ decreases the valence of the gating particles or reduces the fraction of the membrane field that they traverse. In addition, EEDQ (which inhibits inactivation of the sodium current.see M. Rack and K.H. Woll,J. Membrane Biol. 82:41–48, 1984) caused a small increase of the off chargeQ off, and a marked increase of theQ off/Q on ratio, i.e. inhibited charge immobilization. Since the effects of EEDQ occurred regardless of the presence or absence of ethylenediamine, they are probably due to crosslinking reactions. The effects of EEDQ were compared with those of the water-soluble carbodiimide EDC. Treatment with 10 or 50mm EDC (plus 10 or 50mm ethylenediamine) caused a smaller increase ofk than treatment with 2mm EEDQ but reducedQ on max by the same amount.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02209141
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