GUINEA-PIG ISOLATED TRACHEALIS - THE EFFECTS OF CHARYBDOTOXIN ON MECHANICAL-ACTIVITY, MEMBRANE-POTENTIAL CHANGES AND THE ACTIVITY OF PLASMALEMMAL K+-CHANNELS

被引:57
作者
MURRAY, MA [1 ]
BERRY, JL [1 ]
COOK, SJ [1 ]
FOSTER, RW [1 ]
GREEN, KA [1 ]
SMALL, RC [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV MANCHESTER,DEPT PHYSIOL SCI,SMOOTH MUSCLE RES GRP,OXFORD RD,MANCHESTER M13 9PT,LANCS,ENGLAND
基金
英国惠康基金;
关键词
TRACHEALIS; CHARYBDOTOXIN; CROMAKALIM; RP-49356; ISOPRENALINE; THEOPHYLLINE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL RECORDING; PATCH CLAMP RECORDING; LARGE CONDUCTANCE K+-CHANNELS;
D O I
10.1111/j.1476-5381.1991.tb09868.x
中图分类号
R9 [药学];
学科分类号
1007 ;
摘要
1 A study has been made, in guinea-pig isolated trachealis, of the effects of charybdotoxin in modulating (a) the activity of large conductance K+-channels, (b) the spontaneous electrical activity of intact cells and (c) the mechanical effects of some bronchodilator drugs. 2 Single smooth muscle cells were isolated from guinea-pig trachealis by enzymic digestion and were studied by the patch clamp recording technique. Recordings were made from outside-out plasmalemmal patches when the medium bathing the external surface of the patches contained 1.2 mM Ca2+ and 6 mM K+ while that bathing the cytosolic surface contained 0.1-mu-M Ca2+ and 140 mM K+. Charybdotoxin (100 nM), applied to the external surface of patches held at 0 mV, abolished the unitary currents associated with the opening of large conductance K+-channels. 3 Opened segments of guinea-pig trachea were used for the simultaneous recording of membrane potential and tension changes. In these experiments charybdotoxin (100 nM) caused the conversion of spontaneous electrical slow waves into spike-like action potentials. This effect was accompanied by a very small reduction in resting membrane potential. 4 Tissue bath recording showed that charybdotoxin (100 nM) increased the spontaneous mechanical tone of the tissue, antagonized (2.8 fold in each case) the relaxant actions of isoprenaline and theophylline but did not antagonize the relaxant actions of cromakalim or RP 49356. 5 It is concluded that charybdotoxin is an effective inhibitor of large conductance K+-channels in guinea-pig trachealis cells. The ability of charybdotoxin to convert spontaneous slow waves into spike-like action potentials suggests that the large, charybdotoxin-sensitive, K+-channels play an important role in determining the strong outward rectifying behaviour of the cells. The ability of charybdotoxin to antagonize isoprenaline and theophylline, but not to antagonize cromakalim and RP 49356, suggests that opening of the large conductance, charybdotoxin-sensitive K+-channel is implicated in the action of the former but not the latter pair of bronchodilator drugs.
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页码:1814 / 1818
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