Dual Antidepressant Duloxetine Blocks Nicotinic Receptor Currents, Calcium Signals and Exocytosis in Chromaffin Cells Stimulated with Acetylcholine

The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Carmen NanclaresAntonio G García

Abstract

The inhibition of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) has been proposed as a potential strategy to develop new antidepressant drugs. This is based on the observation that antidepressants that selectively block noradrenaline (NA) or serotonin (5-HT) reuptake also inhibit nAChRs. Dual antidepressants blocking both NA and 5-HT reuptake were proposed to shorten the delay in exerting their clinical effects; whether duloxetine, a prototype of dual antidepressants, also blocks nAChRs is unknown. Here we explored this question in bovine chromaffin cells (BCCs) that express native α3, α5, and α7 nAChRs and in cell lines expressing human α7, α3β4, or α4β2 nAChRs. We have found that duloxetine fully blocked the acetylcholine (ACh)-elicited nicotinic currents in BCCs with an IC50 of 0.86 µM. Such blockade seemed to be noncompetitive, voltage dependent, and partially use dependent. The ACh-elicited membrane depolarization, the elevation of cytosolic calcium ([Ca2+]c), and catecholamine release in BCCs were also blocked by duloxetine. This blockade developed slowly, and the recovery of secretion was also slow and gradual. Duloxetine did not affect Na+ or Ca2+ channel currents neither the high-K+-elicited [Ca2+]c transients and secreti...Continue Reading

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