Latencies of membrane currents evoked in Xenopus oocytes by receptor activation, inositol trisphosphate and calcium

The Journal of Physiology
R Miledi, I Parker

Abstract

1. Application of serum to Xenopus oocytes elicits an oscillatory chloride membrane current, which begins after a latency of several seconds or minutes, and is mediated through a phosphoinositide-calcium signalling pathway. We studied the characteristics and origin of this latency in voltage-clamped oocytes. 2. Bath application of low doses of serum evoked responses beginning after latencies of 1 min or more. The latency decreased with increasing dose and reached a minimal value of several seconds that did not decrease with further increases in serum concentration. Experiments to study this minimal latency were done by applying brief 'puffs' of serum and other agonists at high concentrations from a local extracellular pipette. 3. The mean latency of the response evoked by local serum application was about 7 s (at 22-24 degrees C), but individual responses showed a wide variation, from 2 s to over 20 s. Diffusion of serum from the pipette tip to the membrane did not contribute appreciably to this delay, since short (less than 100 ms) delays were obtained when KCl was applied in the same way. 4. Currents evoked by acetylcholine and serotonin, in oocytes induced to acquire muscarinic and serotonergic receptors following injection ...Continue Reading

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