PMID: 7539060Feb 1, 1995Paper

Nonselective cation channels coupled with tachykinin receptors in rat sensory neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology
K InoueK Fujimori

Abstract

1. Effects of substance P (SP) and other tachykinins on membrane currents were investigated using whole cell voltage clamp in cultured sensory neurons isolated from rat dorsal root ganglia. 2. SP (100 nM) evoked an inward current in two-thirds of the cells at negative potentials. In most of the cells that generated the inward current in response to SP, capsaicin also activated an inward current. The SP-evoked inward current was not observed in cells loaded with 2 mM guanosine 5'-O-(2-thiodiphosphate) (GDP beta S). 3. Neurokinin A (NKA) or neurokinin B (NKB) also activated an inward current. At 100 nM of each agonist, the order was NKB > NKA > SP with respect to activated current amplitude. 4. The tachykinin-activated current was reversed around +10 mV with a standard extracellular solution containing 140 mM NaCl. The reversal potential became more negative when extracellular NaCl was reduced by substituting with sucrose. The inward current was also activated in cells bathed in an extracellular solution containing Cs+, tetraethylammonium (TEA) or N-methyl-D-glucamine (NMDG) as a major cation instead of Na+. The order of permeability, determined from the reversal potential of the current, was Cs+ not equal to Na+ > TEA > NMDG. Th...Continue Reading

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