title: Tonic and frequency-dependent Vmax block induced by (S)-nafenodone, a new antidepressant drug, in guinea-pig papillary muscles.
abstract: The effects of (S)-nafenodone, a new antidepressant, on transmembrane action potentials were studied in guinea-pig papillary muscles. In muscles driven at 0.02 and 1 Hz, (S)-nafenodone, 10(-6) mol/l and 10(-5) mol/l, produced a concentration-dependent decrease in the maximum upstroke velocity of the action potential, but it had no effect of the resting membrane potential. In the presence of 10(-5) mol/l (S)-nafenodone, trains of stimuli at rates between 0.5 and 2 Hz led to an exponential decline in maximum upstroke velocity to a new steady-state level [K = 0.152 +/- 0.03 (action potential)-1 at 2 Hz]. This frequency-dependent maximum upstroke velocity block increased at higher stimulation frequencies and at higher drug concentrations. (S)-Nafenodone also prolonged the time constant of recovery of maximum upstroke velocity from the frequency-dependent block to 2.3 +/- 0.6 s, this value being independent of the drug concentration. These values of onset and offset kinetics of (S)-nafenodone lie between those of drugs with fast and intermediate kinetic properties. (S)-nafenodone also shifted the curve relating membrane potential and maximum upstroke velocity in hyperpolarizing direction. All these results indicated that (S)-nafenodone produced a frequency- and voltage-dependent inhibition of the fast sodium channels similar to that exhibited with imipramine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Delpón
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Valenzuela
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Carrón
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pérez-Vizcaino
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tamargo
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D000928:Antidepressive Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001693:Biological Transport, Active; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D005260:Female; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D008297:Male; D008564:Membrane Potentials / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D009200:Myocardial Contraction / Q000187:drug effects*; D009281:Naphthalenes / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010210:Papillary Muscles / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D012964:Sodium / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D000928:Antidepressive Agents; D009281:Naphthalenes; C071003:nafenodone; D012964:Sodium