title: Effects of purinergic stimulation on the Ca current in single frog cardiac cells.
abstract: Ca current (ICa) was measured by whole-cell voltage clamp in single cells isolated from frog ventricle, in which the Na current was inhibited by tetrodotoxin (0.3 microM) and K currents were blocked by substituting K with 120 mM intracellular and 20 mM extracellular Cs. The influence of stimulation by ATP (0.1-100 microM) was assessed in the presence of propranolol (1 microM) or pindolol (0.1 microM), prazozin (0.1 microM) and atropine (10 microM). ATP, in the micromolar range, had two types of effect. Like other P1-purinoagonists, it antagonized the increase in ICa elicited by beta-adrenostimulation. When added alone, 1 microM ATP could increase ICa up to twofold. An increase in ICa was also observed even after it had been maximally enhanced by intracellularly applied cAMP (50 microM). Voltage dependence and kinetics of ICa were not affected. These effects were considered to be related to P2-purinoceptor activation. At higher ATP concentrations the increase in ICa was less; at 100 microM, ATP reduced ICa. The ATP-induced increase in ICa was prevented by internal perfusion of the cells with GDP [beta-S] or neomycin, respectively, to block signal transduction to phospholipase C or its phosphodiesterase activity on the polyphosphoinositides. We conclude that P2-purinoceptor stimulation increases the Ca current in frog ventricular cells by a pathway that might involve phosphoinositide turnover.
authors.affiliation: Unité de Recherche de Physiologie Cellulaire Cardiaque, INSERM U-241, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Alvarez
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mongo
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Scamps
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vassort
mesh_terms: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D015220:Calcium Channels / Q000378:metabolism*; D004553:Electric Conductivity; D007545:Isoproterenol / Q000494:pharmacology; D007700:Kinetics; D008564:Membrane Potentials; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism*; D011893:Rana esculenta; D010738:Type C Phospholipases / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D015220:Calcium Channels; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D010738:Type C Phospholipases; D007545:Isoproterenol; D002118:Calcium