title: Local anaesthetic blockade of neuronal nicotinic ACh receptor-channels in rat parasympathetic ganglion cells.
abstract: 1 The effects of the local anaesthetics QX-222 and procaine on nicotinic acetylcholine (ACh)-evoked currents in cultured parasympathetic cardiac neurones of the rat were investigated by use of the whole-cell, perforated-patch, and outside-out recording configurations of the patch clamp method. 2 QX-222 and procaine, applied to the extracellular surface, reversibly inhibited the peak amplitude of the whole-cell nicotinic ACh-evoked current in a concentration-dependent manner, with half-maximal inhibitory concentrations (IC50) of 28 microM and 2.8 microM, respectively, at -80 mV. In these neurones, the sustained inward current mediated by M1 muscarinic receptor activation was unaltered by QX-222, and neither local anaesthetic affected the adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP)-evoked current. 3 QX-222 and procaine block of nicotinic ACh-evoked inward current was voltage-dependent and enhanced by hyperpolarization. An e-fold change in their dissociation equilibrium constants (Kd) resulted from a 62 mV and a 122 mV change in membrane potential, respectively. 4 Both local anaesthetics produce a concentration-dependent increase in the half-time of decay of the nicotinic ACh-evoked inward current. 5 Measurements of unitary currents in outside-out patches showed that QX-222 reversibly increased the mean burst duration and closed time and reduced the mean channel open time and open-state probability of the nicotinic ACh receptor-channel (AChR) in a concentration-dependent manner. 6 The Kd and voltage sensitivity of local anaesthetic block of the nicotinic AChR in rat intracardiac neurones suggests that the pore-forming region of this channel differs from that of the AChR in frog and rat skeletal muscle and from the neuronal alpha 4 beta 2 ACh receptor-channel.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami School of Medicine, FL 33101.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cuevas
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Adams
mesh_terms: D000109:Acetylcholine / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D005726:Ganglia, Parasympathetic / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D015640:Ion Channel Gating / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D007473:Ion Channels / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology*; D007700:Kinetics; D008012:Lidocaine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000494:pharmacology; D008564:Membrane Potentials / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D009474:Neurons / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D018733:Nicotinic Antagonists; D011343:Procaine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051381:Rats; D011976:Receptors, Muscarinic / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D011978:Receptors, Nicotinic / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D007473:Ion Channels; D018733:Nicotinic Antagonists; D011976:Receptors, Muscarinic; D011978:Receptors, Nicotinic; C006072:QX-222; D011343:Procaine; D008012:Lidocaine; D000109:Acetylcholine