title: [Effect of pregnenolone sulfate on delayed rectifier K+ channel in pyramidial neuron of cerebral cortex].
abstract: Recent studies have shown that endogenous brain metabolites of steroids may exert important nongenomic modulatory effects on neuronal mechanisms. In this work the effect of pregnenolone sulfate (PS) on delayed rectifier K+ channel (IK) was studied in acutely dissociated rat cerebral cortical pyramidial neurons by means of cell-attached and inside-out patch clamp techniques. The open probability and mean open time of the IK channels were increased by PS in a concentration-dependent manner over the range of 30-100 mumol/L. but without changing the IK amplitude.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Sun Yat-Sen University of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou.
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: Z H
authors.initials: ZH
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: J Q
authors.initials: JQ
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: P X
authors.initials: PX
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000378:metabolism*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009474:Neurons / Q000378:metabolism; D018408:Patch-Clamp Techniques; D015221:Potassium Channels / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D011284:Pregnenolone / Q000494:pharmacology*; D017966:Pyramidal Cells / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley
chemical_list: D015221:Potassium Channels; C018370:pregnenolone sulfate; D011284:Pregnenolone