Corelease of noradrenaline and ATP by brief pulse trains in guinea-pig vas deferens |
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Authors: | Ivar von Kügelgen Klaus Starke |
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Institution: | (1) Pharmakologisches Institut, Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Strasse 5, D-79104 Freiburg i.Br., Germany |
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Abstract: | Contractions and overflow of tritium and ATP elicited by single electrical pulses or short pulse trains were studied in the guinea-pig isolated vas deferens preincubated with 3H]-noradrenaline. ATP was measured using the luciferase technique.A single pulse caused only a small contraction and minimal tritium and ATP overflow. In contrast, trains of 6 pulses elicited marked contractions as well as tritium and ATP overflow. In experiments with 6 pulses/100 Hz, prazosin 0.3 M reduced the contraction by 73 %, did not change the evoked overflow of tritium, and reduced the evoked overflow of ATP by 85%. Suramin 300 M reduced the contraction by 69% but changed neither the evoked overflow of tritium nor that of ATP. The combination of prazosin 0.3 gM and suramin 300 M abolished the contraction, did not change the evoked overflow of tritium, and reduced the evoked overflow of ATP by 70%. When 6 pulses were applied at frequencies of 1, 2, 10 or 100 Hz, all responses increased with frequency up to a maximum at 10 Hz, but contractions and the evoked overflow of ATP increased with frequency to a greater extent than the evoked overflow of tritium. A similar frequency overflow relationship was observed when the medium contained prazosin 0.3 M and suramin 300 M (and evoked ATP overflow was greatly reduced). Yohimbine 1 M did not affect the overflow of tritium evoked by 6 pulses/100 Hz but increased that evoked by 6 pulses/10 Hz.The results demonstrate an overflow of both noradrenaline and ATP in response to short pulse trains. As observed previously for prolonged pulse trains, the major part of the evoked overflow of ATP was derived from non-neural cells. The ATP overflow remaining during 1-adrenoceptor blockade by prazosin and P2-purinoceptor blockade by suramin is likely to reflect neural release of ATP. The results support the view that release of ATP increases with frequency to a greater extent than release of noradrenaline. The latency for the onset of prejunctional 2-autoinhibition in guinea-pig vas deferens is between 50 and 500 ms.
Correspondence to: I. von Kügelgen at the above address |
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Keywords: | ATP release Noradrenaline release Cotransmission Prejunctional 2-adrenoceptors" target="_blank">gif" alt="agr" align="BASELINE" BORDER="0">2-adrenoceptors Guinea-pig vas deferens |
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