Effects of brevetoxin-B on motor nerve terminals of mouse skeletal muscle.

Abstract:

:1. The effects of brevetoxin-B, a red tide toxin, on motor nerve terminal activity were assessed on mouse triangularis sterni nerve-muscle preparations. The perineural waveforms were recorded with extracellular electrodes placed in the perineural sheaths of motor nerves. 2. At 0.11 microM, brevetoxin-B increased the components of waveforms associated with sodium and potassium currents while it decreased the calcium activated potassium current and the slow calcium current of the nerve terminal. The fast calcium current and slow potassium current were not affected. 3. At 1.11 microM, brevetoxin-B decreased all of the components of waveforms associated with sodium, potassium and calcium currents. 4. It is concluded that brevetoxin-B affects sodium, potassium as well as calcium currents in the nerve terminal. The effects may contribute to its pharmacological actions on synaptic transmission.

journal_name

Br J Pharmacol

authors

Tsai MC,Chen ML

doi

10.1111/j.1476-5381.1991.tb12311.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1991-05-01 00:00:00

pages

1126-8

issue

1

eissn

0007-1188

issn

1476-5381

journal_volume

103

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