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Neurotensin increases the cationic conductance of rat substantia nigra dopaminergic neurons through the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate-calcium pathway.

Abstract：

:Whole-cell patch-clamp recordings were used to investigate electrophysiological effects of neurotensin on acutely isolated dopaminergic (DA) neurons of the rat substantia nigra pars compacta (SNC). During current-clamp recordings, neurotensin depolarized DA neurons and triggered action potentials. Under voltage-clamp recordings, neurotensin evoked an inward current at a holding potential of -50 mV. Neurotensin-induced inward currents reversed the direction at -5 mV and became smaller as the membrane potential was hyperpolarized from -75 mV. With potassium-free recording solutions, neurotensin evoked voltage-insensitive cationic currents. With sodium-free external solution, neurotensin also caused inward currents by reducing the inwardly rectifying potassium conductance. Neurotensin-induced inward currents mainly resulted from an increase in a non-selective cationic conductance. Neurotensin-evoked cationic currents were inhibited by the intracellular perfusion of 1 mM guanosine-5'-O-(2-thiodiphosphate). In DA neurons internally perfused with 0.5 mM guanosine-5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate), the cationic current produced by neurotensin became irreversible. Pretreating DA neurons with 500 ng/ml pertussis toxin (PTX) did not significantly affect the ability of neurotensin to evoke cationic currents. Internal perfusion of heparin (2 mg/ml), an inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) receptor antagonist, and buffering intracellular calcium with the Ca(2+)-chelator BAPTA (10 mM) suppressed neurotensin-induced cationic currents. Dialyzing DA neurons with protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitors, staurosporine and PKC(19-31), failed to prevent neurotensin from evoking cationic currents. It is concluded that PTX-insensitive G-proteins mediate neurotensin-induced enhancement of the cationic conductance of SNC DA neurons.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

journal_name

Brain Res

journal_title

Brain research

authors

Wu T,Li A,Wang HL

doi

10.1016/0006-8993(95)00379-5

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1995-06-19 00:00:00

pages

242-50

issue

eissn

0006-8993

issn

1872-6240

pii

0006-8993(95)00379-5

journal_volume

683

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Neurotensin increases the cationic conductance of rat substantia nigra dopaminergic neurons through the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate-calcium pathway.