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NEUROREPORT
Volume 15, Issue 14, Pages 2205-2209Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200410050-00012
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calcium currents; DAMGO; nociceptin; mu OR; ORL-1; trigeminal ganglion neurons
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Nociceptin is a non-opioid peptide that modulates pain response. One of mechanism underlying its analgesic action is the inhibition of voltage-dependent calcium current (I-Ca), similar to that of opioids. We investigated the molecular mechanism by which nociceptin inhibits I-Ca using sensory neurons and a heterologous expression system. I-Ca inhibition by nociceptin was voltage-dependent, exhibited the slowing of activation kinetics and prepulse facilitation, and was blocked by N-ethylmaleimide, indicating the involvement of Gi/Go protein. I-Ca inhibition by nociceptin was primarily mediated through binding to its own receptor, ORL-I, but not through affecting other mu-opioid receptors. Thus, our results strongly demonstrate that heterologous cross-talk between ORLI and muOR is not involved in the I-Ca inhibition by nociceptin.
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