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NEUROCHEMICAL RESEARCH
Volume 26, Issue 8-9, Pages 933-942Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012332500946
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cholinergic innervation; L-typeCa(2+) channels; muscarinic signaling; major pelvic ganglion; urinary bladder
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [R01-DK45741] Funding Source: Medline
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We used patch clamp recording techniques to determine if muscarinic signaling mechanisms are present in dissociated autonomic neurons obtained from the major pelvic ganglion, which provides the cholinergic innervation of the urinary bladder and other pelvic organs. The M-1 specific agonist, McN-A-343 (2-30 muM) enhanced Ca2+ currents in approximately 37% of neurons (by 50-80%). This enhancement was reduced by atropine (5-10 muM) or a PKC inhibitor (bisindolylmaleimide, 50-200 nM). In responsive neurons Ca2+ currents were also enhanced by the phorbol ester, phorbol-12, 13-dibutyrate (50-300 nM) and the dihydropyridine agonist Bay K 8644 (5 muM) and had kinetics of activation and inactivation as expected for L-type Ca2+ channels, We conclude that in a subpopulation of MPG neurons, M1-mediated activation of PKC phosphorylates and enhances L-type Ca2+ channel activities. This muscarinic facilitatory mechanism in MPG neurons may be the same as the M1-mediated facilitation of transmitter release reported previously at the nerve terminals in the urinary bladder.
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