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NEUROGASTROENTEROLOGY AND MOTILITY
卷 34, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/nmo.14248
关键词
Aging; GABA; GABAergic receptors; GABAA receptor subunit; intestinal motility
资金
- Ministero dell'Universita e della Ricerca Scientifica [FFR 2018]
Age-related differences in GABAergic transmission were found in the human colon. Responses to GABA and GABA receptor agonists varied in intensity between different age groups, with a more pronounced effect in older patients. In older subjects, the efficacy of GABAA receptor agonists was influenced by nitric oxide (NO) synthase inhibitors.
Background Enteric neurons undergo to functional changes during aging. We investigated the possible age-associated differences in enteric gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)ergic transmission evaluating function and distribution of GABAergic receptors in human colon. Methods Mechanical responses to GABA and GABA receptor agonists on slow phasic contractions were examined in vitro as changes in isometric tension in colonic muscle strips from young (<65 years old) and aged patients (>65 years old). GABAergic receptor expression was assessed by quantitative RT-PCR. Key Results In both preparations GABA induced an excitatory effect, consisting in an increase in the basal tone, antagonized by the GABAA receptor antagonist, bicuculline, and potentiated by phaclofen, GABAB receptor antagonist.Tetrodotoxin (TTX) and atropine-sensitive contractile responses to GABA and GABAA receptor agonist, muscimol, were more pronounced in old compared to young subjects. Baclofen, GABAB receptor agonist, induced a TTX-sensitive reduction of the amplitude of the spontaneous. N omega-nitro-l-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME), nitric oxide (NO) synthase inhibitor abolished the inhibitory responses in old preparations, but a residual responses persisted in young preparations, which in turn was abolished by suramin, purinergic receptor antagonist. alpha 3-GABAA receptor subunit expression tends to change in an age-dependent manner. Conclusions and inferences Our results reveal age-related differences in GABAergic transmission in human colon. At all the age tested GABA regulates muscular contractility modulating the activity of the intrinsic neurons. Activation of GABAA receptor, through acetylcholine release, induces contraction, which increases in amplitude with age. GABAB receptor activation leads to neural release of NO and purines, being a loss of purinergic-component in aged group.
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