期刊
BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY
卷 137, 期 3, 页码 375-383出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0704874
关键词
toluene; Xenopus oocyte; hippocampal neuron; nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
资金
- NIAAA NIH HHS [R01 AA009986, K02-AA00238, R37 AA009986, K02 AA000238, AA09986] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDA NIH HHS [T32-DA07027, R01 DA013951, T32 DA007027] Funding Source: Medline
1 Toluene is a representative example of a class of industrial solvents that are voluntarily inhaled as drugs of abuse. Previous data from this lab and others has shown that toluene modulates the function of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glycine receptors at concentrations that do not affect non-NMDA receptors. 2 We utilized two-electrode voltage-clamp and whole cell patch-clamp techniques to assess the effects of toluene on neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors expressed in oocytes and cultured hippocampal neurons. Toluene (50 mum to 10 mM) produced a reversible, concentration-dependent inhibition of acetylcholine-induced current in Xenopus oocytes expressing various nicotinic receptor subtypes. The alpha4beta2 and alpha3beta2 subunit combinations were significantly more sensitive to toluene inhibition than the alpha4beta4, alpha3beta4 and alpha7 receptors. 3 Receptors composed of alpha4 and beta2(V253F) subunits showed alpha4beta4-like toluene sensitivity while those containing alpha4 and beta4(F255V) subunits showed alpha4beta2-like sensitivity. 4 In hippocampal neurons, toluene (50 mum to 10 mM) dose-dependently inhibited ACh-mediated responses with an IC50 of 1.1 mM. Taken together, these results suggest that nicotinic receptors, like NMDA receptors, show a subunit-dependent sensitivity to toluene and may represent an important site of action for some of the neurobehavioural effects of toluene.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据