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. 1991;440:225–241. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1991.sp018705

Beta-adrenergic and muscarinic regulation of the chloride current in guinea-pig ventricular cells.

F M Tareen 1, K Ono 1, A Noma 1, T Ehara 1
PMCID: PMC1180149  PMID: 1687150

Abstract

1. Single guinea-pig ventricular cells were voltage clamped using the patch clamp method combined with the pipette-perfusion technique. The voltage-dependent current systems were mostly blocked, and the background membrane conductance was measured by applying ramp pulses. 2. beta-Adrenergic effectors and related substances such as adrenaline, isoprenaline, forskolin or internal application of cyclic AMP induced a current component which showed a reversal potential near the expected Cl- equilibrium potential as well as an outward rectification in the I-V relation. It is suggested that the activation of this Cl- current was due to phosphorylation of the channel protein or related structure by the cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase. Coincidentally with the activation of the Cl- current, the membrane capacitance of the cell decreased reversibly. 3. Acetylcholine (ACh) depressed the responses induced by beta-adrenergic stimulation and forskolin, but failed to interfere with the one induced by cyclic AMP. 4. The dose dependence of the Cl- current activation by isoprenaline or forskolin was fitted by the Hill equation, with a coefficient of 1.9 and a half-maximum concentration K 1/2 = 13 nM for isoprenaline, and with a Hill coefficient of 3 and a K 1/2 = 1.2 microM for forskolin. In the presence of 5.5 microM-ACh the dose-response relation shifted to higher doses; K 1/2 was 65 nM for isoprenaline and 3.6 microM for forskolin. 5. Washing out ACh in the presence of isoprenaline frequently caused transient overshoots of the response. When a saturating concentration of isoprenaline was used, this rebound was not observed. 6. The internal application of cyclic GMP enhanced the response of the Cl- current induced by isoprenaline or adrenaline. 7. When cyclic AMP was applied internally, the response was small in most cells. When the cell was superfused with 20 microM-IBMX (3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine), the Cl- current was consistently induced by the application of cyclic AMP. It is suggested that phosphodiesterase activity strongly buffered the influx of cyclic AMP through the patch pipette tip. 8. We suggest that the compensatory interaction between the beta-adrenergic stimulation and the muscarinic inhibition is at the membrane level, most probably via GTP-binding proteins in activating adenylate cyclase.

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