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. 1990 Sep;428:615–637. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1990.sp018231

Voltage-dependent inactivation of catecholamine secretion evoked by brief calcium pulses in the cat adrenal medulla.

B Garrido 1, M G López 1, M A Moro 1, R de Pascual 1, A G García 1
PMCID: PMC1181666  PMID: 1700112

Abstract

1. Inactivation by voltage changes of 45Ca2+ uptake into and catecholamine release from cat adrenal glands perfused at a high rate (4 ml/min) at 37 degrees C with oxygenated Krebs-Tris solution has been studied. Experimental conditions were selected so that adrenal medullary chromaffin cells were depolarized for different time periods and with various K+ concentrations in the absence of Ca2+, prior to the application of 0.5 mM-Ca2+ for 10 s in the presence of 118 mM-K+ to test the rate of secretion (the 'Ca2+ pulse'). 2. Application of the Ca2+ pulse after perfusion with 5.9 mM-K+ led to a 100-fold increase of the basal rate of secretion. However, if the Ca2+ pulse was preceded by a 10 min period of perfusion with 118 mM-K+, the secretory response was decreased by over 80%. 3. Inactivation of secretion starts 10-30 s after high-K+ perfusion and is completed 2-5 min thereafter. Inactivation is readily reversed by perfusing the glands with normal K(+)-containing solution; the recovery phenomenon is also gradual and time-dependent, starting 30 s after repolarization and ending 300 s thereafter. 4. The rate of inactivation is much slower at 35 than at 118 mM-K+, suggesting that the process is strongly dependent on voltage. 5. Like catecholamine release, Ca2+ uptake into adrenal medullary chromaffin cells is inactivated in a voltage-dependent manner. This, together with the fact that Cd2+ blocked secretion completely and inactivation was seen equally using Ca2+ or Ba2+ as secretagogues, suggests that inactivation of a certain class of voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels is responsible for the blockade of secretion. Such channels must be slowly inactivated by voltage and highly sensitive to dihydropyridines, since (+)PN200-110 (an L-type Ca2+ channel blocker) enhanced the rate of inactivation and (+/-)Bay K 8644 (an L-type Ca2+ channel activator) prevented it, indicating that they might belong to L-subtype Ca2+ channels. 6. The effects of (+/-)Bay K 8644 (100 nM) were seen on both the voltage and time dependence of inactivation. At a moderate depolarization (35 mM-K+), the drug prevented inactivation and caused potentiation of secretion which developed gradually; at strong depolarizations (118 mM-K+), Bay K 8644 prevented the time-dependent development of inactivation. (+)PN200-110 (30 nM) did not suddenly decrease catecholamine release at the earlier times of depolarization; what the drug did was to accelerate the normal rate of inactivation induced by depolarization.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

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