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. 1988 Jun;400:299–320. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1988.sp017121

On the mechanism of isoprenaline- and forskolin-induced depolarization of single guinea-pig ventricular myocytes.

T M Egan 1, D Noble 1, S J Noble 1, T Powell 1, V W Twist 1, K Yamaoka 1
PMCID: PMC1191808  PMID: 2458456

Abstract

1. Isoprenaline (10 nM to 1 microM) and forskolin (0.6-100 microM) depolarized single guinea-pig myocytes studied in vitro. Under voltage clamp both agents caused an inward current to flow. 2. These effects were abolished by propranolol (100 nM) and the beta1-antagonist metoprolol (100-200 nM), but not by the beta2-agonist [corrected] salbutamol (1 microM). 3. The interaction of isoprenaline with forskolin, caffeine or isobutylmethylxanthine (IBMX) on current amplitude was as expected if all of these drugs were causing inward current by increasing intracellular levels of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cyclic AMP). Low concentrations of forskolin (less than 600 nM) or IBMX (less than 20 microM) potentiated the effect of isoprenaline, whereas isoprenaline caused no further inward current in cells in which high concentrations of forskolin (600 nM-100 microM) or IBMX (20 microM-1 mM) were already evoking maximum inward current. 4. Isoprenaline-induced inward current was reduced 30-50% by acetylcholine (10-30 microM). This action of acetylcholine was blocked by atropine (100 nM). 5. The effect of isoprenaline on holding current was critically dependent on temperature. The onset of the current was delayed and its amplitude reduced as the myocyte was cooled from 37 degrees C to ambient temperature (22-24 degrees C). 6. Isoprenaline-induced inward current was not affected by the potassium channel blockers barium (2 mM) or tetraethylammonium (TEA; 10-20 mM). The amplitude of the inward current did not vary as a function of [K+]o. 7. The inward current was not affected by the calcium channel blockers cadmium 1 mM, or nifedipine (10 microM), or when internal calcium was reduced by including EGTA in the recording electrode filling solution. 8. The amplitude of the current was also unaffected by caesium (5 mM), which blocks the hyperpolarization-activated, non-specific channel if, or by strophanthidin (10 microM) which blocks the Na+-K+ pump. It was unchanged by substitution of external chloride by isethionate. 9. The inward current was absent when external sodium was replaced by the impermeant ion tetramethylammonium (TMA). 10. Isoprenaline- and forskolin-induced inward currents were associated with an increase in both membrane chord conductance and noise. The increase in conductance was most readily measured at potentials where the inwardly rectifying potassium channel, iK1, was small, or when iK1 was blocked by the addition of barium (2 mM).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

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