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. 1987 Apr;90(4):733–744. doi: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1987.tb11227.x

Inhibitory responses to nicotine and transmural stimulation in hyoscine-treated guinea-pig isolated trachealis: an electrical and mechanical study.

J P Boyle, J M Davies, R W Foster, G P Morgan, R C Small
PMCID: PMC1917208  PMID: 2884007

Abstract

Guinea-pig isolated trachealis muscle treated with hyoscine (1 microM) exhibited mechanical tone which could be suppressed by transmural stimulation and, in a concentration-dependent manner, by nicotine (10-1000 microM). Hexamethonium (500 microM) did not itself cause tone changes, antagonized effects of nicotine but did not antagonize those of isoprenaline. Tetrodotoxin (0.3 microM) did not itself cause tone changes, did not modify the action of isoprenaline but antagonized the effects of nicotine and very markedly reduced responses to transmural electrical stimulation. Guanethidine (50 microM) did not itself cause tone changes, potentiated the action of isoprenaline, antagonized effects of nicotine and reduced responses to transmural electrical stimulation. Propranolol (1 microM) did not itself cause tone changes, antagonized effects of both isoprenaline and nicotine and reduced responses to transmural electrical stimulation. Propranolol (10 microM) caused greater antagonism of isoprenaline but did not further antagonize nicotine or further reduce responses to electrical stimulation. Intracellular electrophysiological recording from hyoscine-treated trachealis showed that 10 microM nicotine caused little or no mechanical or electrical change. Higher concentrations (100 microM and 1 mM) evoked relaxation which was often though not invariably accompanied by transient hyperpolarization and transient inhibition of electrical slow waves in the impaled cell. Hexamethonium (500 microM), tetrodotoxin (0.3 microM), guanethidine (50 microM) and propranolol (1 microM) each suppressed the electrical or mechanical changes evoked by nicotine (100 microM). However, nicotine (1 mM) tested in the presence of propranolol (1 microM), caused relaxation which could be accompanied by slow wave suppression but not by change in resting membrane potential. Transmural stimulation of hyoscine-treated trachea with single pulses of supramaximal voltage and 0.5 ms duration evoked neither relaxation nor membrane potential changes. Stimulation with similar pulses in trains of 5 s duration evoked relaxation which was dependent on pulse frequency. In many cells this relaxation was not accompanied by membrane potential change. In other cells suppression of slow waves occurred. At high pulse frequencies (greater than 16 Hz) this was generally accompanied by membrane hyperpolarization. In tissue treated with hyoscine and propranolol (both 1 microM), transmural stimulation with pulse trains as described above always evoked relaxation but no membrane potential changes were observed.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

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