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. 1993 Nov;110(3):1142–1148. doi: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1993.tb13933.x

Depression of primary afferent-evoked responses by GR71251 in the isolated spinal cord of the neonatal rat.

J Z Guo 1, K Yoshioka 1, M Yanagisawa 1, R Hosoki 1, R M Hagan 1, M Otsuka 1
PMCID: PMC2175801  PMID: 7507777

Abstract

1. The pharmacological profile of GR71251, a new tachykinin receptor antagonist, and its effect on the responses evoked by stimulation of primary afferent fibres were studied in isolated spinal cord preparations of neonatal rats. Potential changes were recorded extracellularly from a lumbar ventral root (L3-L5). 2. Bath-application of substance P (SP), neurokinin A (NKA) and neurokinin B (NKB) at 0.01-3 microM to the spinal cord induced depolarization of the ventral root in normal artificial cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The NK1 agonist, acetyl-Arg6-septide, and the NK3 agonist, senktide, at 0.01-3 microM, also had potent depolarizing actions whereas two NK2 agonists, beta-Ala8NKA4-10 and Nle10NKA4-10, showed little depolarizing effects at 1 microM. 3. GR71251 (0.3-3 microM) caused a rightward shift of the concentration-response curves for SP, acetyl-Arg6-septide and NKA with pA2 values of 6.14, 6.75 or 6.70, respectively. The effects of GR71251 were readily reversible within 15-30 min after its removal. By contrast, GR71251 (1-5 microM) had little effect on the depolarizing responses to NKB and senktide. 4. GR71251 (1-3 microM) did not depress the depolarizing responses to bombesin, neuromedin B and gastrin-releasing peptide in normal artificial CSF. 5. Application of capsaicin to the spinal cord induced a depolarizing response, which was partially depressed by GR71251 (3-10 microM). 6. In the isolated spinal cord preparation, intense electrical stimulation of a dorsal root evoked a slow depolarizing response of the contralateral ventral root of the same segment.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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