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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology Année : 1997

Acetylcholine Modulates Ifand IK(ACh)Via Different Pathways in Rabbit Sino-atrial Node Cells

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The aim of the present study was to examine whether a direct G-protein pathway was necessary to explain the depression of the cardiac pacemaker current (I(f)) by acetylcholine (ACh). Pacemaker current and spontaneous fluctuations of muscarinic K+ current (IK(ACh)) were simultaneously measured in sino-atrial (SA) node cells isolated from rabbit hearts, using cell-attached and outside-out macro-patches. The effects of 1 microM ACh, added to the bathing solution, were compared on I(f) and on IK(ACh), known to be activated via a direct G-protein mechanism. In a cell-attached configuration where cytoplasmic substrates were present, ACh depressed I(f) by a negatively directed shift of the open probability curve of 7.6 +/- 0.3 mV. ACh never induced modifications in spontaneous openings of muscarinic K+ channels. These results indicate that ACh added to the external solution is unable to modulate IK(ACh) recorded in the membrane-delimited mode, via a G-protein pathway. The ACh depressing effect on I(f) is related to changes in second messenger activity. In outside-out conditions, with guanosine triphosphate (GTP) added to the pipette solution. ACh increased the variance of IK(ACh) fluctuations from 1.66 +/- 0.50 pA2 to 6.60 +/- 2.05 pA2 (at -120 mV). indicating direct G-protein action. ACh had no effect on I(f). It is concluded that in SA node cells, the regulation of I(f) by muscarinic receptors does not involve a direct G-protein pathway. ACh depresses I(f) by a mechanism that probably implicates reduction of intracellular cAMP production.

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hal-04483672 , version 1 (29-02-2024)

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Barbara Renaudon, Patrick Bois, Jocelyn Bescond, Jacques Lenfant. Acetylcholine Modulates Ifand IK(ACh)Via Different Pathways in Rabbit Sino-atrial Node Cells. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, 1997, 29 (3), pp.969-975. ⟨10.1006/jmcc.1996.0340⟩. ⟨hal-04483672⟩

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