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Denervation-induced changes in electrophysiologic parameters of the smooth muscle of the guinea-pig and rat was deferens

K Goto, DP Westfall and WW Fleming

In order to further elucidate the mechanisms by which postganglionic denervation causes changes in the dose-response curves obtained in smooth muscle, microelectrodes have been used to investigate cellular changes in the denervated guinea-pig and rat vas deferens. In the guinea-pig vas deferens, chronic denervation produced a partial depolarization (mean change of 8.5 mV) without any change in threshold for the action potential. In the rat vas deferens there was no change in resting potential but the threshold membrane potential because more negative (6.5 mV). Thus, in both species, but apparently by different mechanisms, the resting and threshold membrane potentials are brought closer together by denervation. Such an effect would clearly contribute to the well documented increase in sensitivity to depolarizing agonists which is produced by chronic denervation. In both species, denervation increased the space constant of the smooth muscle, an indication of increased electrical coupling among the cells. This observation is consistent with morphologic evidence of improved coupling induced by denervation and presented previously from this laboratory. The improved coupling appears to be associated with the increased maximum response of the denervated vasa deferentia of both species. These results are discussed in references to known similarities and differences in electrophysiologic characteristics between normal guinea-pig and rat vasa deferentia.

Volume 204, Issue 2, pp. 325-333, 02/01/1978
Copyright © 1978 by American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics




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