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Effects of Bis(2-chloroethyl)sulfide on ATP Receptor-Mediated Responses of the Rat Vas Deferens: Possible Relationship to Cytotoxicity

Paul M. Lundy, Thomas W. Sawyer, Brian T. H and and Robert Frew
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics April 1998, 285 (1) 299-306;
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Extracellular ATP is a broad-spectrum cytotoxic agent that produces effects via cell surface P2 purinoceptors. The ligand-gated P2X purinoceptor subtype has very high sequence homology with theRP-2 gene, which encodes for apoptosis. The P2X RNA found in rat vas deferens is expressed preferentially by apoptotic thymocytes. P2X purinoceptor-mediated phasic (twitch) motor responses of the isolated rat vas deferens to neurogenic or exogenous ATP were rapidly, specifically and irreversibly potentiated by bis(2-chloroethyl)sulfide (HD 10-100 μM). Both untreated and HD-potentiated neurogenic responses were Ca++ dependent, blocked in the absence of Ca++ plus 0.1 mM EGTA, by the neuronal Ca++channel blocker ω-conotoxin-MVIIC (3 μM), by the P2 purinoceptor antagonist suramin (100 μM) and by tetrodotoxin (100 nM). HD also potentiated the effects of ATP on isolated guinea pig taenia caecum, where the nucleotide acts at G protein-coupled P2Y purinoceptor subtypes to cause relaxation. HD failed to inhibit the metabolism of ATP by ecto-ATPase in vas deferens or to cause the release of endogenous ATP. Potentiation of the twitch response to electric field stimulation by HD was attenuated or eliminated in tissues excised from rats previously challenged with topically applied HD, suggesting that HD absorbed into the systemic circulation had already effected maximal potentiation of ATP responses before in vitro testing. The physiological consequences of HD-induced potentiation of the extracellular actions of ATP are discussed in relation to apoptosis and necrosis.

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  • Send reprint requests to: Paul M. Lundy, Medical Countermeasures Section, Defence Research Establishment Suffield, Box 4000, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada T1A 8K6.

  • Abbreviations:
    HD
    bis(2-chloroethyl)sulfide
    PG
    prostaglandin
    [Ca++]i
    intracellular calcium concentration
    NANC
    nonadrenergic, noncholinergic
    APCPP
    α,β-methylene ATP
    • Received April 2, 1997.
    • Accepted December 29, 1997.
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