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Research ArticleGASTROINTESTINAL, HEPATIC, PULMONARY, AND RENAL

Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors at Sites of Neurotransmitter Release to the Guinea Pig Intestinal Circular Muscle

David A. Schneider, Mike Perrone and James J. Galligan
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics July 2000, 294 (1) 363-369;
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Experiments were designed to test the hypothesis that nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are present at sites of neurotransmission to the guinea pig ileum circular smooth muscle. Circular smooth muscle preparations, from which the myenteric plexus had been removed (circular muscle-axon preparation), were used for this purpose. Nicotine and dimethylphenyl piperazinium iodide (10–100 μM) induced contraction of the circular smooth muscle. Agonist-induced contraction was inhibited by 1 μM scopolamine and abolished in the combined presence of 1 μM scopolamine and 0.3 μM CP 96,345-01, a neurokinin-1 receptor antagonist. Contractions induced by electric field stimulation (30 pulses, 0.5 ms, 70 V, 10 Hz) were abolished by 0.3 μM tetrodotoxin (TTX); in contrast, agonist-induced contraction was attenuated but not abolished by 0.3 μM TTX. Mecamylamine (3 or 30 μM), an nAChR antagonist, blocked agonist-induced contractions. Frequency-response curves for both “ON” and “OFF” electric field stimulation contractions were abolished by the combined presence of 1 μM scopolamine and 0.3 μM CP 96,345-01 or by 0.3 μM TTX. At stimulation frequencies greater than 2 Hz, the ON contraction was increased in the presence of 100 μM nitro-l-arginine. Mecamylamine (3 μM) was used to block the stimulatory prejunctional nAChRs located near sites of neurotransmitter release to the circular smooth muscle; however, ON and OFF contractions were not affected by mecamylamine. Although the prejunctional nAChRs are not targets for endogenously released acetylcholine under the conditions tested here, these receptors may be targets for the development of new prokinetic agents.

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  • Send reprint requests to: Dr. David A. Schneider, Department of Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology and Physiology, Program in Neuroscience, P.O. Box 646520, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6520. E-mail:das{at}vetmed.wsu.edu

  • ↵1 This work was supported by Grants 1 F32 DK09935-01 and NS33289 and by an American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Summer Institutional Fellowship awarded to the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Michigan State University (to M.P.).

  • Abbreviations:
    ENS
    enteric nervous system
    ACh
    acetylcholine
    nAChR
    nicotinic ACh receptors
    CM-axon
    circular muscle-axon
    TTX
    tetrodotoxin
    DMPP
    dimethyl-phenyl piperazinium iodide
    NK-1
    neurokinin-1
    mAChR
    muscarinic ACh receptor
    EFS
    electric field stimulation
    NLA
    nitro-l-arginine
    • Received October 27, 1999.
    • Accepted April 5, 2000.
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Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors at Sites of Neurotransmitter Release to the Guinea Pig Intestinal Circular Muscle

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Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics July 1, 2000, 294 (1) 363-369;

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Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors at Sites of Neurotransmitter Release to the Guinea Pig Intestinal Circular Muscle

David A. Schneider, Mike Perrone and James J. Galligan
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics July 1, 2000, 294 (1) 363-369;
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