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Nerve terminal currents induced by autoreception of acetylcholine release.
Fu WM
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Liou HC
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Chen YH
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The activation of autoreceptors is known to be important in the modulation of presynaptic transmitter secretion in peripheral and central neurons. Using whole-cell recordings made from the free growth cone of myocyte-contact motoneurons of Xenopus cell cultures, we have observed spontaneous nerve terminal currents (NTCs). These spontaneous NTCs are blocked by d-tubocurarine (d-TC) and alpha-bungarotoxin (alpha-BuTx), indicating that endogenously released acetylcholine (ACh) can produce substantial membrane depolarization in the nerve terminals. Local application of NMDA to the growth cone increased the frequency of spontaneous NTCs. When the electrical stimulations were applied at the soma to initiate evoked-release of ACh, evoked ACh-induced potentials were recorded in the nerve terminals, which were inhibited by d-TC and hexamethonium but not by atropine. Replacement of normal Ringer's solution with high-Mg2+, low-Ca2+ solution also reversibly inhibited evoked ACh-induced potentials. The possible regulatory role of presynaptic nicotinic autoreceptors on the synaptic transmission was also examined. When the innervated myocyte was whole-cell voltage-clamped to record synaptic currents, application of hexamethonium inhibited the amplitude of evoked synaptic currents at a higher degree than that of iontophoretic ACh-induced currents. Furthermore, hexamethonium markedly reduced the frequency of spontaneous synaptic currents at high-activity synapses. Pretreatment of neurons with alpha-BuTx also inhibited the evoked synaptic currents in manipulated synapses. These results suggest that ACh released spontaneously or by electrical stimulation may act on the presynaptic nicotinic autoreceptors of the same nerve terminals to produce membrane potential change and to regulate synaptic transmission.
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