Muscarinic autoreceptors related with calcium channels in the strong and weak inputs at polyinnervated developing rat neuromuscular junctions.
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Using intracellular recording, we studied how several muscarinic antagonists affected the evoked endplate potentials in singly and dually innervated endplates of the levator auris longus muscle from 3 to 6-day-old rats. In dually innervated fibers, a second endplate potential (EPP) may appear after the first one when we increase the stimulation intensity. The lowest and highest EPP amplitudes are designated "small-EPP" and "large-EPP," respectively. In singly innervated endplates and large-EPP, we found an inhibition of acetylcholine release by M1-receptor antagonists pirenzepine and MT-7 (more than 30%) and M2-receptor antagonists methoctramine and AF-DX 116 (more than 40%). The small-EPP was also inhibited by both M2-receptor antagonists methoctramine (approximately 70%) and AF-DX 116 (approximately 40%). However, the small-EPP was enhanced by M1-receptor antagonists pirenzepine (approximately 90%) and MT-7 (approximately 50%). The M4-receptor selective antagonists tropicamide and MT-3 can also increase the small-EPP amplitude (75% and 120%, respectively). We observed a graded change from a multichannel involvement (P/Q- N- and L-type voltage-dependent calcium channels) of all muscarinic responses (M1-, M2- and M4-mediated) in the small-EPP to the single channel (P/Q-type) involvement of the M1 and M2 responses in the singly innervated endplates. This indicates the existence of a progressive calcium channels shutoff in parallel with the specialization of the adult type P/Q channel. In conclusion, muscarinic autoreceptors can directly modulate large-EPP generating ending potentiation, and small-EPP generating ending depression through their association with the calcium channels during development.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Neuroscience
دوره 123 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004