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J Neurophysiol 79: 2070-2081, 1998;
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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 79 No. 4 April 1998, pp. 2070-2081
Copyright ©1998 The American Physiological Society

Pharmacologically and Functionally Distinct Calcium Currents of Stomatogastric Neurons

Laura M. Hurley and Katherine Graubard

Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195

Hurley, Laura M. and Katherine Graubard. Pharmacologically and functionally distinct calcium currents of stomatogastric neurons. J. Neurophysiol. 79: 2070-2081, 1998. Previous studies have suggested the presence of different types of calcium channels in different regions of stomatogastric neurons. We sought to pharmacologically separate these calcium channel types. We used two different preparations from different regions of stomatogastric neurons to screen a range of selective calcium channel blockers. The two preparations were isolated cell bodies in culture, in which calcium current was measured directly, and isolated neuromuscular junction, in which synaptic transmission was the indirect assay for presynaptic calcium influx. The selective blockers were two different dihydropyridines, omega -Agatoxin IVA, and omega -Conotoxin GVIA. Cultured cell bodies possessed both high-threshold calcium current and calcium-activated outward current, similar to intact neurons. The calcium current had transient and maintained components, but both components had the same voltage dependence of activation and inactivation. Dihydropyridines at >= 10 µM blocked both high-threshold calcium current and calcium-activated outward current. Nanomolar doses of omega -Agatoxin IVA did not block calcium current, but micromolar doses did. omega -Conotoxin GVIA did not block either current. In contrast, at the neuromuscular junction, dihydropyridines reduced the amplitude of postsynaptic potentials by only a modest amount, whereas omega -Agatoxin IVA at doses as low as 64 nM reduced the amplitude of postsynaptic potentials almost entirely. These effects were presynaptic. omega -Conotoxin GVIA did not change the amplitude of postsynaptic potentials. The different pharmacological profiles of the two isolated preparations suggest that there are at least two different types of calcium channel in stomatogastric neurons and that omega -Agatoxin IVA and dihydropridines can be used to pharmacologically distinguish them.




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