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Ecstasy and methamphetamine elicit action potential bursts via different mechanisms in a central snail neuron
- Source :
- NeuroToxicology. 31:26-41
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2010.
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Abstract
- This study sought to determine the effects of (+) methamphetamine (METH) and its ring-substituted analog (+/-)3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA; ecstasy) on electrophysiological behavior and their relationships to second messenger systems in an identifiable RP4 neuron of the African snail, Achatina fulica Ferussac. Extracellular application of MDMA at 1mM and METH at 3mM elicited action potential bursts that were not blocked after immersing the neurons in Ca(2+)-free solution. Notably, MDMA- (1mM) elicited action potential bursts were blocked by pretreatment with the protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitors chelerythrine (20 microM) and Ro 31-8220 (20 microM), but not by the PKA inhibitors KT-5720 (10 microM) and H89 (10 microM). The PKC activator phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate (PDBu; 3 microM), but not the PKA activator forskolin (50 microM), facilitated the induction of bursts elicited by MDMA at a lower concentration (0.3mM). In contrast, METH- (3mM) elicited action potential bursts were blocked by pretreatment with KT-5720 (10 microM) and H89 (10 microM), but not by chelerythrine (20 microM) and Ro 31-8220 (20 microM). Forskolin (50 microM), but not PDBu (3 microM) facilitated the induction of bursts elicited by METH at a lower concentration (1mM). Tetraethylammonium chloride (TEA), a blocker of the delayed rectifying K(+) current (I(KD)), did not elicit bursts at a concentration of 5mM but did facilitate the induction of action potential bursts elicited by both METH and MDMA. Voltage clamp studies revealed that both METH and MDMA decreased the TEA-sensitive I(KD) of the RP4 neuron. Forskolin (50 microM) or dibutyryl cAMP (1mM), a membrane-permeable cAMP analog, alone did not elicit action potential bursts. However, co-administration with forskolin (50 microM) and TEA (5mM) or co-administration with dibutyryl cAMP (1mM) and TEA (50mM) elicited action potential bursts in the presence of the PKC inhibitor chelerythrine (20 microM). Similarly, PDBu (10 microM) or phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA; 3 microM) alone did not elicit action potential bursts. However, co-administration with PDBu (10 microM) and TEA (5mM) or co-administration with PMA (3 microM) and TEA (5mM) elicited action potential bursts in the presence of the PKA inhibitor KT-5720 (10 microM). These data suggest that action potential bursts in the RP4 neuron were not due to Ca(2+)-dependent synaptic effects. Rather, action potential bursts may be elicited through (1) combined activation of the cAMP-PKA signaling pathway and inhibition of the I(KD) and (2) combined activation of PKC and inhibition of the I(KD).
- Subjects :
- Patch-Clamp Techniques
N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine
Voltage clamp
Snails
Biophysics
Action Potentials
Pharmacology
Toxicology
Methamphetamine
chemistry.chemical_compound
Adrenergic Agents
Potassium Channel Blockers
medicine
Animals
Drug Interactions
Patch clamp
Enzyme Inhibitors
Phorbol 12,13-Dibutyrate
Neurons
Forskolin
Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
General Neuroscience
Colforsin
Tetraethylammonium
Meth
Tetraethylammonium chloride
Electric Stimulation
Ganglia, Invertebrate
Chelerythrine
chemistry
Mechanism of action
Phorbol
Calcium
medicine.symptom
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0161813X
- Volume :
- 31
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- NeuroToxicology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e3f0c6e799d7f5d7caf579083aed4ba8