INHIBITION OF IONIC CURRENTS IN FROG NODE OF RANVIER TREATED WITH NALOXONE
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- 1 September 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Pharmacology
- Vol. 77 (1), 115-119
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1476-5381.1982.tb09276.x
Abstract
1 Myelinated nerve fibres of frog sciatic nerve were investigated under current and voltage clamp conditions. In the presence of 68 μM external naloxone, the action potential was completely, though progressively, blocked within 15 min of drug superfusion. The resting potential remained constant. 2 Under voltage clamp conditions both peak Na+ and steady-state K+ currents were decreased reversibly by external naloxone. Both currents were reduced in a dose-dependent manner but, whereas sodium current was affected by the smallest concentrations of naloxone (1.3 up to 12.5 μm), potassium current was decreased only by higher concentrations (25 up to 112 μm). 3 The time-course of development of the effect on both Na+ and K+ currents after exposure to 112 μm naloxone (a concentration giving more than 50% of decrease) showed that the effect develops quickly within the first 2 min of exposure to the drug, but afterwards both currents continue to fall more slowly, though progressively. 4 Experiments with constant test pulses to Em = −10 mV and conditioning prepulses of various amplitudes, showed that the Na inactivation curve, h∞ (Em), was shifted in a negative direction along the potential axis; the shape of the curve was also slightly changed in the presence of naloxone since the shift was larger near the top of the curve. All the observed effects were reversible after returning to the standard Ringer solution. 5 Internal naloxone (< 0.2 mm) reduced the amplitude of the action potential as well as peak Na+ and steady-state K+ currents; the sodium inactivation curve, h∞ (Em), was shifted to more negative potentials. 6 A possible anaesthetic-like activity of naloxone on the nodal membrane is discussed.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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