Effects of N‐ethylmaleimide and forskolin on noradrenaline release from rat hippocampal slices. Evidence that prejunctional adenosine and a‐receptors are linked to A/‐proteins but not to adenylate cyclase
- 1 May 1987
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Physiologica Scandinavica
- Vol. 130 (1), 95-105
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-1716.1987.tb08116.x
Abstract
N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) treatment has been shown to inactivate regulatory GTP-binding N (G)-proteins in many preparations, including slices of rat hippocampus. NEM-treatment (100 microM for 15 min) has been used to examine the possible involvement of a N-protein in the prejunctional inhibitory effect of an adenosine analogue, R-PIA acting on A1-receptors, and of clonidine acting on alpha 2-adrenoceptors in this tissue. NEM treatment significantly enhanced basal overflow of [3H]NA and the overflow stimulated by low (0.3 Hz) frequency stimulation, but not the overflow stimulated by higher (1-10 Hz) frequency stimulation. The prejunctional inhibitory effect of R-PIA (1 microM) on NA release, stimulated by a 3 Hz stimulation, was abolished by NEM pretreatment, which also eliminated the dose-dependent prejunctional effect of clonidine and reduced the facilitatory effect of yohimbine. Forskolin had a small, but significant stimulatory effect on NA overflow, but did not reduce the prejunctional inhibitory effect of R-PIA. The adenylate cyclase inhibitor SQ 22, 536 did not reduce NA overflow. These results show that NEM blocks a critical step in the prejunctional action of both adenosine- and alpha 2-receptor agonists, which may be a N-protein. The possibility is discussed that the prejunctional A1- and alpha 2-receptors couple to a N-protein that controls a different effector than adenylate cyclase.Keywords
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