ATP-sensitive and Ca2+-activated K+ channel activities in the rat locus coeruleus neurons during metabolic inhibition
1Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Abstract:
Locus coeruleus (LC) is the significant nucleus for consciousness and it is sensitive to metabolic inhibition. We investigated the effects of a metabolic inhibitor sodium cyanide (NaCN) on the rat dissociated LC neurons using nystatin-perforated patch recordings. Under voltage-clamp (VH=-40 mV), application of NaCN evoked outward currents composed of ATP-sensitive and Ca2+-dependent K+ channel currents (IKATP and IKCa2+). Onset of IKATP was faster than that of IKCa2+. Prolonged application of NaCN brought IKATP rundown but not IKCa2+ rundown. Okadaic acid prevented IKATP rundown, indicating that KATP channels are deactivated by dephosphorylation with protein phosphatase.
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