THE EFFECTS OF ALPHA-NEUROTOXIN AND BETA-NEUROTOXIN FROM THE VENOMS OF VARIOUS SNAKES ON TRANSMISSION IN AUTONOMIC GANGLIA
THE EFFECTS OF ALPHA-NEUROTOXIN AND BETA-NEUROTOXIN FROM THE VENOMS OF VARIOUS SNAKES ON TRANSMISSION IN AUTONOMIC GANGLIA
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DOI:
10.1016/0006-8993(81)90070-6
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
ZIGMOND, RE
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作者:
CHIAPPINELLI, VA;COHEN, JB;ZIGMOND, RE
Certain commercially available lots of .alpha.-bungarotoxin block transmission in ciliary and choroid neurons of both pigeon and chicken ciliary ganglia at a concentration of 10 .mu.g/ml (1.2 .mu.M). The blockade is antagonized by pre-incubation with 100 .mu.M tubocurarine. Further evidence that this blockade is produced by a postsynaptic action, as one would expect of an .alpha.-neurotoxin, are findings that: exposure to the toxin prevents the depolarization of ganglion cells normally seen in response to the cholinergic agonist, carbachol; and the blocking activity of the toxin is removed by treatment with membranes purified from Torpedo electric organ containing an excess of .alpha.-neurotoxin binding sites. A high affinity binding site for [125I].alpha.-bungarotoxin was characterized in the chicken ciliary ganglion. Since it is labeled equally well by lots of .alpha.-bungarotoxin which block transmission and those that do not, this site does not appear to be involved in the blockade of transmission. .alpha.-Cobratoxin (from Naja naja siamensis), the .alpha.-neurotoxin L. s. III (from Laticauda semifasciata) and certain lots of .alpha.-bungarotoxin produce a partial bllockade of transmission in ciliary neurons of the pigeon ciliary ganglion at a concentration of 10 .mu.g/ml (1.2 .mu.M), but have no effect on transmission in choroid neurons. Two other .alpha.-neurotoxins from L. semifasciata, erabutoxin a and erabutoxin b, have no effect on transmission in either cell population at this concentration. None of the .alpha.-neurotoxins tested had any effect on transmission in either the rat superior cervical ganglion or the rat pelvic ganglion at concentrations up to 100 .mu.g/ml (12 .mu.M). Collagenase treatment of these ganglia to increase access of the toxins to ganglion cells did not alter these negative results. .beta.-Bungarotoxin (0.5 .mu.g/ml, 0.02 .mu.M) produces a complex blockade of transmission in both avian ciliary ganglia and rat superior cervical ganglia. Unlike the action of .alpha.-bungarotoxin, the blockade of ciliary ganglion transmission by .beta.-bungarotoxin is irreversible and is not prevented by pretreatment with tubocurarine.