Gap junction channel activity in short-term cultured human detrusor myocyte cell pairs: gating and unitary conductances.
Gap junction channel activity in short-term cultured human detrusor myocyte cell pairs: gating and unitary conductances.
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短期培养的人逼尿肌细胞对中的间隙连接通道活性:门控和单一电导。
DOI:
10.1152/ajpcell.00027.2006
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2006
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Christ,GeorgeJ
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作者:
Wang,H-Z;Brink,PeterR;Christ,GeorgeJ
Several independent lines of investigation indicate that intercellular communication through gap junctions modulates bladder physiology and, moreover, that altered junctional communication may contribute to detrusor overactivity. However, as far as we are aware, there are still no direct recordings of gap junction-mediated intercellular currents between human or rat detrusor myocytes. Northern and Western blots were used to identify connexin expression in frozen human bladder tissue and short-term cultured human detrusor myocytes. Double whole cell patch (DWCP) recording revealed that human detrusor myocyte cell pairs were well coupled with an average junctional conductance of 6.5 ± 4.6 nS (ranging from 0.1 to 15 nS,n= 22 cell pairs). Macroscopic gap junction channel currents in human detrusor myocytes exhibited voltage dependence similar to homotypic connexin43. The normalized transjunctional conductance-voltage (Gj-Vj) relationship was symmetrical and well described by a two-state Boltzmann relation (Gmin≈ 0.33,V0= 63.6 mV,Z= 0.117 or equal to 2.95 gating charges), suggestive of a bilateral voltage-gated mechanism. In symmetric 165 mM CsCl, the measured single-channel slope conductance was ∼120 pS for the fully open channel and ∼26 pS for the major substate. Occasionally, other subconductance states were also observed. The single-channel mean open time declined with increasingVj, accounting for theVj-dependent decline of macroscopic junctional current. Qualitatively similar electrophysiological characteristics were observed in DWCP of freshly isolated rat detrusor myocytes. These data confirm and extend previous observations and are consistent with reports in other smooth muscle cells types in which Cx43-mediated intercellular communication has been identified.
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作者:
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DOI:
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1995
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The American journal of physiology.
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作者:
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作者:
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