Self-inhibition in Ca2+ -evoked taste responses: a novel tool for functional dissection of salt taste transduction mechanisms.
Self-inhibition in Ca2+ -evoked taste responses: a novel tool for functional dissection of salt taste transduction mechanisms.
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Ca2 诱发味觉反应的自我抑制:盐味转导机制功能剖析的新工具。
DOI:
10.1152/jn.1998.79.2.911
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发表时间:
1998
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
DeSimone,JA
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作者:
Kloub,MA;Heck,GL;DeSimone,JA
Kloub, Mamoun A., Gerard L. Heck, and John A. DeSimone.Self-inhibition in Ca2+-evoked taste receptors: a novel tool for functional dissection of salt taste transduction mechanisms.J. Neurophysiol.79: 911–921, 1998. Rat chorda tympani (CT) responses to CaCl2were obtained during simultaneous current and voltage clamping of the lingual receptive field. Unlike most other salts, CaCl2induced negatively directed transepithelial potentials and gave CT responses that were auto-inhibitory beyond a critical concentration. CT responses increased in a dose-dependent manner to ∼0.3 M, whereafter they decreased with increasing concentration. At concentrations where Ca2+was self-inhibitory, it also inhibited responses to NaCl, KCl, and NH4Cl present in mixtures with CaCl2. Ca2+completely blocked the amiloride-insensitive component of the NaCl CT response, the entire KCl-evoked CT response, and the high-concentration-domain CT responses of NH4Cl (≥0.3 M). The overlapping Ca2+-sensitivity between the responses of the three Cl−salts (Na+, K+, and NH+4) suggests a common, Ca2+-sensitive, transduction pathway. Extracellular Ca2+has been shown to modulate the paracellular pathways in different epithelial cell lines by decreasing the water permeability and cation conductance of tight junctions. Ca2+-induced modulation of tight junctions is associated with Ca2+binding to fixed negative sites. This results in a conversion of ion selectivity from cationic to anionic, which we also observed in our system through simultaneous monitoring of the transepithelial potential during CT recording. The data indicate the paracellular pathway as the stimulatory and modulatory site of CaCl2taste responses. In addition, they indicate that important transduction sites for NaCl, KCl, and NH4Cl taste reception are accessible only through the paracellular pathways. More generally, they show that modulation of paracellular transport by Ca2+in an intact epithelium has functional consequences at a systemic level.