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Mu- and kappa-opioid receptors selectively reduce the same transient components of high-threshold calcium current in rat dorsal root ganglion sensory neurons

HC Moises, KI Rusin and RL Macdonald
Journal of Neuroscience 1 October 1994, 14 (10) 5903-5916; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.14-10-05903.1994
HC Moises
Department of Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109–0622.
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Department of Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109–0622.
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Whole-cell patch-clamp recordings were used to examine the regulation of voltage-dependent calcium channels by mu- and kappa-opioid receptors in acutely isolated rat dorsal root ganglion (DRG) sensory neurons. Agonists selective for either mu- (Tyr-Pro-NMePhe-D-Pro-NH2, PLO17) or kappa-opioid receptors (dynorphin A, U69,593) inhibited high-threshold calcium currents in a reversible and naloxone-sensitive manner, whereas administration of D-Pen2,5-enkephalin, a delta-selective agonist, was without effect. However, none of the opioids reduced low-threshold T- type currents. The inhibitory effects of PLO17 were blocked by the irreversible mu-opioid antagonist beta-funaltrexamine but not the kappa- opioid antagonist nor-binaltorphimine, while responses to kappa-opioid agonists showed the opposite pattern of antagonist sensitivity. In addition, many cells responded to both PLO17 and dynorphin A (or U69,593), and in these neurons the inhibitory response to one agonist was occluded when tested in the presence of the other. These data suggest that mu- and kappa-opioid receptors are coexpressed on at least some DRG neurons and appear to be functionally coupled to a common pool of calcium channels. Both rapidly inactivating (transient) and sustained components of high-threshold current, arising from pharmacologically distinct types of calcium channels, were identified in our neurons. Activation of mu-opioid receptors selectively reduced the transient component of currents evoked at +10 mV from Vh = -80 mV, while sparing the sustained component. The transient component was irreversibly blocked by the N-type channel antagonist omega-conotoxin GVIA (omega-CgTx), and in one-half of the neurons there was a concomitant loss of the response to PLO17. In the remaining neurons, PLO17 continued to reduce a small fraction of omega-CgTx-insensitive current and subsequent administration of the L-type channel blocker nifedipine in saturating concentrations failed to reduce the opioid- induced inhibitory effect. These data demonstrate that mu-opioid receptors are negatively coupled to several pharmacologically distinct types of calcium channels in DRG sensory neurons, one that was blocked by omega-CgTx and thus likely to be N-type, and a second that was resistant to blockade by N- and L-type channel blockers.

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Mu- and kappa-opioid receptors selectively reduce the same transient components of high-threshold calcium current in rat dorsal root ganglion sensory neurons
HC Moises, KI Rusin, RL Macdonald
Journal of Neuroscience 1 October 1994, 14 (10) 5903-5916; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.14-10-05903.1994

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HC Moises, KI Rusin, RL Macdonald
Journal of Neuroscience 1 October 1994, 14 (10) 5903-5916; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.14-10-05903.1994
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