Pacific ciguatoxin‐1b effect over Na+ and K+ currents, inositol 1,4,5‐triphosphate content and intracellular Ca2+ signals in cultured rat myotubes
- 1 December 2002
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Pharmacology
- Vol. 137 (7), 1055-1062
- https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjp.0704980
Abstract
1. The action of the main ciguatoxin involved in ciguatera fish poisoning in the Pacific region (P-CTX-1b) was studied in myotubes originated from rat skeletal muscle cells kept in primary culture. 2. The effect of P-CTX-1b on sodium currents at short times of exposure (up to 1 min) showed a moderate increase in peak Na+ current. During prolonged exposures, P-CTX-1b decreased the peak Na+ current. This action was always accompanied by an increase of leakage currents, tail currents and outward Na+ currents, resulting in an intracellular Na+ accumulation. This effect is blocked by prior exposure to tetrodotoxin (TTX) and becomes evident only after washout of TTX. 3. Low to moderate concentrations of P-CTX-1b (2-5 nM) partially blocked potassium currents in a manner that was dependent on the membrane potential. 4. P-CTX-1b (2-12 nM) caused a small membrane depolarization (3-5 mV) and an increase in the frequency of spontaneous action potential discharges that reached in general low frequencies (0.1-0.5 Hz). 5. P-CTX-1b (10 nM) caused a transient increase of intracellular inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP(3)) mass levels, which was blocked by TTX. 6. In the presence of P-CTX-1b (10 nM) and in the absence of external Ca2+, the intracellular Ca2+ levels show a transient increase in the cytoplasm as well as in the nuclei. The time course of this effect may reflect the action of IP(3) over internal stores activated by P-CTX-1b-induced membrane depolarization.This publication has 43 references indexed in Scilit:
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