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Nitric oxide modulates intensity of non-quantal acetylcholine release in myocardium of the right atrium of rat

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The main parasympathetic neurotransmitter acetylcholine (ACh) is released in the myocardium from the intramural postganglionic parasympathetic nerve endings. The mechanism of non-quantal ACh release has been recently demonstrated in these neurons. Non-quantal ACh release does not depend on exocytosis of ACh-containing vesicles in response to nerve impulse activity but is assumed to be mediated by the high-affinity choline uptake system. The intensity of non-quantal ACh release in the myocardium correlates with the degree of manifestation of the effects of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors inducing the accumulation of non-quantal ACh in the myocardium. The present study deals with the influence of putative modulators of non-quantal ACh release: nitric oxide (NO) and ATP, on the intensity of cholinergic effects induced by organophosphorous acetylcholinesterase inhibitor paraoxon. Intracellular registration of bioelectrical activity in isolated right atrium preparations from rats was used. Under normal conditions, paraoxon (10−7–10−5 M) induced a marked decrease in the action potential (AP) duration at a level of 50 and 90% repolarization in the working right atrial myocardium and slowed down the sinus rhythm. ATP, which is known to suppress nonquantal ACh release in the neuromuscular junction, did not induce significant reduction or augmentation of the effects of paraoxon (5 × 10−6 M). The NO donors, sodium nitroprusside (10−5 M) and SNAP (10−4 M), significantly reduced the paraoxon-induced AP shortening. Moreover, sodium nitroprusside decreased the negative chronotropic effect of paraoxon by 43.7%. On the contrary, NO synthase inhibitor L-NAME (10−4 M), which is known to suppress endogenous NO production, augmented the AP shortening caused by paraoxon. It may be deduced that NO is a universal regulator of non-quantal ACh release intensity both in the myocardium and in the neuromuscular junction.

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  1. Moscow Lomonosov State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    D. V. Abramochkin & A. A. Borodinova

  2. Kazan Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Lobachevskogo, 2/31, Kazan, 420111, Russia

    E. E. Nikolsky

  3. Kazan State Medical University, ul. Butlerova, 49, Kazan, 420012, Russia

    E. E. Nikolsky

  4. Institute of Experimental Cardiology, Tretya Cherepkovskaya ul., 15a, Moscow, 121552, Russia

    L. V. Rosenshtraukh

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Original Russian Text © D.V. Abramochkin, A.A. Borodinova, E.E. Nikolsky, L.V. Rosenshtraukh, 2012, published in Biologicheskie Membrany, 2012, Vol. 29, No. 5, pp. 317–323.

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Abramochkin, D.V., Borodinova, A.A., Nikolsky, E.E. et al. Nitric oxide modulates intensity of non-quantal acetylcholine release in myocardium of the right atrium of rat. Biochem. Moscow Suppl. Ser. A 6, 288–293 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1990747812040022

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