Evidence for altered circular smooth muscle cell function in lower esophageal sphincter of W/W^sup v^ mutant mice

Nitrergic neurotransmission to gut smooth muscle is impaired in W/Wv mutant mice, which lack intramuscular interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC-IM). In addition, these mice have been reported to have smaller amplitude unitary potentials (UPs) and a more negative resting membrane potential (RMP) than con...

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Published in:American journal of physiology: Gastrointestinal and liver physiology 2011-12, Vol.301 (6), p.G1059
Main Authors: Bautista-Cruz, Francisco, Paterson, William G
Format: Article
Language:English
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Calcium
Cells
Mutation
Neurotransmitters
Rodents
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Summary:Nitrergic neurotransmission to gut smooth muscle is impaired in W/Wv mutant mice, which lack intramuscular interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC-IM). In addition, these mice have been reported to have smaller amplitude unitary potentials (UPs) and a more negative resting membrane potential (RMP) than control mice. These abnormalities have been attributed to absence of ICC-IM, but it remains possible that they are due to alterations at the level of the smooth muscle itself. Amphotericin-B-perforated patch-clamp recordings and Ca... imaging (fura 2) were compared between freshly isolated single circular smooth muscle cells (CSM) from W/Wv mutant and control mice lower esophageal sphincter (LES). There was no significant difference in seal resistance, capacitance, or input resistance in response to applied electrotonic current pulses between CSM cells from W/Wv mutants and controls. Compared with control mice, RMP was more negative and UPs significantly smaller in CSM cells from mutant mice LES. Administration of caffeine induced an inward current in cells from both mutant and control mice, but the current density was significantly larger in cells from W/W... mutants. Membrane potential hyperpolarization induced by sodium nitroprusside was larger in cells from control mice vs. W/W... mutants. In addition, intracellular Ca... transients induced by caffeine were significantly increased in cells from mutants. These findings indicate that LES CSM is abnormal in W/W... mutant mice. Thus some physiological functions attributed to ICC-IM based on experiments in smooth muscle of ICC deficient mice may need to be reconsidered. (ProQuest: ... denotes formulae/symbols omitted.)
ISSN:0193-1857
1522-1547