Abstract
In order to establish the origin of the increased efflux of radioactivity caused by electrical stimulation of cerebral cortical slices which had been incubated with [3H]‐choline, labelled choline and acetylcholine (ACh) collected by superfusion were separated by gold precipitation. In the presence of physostigmine electrical stimulation (1 Hz, 10 min) increased the release of only [3H]‐ACh which was greatly enhanced by the addition of atropine. Continuous stimulation in the presence of physostigmine resulted in an evoked release of [3H]‐ACh which declined asymptotically. This evoked release appeared to follow first‐order kinetics with a rate constant which remained stable over the course of prolonged stimulation. The rate constant for the evoked release of [3H]‐ACh with 1 Hz stimulation was three times greater in the presence of physostigmine and atropine than in the presence of physostigmine alone, while the size of the store from which [3H]‐ACh was released was nearly identical under these two conditions. In the absence of physostigmine and atropine, stimulation caused the appearance of only [3H]‐choline in the samples. Reduction of [3H]‐ACh stores before the application of physostigmine resulted in a reduced evoked release of total radioactivity, both in the absence or presence of physostigmine and atropine, and decreased the evoked release of [3H]‐ACh without affecting the release of [3H]‐choline. Results suggest that electrical stimulation of cortical slices which had been incubated with [3H]‐choline causes the release of only [3H]‐ACh, both in the presence or absence of an anticholinesterase. The evoked increase in the efflux of total radioactivity is therefore a good measure of the release of [3H]‐ACh.
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Dates
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Created | 13 years, 1 month ago (July 19, 2012, 1:52 p.m.) |
Deposited | 1 year, 10 months ago (Nov. 4, 2023, 7:13 a.m.) |
Indexed | 1 year, 1 month ago (July 12, 2024, 5:51 a.m.) |
Issued | 50 years, 9 months ago (Dec. 1, 1974) |
Published | 50 years, 9 months ago (Dec. 1, 1974) |
Published Online | 13 years, 1 month ago (July 19, 2012) |
Published Print | 50 years, 9 months ago (Dec. 1, 1974) |
@article{RICHARDSON_1974, title={THE RELEASE OF LABELLED ACETYLCHOLINE AND CHOLINE FROM CEREBRAL CORTICAL SLICES STIMULATED ELECTRICALLY}, volume={52}, ISSN={1476-5381}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1476-5381.1974.tb09717.x}, DOI={10.1111/j.1476-5381.1974.tb09717.x}, number={4}, journal={British Journal of Pharmacology}, publisher={Wiley}, author={RICHARDSON, I.W. and SZERB, J.C.}, year={1974}, month=dec, pages={499–507} }