Human isolated ileum: motor responses of the circular muscle to electrical field stimulation and exogenous neuropeptides

Author(s):  
CarloAlberto Maggi ◽  
Riccardo Patacchini ◽  
Paolo Santicioli ◽  
Sandro Giuliani ◽  
Damiano Turini ◽  
...  
1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (8) ◽  
pp. 912-918 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasushi Sakai ◽  
Edwin E. Daniel

Innervation of circular muscle of the canine stomach studied in vitro was investigated by subjecting muscle strips to electrical field stimulation. Strips were cut from the lesser curvature of the gastric corpus and stimulated with 10-s trains of 0.5-ms pulses at 0.5–20 Hz, 40 V. Most responses were classified into one of three types. In general, field stimulation tended to elicit sequences of varying magnitudes of transient on-contraction, on-relaxation, off-relaxation, off-contraction. Responses were abolished by tetrodotoxin. On-contraction was almost abolished by atropine plus desensitization by 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) or substance P. On-relaxation and off-relaxation were not affected by adrenergic blockade, methysergide, apamin, or 4-aminopyridine. ATP usually caused contraction and slightly diminished relaxation to field stimulation. Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) had little effect on tone and response to field stimulation. Relaxation disappeared after scorpion venom treatment. This probably resulted from depletion of the transmitter which mediates relaxation. Off-contraction was reduced by atropine, desensitization by 5-HT or substance P, cromoglycate, indomethacin or ATP, but was not affected by adrenergic blockade, hexamethonium, methysergide, mepyramine, or VIP. The findings suggest that innervation of gastric corpus circular muscle included excitatory cholinergic and both excitatory and inhibitory noncholinergic, nonadrenergic innervation. However, the responses of circular muscle to field stimulation in vitro were drastically different from those obtained previously in vivo, suggesting damage or altered inputs to circular muscle when strips of circular muscle are studied.


1977 ◽  
Vol 233 (1) ◽  
pp. E28
Author(s):  
S Anuras ◽  
J Christensen ◽  
A R Cooke

The duodenums of opossums and cats were cut into strips 2 mm wide and 2-2.5 cm long. Strips cut in the direction of the oral-caudal axis were called longitudinal strips, and those cut at 90 degrees to that axis were called circular strips. Each muscle strip was stimulated with trains of electrical rectangular pulses (10 Hz, 50-70 V, 0.5 ms). In the longitudinal strips, electrical field stimulation caused contraction, and this contraction was abolished by atropine, 10(-7) M. In the circular strips, electrical field stimulation caused relaxation. This relaxation was abolished by tetrodotoxin, 10(-7) M, but it was not affected by antagonists to adrenergic and cholinergic transmission, nor by some gastrointestinal hormones. Reserpinization of the opossums or alteration of the frequencies of electrical field stimulation from 0.1-50 Hz did not affect or alter the relaxation of the circular strips or the contraction of the longitudinal strips. These findings suggest that the longitudinal muscle is dominated by an excitatory cholinergic innervation, and the circular muscle is dominated by a nonadrenergic, noncholinergic inhibitory innervation.


1989 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 663-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Alberto Maggi ◽  
Riccardo Patacchini ◽  
Paolo Santicioli ◽  
Damiano Turini ◽  
Gabriele Barbanti ◽  
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Open Medicine ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Canda ◽  
Christopher Chapple ◽  
Russ Chess-Williams

AbstractThe aim of the study was to determine pathways involved in contraction and relaxation of the mouse urinary bladder. Mouse bladder strips were set up in gassed Krebs-bicarbonate solution and responses to various drugs and electrical field stimulation were obtained. Isoprenaline (b-receptor agonist) caused a 63% inhibition of carbachol precontracted detrusor (EC50=2nM). Carbachol caused contraction (EC50=0.3µM), responses were antagonised more potently by 4-DAMP (M3-antagonist) than methoctramine (M2-antagonist). Electrical field stimulation caused contraction, which was inhibited by atropine (60%) and less by guanethidine and α,β-methylene-ATP. The neurogenic responses were not potentiated by inhibition of nitric oxide synthase. Presence of an intact urothelium significantly depressed responses to carbachol (p=0.02) and addition of indomethacin and L-NNA to remove prostaglandin and nitric oxide production respectively did not prevent the inhibitory effect of the urothelium. In conclusion, b-receptor agonists cause relaxation and muscarinic agonists cause contraction via the M3-receptor. Acetylcholine is the main neurotransmitter causing contraction while nitric oxide has a minor role. The mouse and human urothelium are similar in releasing a factor that inhibits contraction of the detrusor muscle which is unidentified but is not nitric oxide or a prostaglandin. Therefore, the mouse may be used as a model to study the lower urinary tract.


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