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Department of Chemical Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Japan.
1. Ionic currents underlying the action potential were recorded from enzymatically isolated smooth muscle cells of guinea-pig ureter. 2. The action potential recorded from a single cell was similar to that from a multicellular preparation. It showed repetitive spikes on a plateau potential which followed the first spike. Treatment with 10 mM-tetraethylammonium (TEA) increased the amplitude and duration of the plateau phase and abolished the repetitive spikes. 3. Under voltage clamp mode, at least two (maybe three) kinds of outward currents were activated during depolarizing pulses. The main outward current was Ca2+-dependent K+ current (IK(Ca], which was mostly blocked in Ca2+-free solution, or by application of 1 mM-cadmium (Cd2+) or 2 mM-tetraethylammonium (TEA). IK(Ca) was greatly decreased by treatment with 5 mM-caffeine or an addition of 10 mM-EGTA in a pipette solution. 4. In the presence of 1 mM-Cd2+ and 2 mM-TEA, a small transient outward current remained. 4-Aminopyridine (1 mM) suppressed the transient outward current by about 40%. Time- and voltage-dependent delayed rectifier outward currents were small in ureter cells. An inwardly rectifying K+ current was not detected. 5. An application of 1 mM-Cd2+, 5 mM-cobalt (Co2+), 1 mM-lanthanum (La3+) or 0.1 microM-nifedipine completely blocked the action potential. Replacement of 80-90% of extracellular Na+ with Li+ or Tris almost abolished the plateau potential and repetitive spikes but did not change significantly the first spike. 6. In the presence of 30 mM-TEA, the inward current elicited by depolarization was monophasic and lasted for more than 1 s. Application of 1 mM-Cd2+, 1 mM-La3+, 0.1 microM-nifedipine, or 5 mM-Co2+ completely blocked inward current. The replacement (87%) of extracellular Na+ ions with Li+, Tris, sucrose or TEA speeded up the decay of inward current; the inward current decreased by 10-60% at the end of a 500 ms pulse. 7. Even in low-Na+ solution (120 mM-TEA), the inactivation of ICa had a quite slow component (tau = 1 s), in addition to another faster component (tau = 100 ms) at 0 mV. When short depolarizing clamp pulses (50 ms) were repetitively applied at short intervals (50 ms) and with interpulse voltage of -10 or -20 mV to mimic the repetitive spikes on the plateau of the action potential, the decline of peak Ca2+ current during the train of pulses was smaller than the decay of Ca2+ current during a long pulse.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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