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J Physiol Volume 518, Number 3, 721-733, August 1, 1999
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The Journal of Physiology (1999), 518.3, pp. 721-733
© Copyright 1999 The Physiological Society

A study of the voltage dependence of capsaicin-activated membrane currents in rat sensory neurones before and after acute desensitization

A. S. Piper, J. C. Yeats *, S. Bevan * and R. J. Docherty

Department of Pharmacology, Guy's, King's and St Thomas' Schools of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, King's College London, St Thomas' Campus, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7EH and * Novartis Institute for Medical Sciences, 5 Gower Place, London WC1 6BN, UK


Responses to capsaicin in isolated sensory neurones have been shown to desensitize in a Ca2+- and voltage-dependent manner. We have studied desensitization of capsaicin-activated currents in cultured adult rat dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurones over a range of membrane potentials using whole-cell patch-clamp techniques.


Acute desensitization of responses to capsaicin (0·5 µM) was significantly less when the holding potential (Vh) was +40 mV rather than -60 mV. This was not due only to reduced Ca2+ entry as the response to capsaicin was desensitized by the same amount whether prior exposure to capsaicin was at -60 or +40 mV. The I-V relationship for capsaicin-induced current, determined using a voltage step protocol, was outwardly rectifying and during the acute phase of desensitization the degree of outward rectification increased.


Acute desensitization and the increase in outward rectification that accompanied desensitization were inhibited when cells were dialysed with the rapid Ca2+ chelator BAPTA. Addition of a pseudosubstrate inhibitor of the Ca2+-calmodulin-dependent enzyme calcineurin (CI, 100 µM) prevented the increase in outward rectification although it did not cause a significant decrease of acute desensitization.


Removal of external Ca2+ or Mg2+ did not reverse the increase in outward rectification of capsaicin-activated current after Ca2+-dependent desensitization had occurred. This indicates that a voltage-dependent block of the capsaicin-activated ion channel by Ca2+ or Mg2+ was not responsible for the observed changes in the properties of the capsaicin-activated conductance.


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