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Received April 18, 2002
Accepted after revision July 3, 2002
1 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
The mechanisms underlying the response of airway afferent nerves to low pH were investigated in an isolated guinea-pig airway nerve preparation. Extracellular recordings were made from single jugular or nodose vagal ganglion neurons that projected their sensory fibers to the airways. The airway tissue containing the mechanically sensitive receptive fields was exposed to acidic solutions. Rapid and transient (~3 s) administration of 1 mM citric acid to the receptive field consistently induced action potential discharge in nociceptive C-fibers (41/44) and nodose A
fibres (29/30) that are rapidly adapting low threshold mechanosensors (RAR-like fibres). In contrast, citric acid activated only 8/17 high threshold mechanosensitive jugular A fibres. The RAR-like fibres were slightly more sensitive than C-fibres to acidic solutions (pH threshold > 6.7). The RAR-like fibres response to the ~3 s acid treatment was not affected by a VR1 antagonist capsazepine (10 µM) and was rapidly inactivating (action potential discharge terminated before the acid administration was completed). Gradual reduction of pH did not activate the RAR-like fibres even when the pH was reduced to ~5.0. The C-fibres responded to the gradual reduction of pH with persistent action potential discharge that was nearly abolished by capsazepine (10 µM) and inhibited by over 70 % with another VR1 antagonist iodo-resiniferatoxin (I-RTX; 1 µM). In contrast, the C-fibre response to the transient ~3 s exposure to pH ~5.0 was not affected by the VR1 antagonists. We conclude that activation of guinea-pig airway afferents by low pH is mediated by both slowly and rapidly inactivating mechanisms. We hypothesize that the slowly inactivating mechanism, present in C-fibres but not in RAR-like fibres, is mediated by VR1. The rapidly inactivating mechanism acts independently of VR1, has characteristics similar to acid sensing ion channels (ASICs) and is found in the airway terminals of both C-fibres and RAR-like fibres.
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