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Biophysical Journal 16: 433-439 (1976)
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Local anesthetic alteration of miniature endplate currents and endplate current fluctuations.

R L Ruff

ABSTRACT

The effect of the local anesthetic QX222 on the kinetics of miniature endplate currents and acetylcholine induced endplate current fluctuations was studied in voltage clamped cutaneous pectoris muscle of Rana pipiens. Both the endplate current fluctuation spectra and the miniature endplate current decay consisted of two or three components depending upon the holding potential and local anesthetic concentration. The cutoff frequency of each spectral component was equal to the decay rate of its corresponding constituent of the miniature endplate current. Comparison of the relative amplitudes of the spectral and miniature endplate components indicated that QX222 did not act by creating two kinetically distinct populations of acetylcholine receptors. QX222 action could be explained by alteration of the acetylcholine receptors such that they sequentially change conformation form one open state to another. A specific case in which QX222 binds to the open state of the acetyl-choline receptor creating a blocked state, was found to account for the observed relationship between the relative amplitudes of the miniature endplate current and spectral components, as well as the previously observed voltage and concentration sensitivity of the decay rates of endplate current components.




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