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Effect of Noradrenaline on the Kinetics of Evoked Acetylcholine Secretion in Mouse Neuromuscular Junction

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In contrast to frog neuromuscular synapses, where noradrenaline (norepinephrine) and its analogues caused synchronization of the acetylcholine release process, in mouse diaphragm endplates noradrenaline increased the degree of asynchrony of neurosecretion. The effect of noradrenaline on release timing persisted at different levels of external calcium ions (0.25–2.0 mM) and was abolished in presence of both α- and β‑adrenoblockers phentolamine and propranolol. The computer reconstruction of multiquantal endplate currents accounting for experimentally observed modification of release kinetics under noradrenaline showed that the rise time of postsynaptic response changes to a greater extent than the amplitude and falling phase of the multiquantal responses. We conclude that there exists a principal difference in the action of noradrenaline in the cholinergic neuromuscular synapses of warm-blooded and cold-blooded animals that can be accounted for by the differences in the type of adrenoreceptors involved in the modulation of synaptic transmission and/or in the involvement of distinct intracellular pathways triggered by receptor activation.

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The authors thank Dr. Victor Ilyin for critical reading and helpful comments on the manuscript. The work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 18-15-00046).

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  1. Kazan Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, FRC Kazan Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 30420111, Kazan, Russia

    A. N. Tsentsevitsky, I. V. Kovyazina & E. A. Bukharaeva

  2. Kazan Medical University, 420012, Kazan, Russia

    E. E. Nikolsky

  3. Kazan Federal University, 420008, Kazan, Russia

    E. E. Nikolsky

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Tsentsevitsky, A.N., Kovyazina, I.V., Bukharaeva, E.A. et al. Effect of Noradrenaline on the Kinetics of Evoked Acetylcholine Secretion in Mouse Neuromuscular Junction. Biochem. Moscow Suppl. Ser. A 12, 327–332 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1990747818070012

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