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12450565

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-11-26
pubmed:abstractText
To evaluate whether pregnenolone sulfate, an abundant neurosteroid in the brain, modulates nicotinic receptor-mediated responses, the effect of pregnenolone sulfate on acetylcholine-induced catecholamine secretion was investigated in cultured bovine adrenal chromaffin cells. Pregnenolone sulfate inhibited acetylcholine-induced catecholamine secretion (IC(50): 27 microM). In addition, pregnenolone sulfate inhibited acetylcholine-induced Na(+) (IC(50): 12 microM) and Ca(2+) (IC(50): 20 microM) influxes. However, pregnenolone sulfate did not inhibit either catecholamine secretion or Ca(2+) influx stimulated by high K(+). Binding of [3H]nicotine to nicotinic receptors was not altered by pregnenolone sulfate. The inhibitory effect on the acetylcholine-induced secretion was insurmountable by increasing acetylcholine concentrations, but was enhanced by decreasing external Na(+) concentrations. These results suggest strongly that pregnenolone sulfate noncompetitively inhibits nicotinic receptor-operated ion channels, thereby suppressing Na(+) influx through the channels and, consequently, attenuates both Ca(2+) influx and catecholamine secretion. Our results further indicate that pregnenolone sulfate may modulate nicotinic receptor-mediated responses in the brain.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:author
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
19-27
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:articleTitle
Inhibition by pregnenolone sulfate of nicotinic acetylcholine response in adrenal chromaffin cells.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan. kenzkudo@iwate-med.ac.jp