Abstract
Multiunit canine tracheal smooth muscle responded to carbachol with graded depolarization and tonic contraction. The same concentration of carbachol, after metabolic depletion by substrate removal, produced rhythmic contractions and action potentials. Similar mechanical effects were also observed with acetylcholine or histamine. These effects were reversed by reintroducing glucose or beta-hydroxybutyrate, but not by 3-O-methylglucose, which is not metabolized; hence, the structural requirements for glucose, per se, or any osmotic effect were ruled out. Sensitivity to extracellular Ca2+ was increased. A Ca2+-influx blocker, D-600, in low concentration (2 X 10(-8) M) abolished the rhythmic contractions without affecting the tonic contraction. Progressive metabolic depletion in presence of carbachol led to fluctuations in membrane potential with a crest of depolarization and appearance of action potentials, each of which resulted in a small contraction. Many of the small contractions partially fused to form the major rhythmic contractions which appeared at a frequency of one per minute. Rhythmicity could not be produced by increasing extracellular K+ concentration (20-120 mM) in presence of atropine (13(-7) M), but instead a tonic contraction occurred. These results suggest changes in excitation-contraction coupling mechanism with agonists like acetylcholine, carbachol, or histamine during substrate deprivation.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
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