AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, Vol 256, Issue 1 246-G253, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Involvement of substance P in noncholinergic excitation of rabbit colonic muscle

C. B. Koelbel, E. A. Mayer, J. R. Reeve Jr, W. J. Snape Jr, A. Patel and F. J. Ho
Department of Gastroenterology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance.

Neurokinins have been implicated as noncholinergic excitatory neurotransmitters in the mammalian gastrointestinal tract. To characterize the myogenic and neurogenic response of colonic muscle to neurokinins we studied the mechanical response of muscle strips from proximal and distal colon and the release of [3H]acetylcholine in response to substance P (SP), neurokinin A (NKA) and neurokinin B (NKB). All neurokinins caused a dose-dependent inotropic response. SP was 80 times more potent in distal compared with proximal longitudinal muscle. The rank order of potencies in proximal longitudinal muscle was NKA greater than SP = NKB and in distal muscle NKA = SP = NKB. Desensitization to SP or pretreatment with a SP antagonist inhibited the mechanical response to SP and the atropine-resistant inotropic off response to electrical stimulation. Only longitudinal muscle from distal colon had an atropine- and hexamethonium-sensitive inotropic component to SP. In contrast, all three peptides were equipotent in releasing [3H]acetylcholine from longitudinal muscle strips preincubated with [3H]choline. These results suggest the following: 1) SP is a potent agonist of rabbit colon with a proximal distal gradient in biological potency; 2) the myogenic response of the distal colon appears to be mediated through a NK-1 receptor; and 3) SP is a major mediator of the noncholinergic component of the off response in distal longitudinal muscle.

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