AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, Vol 266, Issue 1 132-G139, Copyright © 1994 by American Physiological Society

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Effects of the inflammatory mediator prostaglandin D2 on submucosal neurons and secretion in guinea pig colon

T. Frieling, C. Rupprecht, A. B. Kroese and M. Schemann
Department of Gastroenterology, University of Dusseldorf, Germany.

Conventional flux chamber and intracellular recording methods were used to investigate the mode of action of prostaglandin D2 (PGD2) on ion transport in muscle-stripped segments of guinea pig colon and on colonic submucosal ganglion cells. Application of PGD2 resulted in a dose-dependent increase in short-circuit current that was reduced by serosal addition of bumetanide, tetrodotoxin, atropine, or piroxicam, but not hexamethonium. Application of PGD2 to submucosal neurons evoked a depolarization of the membrane potential that was associated with an enhanced spike discharge. In AH/type 2 neurons, postspike afterhyperpolarizations were reduced in amplitude and duration. The depolarizing responses to PGD2 were not affected by tetrodotoxin, indicative of a direct effect of PGD2 on the impaled neurons. Whereas fast excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) were not affected by PGD2, slow EPSPs were reduced by a presynaptic effect, indicating presynaptic suppression of noncholinergic neurotransmitter release. The study demonstrates that PGD2 acts as a neuromodulator to evoke nerve-mediated chloride secretion, predominantly through activation of cholinergic submucosal neurons. The results further indicate that PGD2 released from lamina propria immune cells during antigenic stimulation may influence mucosal function by altering electrical behavior of submucosal neurons.

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