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HORMONES AND SIGNALING
Program in Neuroscience, Department of Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology, and Physiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-6520
Submitted 21 March 2003 ; accepted in final form 7 August 2003
Patch-clamp electrophysiological methods were used on dissociated rat nodose neurons maintained in culture to determine whether responses to cholecystokinin (CCK) were associated with capsaicin-resistant (A type) or capsaicin-sensitive (C type) neurons. Nodose neurons were classified as A or C type on the basis of the characteristics of the Na+ current, a hyperpolarization-activated current, and sensitivity to a low concentration of capsaicin to ascertain the presence of vanilloid receptor 1 that has been associated with C-type neurons in sensory ganglia. It was expected that only capsaicin-sensitive C-type neurons would respond to CCK, because most vagally mediated actions of CCK are blocked by capsaicin treatment. However, we found that subpopulations of both A- and C-type neurons responded to CCK (24 and 38%, respectively). Thus some vagally mediated actions of CCK may be mediated by capsaicin insensitive A-type neurons.
nodose ganglia; Na+ current; hyperpolarization-activated current; capsaicin
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