Experiments on frog neuromuscular preparations were performed to study the characteristics of the calcium response and the quantum secretion of acetylcholine in different pats of extended nerve terminals in different conditions of calcium influx. A calcium-sensitive fluorescent dye was used to analyze Ca2+ influx (Ca2+ transients) into the proximal and distal parts of nerve endings in conditions of increased K+ ion content, in response to blockers of N- and L-type calcium channels, and on blockade of calcium-activated potassium channels. These studies showed that at a uniform distribution density of voltage-gated calcium channels along nerve endings, the proximal-to-distal decrement in calcium transients and quantum secretion intensity persisted in conditions of additional opening of voltage-gated calcium channels by potassium depolarization, on “thinning” of these channels using specific blockers, but changed on blockade of calcium-activated potassium channels.
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Translated from Rossiiskii Fiziologicheskii Zhurnal imeni I. M. Sechenova, Vol. 105, No. 10, pp. 1262–1270, October, 2019.
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Khaziev, E.F., Balashova, D.V., Tsentsevitsky, A.N. et al. Calcium Transients and Transmitter Secretion in Different Parts of Frog Nerve Endings in Different Conditions of Calcium Ion Influx. Neurosci Behav Physi 50, 914–919 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11055-020-00985-0
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