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Pertussis toxin inhibits negative inotropic and negative chronotropic muscarinic cholinergic effects on the heart

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We injected rats with pertussis toxin, known to cause ADP ribosylation of the Gi regulatory protein of the adenylate cyclase complex and of another closely related GTP binding protein in the heart, and after 7 days we examined several effects of muscarinic activation on the heart. The negative chronotropic effect of carbamoylcholine on spontaneously beating perfused hearts was conspicuously diminished. While 10−5 mol/l carbamoylcholine invariably produced heart arrest in control rats, the heart rate did not decrease by more than 20% in the toxin-treated rats even when the concentration of carbamoylcholine was raised to 10−2 mol/l. The negative inotropic effect of carbamoylcholine examined on electrically paced ventricles perfused with isoproterenol was reduced, while the maximum positive inotropic effect of isoproterenol was substantially increased after toxin treatment. The inhibitory action of carbamoylcholine on the isoproterenol-stimulated accumulation of cyclic AMP in the heart auricles was attenuated. The weakening by pertussis toxin of the negative inotropic effect of carbamoylcholine is probably mainly due to the ADP ribosylation of the Gi regulatory protein and the subsequent loss of influence of muscarinic receptors on adenylate cyclase. The blockade of the negative chronotropic action of carbamoylcholine by pertussis toxin strongly indicates, together with other recently published evidence, that the Gi or another closely related GTP binding protein in the cardiac pacemaker cells is involved in the coupling of muscarinic receptors to the K+ channels.

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  1. Institute of Physiology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, CS-14220, Prague, Czechoslovakia

    S. Tuček, V. Doležal, J. Folbergrová, F. Kolář & B. Oštádal

  2. Institute of Pharmacology, Charles University Faculty of General Medicine, Albertov 4, CS-12800, Prague, Czechoslovakia

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Tuček, S., Doležal, V., Folbergrová, J. et al. Pertussis toxin inhibits negative inotropic and negative chronotropic muscarinic cholinergic effects on the heart. Pflugers Arch. 408, 167–172 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00581347

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