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The role of calcium ions in modulating serotonin action on acetylcholine (ACh) response in nonidentified and identified (LPa3 and RPa3) neurons ofHelix pomatia was investigated using voltage-clamping at the neuronal membrane. Exposure for 1 min to serotonin prior to ACh application reduced response to ACh in neuron LPa3 and raised it in RPa3. The same two patterns of modulating ACh-induced response were produced by extracellular application of theophylline and dibutyryl c-AMP. Injecting calcium ions into neuron LPa3 led to reinforcement of ACh-induced current in the presence of serotonin, thus changing the pattern of serotonin-induced modulation of ACh response in this unit. In neuron RPa3, the same process enhanced the serotonin-induced modulating effect on ACh response but without changing the pattern of modulation, while injected EDTA produced the reverse effects. Increased intracellular concentration of calcium ions brought about a reduction in the degree of serotonin-induced modulation of ACh response in neuron RPa3. Possible reasons are discussed for changes in serotonin-induced bimodal modulation of ACh response in test neurons produced by altering the extracellular concentration of calcium ions.
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A. A. Bogomolets Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 666–671, September–October, 1988.
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Dyatlov, V.A. Role of calcium ions in processes of serotonin-induced modulation of neuronal response to acetylcholone application in Helix pomatia. Neurophysiology 20, 489–492 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02141416
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02141416