AJP - Renal Physiology, Vol 271, Issue 2 382-F390, Copyright © 1996 by American Physiological Society

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Cholinergic agonists increase phosphoinositide metabolism and cell calcium in isolated rat renal proximal tubule

P. Meneton, M. Imbert-Teboul, M. Bloch-Faure and R. M. Rajerison
Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale Unite 367, Paris, France.

The intracellular signaling involved in cholinergic modulation of renal proximal tubule functions has not been addressed. We report that acetylcholine and carbachol increase the production of inositol phosphates and the intracellular calcium concentration in rat proximal tubule. Muscarinic M3 receptors are involved, given the inhibitory effects of selective antagonists (4-diphenylacetoxy-N-methylpiperidine > > pirenzepine > methoctramine). The muscarinic response is absent in the early part of proximal straight tubule. The response is smaller and more variable in proximal convoluted tubule segments selected at random from cortical tubule suspensions than in the early part of proximal convoluted tubule. This contrasts with the norepinephrine response, which has almost the same magnitude all along the proximal tubule. We conclude that cholinergic agonists activate muscarinic M3 receptors in proximal tubule and that there is a decreasing response gradient from the early convoluted tubule to the early straight tubule.

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