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Neuroscience

Volume 46, Issue 3, February 1992, Pages 549-559
Neuroscience

Tachykinins and calcitonin gene-related peptide as co-transmitters in local motor responses produced by sensory nerve activation in the guinea-pig isolated renal pelvis

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Abstract

Electrical field stimulation of circular muscle strips from the guinea-pig isolated renal pelvis produces a frequency-dependent positive inotropic effect of the spontaneous contractions which is unaffected by atropine and guanethidine and abolished by tetrodotoxin orin vitro capsaicin densensitization. Omega conotoxin fraction GVIA markedly inhibited the response to low frequencies of stimulation but had only a partial or minor inhibitory effect at higher frequencies. Tachykinins produce a concentration-dependent positive inotropic effect, neurokinin A being more potent than substance P. On the other hand, rat alpha calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) inhibited spontaneous contractions of the renal pelvis. MEN 10,376 a neurokinin A (4–10) analog, antagonized the positive inotropism produced by neurokinin A, without affecting the response to KCl, and suppressed the positive inotropic response produced by electrical field stimulation. In the presence of MEN 10,376, a negative inotropic response was produced by electrical field stimulation which was antagonized by the C-terminal fragment (8–37) of human alpha calcitonin gene-related peptide (hCGRP). hCGRP (8– 37) antagonized the negative inotropic effect of exogenously administered CGRP without affecting inhibition by isoprenaline. Application of capsaicin (10 μM) produced a marked increase in the outflow of substance P-, neurokinin A- and CGRP-like immunoreactivities from the superfused guinea-pig renal pelvis. Substance P-, neurokinin Aand CGRP-like immunoreactivities were also detected in tissue extracts of the renal pelvis by radioimmunoassay.

These experiments indicate that peptide release from peripheral endings of capsaicin-sensitive primary afferents represents the major type of nerve-mediated response affecting motility of the guinea-pig isolated renal pelvis. Tachykinins and CGRP act as physiological antagonists and the excitatory action of tachykinins prevails over the inhibitory action of CGRP. Local modulation of renal pelvis motility by sensory nerves could facilitate removal of irritants present in the urine, protecting the kidney during obstruction and ureteral antiperistalsis.

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