Non-additive interactions between mitochondrial complex IV blockers and hypoxia in rat carotid body responses.

ABSTRACT: The metabolic hypothesis of carotid body chemoreceptor hypoxia transduction proposes an impairment of ATP production as the signal for activation. We hypothesized that mitochondrial complex IV blockers and hypoxia would act synergistically in exciting afferent nerve activity. Following a pre-treatment with low dosage sodium cyanide (10-20μM), the hypoxia-induced nerve response was significantly reduced along with hypoxia-induced catecholamine release. However, in isolated glomus cells, the intracellular calcium response was enhanced as initially predicted. This suggests a cyanide-mediated impairment in the step between the glomus cell intracellular calcium rise and neurotransmitter release from secretory vesicles. Administration of a PKC blocker largely reversed the inhibitory actions of c

SUBMITTER: Donnelly DF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3849127 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature