Journal article
Impaired neuromuscular transmission during partial inhibition of acetycholinest‐erase: The of stimulus‐induced antiromic backfiring in the generation of the decrement–increment phenomenon
Muscle & nerve, Vol.15(10), pp.1072-1080
10/1992
DOI: 10.1002/mus.880151003
PMID: 1328879
Abstract
Neuromusuclar transmission was studied in the rat phrenic nerve–hemidiaphragm preparation with acetylcholinesterase (AChE) partially inactivated. Enzyme inhibition resulted in (1) increased single‐twitch tension of the diaphragm; (2) compound muscle action potential (CMAP) containing repetitive discharges; (3) stimulus‐induced antidromic backfiring (SIAB) seen in the phrenic nerve; and (4) repetitive nerve stimulation (RNS) eliciting a decrement—increment (D‐I) phenomenon (i.e., amplitude reduction maximal with the second CMAP). Using a high‐calcium and low‐magnesium solution, SIAB and the decrement of the second CMAP during RNS were intensified, whereas closely spaced trains and (+)‐tubocurarine (TC) abolished SIAB and simultaneously prevented the decrement of the second CMAP. Importantly, low concentrations of (+)‐TC prevented SIAB in the phrenic nerve, while the repetitive discharges of the CMAP and the increase in twitch tension remained unaffected. This observation suggests that preterminal nicotinic receptors stimulated by released acetylcholine induce SIAB, whereas postsynaptic events are less important in the generation of SIAB. SIAB, a presynaptic event, appears to be responsible for the transient impairment of the neuromuscular transmission, i.e., the D‐I phenomenon.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Impaired neuromuscular transmission during partial inhibition of acetycholinest‐erase: The of stimulus‐induced antiromic backfiring in the generation of the decrement–increment phenomenon
- Creators
- Roland BesserThomas VogtLudwig GutmannHanns C HopfIgnaz Wessler
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Muscle & nerve, Vol.15(10), pp.1072-1080
- Publisher
- Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company; Hoboken
- DOI
- 10.1002/mus.880151003
- PMID
- 1328879
- ISSN
- 0148-639X
- eISSN
- 1097-4598
- Number of pages
- 9
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/1992
- Academic Unit
- Neurology
- Record Identifier
- 9984020502502771
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