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Bennett, M.R. et al.

An electrophysiological analysis of the effects of reserpine on adrenergic neuromuscular transmission.

1 An electrophysiological study has been made of the effects of depleting synaptic vesicles (i.e. small vesicles less than 60 nm diameter) of their transmitter with reserpine on the quantity of transmitter released by nerve impulses, using the amplitude of the synaptic potential as a measure of transmitter release. 2 Pretreatment of adrenergic nerve terminals with reserpine sufficient to deplete the terminals of 70% of their noradrenaline (NA) did not change the total number of synaptic vesicles in the terminals, but did reduce the number with a large granular core as well as the quantity of NA released by a single nerve impulse by 80%. 3 Pretreatment of adrenergic nerve terminals with reserpine and iproniazid, to decrease vesicular NA but enhance cytoplasmic NA, had the same effect on synaptic vesicles and on the NA released by a single nerve impulse as did reserpine alone. 4 During a short train of impulses at high frequencies in reserpine pretreated terminals, the quantity of NA released by successive impulses increased until a steady-state release was reached comparable to that in untreated preparations. This facilitated release could be quantitatively predicted in terms of the addition of the individual potentiations introduced by each impulse in the train. 5 These results are consistent with the idea that each quantum of transmitter is stored in a synaptic vesicle, and that these may be released by nerve impulses directly from the terminal by a process of exocytosis.[1]

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An electrophysiological analysis of the effects of reserpine on adrenergic neuromuscular transmission. Bennett, M.R., Middleton, J. Br. J. Pharmacol. (1975) [Pubmed]

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