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Ureña, J. López López, José Ramón González Martínez, Constancio López Barneo, José 2017-07-26T08:42:06Z 2017-07-26T08:42:06Z 1989 Journal of General Physiology, 1989, vol. 93. p. 979-999 0022-1295 http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/24724 10.1085/jgp.93.5.979 979 999 Journal of General Physiology 93 Ionic currents of enzymatically dispersed type 1 and type 11 cells of the carotid body have been studied using the whole cell variant of the patch-clamp technique. Type 11 cells only have a tiny, slowly activating outward potassium cur­ rent. By contrast, in every type 1 chemoreceptor cell studied we found (a) sodium, (b) calcium, and (e) potassium currents. (a) The sodium current has a fast activation time course and an activation threshold at --40 mV. At ali voltages inactivation follows a single exponential time course. The time constant of inactivation is 0.67 ms at O mV. Half steady state inactivation occurs at a membrane potential of --50 mV. (b) The calcium current is almost totally abolished when most of the extemal calcium is replaced by magnesium. The activation threshold of this cur­ rent is at --40 mV and at O mV it reaches a peak amplitude in 6-8 ms. The calcium current inactivates very slowly and only decreases to 27% of the maximal value at the end of 300-ms pulses to 40 mV. The calcium current was about two times larger when barium ions were used as charge carriers instead of calcium ions. Barium ions also shifted 15-20 mV toward negative voltages the conductance vs. voltage curve. Deactivation kinetics of the calcium current follows a biphasic time course well fitted by the sum of two exponentials. At -80 mV the slow com­ ponent has a time constant of 1.3 ± 0.4 ms whereas the fast component, with an amplitude about 20 times larger than the slow component, has a time constant of 0.16 ± 0.03 ms. These results suggest that type 1 cells have predominantly fast deactivating calcium channels. The slow component of the tails may represent the activity of a small population of slowly deactivating calcium channels, although other possibilities are considered. (e) Potassium current seems to be mainly due to the activity of voltage-dependent potassium channels, but a small percentage of calcium-activated channels may also exist. This current activates slowly, reaches a peak amplitude in 5-1O ms, and thereafter slowly inactivates. Inactivation is almost complete in 250-300 ms. The potassium current is reversibly blocked by tetraeth­ ylammonium. Under current-clamp conditions type I cells can spontaneously fire large action potentials. eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ © 1989 The Rockefeller University Press Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Ionic currents in dispersed chemoreceptor cells of the mammalian carotid body info:eu-repo/semantics/article