AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 266, Issue 3 854-H860, Copyright © 1994 by American Physiological Society

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In vivo detection of endogenous acetylcholine release in cat ventricles

T. Akiyama, T. Yamazaki and I. Ninomiya
Department of Cardiac Physiology, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Osaka, Japan.

To detect and monitor endogenous acetylcholine (ACh) release in the in vivo heart, we applied a dialysis technique to the hearts of anesthetized cats. Dialysis probes were implanted in the left ventricular myocardium and were perfused with Krebs-Henseleit solution containing Eserine (10(-4) M) at 3 microliters/min. Dialysate ACh concentration was measured with high-performance liquid chromatography. In four cats, the response to vagal stimulation was studied. Electrical stimulation of efferent vagal nerves (10 Hz) significantly increased dialysate ACh concentration from 596 +/- 118 (control) to 12,210 +/- 1,661 pM. After stimulation, dialysate ACh concentration significantly decreased to 382 +/- 80 pM below control. The influence of ganglionic blocker was determined in six cats. Control vagal nerve stimulation (10 Hz) increased dialysate ACh concentration from 582 +/- 136 to 9,102 +/- 754 pM. Local perfusion of hexamethonium (10(-4) M) did not affect this nerve stimulation-induced ACh increase (8,611 +/- 1,189 pM), and intravenous administration of hexamethonium (20 mg/kg) prevented this increase (340 +/- 88 pM). We examined the response to vagal nerve stimulation at different frequencies in three cats. Vagal nerve stimulation increased dialysate ACh concentration from a control of 588 +/- 211 to 1,227 +/- 195 pM at 2 Hz, 3,946 +/- 1,059 pM at 5 Hz, and 9,366 +/- 1,873 pM at 10 Hz. Dialysate ACh concentration reflects ACh release from postganglionic vagal nerves innervating the left ventricular myocardium; the dialysis technique permits estimation of relative changes in efferent cardiac vagal nerve activity.

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