Abstract
The patch-clamp technique was applied to the antiluminal membrane of freshly isolated capillaries of rat brain (blood-brain barrier). With 1.3 mM Ca 2+ in the bath, excision of membrane patches evoked ion channels, which could not be observed in cell-attached mode. The channel was about equally permeable to Na + and K + ions, but not measurable permeable to Cl − and and the single-channels conductance was 31 + 2 pS ( n = 22). The channel open probability was not dependent on the applied potential. Lowering of Ca 2+ to 1 μM or below on the cytosolic side inactivated the channels, whereas addition of cytosolic ATP (1 mM) inhibited channel activity completely and reversibly. The channel was blocked by the inhibitor of nonselective cation channels in rat exocrine pancreas 3′,5-dichlorodiphenylamine-2-car☐ylic acid (DCDPC, 10 μM) and by the antiinflammatory drugs flufenamic acid (> 10 μM) and tenidap (100 μM), as well as by gadolinium (10 μM). Thus, these nonselective cation channels have many properties in common with similar channels observed in fluid secreting epithelia. The channel could be involved in the transport of K + ions from brain to blood side.
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