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Phenothiazines and haloperidol block Ca-activated K channels in rat forebrain synaptosomes

CG Benishin, BK Krueger and MP Blaustein

Department of Physiology, University of Maryland, Baltimore 21201.

Ca-dependent, K-stimulated 86Rb efflux, a measure of Ca-activated K conductance in rat brain synaptosomes, was blocked by phenothiazines and haloperidol. Micromolar concentrations of the phenothiazines, fluphenazine and trifluoperazine, and haloperidol, a non-phenothiazine antipsychotic and calmodulin antagonist, selectively inhibited the Ca- activated K channels. The IC50 values of all three agents for inhibition of the Ca-activated K channels was on the order of 0.5-1 microM. Measurements of K-stimulated 45Ca uptake indicated that the effects of these agents on Ca-activated K channels was not due to inhibition of Ca influx through voltage-gated Ca channels. Sulpiride, a potent antipsychotic with weak anti-calmodulin activity, was a relatively weak inhibitor of Ca-activated K channels. Calmidazolium (compound R-24571) and W7, two non-phenothiazine calmodulin antagonists, did not selectively inhibit Ca-activated K channels. Biphasic dose response curves for inhibition of the Ca-dependent, K- stimulated 86Rb efflux by the phenothiazines raise the possibility that there may be two kinds of Ca-activated K channels in rat brain presynaptic terminals, with different sensitivities to the phenothiazines. These results demonstrate that two phenothiazines and haloperidol are potent and relatively selective inhibitors of Ca- activated K channels in nerve endings. This inhibition does not appear to be mediated by calmodulin or by dopamine receptors.

Volume 33, Issue 2, pp. 195-201, 02/01/1988
Copyright © 1988 by American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics




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