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-TC6 Insulinoma Cells: High Expression of Functional 
34 Nicotinic Receptors Mediating Membrane Potential, Intracellular Calcium, and Insulin Release
Chemical Biology (T.O.) and Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry (M.O., J.W.D.), National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland; Faculty of Pharmacy, Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Musashino University, Tokyo, Japan (M.O., T.O.); and Department of Pharmacology, Georgetown University, School of Medicine, Washington, DC (M.B., Y.X., K.J.K.)
Received May 18, 2005; accepted December 6, 2005
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-TC6 insulinoma cells. Such responses were blocked by the nicotinic antagonist mecamylamine but not by the muscarinic antagonist atropine. Neither the selective 
42 antagonist dihydro--erythroidine nor the selective 7 antagonist methyllycaconitine significantly blocked the nicotine-elicited depolarization or the calcium response. The elevation of intracellular calcium did not occur in calcium-free media, indicating that the increase in intracellular calcium was due to the influx of calcium. The rank order of potency for nicotinic agonists was as follows: epibatidine > nicotine = 3-(azetidinylmethoxy)pyridine (A-85380), cytisine, dimethylphenylpiperazinium (DMPP). Cytisine and DMPP seemed to be partial agonists. The density of nicotinic receptors measured by [3H]epibatidine binding was 7-fold higher in membranes from -TC6 cells than in rat brain membranes. No binding of 125I-A-85380 was detected, indicating the absence of 2-containing receptors. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction analyses indicated the presence of mRNA for 3 and 4 subunits and 2 and 4 subunits in -TC6 cells. The binding and functional data suggest that the major nicotinic receptor is composed of 3 and 4 subunits. The -TC6 cells thus provide a model system for pharmacological study of such nicotinic receptors.
), and there have been extensive efforts to define potent and selective agonists for such subtypes (Bunnelle et al., 2004; Toma et al., 2004; Daly, 2005). Often, multiple subtypes of nicotinic receptors exist in the same cell. Thus, cells that only express one subtype or have been selectively transfected with one subtype represent valuable model systems. The rat pineal gland is one such system, because it expresses the 34 subtype virtually exclusively (Hernandez et al., 2004). The neuromuscular subtype (11
) is expressed in human TE-671 rhabdomyosarcoma cells (Lukas, 1989). The ganglionic subtypes (32* and 34*) are expressed in rat PC-12 pheochromocytoma cells (Avila et al., 2003). Human IMR-32 (Nelson et al., 2001) and human SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells (Dajas-Bailador et al., 2002), express a ganglionic subtype, but the subunit compositions are not known with certainty, because several subunits are expressed in these cells. Mammalian cells, stably transfected with different combinations of and nicotinic subunits, have proven useful for many studies (Whiting et al., 1991; Gopalakrishnan et al., 1996; Stauderman et al., 1998; Wang et al., 1998; Meyer et al., 2001; Eaton et al., 2003; Xiao and Kellar, 2004). However, the properties of receptors in transfected cells may not be fully equivalent to the properties in native systems because of ancillary proteins or other membrane components.
In an effort to define insulinoma cell lines as models for pancreatic islet cells, the effects of carbamylcholine and other agonists on insulin release, membrane potential, and intracellular calcium were investigated with mouse -TC6, hamster HIT-T15, and rat RINm5F cells. Muscarinic agonists are well known to elicit an elevation in calcium and insulin release in pancreatic islets and insulinoma cell lines (Iismaa et al., 2000; Gilon and Henquin, 2001), as was confirmed in preliminary studies with mouse -TC6, hamster HIT-T15, and rat RINm5F cells (data not shown). In contrast, nicotinic agonists have not been reported to have such effects, and none were seen in the hamster and rat cell lines (data not shown). However, in vivo, both nicotine and dimethylphenylpiperazinium (DMPP), apparently through ganglionic activation, can elicit insulin secretion (Karlsson and Ahren, 1988). Nicotine did elicit marked increases in calcium in the mouse -TC6 cell line. Here, we report a detailed study of the effects of cholinergic agonists and antagonists on the mouse -TC6 insulinoma cells. We found that muscarinic (oxotremorine M), nicotinic (nicotine, epibatidine, A-85380, DMPP, and cytisine), and mixed cholinergic (carbamylcholine) agonists elevated intracellular calcium and caused insulin release in these cells. High levels of functional nicotinic receptors with characteristics of the 34 subtype were present. Thus, the -TC6 cells represent a new model system for the study of nicotinic receptors and their involvement in the calcium-dependent release of insulin.
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-erythroidine, methyllycaconitine, atropine, scopolamine, nifedipine, A-85380, SKF 96365, and MRS 1845 were obtained from the Sigma Chemical Co. (St. Louis, MO).
(±)-Epibatidine was from Tocris Cookson Inc. (Ellisville, MO). Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium and RPMI 1640 culture medium, fetal bovine serum, penicillin/streptomycin, trypsin/EDTA, and TRIzol were from Invitrogen (Carlsbad, CA). DNase I was from Ambion (Austin, TX), and bovine serum albumin was from ICN Biochemicals (Irvine, CA). (±)-[3H]Epibatidine, 125I-epibatidine, 125I-A-85380, 125I-bungarotoxin, and [86Rb]rubidium chloride (86Rb+) were supplied by PerkinElmer Life Sciences (Boston, MA). Mouse -TC6 cells and other cell lines were purchased from American Type Culture Collection (Manassas, VA).
Cell Culture. Mouse -TC6 cells were cultured in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium containing 20 mM glucose at 37°C under 5% CO2 condition. The cells were subcultured every week. Cells from passages 30 to 80 were used for all experiments. When the cells had grown to 90 to 95% confluence in a cell culture flask (162 cm2), the cells were stripped from the bottom of the flask by adding trypsin/EDTA solution, and an aliquot of cell suspension was transferred into a new flask filled with new medium.
Membrane Potential. The -TC6 cells were seeded in 96-well plates and cultured for 3 to 4 days. After reaching 90 to 95% confluence (1-2 x 105 cells/well), the cells were washed with Hanks' balanced salt solution/HEPES buffer twice and loaded with the membrane potential kit dye (Molecular Devices Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA) for 60 min at a room temperature in the darkness. The components of Hanks'/HEPES buffer were as follows: 137 mM NaCl, 5.4 mM KCl, 0.34 mM KH2PO4, 1.26 mM CaCl2, 0.5 mM MgCl2, 0.41 mM MgSO4, 0.34 mM Na2HPO4, 5.5 mM D-glucose, and 20 mM HEPES, pH 7.4. Temporal changes in the membrane potential were monitored using a FLEX Station fluorescence microplate reader (Molecular Devices) with excitation at 535 mm and emission at 560 nm and then were calculated as a relative fluorescence intensity based on analyses by SoftMax Pro software (Molecular Devices). Maximum depolarization was elicited with 40 mM KCl as a calibrant at the end of each assay. Data obtained from each well were normalized by use of these maximum values as described previously (Fitch et al., 2003).
Intracellular Calcium. Intracellular calcium measurements with -TC6 cells were carried out essentially as described above for the membrane potential assay, except for the fluorescence dye. The cells were loaded with the calcium ion kit dye (Molecular Devices) in the Hanks'/HEPES buffer for 60 min at room temperature in darkness. Temporal changes in the intracellular calcium concentration were monitored using excitation at 485 nm and emission at 525 nm and were calculated as a relative fluorescence intensity based on analyses by SoftMax Pro software. Maximum calcium ion levels were elicited with 5 µM ionomycin/20 µM FCCP/100 µM carbamylcholine as a calibrant at the end of each assay. Data obtained from each well were normalized by the use of these maximum values as described previously (Fitch et al., 2003).
Insulin Release. After reaching 80 to 90% confluence, mouse -TC6 cells were washed with glucose-free Krebs/HEPES Ringer solution (115 mM NaCl, 24 mM NaHCO3, 5 mM KCl, 1 mM MgCl2, 2.5 mM CaCl2, and 25 mM HEPES, pH 7.4) twice and preincubated at 37°C for 30 min with the glucose-free Krebs/HEPES Ringer solution. After the preincubation, the cells were incubated in the Krebs/HEPES Ringer solution containing 1 mg/ml bovine serum albumin and the indicated concentration of glucose in the presence or absence of test agents. The antagonists and channel blockers were applied 3 min before the addition of nicotine. An aliquot of supernatant was collected for radioimmunoassay. The amount of insulin released was measured with a radioimmunoassay kit (Linco Research, St. Charles, MO).
86Rb+ Efflux Assays. Functional properties of the nicotinic receptors expressed in the -TC6 cells were assessed by measurements of nicotinic agonist-stimulated 86Rb+ efflux, as described previously (Xiao et al., 1998). In brief, aliquots of cells in the selection growth medium were plated into 24-well plates coated with poly(D-lysine). The plated cells were grown in medium at 37°C for 18 to 24 h to reach 70 to 95% of confluence. The cells were then loaded with 86RbCl by incubating them in growth medium (0.5 ml/well) containing 86RbCl (2 µCi/ml) for 4 h at 37°C. The loading mixture was then aspirated, and the cells were washed four times with 1 ml/well HEPES buffer (140 mM NaCl, 2 mM KCl, 1 mM MgSO4, 1.8 mM CaCl2, 11 mM glucose, and 15 mM HEPES, pH 7.4). One milliliter of buffer, with or without agonists, was then added to each well. After incubation for 2 min, the assay buffer was collected, and the amount of 86Rb+ efflux into the buffer was determined. Cells were then lysed by adding 1 ml of 100 mM NaOH to each well, and the lysate was collected for determination of the amount of 86Rb+ in the cells at the end of the efflux assay. Radioactivity of the assay buffer samples and lysates was measured by liquid scintillation counting. The total amount of 86Rb+ loaded was calculated as the sum of the 86Rb+ in the assay buffer sample and in the lysate of each well. The amount of 86Rb+ efflux was expressed as a percentage of total 86Rb+ loaded. Agonist-stimulated 86Rb+ efflux was defined as the difference between efflux in the presence of nicotinic agonists and basal efflux measured in the absence of agonists. Nonlinear regression analyses and statistical analyses were performed using Prism 3 software (GraphPad Software, San Diego, CA).
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) with minor modifications. In brief, cultured cells at >80% confluence were removed from their flasks (80 cm2) with a disposable cell scraper and placed in 10 ml of 50 mM Tris-HCl buffer, pH 7.4, at 4°C. The cell suspension was centrifuged at 1000g for 5 min, and the pellet was collected. The cell pellet was then homogenized in 10 ml of buffer with a Brinkmann polytron homogenizer (model PT2100, 12 mm generator, 26,000 rpm, 20 s; Brinkmann Instruments, Westbury, NY) and centrifuged at 36,000g for 10 min at 4°C. The membrane pellet was resuspended in fresh Tris buffer, and aliquots of the membrane preparation equivalent to 30 to 200 µg of protein were used for binding assays. Membrane preparations were incubated with [3H]epibatidine for 4 h at 24°C. The volumes for saturation and competition binding assays were 1 and 0.5 ml/tube, respectively. Nonspecific binding was assessed in parallel incubations in the presence of 300 µM nicotine. Bound and free ligands were separated by vacuum filtration through Whatman GF/C filters treated with 0.5% polyethylenimine (Whatman, Clifton, NJ). The filter-retained radioactivity was measured by liquid scintillation counting. Specific binding was defined as the difference between total binding and nonspecific binding. Data from saturation and competition binding assays were analyzed by nonlinear least-squares regressions using Prism 3 software.
RT-PCR. The total RNA of -TC6 cells (1 x 108 cells) was extracted with TRIzol, precipitated with isopropyl alcohol, and then treated with DNase I. One microgram of RNA was reverse-transcribed to cDNA using a GeneAMP RNA PCR kit (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA) and then amplified by PCR with 30 cycles. The oligonucleotide primers for nicotinic subunits 3, 4, 2, 3, and 4 and for -actin (internal control) were synthesized commercially (Bioserve Biotechnology, Laurel, MD), according to sequences used previously for nicotinic subunits (Kuo et al., 2002) and for -actin (Knaack et al., 1994). These primer sequences were as follows: nicotinic subunit 3: sense, 5'-TGGGGATTTCCAAGTGGA-3'; antisense, 5'-CATGACCCTGGGGAGAAGGTT-3'; nicotinic subunit 4: sense, 5'-GAATGTCACCTCCATCCGCATC-3'; antisense, 5'-CCGGCA(A/G)TTGTC(C/T)TTGACCAC-3'; nicotinic subunit 2: sense, 5'-CTCCAACTCTATGGCGCTGCT-3'; antisense, 5'-GAGCGGAACTTCATGGTGCAG-3'; nicotinic subunit 3: sense, 5'-CTCCTCAGACATTTGTTCCAAGG-3'; antisense, 5'-AATGAGGTCAACCATGGT-3; nicotinic subunit 4: sense, 5'-TCTGGTTGCCTGACATCGTG-3';antisense, 5'-GGGTTCACAAAGTACATGGA-3'; and -actin: sense, 5'-GATGACGATATCGCTGCGCTGGTCGTC-3'; antisense, 5'-GACCCTCAGGGCATCGGAACCGCTCG-3'. Annealing temperatures for nicotinic subunits 3, 4, 2, 3, and 4, and for -actin in PCR were 52, 53, 62, 49, 52, and 65°C, respectively. A portion of the PCR products were separated on a 1.5% agarose gel containing ethidium bromide (67 ng/ml) by electrophoresis. Possible contamination of genomic DNA was assessed by performing the RT-PCR in the absence of a reverse transcriptase.
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-TC6 cells (Fig. 1). A higher concentration of 100 µM did not elicit a greater depolarization, whereas 1 µM had only a slight effect.
Nicotine at a threshold concentration of approximately 10 µM elicited an increase of calcium in -TC6 cells, and this calcium response reached a maximum at 100 µM nicotine (Fig. 2, A and B). The response to 100 µM nicotine was virtually eliminated by the nicotinic blocker mecamylamine at a concentration of 10 µM but was unaffected by a high concentration (10 µM) of the muscarinic antagonist atropine (Fig. 2, C and D). The IC50 value for mecamylamine was approximately 3 µM (data not shown). The elevation of intracellular calcium elicited by 100 µM nicotine was dependent on the presence of extracellular calcium. There was no significant nicotine response in the absence of calcium, whereas the response was nearly maximal at 1.26 mM calcium compared with 10 mM calcium (data not shown).
The selective 42 antagonist dihydro--erythroidine at 10 µM and the selective 7 antagonist methyllycaconitine at 10 µM did not significantly block either nicotine-elicited membrane depolarization or the elevation of intracellular calcium (Fig. 3). Both responses were nearly completely blocked by 10 µM mecamylamine.
The calcium response to nicotine was partially blocked by a high concentration (10 µM) of the L-type calcium channel blocker nifedipine (Fig. 4) and by 10 µM concentrations of the calcium release-activated calcium-channel blockers SKF 96365 and MRS 1845 (data not shown). Nifedipine at such a high concentration can block nicotinic receptor channels (Donnelly-Roberts et al., 1995). However, at a 1 µM concentration that should effectively block L-type calcium channels but have little effect on nicotinic channels, nifedipine still partially inhibited the response to 100 µM nicotine (Fig. 4).
The muscarinic agonist oxotremorine M at 10 µM caused a calcium response similar to that elicited by 10 µM nicotine, and a combination of nicotine with oxotremorine M caused only a marginally greater response than oxotremorine M or nicotine alone (Fig. 5). A prior nicotine stimulation greatly reduced the response to a subsequent addition of nicotine (Fig. 6), as has been shown previously for human embryonic kidney 293 cells expressing nicotinic receptor subunits (Fitch et al., 2003). In contrast, a prior stimulation with nicotine had only a slight inhibitory effect on the elevation of calcium elicited by oxotremorine M, whereas the response to carbamylcholine was significantly reduced (Fig. 6).
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Other nicotinic agonists also elicited an increase in intracellular calcium in -TC6 cells (Table 1). Epibatidine, with an EC50 of approximately 20 nM, was the most potent. Nicotine, cytisine, A-85380, and DMPP were approximately 1000-fold less potent with EC50 values of 15 to 22 µM. Relative to nicotine, only epibatidine and A-85380 seemed to be full agonists.
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Functional Responses: Rubidium Efflux. Both (-)-nicotine and (±)-epibatidine evoked a modest concentration-dependent efflux of 86Rb+ from -TC6 cells preloaded with that radioisotope (Fig. 7A) with EC50 values of 17 µM and 38 nM, respectively. A maximal efflux of approximately 3-fold over the basal efflux was elicited by both drugs. The nicotine-stimulated efflux of 86Rb+ was blocked by mecamylamine in a concentration-dependent manner with an IC50 of approximately 2 µM (Fig. 7B). The potencies of these agents were consistent with the potencies reported at 34 nicotinic receptors (Xiao et al., 1998; Meyer et al., 2001).
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-TC6 cells (Fig. 8). A threshold effect occurred at a nicotine concentration of 10 µM. These results were obtained in media with a physiological concentration (5.5 mM) of glucose. In the absence of glucose, basal release of insulin was greatly decreased, and even 100 µM nicotine had no effect (Fig. 8). The absence of extracellular calcium also prevented any response to 100 µM nicotine (data not shown). In the presence of a high concentration (16.7 mM) of glucose, even 100 µM nicotine had no significant effect (Fig. 8). The glucose-elicited release of insulin in -TC6 cells appeared near maximal at 1.3 mM glucose (Fig. 8), unlike pancreatic B cells, in which glucose levels near 15 mM are required for a maximal response. A prior report with -TC6 cells indicated that the maximal release of insulin occurred at approximately 3 mM glucose (Poitout et al., 1995).
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Expression of mRNA for Nicotinic Receptor Subunits. Analysis of expression of mRNA for subunits of nicotinic receptors in -TC6 cells indicated that there was significant expression of 3, 4, 2, and 4 mRNAs (Fig. 9). Thereafter, the expression of 5 mRNA was detected, whereas mRNAs for 2, 6, and 7 were not detected (data not shown).
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-TC6 cells. The nonspecific binding was linear and was less than 20% of the specific binding throughout the [3H]epibatidine concentration range used. The Kd value for [3H]epibatidine was 
150 pM, which is only slightly higher than the Kd value reported for rat 34 nicotinic receptors (100 pM) of rat pineal gland (Hernandez et al., 2004). The density of [3H]epibatidine binding sites in -TC6 cell membrane homogenates was 250 fmol/mg of protein. Thus, the density was approximately 4-fold higher than that reported for rat forebrain membranes (Xiao et al., 1998). There was no significant binding of 125I-A-85380 to membranes of -TC6 cells (data not shown), indicating the absence of 2-containing receptors. There was only very low binding of 125I-bungarotoxin (data not shown), indicating the near absence of 7 nicotinic receptors.
Representative binding curves for four nicotinic agonists competing against 500 pM [3H]epibatidine are shown in Fig. 10. The Ki values of acetylcholine, (-)-nicotine, (-)-cytisine, and A-85380 were 400, 320, 140, and 27 nM, respectively. Compared with affinities of these ligands at six heterologously expressed nicotinic receptor subtypes (Xiao and Kellar, 2004), the binding properties of the sites in mouse -TC6 cell membrane homogenates were most similar to those reported for the rat 34 nicotinic receptors (Parker et al., 1998; Xiao and Kellar, 2004).
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-TC6 insulinoma cell line provides a model system in which binding to a nicotinic receptor, nicotine-elicited membrane depolarization, and nicotine-elicited increase in intracellular calcium can be investigated. The functional responses to nicotine were inhibited by the nicotinic antagonist mecamylamine, but were not significantly affected by the muscarinic antagonist atropine. Other nicotinic agonists also elicited increases in intracellular calcium, and the relative potencies of epibatidine > nicotine 
cytisine, A-83850, and DMPP were similar to the rank order of potencies found in other studies with these agonists at 34 receptors (see below).
Influx of calcium seemed essential for nicotine-elicited insulin release, because it did not occur in calcium-free media. There was an inhibitory effect of the L-type calcium-channel blocker nifedipine, even at a low concentration of 1 µM, on the nicotine-elicited elevation of calcium and on nicotine-elicited release of insulin. Thus, the effect of nicotine on membrane potential may lead to the opening of voltage-sensitive calcium channels. It should be noted that nifedipine at micromolar concentrations does have activity as a noncompetitive blocker of nicotinic channels (Donnelly-Roberts et al., 1995).
The subtype composition of the nicotinic receptors in -TC6 cells that mediate increases in intracellular calcium and insulin release has not been rigorously determined. Functional data on calcium increases demonstrated that cytisine and DMPP were nearly equipotent with nicotine and that A-83850 was many-fold less potent than epibatidine (Table 1). Such data demonstrate that the functional receptor in these cells is not a neuronal 42 receptor. The binding results with [3H]epibatidine demonstrated high levels (250 fmol/mg of protein) of nicotinic receptors with high affinity (Kd 150 pM) for this radioligand in -TC6 membranes. The Ki values for the four nicotinic agonists, derived from the binding competition studies, are consistent with those expected of an 34 subtype, as were the calcium response data. The lack of significant binding of [3H]A-85380 indicates the absence of 2-containing receptors, despite the expression of 2 mRNA. The very low binding of 125I-bungarotoxin indicates that 7 receptors were not highly expressed, if at all. Taken together, the functional and binding data indicate that the receptors in -TC6 cells are most likely of the 34 subtype. The RT-PCR data on expression of mRNA confirm the presence of 3 and 4 subunits. However, mRNA for 4 and 2 subunits also was present. This raises the question of whether 4 and 2 subunits form small populations of receptors that go undetected in our assays. It should be noted that there is another tumor cell line, namely the human IMR-32 neuroblastoma, that seems to contain mainly 34 receptors (Nelson et al., 2001). Levels of 34 receptors are much lower in such cells than in -TC6 cells, and there is no functional release process to assess.
The -TC6 insulinoma cells seem to represent an atypical insulinoma cell line, because two other insulinoma cell lines, namely HIT-T15 and RINm5F, did not express detectable levels of nicotinic receptors as assayed with 125I-epibatidine (data not shown). In addition, nicotine did not elicit elevation of calcium or insulin release in those cells (data not shown). Membranes of mouse pancreatic islets also did not have detectable levels of nicotine receptors (data not shown). However, 100 µM nicotine did elicit a slight increase in intracellular calcium in mouse pancreatic islets in three independent experiments (data not shown). A recent study reported that nicotine had marginal inhibitory effects on insulin release in rat and human islet cells (Yoshikawa et al., 2005). Specific binding of [3H]nicotine to intact islets or to insulinoma INS-1 cells was reported to be very low (50-80 dpm/islet), as was binding of 125I--bungarotoxin (20 dpm/islet). RT-PCR data on total RNA indicated that 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 2 nicotinic subunits were expressed in the INS-1 cells.
An insulinoma cell that provides an adequate model for the pancreatic cells of islets has not yet been found (Hohmeier and Newgard, 2004). The -TC6 cells will not serve this purpose, because an increase in intracellular calcium and insulin release did not occur when media glucose increased from 5.5 to 16.7 mM. However, increasing glucose from 0 to 5.5 mM did increase insulin release by approximately 4-fold. A clonal -TC6-F7 cell line has been reported to be glucose-sensitive with respect to the release of insulin (Knaack et al., 1994). It is not known whether that cell line retains nicotinic responses.
In summary, the -TC6 cells provide an excellent model system to study expression, binding, and function of presumed 34 nicotinic receptors. Further studies of the involvement of nicotinic and muscarinic effects on membrane potential, calcium levels, and insulin release in mouse -TC6 insulinoma cells should provide further insights.
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ABBREVIATIONS: DMPP, dimethylphenylpiperazinium; A-85380, 3-(azetidinylmethoxy)pyridine; FCCP, carbonylcyanide 4-(trifluoromethoxy)phenylhydrazone; MLA, methyllycaconitine; MRS 1845, N-propargylnitrendipine; PCR, polymerase chain reaction; RT-PCR, reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; SKF 96365, 1-[-(3-(4-methoxy-phenyl)propoxy)-4-methoxyphenethyl]1H-imidazole.
Address correspondence to: Dr. John W. Daly, Building 8, Room 1A17, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-0820. E-mail: jdaly{at}nih.gov
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