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Effects of Hexamethonium and Decamethonium on End-Plate Current Parameters

RICHARD J. MILNE and JOHN H. BYRNE
Molecular Pharmacology March 1981, 19 (2) 276-281;
RICHARD J. MILNE
Departments of Phannacology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
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Abstract

The effects of neuromuscular blocking concentrations of hexamethonium and decamethonium on end-plate current parameters have been studied in frog sartorius nerve-muscle preparations. In the presence of either drug, hyperpolarization of the cell membrane reduces the peak amplitude of the end-plate current despite the increase in driving force. The effect is larger for hexamethonium than for decamethonium. In the presence of decamethonium, hyperpolarization reduces the time to peak of the end-plate current and splits the decay phase into two components, one faster and the other slower than in controls. Similar but less dramatic effects on parameters of end-plate current shape occur in the presence of hexamethonium. For both drugs, the decay of the end-plate current can be fitted by the sum of two exponential functions. Hyperpolarization speeds the initial fast component and slows the subsequent slow component. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that both drugs act in part by direct block of open ion channels.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We are grateful to Drs. J. D. Koester and P. R. Adams for reviewing earlier drafts of the manuscript.

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