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PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS   Vol. 78 No. 3 July 1998, pp. 811-920
Copyright ©1998 The American Physiological Society

Physiological Features of Visceral Smooth Muscle Cells, With Special Reference to Receptors and Ion Channels

H. KURIYAMA, K. KITAMURA, T. ITOH, AND R. INOUE

Seinan Jogakuin University, Kitakyushu, Kokura-Kita, Fukuoka; Chugai Pharmaceutical 1-135, Komakado, Gotemba, Shizuoka; Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka; Department of Pharmacology, Fukuoka Dental College, Fukuoka; and Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan

Kuriyama, H., K. Kitamura, T. Itoh, and R. Inoue. Physiological Features of Visceral Smooth Muscle Cells, With Special Reference to Receptors and Ion Channels. Physiol. Rev. 78: 811-920, 1998. --- Visceral smooth muscle cells (VSMC) play an essential role, through changes in their contraction-relaxation cycle, in the maintenance of homeostasis in biological systems. The features of these cells differ markedly by tissue and by species; moreover, there are often regional differences within a given tissue. The biophysical features used to investigate ion channels in VSMC have progressed from the original extracellular recording methods (large electrode, single or double sucrose gap methods), to the intracellular (microelectrode) recording method, and then to methods for recording from membrane fractions (patch-clamp, including cell-attached patch-clamp, methods). Remarkable advances are now being made thanks to the application of these more modern biophysical procedures and to the development of techniques in molecular biology. Even so, we still have much to learn about the physiological features of these channels and about their contribution to the activity of both cell and tissue. In this review, we take a detailed look at ion channels in VSMC and at receptor-operated ion channels in particular; we look at their interaction with the contraction-relaxation cycle in individual VSMC and especially at the way in which their activity is related to Ca2+ movements and Ca2+ homeostasis in the cell. In sections II and III, we discuss research findings mainly derived from the use of the microelectrode, although we also introduce work done using the patch-clamp procedure. These sections cover work on the electrical activity of VSMC membranes (sect. II) and on neuromuscular transmission (sect. III). In sections IV and V, we discuss work done, using the patch-clamp procedure, on individual ion channels (Na+, Ca2+, K+, and Cl-; sect. IV) and on various types of receptor-operated ion channels (with or without coupled GTP-binding proteins and voltage dependent and independent; sect. V). In sect. VI, we look at work done on the role of Ca2+ in VSMC using the patch-clamp procedure, biochemical procedures, measurements of Ca2+ transients, and Ca2+ sensitivity of contractile proteins of VSMC. We discuss the way in which Ca2+ mobilization occurs after membrane activation (Ca2+ influx and efflux through the surface membrane, Ca2+ release from and uptake into the sarcoplasmic reticulum, and dynamic changes in Ca2+ within the cytosol). In this article, we make only limited reference to vascular smooth muscle research, since we reviewed the features of ion channels in vascular tissues only recently.




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