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  • Title: The effects of muscarine and atropine reveal that inhibitory autoreceptors are present on frog motor nerve terminals but are not activated during transmission.
    Author: Arenson MS.
    Journal: Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol; 1991 Feb; 343(2):128-33. PubMed ID: 1648671.
    Abstract:
    The role of presynaptic muscarinic receptors in modulating neuromuscular transmission was studied in the isolated sartorius muscle of the frog using electrophysiological techniques. In low calcium solutions muscarine reduced mEPP frequency and the quantal of EPPs. In solutions containing the normal calcium concentration the effect of muscarine on quantal content, but not the effect on mEPP frequency, was somewhat attenuated. Muscarine-induced reductions in the parameters of ACh release were prevented by atropine. Irrespective of the calcium concentration, atropine had no effect on mEPP frequency except where fibres were pretreated with glycerol. In experiments where evoked acetylcholine release was maintained at physiologically relevant levels, atropine had no effect on the quantal content of EPPs evoked at low frequency or on the extent of rundown in trains of EPPs evoked at high frequency.
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