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{"title":"Differences in TRPC3 and TRPC6 channels assembly in mesenteric vascular smooth muscle cells in essential hypertension","authors":"I. Álvarez‐Miguel, P. Cidad, M. Pérez-García, J. López-López","doi":"10.1113/JP273327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1113/JP273327","url":null,"abstract":"Canonical transient receptor potential (TRPC)3 and TRPC6 channels of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) mediate stretch‐ or agonist‐induced cationic fluxes, contributing to membrane potential and vascular tone. Native TRPC3/C6 channels can form homo‐ or heterotetrameric complexes, which can hinder individual TRPC channel properties. The possibility that the differences in their association pattern may change their contribution to vascular tone in hypertension is unexplored. Functional characterization of heterologously expressed channels showed that TRPC6‐containing complexes exhibited Pyr3/Pyr10‐sensitive currents, whereas TRPC3‐mediated currents were blocked by anti‐TRPC3 antibodies. VSMCs from hypertensive (blood pressure high; BPH) mice have larger cationic basal currents insensitive to Pyr10 and sensitive to anti‐TRPC3 antibodies. Consistently, myography studies showed a larger Pyr3/10‐induced vasodilatation in BPN (blood pressure normal) mesenteric arteries. We conclude that the increased TRPC3 channel expression in BPH VSMCs leads to changes in TRPC3/C6 heteromultimeric assembly, with a higher TRPC3 channel contribution favouring depolarization of hypertensive VSMCs.","PeriodicalId":22512,"journal":{"name":"The Japanese journal of physiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73026278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Diet‐induced dysmotility and neuropathy in the gut precedes endotoxaemia and metabolic syndrome: the chicken and the egg revisited","authors":"Yvonne Nyavor, O. Balemba","doi":"10.1113/JP273888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1113/JP273888","url":null,"abstract":"Neuropathy of the enteric nervous system (ENS) is one of the major underlying causes of debilitating gastrointestinal (GI) motility disorders in diabetic patients. Recent studies suggest that diet–microbiome–host interactions – in particular, excess dietary calories, microbial metabolites, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and disrupted mucosal barrier – play a fundamental role in the pathobiology of obesity and type II diabetes (Boulangé et al. 2016). Furthermore, the composition of the GI microbiome influences ENS physiology, neurochemistry and nerve cell health, as well as GI motility patterns, and vice versa (Kashyap et al. 2013). However, links between such interactions and the mechanisms underlying this neuropathy are not fully understood. In this issue of The Journal of Physiology, Reichardt et al. (2017) address the question of whether ingesting a Western diet (WD) rich in saturated fatty acids and the associated alteration to the gut microbiome disrupts motility, and induces loss of nitrergic myenteric neurons (NMNs), the phenotype that is commonly damaged in diabetic neuropathy (Yarandi & Srinivasan, 2014). The rationale is that most studies have used a high fat diet (HFD; 60–72% kcal from fat), leading to little understanding of how a normal WD affects GI motility, the ENS and their role in the pathobiology of the metabolic syndrome and diabetes. The authors used C57BL/6 mice fed WD (35% kcal from fat, enriched in palmitate) or a regular diet (RD, 16.9% kcal from fat, 4× less palmitate) for 3, 6, 9 and 12 weeks, and TLR4 and germ free mice fed WD and RD diets for 6 weeks. Gastrointestinal motility was measured, and damage to myenteric neurons and NMNs was studied in the ileum and proximal colon. Palmitateand LPS-induced damage to NMNs and the role of nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) in such injury were determined in vitro using immortalized myenteric neurons. Faecal metabolites, systemic and visceral fat and mucosal inflammation were analysed. After ingesting WD for 6 weeks, mice were ‘overweight’, developed gut microbiota dysbiosis, altered faecal metabolites, increased intraluminal LPS and increased plasma free fatty acid (FFA) levels. Interestingly, unlike HFD, WD did not elicit hyperglycaemia, endotoxaemia and inflammation, suggesting the need to define key differences between the effect of HFD and WD on gut microbiome and metabolic profiles. Another important observation was that WD caused GI dysmotility before","PeriodicalId":22512,"journal":{"name":"The Japanese journal of physiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80765163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"When angiogenesis is not good enough.","authors":"Walter Murfee","doi":"10.1113/JP273786","DOIUrl":"10.1113/JP273786","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22512,"journal":{"name":"The Japanese journal of physiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5330920/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79004946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How and why are calcium currents curtailed in the skeletal muscle voltage‐gated calcium channels?","authors":"B. Flucher, Petronel Tuluc","doi":"10.1113/JP273423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1113/JP273423","url":null,"abstract":"Voltage‐gated calcium channels represent the sole mechanism converting electrical signals of excitable cells into cellular functions such as contraction, secretion and gene regulation. Specific voltage‐sensing domains detect changes in membrane potential and control channel gating. Calcium ions entering through the channel function as second messengers regulating cell functions, with the exception of skeletal muscle, where CaV1.1 essentially does not function as a channel but activates calcium release from intracellular stores. It has long been known that calcium currents are dispensable for skeletal muscle contraction. However, the questions as to how and why the channel function of CaV1.1 is curtailed remained obscure until the recent discovery of a developmental CaV1.1 splice variant with normal channel functions. This discovery provided new means to study the molecular mechanisms regulating the channel gating and led to the understanding that in skeletal muscle, calcium currents need to be restricted to allow proper regulation of fibre type specification and to prevent mitochondrial damage.","PeriodicalId":22512,"journal":{"name":"The Japanese journal of physiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89026084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tracking motor units longitudinally across experimental sessions with high‐density surface electromyography","authors":"E. Martinez‐Valdes, F. Negro, Christopher M. Laine, Deborah Falla, Frank Mayer, Dario Farina, Dario Farina","doi":"10.1113/JP273662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1113/JP273662","url":null,"abstract":"Classic motor unit (MU) recording and analysis methods do not allow the same MUs to be tracked across different experimental sessions, and therefore, there is limited experimental evidence on the adjustments in MU properties following training or during the progression of neuromuscular disorders. We propose a new processing method to track the same MUs across experimental sessions (separated by weeks) by using high‐density surface electromyography. The application of the proposed method in two experiments showed that individual MUs can be identified reliably in measurements separated by weeks and that changes in properties of the tracked MUs across experimental sessions can be identified with high sensitivity. These results indicate that the behaviour and properties of the same MUs can be monitored across multiple testing sessions. The proposed method opens new possibilities in the understanding of adjustments in motor unit properties due to training interventions or the progression of pathologies.","PeriodicalId":22512,"journal":{"name":"The Japanese journal of physiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86696060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Acute and chronic effects of noradrenergic enhancement on transcranial direct current stimulation-induced neuroplasticity in humans.","authors":"Hsiao-I Kuo, Walter Paulus, Giorgi Batsikadze, Asif Jamil, Min-Fang Kuo, Michael A Nitsche","doi":"10.1113/JP273137","DOIUrl":"10.1113/JP273137","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Key points: </strong>Chronic administration of the selective noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor (NRI) reboxetine (RBX) increased and prolonged the long-term potentiation-like plasticity induced by anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for over 24 h. Chronic administration of RBX converted cathodal tDCS-induced long-term depression-like plasticity into facilitation for 120 min. Chronic noradrenergic activity enhancement on plasticity of the human brain might partially explain the delayed therapeutic impact of selective NRIs in depression and other neuropsychiatric diseases.</p><p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Noradrenaline affects cognition and motor learning processes via its impact on long-term potentiation (LTP) and depression (LTD). We aimed to explore the impact of single dose and chronic administration of the selective noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor (NRI) reboxetine (RBX) on plasticity induced by transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in healthy humans via a double-blinded, placebo-controlled, randomized crossover study. Sixteen healthy volunteers received placebo or single dose RBX (8 mg) before anodal or cathodal tDCS of the primary motor cortex. Afterwards, the same subjects took RBX (8 mg day^-1 ) consecutively for 21 days. During this period, two additional interventions were performed (RBX with anodal or cathodal tDCS), to explore the impact of chronic RBX treatment on plasticity. Plasticity was monitored by motor-evoked potential amplitudes elicited by transcranial magnetic stimulation. Chronic administration of RBX increased and prolonged the LTP-like plasticity induced by anodal tDCS for over 24 h. Chronic RBX significantly converted cathodal tDCS-induced LTD-like plasticity into facilitation, as compared to the single dose condition, for 120 min after stimulation. The results show a prominent impact of chronic noradrenergic enhancement on plasticity of the human brain that might partially explain the delayed therapeutic impact of selective NRIs in depression and other neuropsychiatric diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":22512,"journal":{"name":"The Japanese journal of physiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5309376/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76863698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Synaptic vesicle pool‐specific modification of neurotransmitter release by intravesicular free radical generation","authors":"Olusoji A. T. Afuwape, Catherine R. Wasser, T. Schikorski, E. Kavalali","doi":"10.1113/JP273115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1113/JP273115","url":null,"abstract":"Synaptic transmission is mediated by the release of neurotransmitters from synaptic vesicles in response to stimulation or through the spontaneous fusion of a synaptic vesicle with the presynaptic plasma membrane. There is growing evidence that synaptic vesicles undergoing spontaneous fusion versus those fusing in response to stimuli are functionally distinct. In this study, we acutely probe the effects of intravesicular free radical generation on synaptic vesicles that fuse spontaneously or in response to stimuli. By targeting vesicles that preferentially release spontaneously, we can dissociate the effects of intravesicular free radical generation on spontaneous neurotransmission from evoked neurotransmission and vice versa. Taken together, these results further advance our knowledge of the synapse and the nature of the different synaptic vesicle pools mediating neurotransmission.","PeriodicalId":22512,"journal":{"name":"The Japanese journal of physiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83425656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"High resolution three‐dimensional reconstruction of fibrotic skeletal muscle extracellular matrix","authors":"Allison R Gillies, Mark A. Chapman, E. Bushong, T. Deerinck, Mark Ellisman, R. Lieber","doi":"10.1113/JP273376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1113/JP273376","url":null,"abstract":"Fibrosis occurs secondary to many skeletal muscle diseases and injuries, and can alter muscle function. It is unknown how collagen, the most abundant extracellular structural protein, alters its organization during fibrosis. Quantitative and qualitative high‐magnification electron microscopy shows that collagen is organized into perimysial cables which increase in number in a model of fibrosis, and cables have unique interactions with collagen‐producing cells. Fibrotic muscles are stiffer and have a higher concentration of collagen‐producing cells. These results improve our understanding of the organization of fibrotic skeletal muscle extracellular matrix and identify novel structures that might be targeted by antifibrotic therapy.","PeriodicalId":22512,"journal":{"name":"The Japanese journal of physiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86585737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of postural change from supine to head‐up tilt on the skin sympathetic nerve activity component synchronised with the cardiac cycle in warmed men","authors":"Yu Ogawa, Y. Kamijo, S. Ikegawa, S. Masuki, H. Nose","doi":"10.1113/JP273281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1113/JP273281","url":null,"abstract":"Humans are unique in controlling body temperature in a hot environment by a large amount of skin blood flow; however, the decrease in total peripheral resistance due to systemic cutaneous vasodilatation and the reduction of venous return to the heart due to blood pooling in the cutaneous vein threatens blood pressure maintenance in the upright position, and occasionally causes heat syncope. Against this condition, cutaneous vasodilatation is reportedly suppressed to maintain arterial pressure; however, the nerve activity responsible for this phenomenon has not been identified. In the present study, we found that the skin sympathetic nerve activity component that was synchronised with the cardiac cycle increased in hyperthermia, but the increase was suppressed when the posture was changed from supine to head‐up tilt. The profile of the component agreed with that of cutaneous vasodilatation. Thus, the component might contribute to the prevention of heat syncope in humans.","PeriodicalId":22512,"journal":{"name":"The Japanese journal of physiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91284874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effect of maternal position on fetal behavioural state and heart rate variability in healthy late gestation pregnancy","authors":"P. Stone, Wendy Burgess, Jordan P R McIntyre, A. Gunn, Christopher A. Lear, L. Bennet, E. Mitchell, J. Thompson","doi":"10.1113/JP273201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1113/JP273201","url":null,"abstract":"Fetal behavioural state in healthy late gestation pregnancy is affected by maternal position. Fetal state 1F is more likely to occur in maternal supine or right lateral positions. Fetal state 4F is less likely to occur when the woman lies supine or semi‐recumbent. Fetal state change is more likely when the woman is supine or semi‐recumbent. Fetal heart rate variability is affected by maternal position with variability reduced in supine and semi‐recumbent positions.","PeriodicalId":22512,"journal":{"name":"The Japanese journal of physiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86072429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}