Abstract
Abstract: Tricaine mesylate, also known as MS-222, was investigated to characterize its effects on sensory neurons, synaptic transmission at the neuromuscular junction, and heart rate in invertebrates. Three species were examined: Drosophila melanogaster, blue crab (Callinectes sapidus), and red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii). Intracellular measures of action potentials in motor neurons of the crayfish demonstrated that MS-222 dampened the amplitude, suggesting that voltage-gated Na + channels are blocked by MS-222. This is likely the mechanism behind the reduced activity measured in sensory neurons and depressed synaptic transmission in all three species as well as reduced cardiac function in the larval Drosophila. To address public access to data, a group effort was used for analysis of given data sets, blind to the experimental design, to gauge analytical accuracy. The determination of a threshold in analysis for measuring extracellular recorded sensory events is critical and is not easily performed with commercial software. Graphic abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
Original language | English |
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Article number | 10 |
Journal | Invertebrate Neuroscience |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 1 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Funded by Dept. of Biology, Univ. of KY. and by an Institutional Development Award (IDeA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under grant number P20GM103436 (R.A.)
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
Keywords
- Anesthetics
- Cardiac
- Crustacean
- Insect
- Invertebrate
- MS-222
- Neuromuscular
- Sensory
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Developmental Neuroscience
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience