Nitric oxide selectively suppresses IH currents mediated by HCN1‐containing channels

C. Kopp‐Scheinpflug,B. Pigott,I. Forsythe

Published 2015 in Journal of Physiology

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The superior olivary complex (SOC) exhibits a spectrum of HCN1 and HCN2 subunit expression, which generate IH currents with fast and slow kinetics, respectively. Neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) was broadly distributed across the SOC. NO hyperpolarizes the half‐activation voltage of HCN1‐mediated currents and caused a slowing of the IH current kinetics in the respective nuclei (medial and lateral superior olives and superior paraolivary nucleus). This signalling was independent of cGMP. NO also caused a depolarizing shift in the half‐activation voltage of HCN2‐mediated IH currents, increasing activation at resting potentials; this was cGMP‐dependent. Thus, NO signalling suppressed fast HCN1‐mediated currents and potentiated slow HCN2‐mediated currents, modulating the overall kinetics and magnitude of the endogenous IH.

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