The molluscan neuropeptide FMRF-amide (10 to 50 microM) decreases the duration of the Ca2+-dependent action potential recorded in the cell body of identified neurons of the snail Helix aspersa (cells D3 and E2). In these neurons, FMRF-amide evokes a decrease of the Ca2+ current resulting from a decrease in Ca2+ conductance. In another single neuron, cell E11, FMRF-amide, besides evoking a decrease of the Ca2+ conductance, induces a decrease of the S-current (Klein, M., J. S. Camardo, and E. R. Kandel (1982) Proc. Natl. Acad Sci. U. S. A. 79: 5713-5717), a K+ current controlled by cyclic AMP. However, in this E11 cell, FMRF-amide also evokes a decrease of the amplitude of the Ca2+ spike plateau. As discussed in the preceding paper (Paupardin-Tritsch, D., L. Colombaioni, P. Deterre, and H. M. Gerschenfeld (1985) J. Neurosci. 5: 2522-2532), it is suggested that these FRMF-amide-induced modulations of ionic conductances involved in the Ca2+-dependent spike recorded in these neuronal somata may intervene in processes of presynaptic inhibition and facilitation.
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Colombaioni et al. (1985) studied this question.