Secretion of noradrenaline from large dense-core vesicles in chromaffin cells involves both rapid and slow components of exocytosis which are differentially sensitive to changes in external calcium, osmotic pressure and interruption of the interacting SNARE proteins. Electrical signs of secretion of ATP from sympathetic nerve terminals of mouse vas deferens, the excitatory junctional currents (EJCs), also indicate both rapid and slow mechanisms of exocytosis, which might also show such differential sensitivity. We report here that the large and fast EJCs are highly sensitive to changes in extracellular calcium ions whereas the small and slow EJCs are not. Furthermore, the frequency of fast EJCs is accelerated by hypotonic solutions whereas the slow EJCs are accelerated by hypertonic solution. Fast EJCs, but not slow EJCs, are blocked by peptide fragments of alpha-SNAP and syntaxin whereas slow EJCs are not. These observations point to two classes of exocytosis from sympathetic nerve terminals that parallel those of exocytosis from chromaffin cells.
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