Protein Information

Name somatostatin
Synonyms Growth hormone release inhibiting factor; SMST; SST; Somatostatin; Somatostatin precursor; Somatostatins; Somatostatin precursors

Compound Information

Name 4-aminopyridine
CAS 4-pyridinamine

Reference List

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11243423 Murray F, Bell D, Kelso EJ, Millar BC, McDermott BJ: Positive and negative contractile effects of somatostatin-14 on rat ventricular cardiomyocytes. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol. 2001 Mar;37(3):324-32.

In the presence of 4-aminopyridine (500 microM), somatostatin-14 stimulated a positive contractile response (EC50 = 118 fM) that was attenuated markedly by diltiazem (100 nM).
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17324523 Galarraga E, Vilchis C, Tkatch T, Salgado H, Tecuapetla F, Perez-Rosello T, Perez-Garci E, Hernandez-Echeagaray E, Surmeier DJ, Bargas J: Somatostatinergic modulation of firing pattern and calcium-activated potassium currents in medium spiny neostriatal neurons. Neuroscience. 2007 May 11;146(2):537-54. Epub 2007 Feb 26.


Somatostatin is synthesized and released by aspiny GABAergic interneurons of the neostriatum, some of them identified as low threshold spike generating neurons (LTS-interneurons).
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19440689 Braun M, Ramracheya R, Amisten S, Bengtsson M, Moritoh Y, Zhang Q, Johnson PR, Rorsman P: Somatostatin release, electrical activity, membrane currents and exocytosis in human pancreatic delta cells. Diabetologia. 2009 Aug;52(8):1566-78. Epub 2009 May 14.

Delta cells contained a tolbutamide-insensitive, Ba (2+)-sensitive inwardly rectifying K (+) current and two types of voltage-gated K (+) currents, sensitive to tetraethylammonium/stromatoxin (delayed rectifying, Kv2.1/2.2) and 4-aminopyridine (A current).
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18665350 Ristori C, Cammalleri M, Martini D, Pavan B, Liu Y, Casini G, Dal Monte M, Bagnoli P: Involvement of the cAMP-dependent pathway in the reduction of epileptiform bursting caused by somatostatin in the mouse hippocampus. Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol. 2008 Dec;378(6):563-77. Epub 2008 Jul 30.

Using a well-established model of epileptiform activity induced by Mg (2+)-free medium with 4-aminopyridine [0 Mg (2+)/4-aminopyridine (4-AP)] in mouse hippocampal slices, we demonstrated that protein kinase A (PKA)-related signaling is upregulated by hippocampal bursting and that treatment with SRIF normalizes this upregulation.
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17706880 Takeda M, Kadoi J, Takahashi M, Nasu M, Matsumoto S: Somatostatin inhibits the excitability of rat small-diameter trigeminal ganglion neurons that innervate nasal mucosa and project to the upper cervical dorsal horn via activation of somatostatin 2a receptor. Neuroscience. 2007 Sep 7;148(3):744-56. Epub 2007 Jul 17.

In the presence of both 4-aminopyridine (6 mM) and tetraethylammonium (10 mM), no significant changes in the membrane potential in response to SST application were found.
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15548214 Cammalleri M, Cervia D, Langenegger D, Liu Y, Dal Monte M, Hoyer D, Bagnoli P: Somatostatin receptors differentially affect spontaneous epileptiform activity in mouse hippocampal slices. Eur J Neurosci. 2004 Nov;20(10):2711-21.

Recordings of epileptiform discharge induced by Mg2+ -free medium with 4-aminopyridine were performed from the CA3 region before and after the application of SRIF compounds.
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18329054 Ristori C, Cammalleri M, Martini D, Pavan B, Casini G, Cervia D, Bagnoli P: The cyclooxygenase-2/prostaglandin E2 pathway is involved in the somatostatin-induced decrease of epileptiform bursting in the mouse hippocampus. Neuropharmacology. 2008 Apr;54(5):874-84. Epub 2008 Feb 3.

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11790809 Lien CC, Martina M, Schultz JH, Ehmke H, Jonas P: Gating, modulation and subunit composition of voltage-gated K (+) channels in dendritic inhibitory interneurones of rat hippocampus. J Physiol. 2002 Jan 15;538(Pt 2):405-19.

We examined functional and molecular properties of K (+) channels in interneurones with horizontal dendrites in stratum oriens-alveus (OA) of the hippocampal CA1 region, which mainly comprise somatostatin-positive dendritic inhibitory cells.
Voltage-gated K (+) currents in nucleated patches isolated from OA interneurones consisted of three major components: a fast delayed rectifier K (+) current component that was highly sensitive to external 4-aminopyridine (4-AP) and tetraethylammonium (TEA) (half-maximal inhibitory concentrations < 0.1 mM for both blockers), a slow delayed rectifier K (+) current component that was sensitive to high concentrations of TEA, but insensitive to 4-AP, and a rapidly inactivating A-type K (+) current component that was blocked by high concentrations of 4-AP, but resistant to TEA.
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