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Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 269: C250-C256, 1995;
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AJP - Cell Physiology, Vol 269, Issue 1 C250-C256, Copyright © 1995 by American Physiological Society

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Effect of Prozac on whole cell ionic currents in lens and corneal epithelia

J. L. Rae, A. Rich, A. C. Zamudio and O. A. Candia
Department of Physiology, Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA.

Prozac (fluoxetine), a compound used therapeutically in humans to combat depression, has substantial effects on ionic conductances in rabbit corneal epithelial cells and in cultured human lens epithelium. In corneal epithelium, it reduces the current due to the large-conductance potassium channels that dominate this preparation. Its effects seem largely to decrease the open probability while leaving the single-channel current amplitude unaltered. In cultured human epithelium, currents from calcium-activated potassium channels and inward rectifiers are unaffected by Prozac. Delayed-rectifier potassium currents are reduced by Prozac in a complicated way that involves both gating and single-channel current amplitude. Fast tetrodotoxin-blockable sodium currents are also decreased by Prozac in this preparation. For all of these ion conductance effects, Prozac concentrations of 10(-5) to 10(-4) M are required. Whereas these levels are 10- to 100-fold higher than the plasma levels achieved in therapeutic use in humans, they are comparable to or less than levels needed for many other blockers of the ionic conductances studied here.


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