TABLE I

Reversal Potentials of 5-HT–induced Currents in HEK293 Cells Expressing either Wild Type or Truncated 5-HT3A Receptors Are Similar following Reduction of the Bath Solution NaCl Concentration

Extracellular Buffera
E2
E3
E4
 mV   
5-HT3A 2 ± 0.7 −15 ± 0.4 −32 ± 0.5 
5-HT3A-glvM3M4 −1 ± 1.5 −12 ± 2.5 −36 ± 4.5 
Na+ Nernst potentialb −1 −18 −34 
Cl Nernst potentialb 0.3 18 34 
Extracellular Buffera
E2
E3
E4
 mV   
5-HT3A 2 ± 0.7 −15 ± 0.4 −32 ± 0.5 
5-HT3A-glvM3M4 −1 ± 1.5 −12 ± 2.5 −36 ± 4.5 
Na+ Nernst potentialb −1 −18 −34 
Cl Nernst potentialb 0.3 18 34 
a

Extracellular buffer composition defined in Materials and methods.

b

Theoretical reversal potential calculated from the Nernst Equation for an ideally selective channel.

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