“…This is in contrast to the results obtained in the slices of rat cerebral cortex, where K+ or veratrine stimulation of InsP accumulation could be greatly enhanced by physostigmine and where this effect was suppressed by atropine (Kendall and Nahorski, 1987;Baird and Nahorski, 1989). Depolarization has also been shown to stimulate the metabolism of inositol phospholipid in the superior cervical ganglion which, at least in part, can be suppressed by muscarinic receptor antagonists (Pickard et al, 1977;Bone and Michell, 1985). Depolarizing stimuli, such as elevated extracellular K+ or Na+-channel activation, are also known to induce InsP formation in cere-bra1 preparations Nahorski, 1984, 1985;Batty et al, 1985;Candy et al, 1985;Court et al, 1986;Eva and Costa, 1986;Rooney and Nahorski, 1986;Zernig et al, 1986;Gurwitz and Sokolovsky, 1987;Maier and Rutledge, 1987;Weiss et al, 1988;Nahorski, 1989, 1990u,b), synaptoneurosomes (Gusovsky et al, 1986;Gusovsky and Daly, 1988), synaptosomes (Habermann and L u x , 1986;Audigier et al, 1988), ganglia (Bone and Michell, 1985;Briggs et al, 1985), and other tissues, including smooth muscle (Best and Bolton, 1986;Sasaguri and Watson, 1988), pancreatic islets (Biden et al, 1987), andheart (McDonough et al, 1988).…”