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Vasorelaxation and hyperpolarisation of rat small mesenteric artery by the quaternary anion tetraphenylboron

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posted on 2024-11-01, 07:32 authored by Joanne Favaloro, Grant McPherson
This study characterises the vasorelaxation and hyperpolarisation effects of the negatively charged quaternary compound tetraphenylboron (TPB) in the rat small mesenteric artery. Segments of rat small mesenteric artery were mounted in a myograph and vessel tone and membrane potential were measured simultaneously. In vessels pre-contracted with vasopressin (0.3-0.6 nM), U46619 (30-90 nM) or methoxamine (0.3-3 µM), TPB (0.1-100 µM) produced a marked endothelium-independent relaxation. However, vasorelaxation responses to TPB were abolished in tissues pre-contracted with K+ (50 mM), and significantly inhibited by glibenclamide (glib, 10 µM). In the absence of tone, TPB (1-30 µM) caused a concentration- dependent membrane hyperpolarisation of rat mesenteric artery smooth muscle cells, which was not dependent on the endothelium, but sensitive to glibenclamide (10 µM). In methoxamine (0.3-3 µM) pre-contracted vessels, the relaxation response was associated with a marked hyperpolarisation, which was also sensitive to glibenclamide (10 µM), further inhibited by a combination of K+ channel blockers (glib [10 µM], charybdotoxin [100 nM], apamin [100 nM], 4-aminopyridine [1 mM] and Ba2+ [30 µM]) and abolished by 50mM K+. The results of this study show that TPB causes a vasorelaxation and hyperpolarisation response in the rat small mesenteric artery through a direct action on the vascular smooth muscle. TPB exerts its effects partially via the activation of KATP channels, but also by another mechanism involving K+-dependent hyperpolarisation.

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Journal

Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology

Volume

369

Issue

4

Start page

367

End page

373

Total pages

7

Publisher

Springer Berlin / Heidelberg

Place published

Germany

Language

English

Copyright

© Springer-Verlag 2004

Former Identifier

2006017225

Esploro creation date

2020-06-22

Fedora creation date

2010-11-19

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