Nitric oxide as a nonadrenergic inhibitory transmitter in smooth muscle cells of the guinea pig gastro-intestinal tract: Mechanisms of action

1995 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-91
Author(s):  
V. P. Zagorodnyuk ◽  
A. V. Zima ◽  
I. A. Vladimirova ◽  
M. F. Shuba
Keyword(s):  
Nitric Oxide ◽  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Guinea Pig ◽  
Smooth Muscle Cells ◽  
Intestinal Tract ◽  
Muscle Cells ◽  
Mechanisms Of Action ◽  
Inhibitory Transmitter ◽  
Gastro Intestinal Tract

scholarly journals VIP-induced relaxation of guinea-pig intestinal smooth muscle cells: sequential involvement of cyclic AMP and nitric oxide

1996 ◽  
Vol 118 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moez Rekik ◽  
Michel Delvaux ◽  
Ivan Tack ◽  
Jacques Frexinos ◽  
Lionel Bueno
Keyword(s):  
Nitric Oxide ◽  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Cyclic Amp ◽  
Guinea Pig ◽  
Smooth Muscle Cells ◽  
Muscle Cells ◽  
Intestinal Smooth Muscle

Expression of endothelial nitric oxide synthase in human and rabbit gastrointestinal smooth muscle cells

1998 ◽  
Vol 275 (2) ◽  
pp. G342-G351 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.-Q. Teng ◽  
K. S. Murthy ◽  
J. F. Kuemmerle ◽  
J. R. Grider ◽  
K. Sase ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nitric Oxide ◽  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Guinea Pig ◽  
Smooth Muscle Cells ◽  
Muscle Cells ◽  
Taenia Coli ◽  
Rt Pcr ◽  
Specific Primers ◽  
Gastric Smooth Muscle ◽  
Oxide Synthase

The aim of this study was to identify the nitric oxide synthase (NOS) isoform expressed in freshly dispersed rabbit gastric smooth muscle cells and in cultured rabbit gastric, human intestinal, and guinea pig taenia coli smooth muscle cells. RT-PCR products of the predicted size (354 bp) were obtained with endothelial NOS (eNOS)-specific primers, but not neuronal NOS (nNOS)- or inducible NOS (iNOS)-specific primers, in all smooth muscle preparations except guinea pig taenia coli. Control RT-PCR studies showed absence of the endothelial markers, platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1 (PECAM-1) and vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR), and the interstitial cell marker, c- kit, from cultures of smooth muscle cells. Cloning and sequence analysis showed that the predicted amino acid sequence (117 residues) in rabbit and human smooth muscle cells differed by only one residue from that of human eNOS. Northern blot analysis, using the PCR-generated and cloned eNOS cDNA from rabbits and humans as probes, demonstrated the expression of eNOS mRNA (4.4 kb) in both species. eNOS, but not nNOS or iNOS, transcripts were localized by in situ RT-PCR in single, freshly dispersed rabbit gastric smooth muscle cells; expression was evident in the majority of cells in each preparation. We conclude that eNOS is selectively expressed in rabbit gastric and human intestinal smooth muscle cells. The results confirm functional evidence for the existence of a constitutive NOS in smooth muscle cells of the gut in different species, except for guinea pig taenia coli.

scholarly journals Mechanisms of regulation electric and contractile activity smooth muscle cells: the role of cytoskeleton

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-37
Author(s):  
M. A. Medvedev ◽  
M. B. Baskakov ◽  
S. V. Gusakova ◽  
I. V. Kovalyov ◽  
O. S. Melnik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Guinea Pig ◽  
Smooth Muscle Cells ◽  
Contractile Activity ◽  
Smooth Muscles ◽  
Muscle Cells ◽  
Mechanisms Of Action ◽  
Electric Stimulus ◽  
Cytochalasine B

The influence of modulation of cytoskeleton by colchicine, vinblastine, cytochalasine B and docetaxel on contractile reactions of smooth muscle cells caused by electric stimulus, depolarization, phenylephrine has been investigated by the mechanographical method, by the methods of the double sucrose gup junction. It is established, that induced by a isoosmotic hyperpotassium solution of reduction of smooth muscle of the rat’s aorta, and also caused depolarization stimulus potentials of action and reductions smooth muscle cells from guinea pig urethra, depend more on the condition of microfilaments cytoskeleton than on microtubules. The reduction of smooth muscles cells of an aorta of the rat, caused by isoosmotic striction, is suppressed under the destruction microfilaments whereas the reduction in a hyperosmotic solution depends on a condition of both microfilaments, and microtubules. Cytoskeleton’s microfilaments of aorta’s smooth muscles and microtubules of smooth muscles of cells ureter are involved in mechanisms of action phenylephrine’s action on contractile activity of smooth muscle cells of an aorta and ureter.

Thrombin Prevents the Expression of Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells by a Proteolytically-Activated Thrombin Receptor

1995 ◽  
Vol 74 (03) ◽  
pp. 980-986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valérie B Schini-Kerth ◽  
Beate Fißithaler ◽  
Thomas T Andersen ◽  
John W Fenton ◽  
Paul M Vanhoutte ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nitric Oxide ◽  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Vascular Smooth Muscle ◽  
Smooth Muscle Cells ◽  
Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells ◽  
Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase ◽  
Muscle Cells ◽  
Thrombin Receptor ◽  
Oxide Synthase ◽  
Inducible Nitric Oxide

SummaryProteolytically active forms of thrombin (α- and γ-thrombin) and thrombin receptor peptides inhibited the release of nitrite, a stable endproduct of nitric oxide, evoked by interleukin-1 β(IL-1 β) in cultured vascular smooth muscle cells while proteolytically inactive forms [D-Phe-Pro-Arg chloromethyl ketone-α-thrombin (PPACK-α- thrombin) and diisopropylphosphoryl-α-thrombin (DIP-α-thrombin)] had either no or only minimal inhibitory effects. Under bioassay conditions, perfusates from columns containing IL-1 β-activated vascular smooth muscle cells or cells treated with IL-1βplus PPACK-α-thrombin relaxed detector blood vessels. These relaxations were abolished by the inhibitor of nitric oxide synthesis, NG-nitro-L arginine. No relaxations were obtained with untreated cells or IL-1 β-treated cells in the presence of α-thrombin. The expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase mRNA and protein in vascular smooth muscle cells by IL-1 β was impaired by α-thrombin. These results demonstrate that thrombin regulates the expression of the inducible nitric oxide synthase at a transcriptional level via the proteolytic activation of the thrombin receptor in vascular smooth muscle cells

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