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. 1994 Jun;112(2):360-8.
doi: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1994.tb13080.x.

Interdependence of contractile responses of rat small mesenteric arteries on nitric oxide and cyclo-oxygenase and lipoxygenase products of arachidonic acid

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Interdependence of contractile responses of rat small mesenteric arteries on nitric oxide and cyclo-oxygenase and lipoxygenase products of arachidonic acid

X C Wu et al. Br J Pharmacol. 1994 Jun.

Abstract

1. We have examined the effects of nitric oxide inhibition, indomethacin and the dual lipoxygenase/cyclo-oxygenase inhibitor, 3-amino-1-[m-(trifluoromethyl)-phenyl]-2-pyrazoline (BW755C), on the responses of small mesenteric arteries of Wistar rats, with and without endothelium, to noradrenaline, potassium chloride, endothelin-1, acetylcholine and sodium nitroprusside. 2. Noradrenaline, potassium chloride and endothelin-1 caused concentration-dependent contraction of small mesenteric arteries. Indomethacin (14 microM) attenuated the contractile response to both noradrenaline and potassium chloride. The inhibitory action of indomethacin persisted in vessels treated with CHAPS. 3. Acetylcholine produced concentration-dependent relaxation in these vessels. Indomethacin (14 microM) had no significant effect on the acetylcholine concentration-response relationship. 4. NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME, 100 microM) potentiated the contractile response to both noradrenaline and potassium chloride and inhibited acetylcholine-induced relaxation. Indomethacin attenuated the effects of L-NAME. 5. BW755C inhibited the contractile response to noradrenaline and potassium chloride but not to endothelin-1. The inhibitory effects of BW755C persisted in the presence of indomethacin and in vessels treated with CHAPS. 6. BW755C enhanced endothelium-dependent relaxation, as assessed by the response to acetylcholine. In the presence of indomethacin, BW755C produced a shift to the right of the concentration-response curve to acetylcholine. 7. Inhibition of nitric oxide synthase with L-NAME, reversed the inhibitory effect of BW755C on noradrenaline- and potassium-induced contraction. L-NAME and BW755C in combination resulted in a shift to the right of the concentration-response curve to acetylcholine. 8. Sodium nitroprusside produced concentration-dependent relaxation of the vessels. Endothelium removal reduced the maximum relaxation to nitroprusside. BW755C did not alter the response to sodium nitroprusside in vessels with or without endothelium.9 .These data support the existence of two vasoconstrictor products of arachidonic acid released during contraction of small mesenteric arteries with noradrenaline and potassium chloride: a cyclo-oxygenase product and a lipoxygenase product both of which appear to be largely endothelium-independent.

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