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JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON
Volume 553, Issue 1, Pages 183-189Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.051896
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Activation of both small-conductance (SKCa) and intermediate-conductance (IKCa) Ca2+-activated K+ channels in endothelial cells leads to vascular smooth muscle hyperpolarization and relaxation in rat mesenteric arteries. The contribution that each endothelial K+ channel type makes to the smooth muscle hyperpolarization is unknown. In the presence of a nitric oxide (NO) synthase inhibitor, ACh evoked endothelium and concentration-dependent smooth muscle hyperpolarization, increasing the resting potential (approx. -53 mV) by around 20 mV at 3 mum. Similar hyperpolarization was evoked with cyclopiazonic acid (10,am, an inhibitor of sarcoplasmic endoplasmic reticulum. calcium ATPase (SERCA)) while 1-EBIO (300 mum, an IKCa activator) only increased the potential by a few millivolts. Hyperpolarization in response to either ACh or CPA was abolished with apamin (50 nm, an SKCa blocker) but was unaltered by 1-[(2-chlorophenyl) diphenylmethyl]-1H-pyrazole (1 mum TRAM-34, an IKCa blocker). During depolarization and contraction in response to phenylephrine (PE), ACh still increased the membrane potential to around -70 mV, but with apamin present the membrane potential only increased just beyond the original resting potential (circa -58 mV). TRAM-34 alone did not affect hyperpolarization to ACh but, in combination with apamin, ACh-evoked hyperpolarization was completely abolished. These data suggest that true endothelium-dependent hyperpolarization of smooth muscle cells in response to ACh is attributable to SKCa channels, whereas IKCa channels play an important role during the ACh-mediated repolarization phase only observed following depolarization.
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