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BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY
Volume 129, Issue 3, Pages 416-419Publisher
STOCKTON PRESS
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0703068
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urothelium; relaxing factor; detrusor muscle; bladder
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The function of the bladder urothelium in modulating contractile responses of the underlying detrusor smooth muscle to muscarinic stimulation has been examined in the Dig bladder. Saturation curves for [H-3]-QNB binding demonstrated a greater muscarinic receptor density in the urothelium than in the detrusor smooth muscle. The presence of an intact urothelium on isolated bladder strips inhibited contractions induced by carbachol but not KCI. Contractions of a urothelium-denuded muscle strip were inhibited in the presence of a second bladder strip with an intact urothelium, but not if the second strip was denuded. The urothelium-induced inhibition of contractions was not prevented in the presence of r-NOARG, methylene blue, indomethacin, propranolol, suramin, TEA or apamin. The data suggest the presence of a diffusable, urothelium-derived inhibitory factor, which could not be identified but appears to be neither nitric oxide, a cyclo-oxygenase product, a catecholamine, adenosine, GABA nor an EDHF sensitive to apamin.
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