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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY
卷 531, 期 1-3, 页码 232-237出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2005.12.033
关键词
sildenafil; K+ channel; relaxation; nitric oxide; protein kinase G; penile resistance artery
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the role of K+ channels in the vasorelaxant effect of the phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitor, sildenafil, in isolated horse penile resistance arteries mounted in microvascular myographs. In phenylephrine-precontracted arteries, sildenafil elicited potent relaxations which were markedly reduced by raising extracellular K+, by the non-selective blocker of Ca2+-activated K+ channels (K-Ca), tetraethylammonium and by the blocker of large- and intermediate-conductance KC, channels, charybdotoxin. Sildenafil relaxant responses were also reduced by the selective inhibitor of large conductance K-Ca, (BKCa) channels iberiotoxin, but not by the blocker of small conductance K-Ca channels apamin. The inhibitor of the cGMP-depenclent protein kinase (PKG), Rp-8-Br-PET-cGMPS, reduced the relaxations elicited by sildenafil but combined treatment with iberiotoxin and Rp-8-Br-PET-cGMPS did not further inhibit these relaxations, compared to the effect of either blocker alone. Iberiotoxin also shifted to the right the relaxations elicited by both the NO donor, S-nitrosoacetyl-D,L-penicillamine (SNAP) and the adenylate cyclase activator forskolin; treatment with both iberiotoxin and Rp-8-Br-PET-cGMPS did cause an additional inhibition. The present results demonstrate that the relaxant effect of sildenafil and NO in penile resistance arteries is due in part to activation of BKCa channels through a PKG-dependent mechanism. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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