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BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY
卷 135, 期 7, 页码 1819-1827出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0704631
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L-type Ca2+ channel activator; quercetin; rat tail artery smooth muscle; whole-cell patch-clamp
1 The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of quercetin, a natural polyphenolic flavonoid, on voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels of smooth muscle cells freshly isolated from the rat tail artery, using either the conventional or the amphotericin B-perforated whole-cell patch-clamp method. 2 Quercetin increased L-type Ca2+ current [I-Ca(L)] in a concentration- (pEC(50) = 5.09 + 0.05) and voltage-dependent manner and shifted the maximum of the current-voltage relationship by 10 mV in the hyperpolarizing direction, without, however, modifying the threshold and the equilibrium potential for Ca2+. Quercetin-induced I-Ca(L) stimulation was reversible upon wash-out. T-type Ca2+ current was not affected by quercetin. 3 Quercetin shifted the voltage dependence of the steady-state inactivation and activation curves to more negative potentials by about 5.5 and 7.5 mV respectively, in the mid-potential of the curves as well as increasing the slope of activation. Quercetin slowed both the activation and the deactivation kinetics of the I-Ca(L). The inactivation time course was also slowed but only at voltages higher than 10 mV. Moreover quercetin slowed the rate of recovery from inactivation. 4 These results prove quercetin to be a naturally-occurring L-type Ca2+ channel activator. British Journal of Pharmacology.
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