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EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
卷 238, 期 9, 页码 1069-1074出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1535370213498981
关键词
Phosphodiesterase 5; iloprost; UT-15C; tadalafil; zaprinast
资金
- American Diabetes Association [BS-150]
- National Institutes of Health [HL-089094]
- United Therapeutics
Prostacyclin (PGI(2)) and phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5) inhibitors are potent vasodilators that are used alone and in combination for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Although these vasodilators are known to stimulate relaxation of vascular smooth muscle directly, other cells in circulation, including erythrocytes, express prostacyclin receptor (IPR) and contain PDE5. The binding of PGI(2) analogs to the erythrocyte IPR results in activation of a signaling pathway that increases cyclic adenosine 3',5' monophosphate (cAMP), a requirement for adenosine 3'5' triphosphate (ATP) release. Within this pathway, cAMP levels are regulated by phosphodiesterase 3 (PDE3), a PDE that is inhibited by cGMP, a cyclic nucleotide regulated by the activity of PDE5. Since inhibition of PDE3 enhances ATP release in response to PGI(2) analogs, we investigated if the selective PDE5 inhibitors, zaprinast (ZAP) and tadalafil (TAD), would similarly increase cAMP and ATP release from human erythrocytes in response to the same stimulus. We determined that pretreatment of erythrocytes with one of two chemically dissimilar PDE5 inhibitors (ZAP or TAD, 10 mu M) potentiated increases in cAMP and ATP release in response to incubation of human erythrocytes with the PGI(2) analog, UT-15C (100 nM). These results suggest that a heretofore unrecognized synergism exists between IPR agonists and PDE5 inhibitors that could provide a new rationale for the co-administration of these agents as vasodilators in humans with PAH.
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