“…Since Bueding, Butcher, Hawkins, Timms & Sutherland (1966) suggested that this effect was related to activation of adenyl cyclase, many investigators have shown that the cyclic AMP level in smooth muscle is directly related to smooth muscle tone, i.e. increase in cyclic AMP causes relaxation of visceral smooth muscle (Andersson, Lundholm, Mohme-Lundholm & Nilsson, 1972;Schultz, Schultz & Hardman, 1975;Bar, 1974;Kroeger & Marshall, 1974;Triner, Nahas, Vullienoz, Overweg, Verosky, Habif & Ngai, 1975;Kroeger, Teo, Ho & Wang, 1975;Honeyman, Merrian & Fay, 1978). This postulation has been confirmed and extended by further investigations.…”