1994
DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1994.tb14763.x
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Relationship between cytosolic calcium concentration and force in the papaverine‐induced relaxation of medial strips of pig coronary artery

Abstract: 1The mechanisms of vasorelaxation induced by papaverine were investigated using front-surface fluorometry and fura-2-loaded medial strips of the pig coronary artery. 2 In the presence of extracellular Ca2+ (1.25 x 10-3 M), histamine (10-4 M)

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“…Its direct action on smooth muscle is thought to be primarily related to inhibition of cyclic adenosine monophosphate phosphodiesterases, but it may also have an effect on cyclic guanosine monophosphate phosphodiesterases. 1 Moreover, it probably exerts other actions, including calcium channel blockade, 14 adenosine blockade, 31 and an effect on protein kinase C. 15 Papaverine was chosen for two primary reasons. First, for this initial study of superselective pharmacological challenges, a practical consideration was to choose a drug with which we have had clinical experience.…”
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“…Its direct action on smooth muscle is thought to be primarily related to inhibition of cyclic adenosine monophosphate phosphodiesterases, but it may also have an effect on cyclic guanosine monophosphate phosphodiesterases. 1 Moreover, it probably exerts other actions, including calcium channel blockade, 14 adenosine blockade, 31 and an effect on protein kinase C. 15 Papaverine was chosen for two primary reasons. First, for this initial study of superselective pharmacological challenges, a practical consideration was to choose a drug with which we have had clinical experience.…”
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“…Tolazoline is a vasodilator acting in part through the stimulation of histamine release from mast cells and basophils and also by acting as an alpha‐adrenergic antagonist, although the specifics of the mechanism have not been definitively concluded . In contrast, papaverine, an opiate alkaloid, vasodilates blood vessels through a nonspecific inhibition of phosphodiesterases and also an inhibition of calcium channels …”
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“…This finding is in agreement with previous findings in iso[ated perfused lungs of rats and pigs (Cigarini et al, 1989, Roos el al., 1994, as weil as in systernic vessels (Ignarro el al., 1991). Although the smaller relaxant response of the veins could be due in part to the greater precontraction 10 U46619 (Stork and Cocks, 1994), this is unlikely because papaverine, that increases cytosolic cGMP content by inhibiting the activity of phosphodiesterase, independent of the endothelium and the NO pathway (Aoki et al, 1994;Kramer and Wells, 1979), relaxed arterles and veins equally. Thus after inhibition of the cyclooxygenase passway, the differences between arterles and veins in response ta ACh lie in the reduced responsiveness of the venous smooth muscle 10 NO, with a companent of the reduced ability of the venous endothelium to release NO.…”
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confidence: 99%