Smooth muscle: excitation-contraction coupling, contractile regulation, and the cross-bridge cycle.
Smooth muscle: excitation-contraction coupling, contractile regulation, and the cross-bridge cycle.
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1530-0277.1994.tb00893.x
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发表时间:
1994-02
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A. Somlyo;A. Somlyo
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作者:
A. Somlyo;A. Somlyo
XCITATION-CONTRACTION coupling in smooth E muscle proceeds through two major pathways: electromechanical coupling and pharmacomechanical coupling. Pharmacomechanical coupling is the assemblage of mechanisms that can activate or inactivate smooth muscle independently of changes in membrane potential through the release of intracellular Ca2+ and through modulation (decrease or increase) in the Ca2+ sensitivity of the contractile regulatory and through moderate increases in Ca” influx through ligand-gated, nonselective channels (reviewed in ref. 3). In contrast to the voltageoperated channels that are activated by depolarization, Ca2+ influx through ligand-gated channels is enhanced by negative potentials that provide the electrical driving force for cation influx. However, the two mechanisms, electromechanical and pharmacomechanical, can operate simultaneously.’The response of the surface membrane potential to excitatory agonists is somewhat variable, because these electrical effects depend on the relative changes in cation and anion permeabilities, as well as on the preexisting equilibrium potentials of the permeant ions in a given smooth muscle. For example, because the C1-equilibrium potential in smooth muscle is more positive and the K+ equilibrium potential is more negative than the resting membrane potential, the activation of the C1-channels by agonists or by (released) Ca2+ will lead to depolarization, whereas activation of K+ channels will cause hyperpolarization. The membrane potential may also be affected by (changes in) electrogenic pumps and, as realized more recently, by the secondary effects, on ion channels, of “messengers”(eg, Ca” and arachidonic acid) released by the agoni~ ts.~