Vascular endothelium and Ca2+ antagonists.
Vascular endothelium and Ca2+ antagonists.
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血管内皮和 Ca2 拮抗剂。
DOI:
10.1097/00005344-198812006-00007
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发表时间:
1988
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3
通讯作者:
Vanhoutte,PM
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作者:
Vanhoutte,PM
Endothelial cells can release both relaxing and contracting factors. Since the release of endothelium-dependent relaxing factor is prevented by incubation in Ca 2†-free solution and can be triggered by the Ca 2† ionophore A 23187, it must require an increase in cytoplasmic Ca 2† concentration in the endothelial cells. Ca 2†-channel agonists also evoke the release of endothelium-dependent relaxing factor, an effect prevented by dihydropyridines; thus, the endothelial cell membrane must contain voltage-operated Ca 2† channels. However, since verapamil and dihydropyridines do not prevent the release of endothelium-dependent relaxing factor evoked by acetylcholine, the increase in cytoplasmic Ca 2† concentration leading to the release of the mediator is not due to activation of these channels. Diltiazem has an inhibitory effect on the release of endothelium-dependent relaxing factor, which cannot be attributed to the action of the compound at Ca 2† channels. In the presence of functional endothelium, endothelium-dependent relaxing factor and Ca 2† antagonists such as nisoldipine are synergistic in inhibiting contractions of vascular smooth muscle. In a variety of arteries and veins, endothelium-dependent contractions can be evoked by anoxia; these contractions, as well as the endothelium-dependent increases in tension evoked by stretch in cerebral arteries, can be inhibited by Ca 2† antagonists. In the aorta of the spontaneously hypertensive rat, acetylcholine causes endothelium-dependent contractions, an effect that is inhibited by diltiazem. To judge from experiments in anoxic coronary arteries, the inhibitory effect of Ca 2† antagonists on endothelium-dependent contractions is at the level of the vascular smooth muscle, and not the endothelium. Thus. Ca 2† antagonists do not prevent the release of either endothelium-dependent relaxing factor or endothelium-dependent contracting factor; by facilitating the inhibition exerted by the former, and preventing the activation of vascular smooth muscle by the latter, they favor the occurrence of dilatation.