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Modulatory role of endogenous androgens on airway smooth muscle tone in isolated guinea-pig and bovine trachea; involvement of beta2-adrenoceptors, the polyamine system and external calcium.

Abstract：

:Androgens relax several smooth muscles, including the airways. They also contract ileum and myocardium via nongenomic mechanisms. To find out whether androgens modulate airway smooth muscles in different species and further assess their mechanism of action, regarding the role of beta-adrenoceptors, polyamines and extracellular Ca(2+), and the modulation of contraction, 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone, testosterone and 5 beta-dihydrotestosterone were used. A preliminary study was performed to evaluate the effect of 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone, a non-aromatisable derivate of testosterone, in isolated guinea-pig trachea and a more exhaustive characterisation was followed in bovine trachea, to also characterise the effect of testosterone and 5 beta-dihydrotestosterone. The androgens elicited a nongenomic epithelium-independent relaxation of the trachea which had been precontracted. In the bovine trachea, the order of potency was: testosterone>5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone=5 beta-dihydrotestosterone. This effect was inversely proportional to the magnitude of carbachol-raised tone and was independent of beta(2)-adrenoceptors, since the beta-blockers, propranolol and ICI-118,551, and beta(2)-adrenoceptor desensitisation did not modify 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone-elicited relaxation. 5 alpha-Dihydrotestosterone was unable to displace the radiolabel, [(3)H]dihydroalprenolol, from these receptors in the binding assay. Polyamine synthesis was not involved in this androgen effect, since an ornithine decarboxylase inhibitor, alpha-difluoromethylornithine, was ineffective. The androgens were more effective relaxing bovine trachea precontracted by KCl (80 mM), suggesting a calcium entry blockade, as reported for several smooth muscles. This mechanism might be involved in the observed 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone facilitation of salbutamol-relaxation. Androgens facilitated carbachol-elicited contraction independently of polyamine synthesis, contrary to what has been reported in the ileum. Therefore, androgens modulate tracheal smooth muscle tone which might be of importance in the regulation of airway reactivity.

journal_name

Eur J Pharmacol

journal_title

European journal of pharmacology

authors

Bordallo J,de Boto MJ,Meana C,Velasco L,Bordallo C,Suárez L,Cantabrana B,Sánchez M

doi

10.1016/j.ejphar.2008.10.039

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2008-12-28 00:00:00

pages

154-62

issue

1-3

eissn

0014-2999

issn

1879-0712

pii

S0014-2999(08)01070-4

journal_volume

601

pub_type

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Modulatory role of endogenous androgens on airway smooth muscle tone in isolated guinea-pig and bovine trachea; involvement of beta2-adrenoceptors, the polyamine system and external calcium.