Abstract：
:Denudatin B is an antiplatelet agent isolated from the flower buds of Magnolia fargesii. We studied the effects of denudatin B on the vasoconstriction of rat thoracic aorta induced by high potassium (K+) solution, norepinephrine (NE) and caffeine, and to elucidate its mode of action. The contraction of rat aorta caused by high K+ (60 mM) and cumulative concentrations of CaCl2 (0.03-3 mM) was inhibited concentration dependently by denudatin B with an IC50 of 21.2 micrograms/ml. NE (3 microM)-induced phasic and tonic contractions of rat aorta were inhibited by pretreatment with denudatin B (10-100 micrograms/ml). The relaxing action of denudatin B persisted in denuded aorta, in Ca2(+)-free and EGTA (2 mM)-containing medium. The vasorelaxing effects were not affected by indomethacin (20 microM), hemoglobin (10 microM) or methylene blue (50 microM) and were not accompanied by PGI2 formation. In quin-2/AM-loaded cultured rat vascular smooth muscle cells, denudatin B (100 micrograms/ml) inhibited the increase of intracellular calcium caused by NE (3 microM) in the presence or absence of extracellular calcium. Denudatin B did not affect the caffeine (10 mM)-induced contraction and the increase in intracellular calcium. Denudatin B (100 micrograms/ml) increased the cGMP, but not the cAMP level in intact and denuded aorta. The 45Ca2+ influx induced in rat aorta by high K+ (60 mM) or NE (3 microM) was markedly inhibited by denudatin B in a concentration-dependent manner. These results indicate that denudatin B relaxed vascular smooth muscle by inhibiting the Ca2+ influx through voltage-gated and receptor-operated Ca2+ channels; its effect to increase cGMP may enhance the vasorelaxation.
journal_name
Eur J Pharmacoljournal_title
European journal of pharmacologyauthors
Yu SM,Chen CC,Huang YL,Tsai CW,Lin CH,Huang TF,Teng CMdoi
10.1016/0014-2999(90)90338-7subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1990-10-02 00:00:00pages
39-47issue
1eissn
0014-2999issn
1879-0712pii
0014-2999(90)90338-7journal_volume
187pub_type
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