Further analysis of the mechanisms underlying the tracheal relaxant action of SCA40.

Abstract:

:1. SCA40 (1nM-10 microM), isoprenaline (1-300 nM) and levcromakalim (100 nM-10 microM) each produced concentration-dependent suppression of the spontaneous tone of guinea-pig isolated trachea. Propranolol (1 microM) markedly (approximately 150 fold) antagonized isoprenaline but did not antagonize SCA40. The tracheal relaxant action of SCA40 was unaffected by suramin (100 microM) or 8-(p)-sulphophenyltheophylline (8-SPT; 140 microM). 2. An isosmolar, K(+)-rich (80 mM) Krebs solution increased tracheal tone, antagonized SCA40 (approximately 60 fold), antagonized isoprenaline (approximately 20 fold) and very profoundly depressed the log concentration-effect curve for levcromakalim. Nifedipine (1 microM) did not itself modify the relaxant actions of SCA40, isoprenaline or levcromakalim. However, nifedipine prevented the rise in tissue tone and the antagonism of SCA40 and isoprenaline induced by the K(+)-rich medium. In contrast, nifedipine did not prevent the equivalent antagonism of levcromakalim. 3. Charybdotoxin (100 nM) increased tracheal tone, antagonized SCA40 (approximately 4 fold) and antagonized isoprenaline (approximately 3 fold). Nifedipine (1 microM) prevented the rise in tissue tone and the antagonism of SCA40 and isoprenaline induced by charybdotoxin. 4. Quinine (30 microM) caused little or no change in tissue tone and did not modify the relaxant action of isoprenaline. However, quinine antagonized SCA40 (approximately 2 fold). Nifedipine (1 microM) prevented the antagonism of SCA40 induced by quinine. 5. Tested on spontaneously-beating guinea-pig isolated atria SCA40 (1 nM-10 microM) increased the rate of beating in a concentration-dependent manner. Over the concentration-range 1 microM-10 microM, SCA40 also caused an increase in the force of atrial contraction. 6. Intracellular electrophysiological recording from guinea-pig isolated trachealis showed that the relaxant effects of SCA40 (1 micro M) were often accompanied by the suppression of spontaneous electrical slow waves but no change in resting membrane potential. When the concentration of SCA40 was raised to 10 micro M, its relaxant activity was accompanied both by slow wave suppression and by plasmalemmal hyperpolarization.7. SCA40 (10 nM- 100 micro M) more potently inhibited the activity of cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase (PDE)than that of cyclic GMP PDE derived from homogenates of guinea-pig trachealis. Theophylline(1 micro M- 1O mM) also inhibited these enzymes but was less potent than SCA40 in each case and did not exhibit selectivity for inhibition of cyclic AMP hydrolysis.8. Tested against the activity of the isoenzymes of cyclic nucleotide PDE derived from human blood cells and lung tissue, SCA40 proved highly potent against the type III isoenzyme. It was markedly less potent against the type IV and type V isoenzymes and even less potent against the isoenzymes types I and II.9. It is concluded that the tracheal relaxant action of SCA40 (1 nM- 1 micro M) does not involve the activation of beta-adrenoceptors or P1 or P2 purinoceptors. Furthermore, this action is unlikely to depend upon the opening of BKca channels with consequent cellular hyperpolarization and voltage-dependent inhibition of Ca2+ influx. The tracheal relaxant action of SCA40 (up to 1 micro M) is more likely to depend upon its selective inhibition of the type III isoenzyme of cyclic nucleotide PDE. At concentrations above 1 micro M, SCA40 exerts more general inhibition of the isoenzymes of cyclic nucleotide PDE and may then promote the opening of BKca channels.

journal_name

Br J Pharmacol

authors

Cook SJ,Archer K,Martin A,Buchheit KH,Fozard JR,Müller T,Miller AJ,Elliott KR,Foster RW,Small RC

doi

10.1111/j.1476-5381.1995.tb14918.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1995-01-01 00:00:00

pages

143-51

issue

1

eissn

0007-1188

issn

1476-5381

journal_volume

114

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