• 약학회지
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.399-406
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• 1997

The effects of different $K^+$ channel blockers were investigated on the non-adrenergic non-cholinergic (NANC) relaxations in the circular muscle of the rabbit proximal stomach. Non-selective blockers of $K^+$ channels, 4-aminopyridine (4-AP, 3~30${\mu}M$) and tetraethylammonium (TEA, 100~1000${\mu}M$) significantly enhanced the NANC relaxations in a concentration-dependent manner. The enhancement was more prominent for the NANC relaxations induced by the electric field stimulation (EFS) with lower frequencies. Blockers of large conductance $Ca^{2+}$-activated $K^+$ channels, charybdotoxin and iberiotoxin, a blocker of small conduntance $Ca^{2+}$-activated $K^+$ channels, apamin and a blocker of ATP-sensitive $K^+$ channels, glibenclamide had no effect on the NANC relaxations, respectively. Exogeneous administration of nitric oxide (NO, 1~30${\mu}M$) caused concentration-dependent relaxations which showed a similarity to those obtained with EFS. None of the $K^+$ channel blockers had an effect on the concentration-dependent relaxation in response to NO. These results suggest that prejunctional $K^+$ channels regulate the release of NO from the NANC nerve in the rabbit proximal stomach as the inhibition of prejunctional $K^+$ channels increases the NANC relaxation induced by the EFS.

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.507-515
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• 1996

1) 강력한 $K^+$ 통로개방제인 pinacidil은 투여한 pinacidil의 농도, T1-201의 방사능양, 실험에 사용된 심근세포 수에 따라 차이는 있었지만 배양된 심근세포의 T1-201섭취를 1.6-2.5배 감소시켰고, 심근내로 유입시킨 T1-201의 세포외로의 배출을 1.6-3.1배 증가시켰다. Pinacidil의 T1-201의 세포내로의 섭취억제는 세포내로 유입되는 T1-201의 세포 내에서의 저류가 억제되어 일어났을 것으로 추측된다. 2) 생쥐체내에 주사한 pinacidil의 효과는 실험관내의 심근세포의 변화처럼 뚜렸하지는 않았지만 T1-201을 주사한 생쥐에서 10분 이후 pinacidil의 정맥주사한 경우에는 혈액과 간장의 방사능치는 치료하지 않은 군보다 약간 높았고, 신장과 심장의 방사능치는 약간 낮은 경향을 보였다. 이상의 배양된 심근세포와 생쥐체내 실험의 연구결과는 항고혈압약제나, 항협심증약, 기관지천식 치료제로 사용되는 $K^+$통로개방제는 심근내로의 T1-201 축적을 억제하고 배출을 촉진시켜. T1-201 심근관류스캔의 판독에 영향을 미칠 수 있을 수 있을 것으로 추측된다.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.709-715
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• 2005

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of atropine on peripheral vasodilation and the mechanisms involved. The isometric tension of rat mesenteric artery rings was recorded in vitro on a myograph. The results showed that atropine, at concentrations greater than 1$\mu$M, relaxed the noradrenalin (NA)-precontracted rat mesenteric artery in a concentration-dependent manner. Atropine-induced vasodilatation was mediated, in part, by an endothelium-dependent mechanism, to which endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor may contribute. Atropine was able to shift the NA-induced concentration-response curve to the right, in a non-parallel manner, suggesting the mechanism of atropine was not mediated via the ${\alpha}_1$-adrenoreceptor. The $\beta$-adrenoreceptor and ATP sensitive potassium channel, a voltage dependent calcium channel, were not involved in the vasodilatation. However, atropine inhibited the contraction derived from NA and $CaCl_2$ in $Ca^{2+}$-free medium, in a concentration dependent manner, indicating the vasodilatation was related to the inhibition of extracellular $Ca^{2+}$ influx through the receptor-operated calcium channels and intracellular $Ca^{2+}$ release from the $Ca^{2+}$ store. Atropine had no effect on the caffeine-induced contraction in the artery segments, indicating the inhibition of intracellular $Ca^{2+}$ release as a result of atropine most likely occurs via the IP3 pathway rather than the ryanodine receptors. Our results suggest that atropine-induced vasodilatation is mainly from artery smooth muscle cells due to inhibition of the receptor-mediated $Ca^{2+}$-influx and $Ca^{2+}$-release, and partly from the endothelium mediated by EDHF.