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This study investigated the effects of the Ca2+-sensitive K+ channel antagonist charybdotoxin on responses to the nitrosovasodilators nitroglycerin and sodium nitroprusside and on pulmonary pressor responses to ventilatory hypoxia in the isolated blood-perfused rat lung. Injections of nitroglycerin
OBJECTIVE
To investigate the effects of severe hypoxia on trabecular smooth muscle contractility.
METHODS
Strips of rabbit corpus cavernosum were mounted in organ chambers to measure isometric tension. In some experiments intracellular free Ca2+ concentration and tension were measured by the
We investigated the effects of chronic hypoxia on the major outward K+ currents in early cultured human main pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells (HPSMC). Unitary currents were measured from inside-out, outside-out, and cell-attached patches of HPSMC. Chronic hypoxia depolarized resting membrane
In the guinea pig basilar artery, acetylcholine and the calcium ionophore A23187 induced endothelium-dependent relaxations, which were not significantly affected by the nitric oxide (NO) synthase inhibitor Nomega-nitro-L-arginine (L-NOARG; 0.3 mM) or the guanylate cyclase inhibitor ODQ
The effects of brief (2-4 min) hypoxia on presumed dopaminergic "principal" neurons of the rat ventral mesencephalon were investigated by using either intracellular or whole cell patch-clamp recordings in in vitro conditions. Under single-electrode voltage clamp, with sharp microelectrode (Vh -60
1. The aims of this study were to investigate the effects of potassium (K+) channel blockers and the nitric oxide (NO) synthase inhibitor, L-nitroarginine (L-NOARG), on the response produced by acute hypoxia in rat intrapulmonary artery rings in vitro. 2. In rat phenylephrine-precontracted pulmonary
1. Using perforated-patch, whole cell recording, we investigated the membrane mechanisms underlying O2 chemosensitivity in neonatal rat adrenomedullary chromaffin cells (AMC) bathed in extracellular solution containing tetrodotoxin (TTX; 0.5-1 microM), with or without blockers of calcium entry. 2.
Charybdotoxin (ChTX), a venom protein, suppresses Ca2+-activated K+ (K+(Ca)) currents in the glomus cell of neonatal rat carotid body. If it works similarly for cat carotid body chemoreceptors, charybdotoxin is expected to stimulate the chemosensory discharge during normoxia, and particularly
Carotid body chemoreceptors transduce a decrease in arterial oxygen tension into increased sinus nerve action potential (AP) activity which undergoes a maturational increase in the post-natal period. MaxiK-channels channels are proposed to play a major role in organ function based on their
The cytosolic redox status modulates ion channels and receptors by oxidizing/reducing their sulfhydryl (SH) groups. We therefore analyzed to what degree SH modulation affects hippocampal susceptibility to hypoxia. In rat hippocampal slices, severe hypoxia caused a massive depolarization of CA1
1. The electrical properties of chemoreceptor cells from neonatal rat and adult rabbit carotid bodies (CBs) are strikingly different. These differences have been suggested to be developmental and/or species related. To distinguish between the two possibilities, the whole-cell configuration of the
1. The effects of anoxia on membrane properties of 119 dorsal vagal motoneurones (DVMs) were investigated in an in vitro slice preparation of the rat medulla. 2. Membrane potential was unaffected by anoxia in 11% of DVMs. An hyperpolarization accompanied by a decrease in input resistance occurred in
The cellular mechanisms that determine differences in reactivity of arteries of varying size and origin are unknown. We evaluated the hypothesis that there is diversity in the distribution of K+ channels between vascular smooth muscle (VSM) cells within a single segment of the pulmonary arteries
Ca2+-activated K+ currents in rat locus coeruleus neurons induced by experimental ischemia, anoxia, and hypoglycemia. J. Neurophysiol. 78: 2674-2681, 1997. The effects of metabolic inhibition on membrane currents and N-methyl--aspartic acid (NMDA)-induced currents were investigated in dissociated
The hypothesis that endothelium-dependent components contribute to the cerebromicrovascular dilation to hypoxia in the newborn pig was addressed. Piglets anesthetized with ketamine-acepromazine and maintained on alpha-chloralose were equipped with closed cranial windows. Injury to the endothelium of