TY - JOUR
T1 - Vasodilatory effects of cholinergic agonists are greatly diminished in aorta from M3R-/- mice
AU - Khurana, Sandeep
AU - Chacon, Ingrid
AU - Xie, Guofeng
AU - Yamada, Masahisa
AU - Wess, Jurgen
AU - Raufman, Jean Pierre
AU - Kennedy, Richard H.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to thank Ms. Kerrey Roberto and Ms. Dawn McNiece for their excellent technical assistance. This work was supported in part by the Office of Research and Development, Medical Research Service, Department of Veterans Affairs (JPR), and by a CRADA between the Eli Lilly Research Laboratories and the NIDDK.
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Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2004/6/16
Y1 - 2004/6/16
N2 - Acetylcholine interacts with endothelial muscarinic receptors to enhance nitric oxide (NO) release and thereby cause vasodilation. The present study was designed to determine if this effect of acetylcholine is mediated by muscarinic M3 receptors. Thoracic aortae were isolated from wild-type (WT) and M3 receptor knock out (M3R-/-) male mice, and endothelium-intact (I) and -denuded (D) aortic rings were bathed in physiological buffer. Preparations were utilized to examine the contractile response to phenylephrine (1×10-8-3×10-4 M added cumulatively) and the vasodilatory actions of acetylcholine (10 -8-10-4 M), carbachol (10-9-10-4 M), ATP (3×10-5 M) and the NO donor SIN-1 (10-4 M), each added in the presence of phenylephrine. Endothelium-dependent vasodilatory effects of acetylcholine and carbachol were obvious in aortae isolated from WT mice (56.3±9.8% and 49.1±4.1% reductions, respectively, in phenylephrine-induced contraction; p<0.05), while acetylcholine and carbachol-associated relaxations observed in endothelium-intact M 3R-/- preparations (17.9±2.6% and 13.5±4.2% reductions, respectively) did not differ significantly from time-control values. ATP-induced, endothelium-dependent vasodilation was similar in preparations from M3R-/- and WT mice, and SIN-1 elicited similar dilatory effects in intact and denuded WT and M3R-/- segments. Phenylephrine concentration-response curves were shifted leftwards by removal of the endothelium in both groups (EC50 values: WT-I/D - 25.59±6.86/3.13±1.01×10-7 M; M3R -/-I/D - 13.92±4.21/1.52±0.46×10-7 M; both p<0.05); however, the phenylephrine response did not differ significantly when compared between the WT and M3R-/- groups. These results indicate that the attenuated vasodilatory effect of acetylcholine in endothelium-intact aortae from M3R-/- mice is due to the absence of muscarinic M3 receptors, and thus suggest that in mouse aorta, muscarinic M3 receptors play a major role in the endothelium-dependent acetylcholine-induced vasodilation.
AB - Acetylcholine interacts with endothelial muscarinic receptors to enhance nitric oxide (NO) release and thereby cause vasodilation. The present study was designed to determine if this effect of acetylcholine is mediated by muscarinic M3 receptors. Thoracic aortae were isolated from wild-type (WT) and M3 receptor knock out (M3R-/-) male mice, and endothelium-intact (I) and -denuded (D) aortic rings were bathed in physiological buffer. Preparations were utilized to examine the contractile response to phenylephrine (1×10-8-3×10-4 M added cumulatively) and the vasodilatory actions of acetylcholine (10 -8-10-4 M), carbachol (10-9-10-4 M), ATP (3×10-5 M) and the NO donor SIN-1 (10-4 M), each added in the presence of phenylephrine. Endothelium-dependent vasodilatory effects of acetylcholine and carbachol were obvious in aortae isolated from WT mice (56.3±9.8% and 49.1±4.1% reductions, respectively, in phenylephrine-induced contraction; p<0.05), while acetylcholine and carbachol-associated relaxations observed in endothelium-intact M 3R-/- preparations (17.9±2.6% and 13.5±4.2% reductions, respectively) did not differ significantly from time-control values. ATP-induced, endothelium-dependent vasodilation was similar in preparations from M3R-/- and WT mice, and SIN-1 elicited similar dilatory effects in intact and denuded WT and M3R-/- segments. Phenylephrine concentration-response curves were shifted leftwards by removal of the endothelium in both groups (EC50 values: WT-I/D - 25.59±6.86/3.13±1.01×10-7 M; M3R -/-I/D - 13.92±4.21/1.52±0.46×10-7 M; both p<0.05); however, the phenylephrine response did not differ significantly when compared between the WT and M3R-/- groups. These results indicate that the attenuated vasodilatory effect of acetylcholine in endothelium-intact aortae from M3R-/- mice is due to the absence of muscarinic M3 receptors, and thus suggest that in mouse aorta, muscarinic M3 receptors play a major role in the endothelium-dependent acetylcholine-induced vasodilation.
KW - ATP
KW - Cholinergic agonist
KW - Receptor subtype
KW - SIN-1
KW - Vascular relaxation
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ejphar.2004.04.012
DO - 10.1016/j.ejphar.2004.04.012
M3 - Article
C2 - 15189773
AN - SCOPUS:2942511917
SN - 0014-2999
VL - 493
SP - 127
EP - 132
JO - European Journal of Pharmacology
JF - European Journal of Pharmacology
IS - 1-3
ER -