Effect of Ca2+ ionophores on membrane potential of pig coronary artery endothelial cells

Author:

von der Weid P. Y.1,Beny J. L.1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Zoology and Animal Biology, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Abstract

Ca2+ ionophores (A23187 and ionomycin) were used to determine whether an increase in cytosolic Ca2+ plays a direct role in pig coronary endothelial cell hyperpolarization. Ionophores induced concentration-dependent hyperpolarizations that were not altered by the presence of N omega-nitro-L-argnine (L-NNA), and inhibitor of nitric oxide synthesis. d-Tubocurarine decreased by 65-89% the A23187- and substance P (SP)-generated hyperpolarization of endothelial cells. To study the role of endothelial cell hyperpolarization in the endothelium-dependent relaxation of precontracted coronary artery strips, A23187 and SP concentration-response curves were built up in the presence of d-tubocurarine and/or L-NNA. A decrease in the maximal response was observed only when both d-tubocurarine and L-NNA were present. Our direct in situ approach gives results in agreement with a gating of Ca(2+)-activated K+ channels during A23187- and SP-induced hyperpolarizations of endothelial cells. We suggest that these hyperpolarizations play a role in the endothelial cell-dependent relaxation induced by A23187 and SP in the pig coronary artery.

Publisher

American Physiological Society

Subject

Physiology (medical),Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,Physiology

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