In vitro relaxation of vascular smooth muscle by atropine: Involvement of K+ channels and endothelium

Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology

Volumn 368, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-9

  Kwan, Chiu Yin ^a   Zhang, Wen Bo ^a   Kwan, Tony K ^a   Sakai, Yasushi ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anticholinergic alkaloids; Atropine; Endothelium; Potassium channels; Rat aortic smooth muscle; Scopolamine; Tetraethylammonium; Vascular relaxation

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; APAMIN; ATROPINE; BARIUM CHLORIDE; CARBACHOL; CHARYBDOTOXIN; GLIBENCLAMIDE; HEXAMETHONIUM; INDOMETACIN; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NICOTINE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PHENYLEPHRINE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA; SAPONIN; SCOPOLAMINE; SEROTONIN; TETRYLAMMONIUM;

ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG POTENTIATION; ENDOTHELIUM; FLUSHING; HYPOTENSION; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY; NONHUMAN; RAT; RENAL ARTERY; SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASCULAR RING; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASODILATATION; VOLTAGE DEPENDENT POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; ATROPINE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NITRIC OXIDE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RENAL ARTERY;

EID: 0042660898     PISSN: 00281298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00210-003-0759-7     Document Type: Article

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