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Jin, Xin
Otonashi-Satoh, Yukiko
Sun, Pengyuan
Kawamura, Naomi
Tsuboi, Takashi
Yamaguchi, Yasuyo
Ueda, Taro
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Abstract | The vascular effects of an aqueous extract prepared from the leaves of Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. (ELE), a medicinal herb commonly used in antihypertensive herbal prescriptions in China, were investigated in rat mesenteric resistance arteries. The mesenteric vascular bed was perfused with Krebs solution and the perfusion pressure was measured with a pressure transducer. In preparations with an intact endothelium and precontracted with 7μM methoxamine, perfusion of ELE (10-7-10-2mg/ml for 15min) caused a concentration-dependent vasodilatation, which was abolished by chemical removal of the endothelium. The ELE-induced vasodilatation was inhibited by neither indomethacin (INDO, a cyclooxygenase inhibitor) nor NG-nitro-L-arginine-methyl ester (L-NAME, a nitric oxide inhibitor). The ELE-induced vasodilatation was significantly inhibited by tetraethylammonium (TEA, a K+ channel blocker) and 18α-glycyrrhetinic acid (18α-GA, a gap-junction inhibitor), and abolished by high K+ -containing Krebsʼ solution. Atropine (a muscarinic acetylcholine receptor antagonist) significantly inhibited the vasodilatation induced by ELE at high concentrations. These results suggest that the ELE-induced vasodilatation is endothelium-dependent but nitric oxide (NO)- and prostaglandin I2 (PGI2)-independent, and is mainly mediated by the endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor (EDHF) in the mesenteric resistance arteries. Furthermore, the ELE-induced EDHF-mediated response involves the activation of K+-channels and gap junctions. |
Keywords | Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. leaf extract
endothelium-dependent vasodilation
endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor
mesenteric resistance artery
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Amo Type | Original Article
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Publication Title |
Acta Medica Okayama
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Published Date | 2008-10
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Volume | volume62
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Issue | issue5
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Publisher | Okayama University Medical School
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Start Page | 319
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End Page | 325
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ISSN | 0386-300X
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NCID | AA00508441
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Journal Article
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English
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File Version | publisher
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True
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