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Insulin NO-dependent action on airways smooth muscles
dc.creator | Papayianni, M. | en |
dc.creator | Gourgoulianis, K. I. | en |
dc.creator | Molyvdas, P. A. | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-11-23T10:44:41Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-11-23T10:44:41Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2001 | |
dc.identifier | 10.1006/niox.2000.0317 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1089-8603 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11615/31983 | |
dc.description.abstract | In order to find out how insulin acts on airway smooth muscle and which mechanisms could be involved, we studied the effect of insulin on contraction induced, first, by KCI and, second, by Acetylcholine (Ach), before and after epithelium removal, and finally in the presence of N-omega-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME), a nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitor. Tracheal smooth muscle strips from 24 rabbits, 6 being used for each experiment. Each muscle strip was pretreated with a solution containing either 80 mM KCl or 10(-5) Ach and increasing doses of insulin (range 10(-10)-10(-5) M) in the presence or absence of 10(-4) M L-NAME. A reference curve for contraction evoked by 80 mM KCl or 10(-5) M Ach in the presence or absence of 10(-4) M L-NAME was recorded each time before the pretreatment mentioned above. Insulin evoked a concentration-dependent inhibition of tracheal smooth muscle contraction, induced by 80 mM KCl or 10(-5) M Ach. After epithelium removal, insulin (10(-8), 10(-7) M) evoked statistically significant increases to the contractions induced by 10(-5) M Ach compared to the contractions induced by 10(-5) M Ach and insulin in the presence of epithelium (P < 0.05). These increases were higher when 10(-4) M L-NAME was added to the bath (P < 0.05). In conclusion, these results indicate that insulin inhibits tracheal smooth muscle contraction by acting on epithelium and releasing NO. (C) 2001 Academic Press. | en |
dc.source | Nitric Oxide-Biology and Chemistry | en |
dc.source.uri | <Go to ISI>://WOS:000167271500009 | |
dc.subject | insulin | en |
dc.subject | airway smooth muscles | en |
dc.subject | bronchial asthma | en |
dc.subject | diabetes mellitus | en |
dc.subject | CONTRACTION | en |
dc.subject | PATHWAY | en |
dc.subject | SYSTEM | en |
dc.subject | CELLS | en |
dc.subject | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | en |
dc.subject | Cell Biology | en |
dc.title | Insulin NO-dependent action on airways smooth muscles | en |
dc.type | journalArticle | en |
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