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KMID : 0043319950180020121
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Archives of Pharmacal Research
1995 Volume.18 No. 2 p.121 ~ p.128
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The Role of Nitric Oxidei in Non-Adrenergic Non-Cholinergic Relaxation in the Guinea-Pig Gstric Fundus
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Kim Myung-Woo
Hong Sung-Cheul
Park Mi-Sun
Hong Eun-Ju
Choi Ji-Eun
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Abstract
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The role of nitric oxide (NO) in non-adrenegic non-cholinergic (NANC) neurotransmission was studied on circular muscle strips of the dorsal part of the fuinea-pig gastric fundus. In the presence of atropine and guanethidine, a low frequency-dependent relaxsations which were not affected by adrenergic and cholinergic blockage but abolished by tetrodotoxin. -nitro-L-arginine (L-NNA), a stereospecific inhibitor of NO-biosynthesis, inhibited the relaxations induced by electrical stiumulations but not the relaxations to exogenous nitric oxide. The effect of L-NNA was prevented by L-arginine, the precursor of the NO biosynthesis but not by its enantiomer, D-arginine. Exgenous administration of No caused concentration -dependent relaxations which showed a similarity to those obtained with electrical simultaion. Hemoglobin, a NOscavenger, abolished the NO-induced relaxations and also markedly reduced those induced by electrical simultaion. The inhibitory effect os hemoglobin was similar to that of L-NNA. Application of ATP caused weak relaxations compared with those to electrical stimultaion, which were unaffected by L-NNA. Exogenously applied vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) induced concentration-dependent relaxation which was not affected by L-NNA. These results suggest that NO is produced and released mainly as a neurotransmitter from enteric neurons during NANC relaxation induced by low frequencies and short trains of electrical simulation and has a main role in NANC neurotransmission at relaxation induced by these electrical simultaions in the guinea-pig gastric fundus.
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KEYWORD
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Non-adrenergic non-cholinergic neurotransmission, Hemolobin, Nitric oxide, Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide, Adenosine triphosphate, Guinea-pig gastric fundus
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