FIGURE 3.
Representative mechanical recordings from the circular muscle show the effect of paracetamol (10–9 to 10–5 M) and HBB (10–7 to 10–5 M) on spontaneous phasic contractions (A), cch (10–5 M)-induced contractions (D), and the excitatory neural pathway under non-nitrergic non-purinergic conditions (G). Graphs (left) show the effect of accumulative concentrations of paracetamol (10–9 to 10–5 M) andhistograms (right) show the effect of paracetamol 10–5 M plus HBB (10–7 to 10–5 M) on spontaneous phasic contractions (B,C), cch-induced contractions (E,F), and electrical field stimulation-induced contractions (H,I) in the circular (B,E,H) and longitudinal (C,F,I) muscles. Dunnett’s post hoc test was done after ANOVA. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001, ****p < 0.0001 compared with paracetamol 10–5 M. Data were normalized (i.e., 100%) to the basal AUC or the electrical field stimulation amplitude before drug addition. Data were expressed as mean ± SEM.
