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. 1988 Apr;93(4):909–917. doi: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1988.tb11479.x

The epithelium and the pharmacology of guinea-pig tracheal tone in vitro.

K A Lundblad 1, C G Persson 1
PMCID: PMC1853875  PMID: 3390659

Abstract

1. Epithelium removal did not influence the development of spontaneous tone in guinea-pig tracheal smooth muscle mounted as open ring preparations with two adjoining cartilaginous rings in vitro. 2. Epithelium removal did not change the potency of carbachol but tended to reduce the maximal contraction. In the presence of epithelium the EC50 of carbachol was not different in tracheal open ring compared with intact tube preparations (comprising four cartilaginous rings), suggesting that the size of continuous epithelium in vitro was not critical for the potency of carbachol. 3. Substance P produced the same response in intact and rubbed tracheae. The enkephalinase inhibitor thiorphan (0.1 mM) by itself contracted the trachea and appeared to potentiate the substance P response five times more in the absence than in the presence of epithelium. Capsaicin (1 microM)-induced contractions did not differ between intact and rubbed preparations. 4. Arachidonic acid, 22 microM, variably produced small relaxations and contractions in intact as well as in rubbed tracheae. The mean effects of arachidonic acid were not significantly altered by epithelium removal. 5. Adenosine produced small contractions and dose-dependent relaxations in the presence and absence of epithelium. 6. Epithelium removal had no effect on the potency of the relaxant agonists theophylline and enprofylline. The isoprenaline curve was shifted 2 fold to the left and the terbutaline curve 1.5 fold to the right. The maximal relaxations were generally reduced in epithelium-free tissue. The reduction reached statistical significance with theophylline. 7. The present results suggest that epithelium removal is of little consequence for the pharmacology of the guinea-pig tracheal open ring preparation in vitro.

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