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. 1995 May;115(1):95–100. doi: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1995.tb16325.x

Effect of 5-hydroxytryptamine on the membrane potential of endothelial and smooth muscle cells in the pig coronary artery.

M Frieden 1, J L Bény 1
PMCID: PMC1908759  PMID: 7647989

Abstract

1. Many endothelium-dependent vasodilators hyperpolarize the endothelial cells in blood vessels. It is not known whether these hyperpolarizations are linked to nitric oxide synthesis or to an endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing phenomenon, since most of the vasodilators release both factors. In this context, we first verified that the endothelium-dependent relaxations induced by 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) on pig coronary arteries are due only to the activation of the nitric oxide pathway. Then we studied the effects of 5-HT on membrane potential of endothelial and smooth muscle cells. 2. In the absence of endothelium, 5-HT caused a concentration-dependent contraction of coronary artery strips. No change of the smooth muscle cell membrane potential was observed during contraction to 1 microM 5-HT. 3. In the presence of 1 microM ketanserin to suppress the contractile effect of 5-HT, 5-HT induced concentration-dependent relaxation of endothelium-intact strips precontracted by 10 microM prostaglandin F2 alpha (PGF2 alpha). These relaxations were suppressed by 1 microM NG-nitro-L-arginine, an inhibitor of nitric oxide synthesis, showing that they were produced predominantly by nitric oxide. 4. In the presence of 1 microM ketanserin, 1 microM 5-HT did not change the smooth muscle cell membrane potential of strips precontracted by either 10 microM PGF2 alpha or by 10 microM acetylcholine (ACh). In the same conditions, 1 microM 5-HT caused a weak 2.6 +/- 0.4 mV hyperpolarization, of the endothelial cells.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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