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. 1985 Aug;85(4):869–875. doi: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1985.tb11086.x

The effect of hypoxia on neuroeffector transmission in the bovine retractor penis and rat anococcygeus muscles.

A Bowman, J C McGrath
PMCID: PMC1916667  PMID: 2994787

Abstract

The effects of reducing the PO2 of the bathing fluid were studied on non-adrenergic non-cholinergic (NANC) transmission in isolated preparations of the bovine retractor penis muscle, the rat anococcygeus muscle, the guinea-pig taenia caeci and the guinea-pig urinary bladder. Hypoxia rapidly and reversibly impaired NANC transmission in the bovine retractor penis and rat anococcygeus muscles but did not affect transmission in the guinea-pig taenia caeci or bladder, suggesting that different NANC mechanisms are involved. Although neurally-evoked relaxation of the bovine retractor penis was impaired by hypoxia, relaxations produced by vasoactive intestinal peptide, prostaglandin E1, sodium nitroprusside or an inhibitory factor isolated from the bovine retractor penis were unaffected. Since the inhibitory factor is similar to, and may actually be the NANC transmitter, the results suggest that the site of action of hypoxia in impairing transmission is prejunctional at the inhibitory nerve endings.

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