Nitric oxide-mediated neurotransmission is attenuated in the anococcygeus muscle from diabetic rats |
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Authors: | K J Way Dr J J Reid |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;(2) Pharmacology Research Laboratories, Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 3001 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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Abstract: | Summary The effect of STZ-induced diabetes of 8-weeks duration was examined on nitric oxide-mediated neurotransmission in the rat anococcygeus muscle. In the presence of noradrenergic blockade and raised tissue tone, relaxant responses to nerve stimulation (0.5–5 Hz, for 10 s), sodium nitroprusside (5 and 10 nmol/l) and nitric oxide (1 and 3 mol/l) were significantly reduced in anococcygeus muscles from diabetic rats compared to responses from control rats (p <0.05). In contrast, relaxations to papaverine (3 and 10 mol/l were not reduced in tissues from diabetic rats. The nitric oxide synthesis inhibitor NOLA (100 mol/l) abolished relaxant responses to nerve stimulation but had no effect on responses to any of the relaxant agents used. Exposure to NOLA at 10 mol/l reduced stimulation-induced relaxations; this reduction was significantly greater in tissues from the diabetic group than from the control group (p <0.05), probably as a consequence of the smaller relaxant responses in muscles from diabetic rats. Contractile responses to nerve stimulation (1–10 Hz, for 10 s), but not noradrenaline (0.03–30 mol/l), were significantly greater in anococcygeus muscles from diabetic rats than from control rats (p <0.05). NOLA (100 mol/l) significantly enhanced stimulation-induced contractions (p <0.05), however the enhancement was significantly less in tissues from diabetic rats (p <0.05). The results suggest that STZ-induced diabetes impairs smooth muscle reactivity to nitric oxide in the rat anococcygeus muscle.Abbreviations STZ
Streptozotocin
- NOLA
NG-nitro-l-arginine
- NANC
nonadrenergic noncholinergic
- ANOVA
analysis of variance |
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Keywords: | Anococcygeus muscle (rat) diabetes nitrergic nerves nitric oxide NOLA NANC transmission nonvascular smooth muscle sodium nitroprusside streptozotocin |
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