Studies on the effects of anandamide in rat hepatic artery

British Journal of Pharmacology
P M ZygmuntA H Weston

Abstract

1. The effects of anandamide on K+ currents and membrane potential have been examined in freshly-isolated smooth muscle cells from rat hepatic artery and the results compared with the effects of this arachidonic acid derivative on tension and membrane potential changes in segments of whole artery. 2. In the presence of 0.3 mM L-NOARG and 10 microM indomethacin, anandamide (0.1-100 microM) and endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor (EDHF; liberated by acetylcholine, 0.01-10 microM) each relaxed endothelium-intact segments of hepatic artery precontracted with phenylephrine. These effects of anandamide, but not those of EDHF, were antagonized by the cannabinoid receptor antagonist, SR141716A (3 microM). 3. The relaxant effects of anandamide were unaffected by a toxin combination (apamin plus charybdotoxin, each 0.3 microM) which abolishes EDHF relaxations and were essentially unchanged in endothelium-denuded arteries. The relaxant effects of anandamide in endothelium-intact arteries were significantly reduced in a physiological salt solution containing 30 mM KCl and abolished when the K+ concentration was raised to 60 mM. 4. Anandamide (10 microM), acetylcholine (1 microM, via release of EDHF) and levcromakalim (10 microM) eac...Continue Reading

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