PMID: 9437711Jan 1, 1997Paper

The calcitonin gene-related peptide activates both cAMP and NO pathways to induce relaxation of circular smooth muscle cells of guinea-pig ileum

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M RekikL Bueno

Abstract

The direct effects and the intracellular pathways of rCGRP were investigated on smooth muscle cells (SMC) isolated by enzymatic digestion from the circular and longitudinal layers of guinea-pig ileum. In circular SMC, rCGRP inhibited CCK8-induced contraction in a concentration-dependent manner (Cmax = 100 microM and EC50 = 0.7 +/- 0.4 nM). Preincubation of SMC with 1 microM Rp-cAMPs, a cAMP antagonist, abolished the relaxing effect of rCGRP; moreover, preincubation of SMC with 100 microM L-NAME, an inhibitor of NOS, inhibited the relaxing effect of rCGRP, hCGRP(8-37), a selective antagonist of rCGRP receptors, inhibited the rCGRP-induced relaxation in a concentration dependent manner whereas the vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) antagonist had no significant effect. In longitudinal SMC, rCGRP-induced relaxation was abolished by Rp-cAMPs, whereas L-NAME had no effect. In conclusion, rCGRP triggers different intracellular pathways to induce relaxation of circular or longitudinal intestinal SMC; cAMP is involved in cells from both layers while nitric oxide (NO) is involved only in relaxation of circular SMC.

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