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ArticleBritish journal of pharmacology2008

Effect of oral organic nitrates on expression and activity of vascular soluble guanylyl cyclase.

M Oppermann, V T-V Dao, T Suvorava, M Bas, G Kojda

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Article in British journal of pharmacology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. The effects of bupivacaine injection and oral nitric oxide on extraocular muscle in the rabbit.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2013
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

M OppermannInstitute for Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany.
V T-V Dao
T Suvorava
M Bas
G Kojda
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf · DETechnical University of Munich · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

background and purposeThe regulation of vascular soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) expression by nitric oxide (NO) is still under discussion. In vitro, NO has been shown to downregulate the expression of sGC but it is unclear if this mechanism is operative in vivo and occurs during nitrate treatment. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH: We investigated whether high dose isosorbide mononitrate (ISMN) or pentaerythrityl tetranitrate (PETN) treatment changes vascular sGC expression and activity in vivo. New Zealand White rabbits received a standard diet, 2 or 200 mg ISMN kg(-1) d(-1) for 16 weeks, and C57BL/6 mice received a standard diet, 6, 60 or 300 mg PETN kg(-1) d(-1) for four weeks. Absorption was checked by measuring the plasma levels of the drug/metabolite. KEY

resultsWestern blots of rabbit aortic rings showed similar protein levels of sGC alpha1- (P=0.2790) and beta1-subunits (P=0.6900) in all groups. Likewise, ANOVA showed that there was no difference in the expression of sGC in lungs of PETN-treated mice (P=0.0961 for alpha1 and P=0.3709 for beta1). The activities of isolated sGC in response to SNAP (1 microM-1 mM) were identical in aortae of ISMN-treated rabbits (P=0.0775) and lungs of PETN-treated mice (P=0.6348). The aortic relaxation response to SNAP slightly decreased at high ISMN but not at high PETN. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: These data refute the hypothesis that therapeutic treatment with long acting NO donors has a significant impact on the regulation of vascular sGC expression and activity in vivo.

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Administration, OralAnalysis of VarianceAnimalsAorta, ThoracicBlotting, WesternDose-Response Relationship, DrugGene Expression Regulation, EnzymologicGuanylate CyclaseIsosorbide DinitrateLungMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLNitric Oxide DonorsPentaerythritol TetranitrateProtein SubunitsGuanylate Cyclaseisosorbide-5-mononitrateIsosorbide DinitrateNitric Oxide DonorsPentaerythritol TetranitrateProtein SubunitsReceptors, Cytoplasmic and NuclearSoluble Guanylyl CyclaseVasodilator Agents

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PMID18587420
PMCPMC2567882
OpenAlexW1584558048

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