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J Appl Physiol 66: 1397-1407, 1989;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 66, Issue 3 1397-1407, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Differential effects of prostaglandin E2 on contractions of airway smooth muscle

J. M. Madison, C. A. Jones, R. M. Sankary and J. K. Brown
Medical Service, Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Francisco, California 94121.

In an in vitro muscle bath, the active tension generated by strips of canine tracheal smooth muscle responding to cumulative additions of either histamine (10(-8) to 10(-3) M) or acetylcholine (10(-9) to 10(-3) M) was measured in the absence and presence of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) (10(-6) to 10(-5) M). When contractile responses of equal magnitude were compared, the contractions elicited by acetylcholine were resistant to the inhibitory effects of PGE2, relative to comparable contractions elicited by histamine. To assess the role of adenylate cyclase in determining the different responses to histamine and acetylcholine in the presence of PGE2, we assayed adenylate cyclase activity in membranes prepared from canine tracheal smooth muscle and found that acetylcholine, but not histamine, decreased PGE2-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity by 48 +/- 2% (mean +/- SE; n = 5). However, in other experiments, we found that even large pharmacological increases in tissue adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) content only partially inhibited muscarinic tone. Also, exogenously applied analogues of cyclic AMP inhibited contractions induced by histamine more effectively than comparable contractions induced by acetylcholine. We concluded that acetylcholine decreased adenylate cyclase activity in membranes prepared from canine tracheal smooth muscle and that this effect may have contributed to, but did not completely account for, the relative resistance of muscarinic contractions to the inhibitory effects of PGE2.


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