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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-2-18
pubmed:abstractText
Treatment of young rats with vitamin D3 and nicotine produced a 35-fold increase in the calcium content of the aorta and a 4-fold increase in the calcium content of the mesenteric arterial bed. Blood pressure was not modified. In vitro, aortic rings and mesenteric arterial bed preparations from such animals showed diminished vasoconstrictor responses to norepinephrine. After precontraction with norepinephrine, the endothelium-dependent vasodilator, carbachol, produced vasorelaxation. This latter effect was attenuated in aortic rings and mesenteric arterial bed preparations from animals previously treated with vitamin D3 and nicotine, but the vasodilator effect of sodium nitroprusside (which is independent of the endothelium) was unchanged. Prolonged treatment with the calcium entry blocker, isradipine, at a dose (1 mg/kg, i.p.) which had no effect on blood pressure, prevented calcium overload of the mesenteric arterial bed, but did not modify aortic calcium overload. Isradipine treatment had no effect on vasoconstrictor responses to norepinephrine in vitro. Such treatment did, however, restore the endothelium-dependent vasodilator effect of carbachol in the mesenteric arterial bed (but not in aortic rings). In conclusion, in a rat model of vascular calcium overload produced by administration of vitamin D3 plus nicotine, chronic treatment with a low dose of the calcium entry blocker, isradipine, restored the endothelium-dependent vasorelaxant effect of carbachol in the mesenteric arterial bed, but not in the aorta.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0022-3565
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
260
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:1309868-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:1309868-Aorta, Thoracic, pubmed-meshheading:1309868-Blood Pressure, pubmed-meshheading:1309868-Body Weight, pubmed-meshheading:1309868-Calcium, pubmed-meshheading:1309868-Calcium Channel Blockers, pubmed-meshheading:1309868-Cholecalciferol, pubmed-meshheading:1309868-Dihydropyridines, pubmed-meshheading:1309868-Endothelium, Vascular, pubmed-meshheading:1309868-Heart Rate, pubmed-meshheading:1309868-Isradipine, pubmed-meshheading:1309868-Male, pubmed-meshheading:1309868-Mesenteric Arteries, pubmed-meshheading:1309868-Models, Biological, pubmed-meshheading:1309868-Muscle, Smooth, Vascular, pubmed-meshheading:1309868-Muscle Relaxation, pubmed-meshheading:1309868-Nicotine, pubmed-meshheading:1309868-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:1309868-Rats, Inbred Strains, pubmed-meshheading:1309868-Time Factors
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
Effect of chronic treatment with the calcium entry blocker, isradipine, on vascular calcium overload produced by vitamin D3 and nicotine in rats.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratoire de Pharmacologie Cardio-vasculaire, Faculté de Pharmacie de l'Université de Nancy I, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't